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I'm off to get my 5th pair of new glasses this year. The arm fell off of this pair. :/ But at least I've gotten a lot of other things taken care of.

Plus, it's Thursday! Only two more days of work!

Danishes, anyone?

My glasses are in terrible shape. Huge scratches, poor prescription, they're bent and the lenses fall out regularly. The only alternative I have are one-year disposable contact lenses that I've had for three years, so I'm pretty much stuck. I'd get new ones, but they're SO EXPENSIVE, and I have about 50,000 other things I desperately need to buy.

It feels like Friday. I want it to be Friday. Friday is sleep day.

I love having Fridays off. Granted, it's less money that I make, but it's great to be able to sleep in and have that time to just chill or do whatever errands need done.

I work too hard lately. The little voice in my head that says "Call in sick! Take the day off!" has been too loud and frequent lately. I've been making myself sick with exhaustion from too little sleep, and not having any free time has really been bugging me. I COMPLETELY blew off 100 pages of reading for class tonight- I think I read maybe five pages. But it's all garbage. Last week I read a chapter that outlined the keyboard. "This is the Enter Key!" "THIS IS THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON!" WHAT GRAD SCHOOL STUDENT DOESN'T KNOW THIS???

This week's subjects? What is bandwidth? What's a modem?

It's miserable, miserable, miserable.

Aww... *hugs*

Since my boss cut me down to three days a week (until tax season when we start making money again), I haven't needed to call in sick. It's wonderful to have a flexible schedule where I can say "Hey, I'm going to take today off. I'll work tomorrow, instead." I try to work T/W/Th so that I can recover on Mondays and have an early weekend. My boss doesn't seem to care.

I hope the class's readings get more interesting.

That's ideal! You're lucky. I'm a SAHM during the days (which NEVER gets a day off) and I work nights. I used to love my 4 nights a week that I worked, but then I took a promotion and am there 5 nights now. On top of that, while I'm scheduled 4 hours a night, I usually work closer to 6 because our numbers were so high. Lately, I've been trying to stick to the four hours and not feeling bad if I need to take a mental health day. You take what you've gotta, you know?

But I really wish I had your deal instead! :)

Wait until tax season. Then I'll be working 5 10 hour days plus maybe Saturday mornings! At least it only lasts from mid-January through mid-April. Then I'll go back to this schedule with a possible fourth or fifth day if I want them. =)

ewok = will be limited online during tax season =(

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I haven't let myself call in sick, but my mind is sabotaging me anyways- it's sneaky like that. I've been doing things like "accidentally" coming in a half hour late. It's rough, because no one really cares here at work, but I know it doesn't look good and won't help me get into a position of actual responsibility.

Not that I want to work in Basement Waterpoofing my whole life, but options are a good thing, know?

The class readings don't get more interesting. Fortunately, after today, there's only one more class. On class 1 the professor announced that he'd been double-scheduled for classes and instead of canceling one class he was going to cancel every other class for both classes and teach them alternately. Really, he just can't speak English and doesn't have any content he can coherently present.

If the class was a good one, I'd be ticked off about it, but since it's worthless, I'm gonna take it as two wrongs making a right.

My mom used to work for a waterproofing company. Sump pumps, concrete, the works. They did french drains. (But she worked in the office and paid the bills.)

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That us definitely uber cool. All the freedom of being freelance with the security of a real job!

This will be my third tax season working here. During tax season, we don't take time off EVER. But during the off-season, she gives me a week's paid vacation for being her assistant. It's wonderous. I got paid to sit on the beach at Ocean City. =)

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Yuck! That does sound like the most boring reading. I don't blame you for the need to take time off. I firmly believe in the need for mental health days. I think it makes you more productive in the long run. Because I don't think that weekends are enough sometimes. Particularly when you have to take the time to get everything done on the weekends that you can't get done during the week.

Here's hoping that you get a chance FOR that mental health day soon!

I can't really afford a mental health day right now, though. I've had to leave work early twice in the last couple weeks to bring the cat to the vet's and I was sick four weeks ago and had to take two days off. I'm poor from it and I'm starting to look a little flaky, methinks. When I DO take "me" time, I'm still kind of on the move, because I'm seeing my friends so in two years when I'm done with college and ready to have a life again there's still a few of them talking to me. In a month or so I'll have no class for a few weeks and I can use the afternoons to catch up on sleep and down time. for now, I sacrifice sleep so I can chill out a little more, but I pay for it. I'm NOT very productive anymore, but I'm too busy to stop.

I dunno. I've been in MUCH tougher spots before, but now it's like "Oh, man! Again? I thought I was done with this kind of stuff!"

My house is an embarassing mess. If I had a day off, I'd be cleaning.

I understand completely. I'm home all day, but my house is an embarrassing mess as well. I don't know how other moms do it, but I can't keep up with a toddler AND cleaning. Not when he comes behind me and takes everything out that I've just put away.

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Boy, I know about that! I didn't have any kind of vision insurance for years and my glasses were the same way. I lucked out this year, because my husband has good insurance and we bought breakage insurance. None of the (now 5 pairs of) glasses that I've had to get this year have cost me a dime.

You'd better believe I'm buying the same insurance next year. Plus a pair of the bendy type of frames. My kid is VERY hard on my glasses.

I will only buy mine at Sears- their warranties are the best! I've been going there for 20 years.

That's pretty rough. I haven't broken glasses that often since I was 12! The guy at Sears knew me by name!

When I first got this pair, I treated them like sacred relics- carefulyl cleaned, preserved, etc. Now as long as my cat doesn't walk on or chew them, I'm cool.

Well, it's mainly because I have a very destructive toddler. He loves to pull them from my face, see if he can make a straight line with them, stuff like that. The only non-Teddy related accident with my glasses was when I was in a car accident this spring and they flew from my face. It's been a really rough year.

We started going to a local eye doctor that's just down the road from us. They're getting to know me by name too. (Their warranty service is really great too. :D)

The worst thing is when a lens falls out. You have to try to wear the glasses with one lens and squint which instantly gives me a headache, or you're stuck peering around without glasses. If you're me, that means you're close to legally blind. The other day I stared long and hard in my ,s>not especially clean toilet trying to decide if having glasses was worth fishing around in there because I thought the lens had fallen in. I decided in the end "No" and flushed to end the debate. I then realized the horrible mess I'd gotten in to, stepped back, and by stepping back turned the floor mat over slightly. There, my lens sat. Many prayers were shouted out the Lord, Lord Almighty that day.

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:ganks a danish and runs to eat in a corner, nibbling at it and staring wide-eyed at everyone like an over-caffeinated skwerrel:

This picture just gave me a much needed chuckle!

No danishes for me. I WANT A BITE OF THAT THING OF BEAUTY AND DEATH IN YOUR ICON. ZOMG ICE CREAM!!!!!1!

Another Ice cream-aholic, I see? *hands lilerthwake a bowl of peanut butter passion* Well met!

Oooooh! *passes the raspberry/white chocolate swirl down to

adpaz* Yes, I loves ice cream. Especially when it's accompanied by brownies, hot fudge, and sprinkles!

This new slow churned stuff has my heart in chains. Edy's! Another branch of Idol mania!

I haven't tried that yet! My personal addiction is a Dove raspberry/vanilla swirl with chocolate chips and a DARK CHOCOLATE GANACHE ON TOP. *dies*

I'll have to pick up some Edy's Slow Churned this weekend.