Whine not?
Feeling sorry for myself, a bit of a whine coming up.
It’s been a hard week at work. We went to a 4 day work week AND they changed the start time. I have to get up at 4 to be there on time at 6. Don’t get home until about 5:30… and then bed at 8:30. Sigh.
Today is the day it all pays off… no work tomorrow. Instead I get to make a trip to town to get my new hearing aids! Whoo hoo! I could have gotten them on Tuesday, but my lead wanted me to change my appointment time to Friday. She pointed out that I would lose the extra pay (incentive pay) if I left work during the day and really, with a week day off, all appointments and such should be scheduled for that day. My thinking was… I’m already in town and don’t mind missing work… and this is something that is not only personally important to me, but helps me be a better employee. The boss has the last word, but I could see that she was gonna nay it if I left on Tuesday, so I rescheduled.
It makes a difference where you live as to how you think about things. If you live in town, 2 min. away… Oh, start an hour earlier, no big deal. If I lived that close it wouldn’t faze me either. This week has been hell on me, tho… you can hardly count free time as the hour I spend each morning drinking coffee, trying to wake up, and getting ready for work. Or my hour drive. Which I am not very awake for. Or the hour driving home. Basically, I now have 3 hours of time left to do stuff I need to do… feed dogs and cats, laundry, dishes. Forget cooking dinner, I’m way too freaking tired. One night this week I just had a peanut butter sandwich for dinner. All I had the energy for. We had plenty of leftovers from Thanksgiving, but that’s all gone now. Back to tv dinners… sigh.
Lots of things are being neglected. I have been keeping up on my email, but only because it’s cold and dark outside when I get home. No time to blog or facebook, really. Not going to walk dogs in the dark. Too scary! There could be bears or something. We live out in the country and the dog walking path is right near a deep valley that is totally woods… too steep for people or anything but wild animals.
And the long hours have turned me into a bad Momma. When I got home tonight the only pet with water was BuddyMack. He had VERY little, and it was probably frozen at some point. I had noticed the beagle girls were low on water, but forgot to tell Ron last night. The cats had water last night, but all dishes were dry when I got home. Rita had no water, either, and she’s in the house. So, tonight after I took all the dogs back out it was run around and fill water dishes. With it so cold and more winter coming, we put a water dish INSIDE both the kitty house and the beagle girls house. Heaters and heatlamps will keep those from freezing. BuddyMack isn’t so lucky… his house is smaller and there is no room for a water dish. But he has a heat lamp to keep him warm, so maybe if I just run another cord down to one of those heated bowls that they sell. Will have to see if I can put it where he can get it but NOT chew the cord.
I did spend a few min. last night doing crafty sort of stuff. Glittered ornaments. Clear glass globes with some Future Floor Finish and glitter inside. Then Ron came to see them, and I thought he was getting it out of my hand… smash! He was just touching it, I thought he was taking it. Oh well. He cleaned it all up for me. The things are pretty messy to make and my set up is not very ideal yet. They sure are pretty, tho! Not to mention a really great way to use up some of the glitter that I have and almost never use, lol!
Tomorrow, along with the trip to get hearing aids… I will also go by the Knitting store I found local. I need some wool for a felted purse that I love love love. I’m not really much of a knitter… have abandoned my red and white fun fur scarf this week, too tired… but I can knit well enough to make a purse that I really want. Don’t know how long it will take me to knit it… but eventually I will get it done. It will be worth it, right? I make myself a quilted purse every couple years, and those can take me a couple days of working on em. That’s a lot more instant gratification than a knitted ANYTHING is going to be for me, lol! The last fun fur scarf I made I also lost interest in at the 3/4 spot… and finally finished it on New Years Eve, just because I wanted to wear it! LOL!
So, if you’ve read this far you have a lot more fortitude than I probably do. Just say… Deal with it Vyx! I know… I should be grateful to have a job, be able to feed my dogs and cats, be able to afford my hobbies even cut back as they are. Most of my whining is just a way to let off steam… and it has done that for me tonight. I am sorta jazzed about having an extra day off… but not so much if I have to drive all the way to town like I do for work… a “quick” trip to town takes 2 hours. Oh well!
Gonna go now, it’s WAAAAAYYYY past my bedtime. Took me all week to train me, will try to not untrain myself this weekend. (hah)
hugs,
Vyx
Now I understand! Yowie! Long day with that kind of commute. Ick.