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Started the day completely on the wrong side of the bed, after not sleeping well because I've been so tightly wound. Had to hurry out to the bank as quickly as I could because I haven't made any deposits in a while, and it turned out to be a good idea: the checking account had gotten perilously low and so I had to transfer some funds to balance it ( Read more... )

Up to and including working the amount of hours I usually see only at Christmas and Easter, thus for the past several days I have to squeeze in the housework when I find the energy to do that, also try and figure out how to fit in the errands that need to be run in between. Hence the glaring lack of journal entries and the diminishing number of ( Read more... )

Sorry about yesterday's bout of emo: life's still kicking me to the curb and stomping on me when I'm down. Thanks for putting up with me and for helping me up when I've been down ( Read more... )

I was all set to go to work, was up, gotten dressed, had my hair done up and was about to go downstairs to make my breakfast before heading out to work... when my dad met me on the stairs and told me that one of the supervisors had just called to tell me I didn't need to come in. That I've been more or less laid off. My dad even went down to the ( Read more... )

Sorry for the lack of an entry last night: I got myself wrapped up in writing a fic with a posting deadline of tonight ( Read more... )

Left the window partly open last night because the weather got so cool, and the horn honking awakened me rather early: headed out early to join the picket line, though I intended eventually to go to St. Joe's (More on that in a bit ( Read more... )

And that's the ever swotty Mister Flood raising a delicate platinum blond eyebrow at the shenanigans of the monkeys. The monkeys on the Market Basket Bored of Dumbbells, that is. More on that in a bit ( Read more... )

Rain moved in today, and that sent the picketers -- "the Market Basketeers" as my dad is calling them -- inside, though as we three went to Mass today (before the sky turned grey), we drove right by them and saw them in full force. The store parking lot looked as abandoned as it has all week: I went in, come the late afternoon and I had gone for a ( Read more... )

Very strange day... and another very strange day ahead of me ( Read more... )