Well I'm finally making progress toward the weekend! Seems like this has been a long week. It sure has been quiet though and that is really nice for a change. The co-worker in the office next to mine is finally gone! I've put up with her for years and she has a horrible personality. Whenever I had to deal with her, she was always very hateful to me. She ended up getting another higher paying position in another department that isn't in the same building I am in. That seems to be the way around here. Those that are asses to everyone and are bad at their job get promoted while the loyal employees that do a good job get stuck in that job for years with no promotion in sight. The only sense I can make out of it is that the only way they can get rid of a bad employee is to offer them a position with more money and "pass the fucktard" to some other poor unsuspecting soul. Oh well. Still glad she is gone and I hope she doesn't get fired before her job here is filled. She is already making enemies at her new job and she just started on Monday! Guess it wasn't just me.
I was off last Friday and enjoyed having another long weekend. I won't have to work a 5 day week due to holidays and my regular off days until the 2nd week of December and then won't have to work one till next year. I am still waiting to hear what days we will get off for Christmas and New Year's so I'm just hoping for 2 days for Christmas and 2 for New Year's so I can take off just a few days and have a long run of days off. I always look forward to this time of year and having some time to relax and rejuvenate.
Last weekend I bought some tool bags and a small toolbox for my stuff that I have kept in my dresser drawer for years. My dad never was good at taking care of tools so I had to hide mine in my drawer. Well, dad has been dead since 2007 and my collection of tools has grown larger so it was time to get some storage. I'm still working on getting the screws and odd pieces sorted but I should have an actual drawer for clothes and such soon.
Seems like I always have a lot to do around the house. I see the roof needs to have some limbs taken off it, the gutters need cleaning, the gate needs fixing, still haven't done the molding around the living room from last year, need to replace some tiles in my living room, need to clean up my sitting area and this weekend I need to replace my passenger side mirror and adjust the windshield wipers. Those are just a few of the things that need doing. I had intended to get some of this done earlier this year but with the tooth problems and my unexpected trip to the ER which turned out to be a heart arrhythmia, it just didn't happen.
I guess I could get more things done if I'd stay off the phone and computer more but I enjoy talking to my friends and playing my games. I do need to work more on exercising. Well, I guess I should say, getting started back on exercising because right now, I'm pretty much doing nil. I've had problems with my plantar fasciitis so walking has been out for the last few months. This has just been a really bad year with all the medical expenses and the unexpected house expenses that never seem to stop cropping up. The rain is really starting to kick up after months of heat and drought so that makes me less inclined to get work done and more inclined to play.
Speaking of play, I guess everyone needs some and I definitely try to get my share. I play Guild Wars 2 every evening after work and on the weekends when I can. I've really enjoyed the new expansion. It is tough but I like a challenge. My friend Wolfie hasn't been on the last couple of nights so I've pretty much been solo for the most part. I offered to help a friend with the story part of the game but he declined so I went ahead with my story which was a chapter further than where he was at. After he finished his chapter, he wanted to team up but I'd already started my next chapter and was about finished so this time I declined. Oh well. I'm getting closer to the end fight and he said it was real hard and another friend had gotten frustrated so we all needed to team up. Of course this means I must try it by myself so I can see just how tough it is because I'm just like that. LOL I'm gonna try to get further along tonight.
I had to call my child aka my mom this morning to fuss again. When did I turn into a parent!? She'd stacked her sodas up in the bottom shelf of the refrigerator and the door was cracked open when I got up to get ready for work. I've been over this with her several times. I just bought this fridge this summer (another one of those unexpected expenses) and I told her the bottom door shelf is for milk and bigger items. If you stack other items behind those items, the shelf gets out of shape (it's plastic of course) with the strain of more than it can handle and the door doesn't shut. So the fridge was running for several hours and the food was just slightly chilled when I got up because the door was cracked about 1/2 inch. I also had to fuss at her about the water. We stopped the home delivery of the filtered bottled water because she got mad at them. I found a pitcher called Zero that filters the water so we fill the pitcher and when it goes through the filter, we pour it into the 5 gallon water bottles, and then repeat to fill up the bottles for the machine. Well, it seems I am about the only one that does that. She is home all day and she never fills the bottle unless she runs completely out of water. I do it on the weekend but I don't stay up in the kitchen because she is always there watching tv with it turned all the way up. I do several pitchers before she gets up or when she goes outside. So anyway, once again, I sounded like my dad fussing about ruining the fridge if she doesn't stop it and about how she is going to have to help with the water because I can't work 9 hour days and do everything while she stays home all day. Then she didn't want to talk. Big surprise. Oh well. I guess if I need to get her to leave me alone, I just need to fuss. Yeah, that won't work.
Anyway, this day is about done and I have one more day at work tomorrow and then FREEDOM! Till Monday anyway. :/
