I'm packing up this morning to go cat/house sitting for seven weeks.
Even though I'll just be staying across town, I feel like I'm going on vacation!
The big house in a quiet neighborhood has central air-conditioning and a shady front porch--I cat-sat there last summer too.
It's like staying in a nice airBNB except you have to care for two cats. Very nice cats; I like them, and luckily it's no trouble to give them their medications.
It's farther to bike to work, but I can use the exercise. Last summer I took the bus, but I'm trying to stay off public transit, for health reasons.
I'm going to work on--and I hope finish--my film/photo-montage , Undaunted: Penny Cooper in the Blitz. I've packed most of the Red Hair Girlettes. A few want to stay home with the bears, to hold down the fort.
I'm extra happy to have a personal project to occupy myself.
Work was almost beyond belief this week. I won't go into the details--they were piffling.
But the emotions they called forth went ricocheting like bullets around the store.
Is everyone losing their minds?
I'd have to say, yes. Me too, a bit.
I would be floundering if I were a store manager trying to repair and refresh a broken store that wasn't in good shape to begin with. But I know myself well enough to have refused a "promotion" to manager.
[deleted rant about a coworker]
At the end of a hard day, I thought about looking for another job.
Maybe I will. I really should earn more money before I get too old!
I came to my senses though. I'm not going to quit my job over this coworker, who is nothing to me, personally.
I quoted the logical Mr Spock to a coworker:
"May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans?"
I'm one too, of course.
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Even though I'll just be staying across town, I feel like I'm going on vacation!
The big house in a quiet neighborhood has central air-conditioning and a shady front porch--I cat-sat there last summer too.
It's like staying in a nice airBNB except you have to care for two cats. Very nice cats; I like them, and luckily it's no trouble to give them their medications.
It's farther to bike to work, but I can use the exercise. Last summer I took the bus, but I'm trying to stay off public transit, for health reasons.
I'm going to work on--and I hope finish--my film/photo-montage , Undaunted: Penny Cooper in the Blitz. I've packed most of the Red Hair Girlettes. A few want to stay home with the bears, to hold down the fort.
I'm extra happy to have a personal project to occupy myself.
Work was almost beyond belief this week. I won't go into the details--they were piffling.
But the emotions they called forth went ricocheting like bullets around the store.
Is everyone losing their minds?
I'd have to say, yes. Me too, a bit.
I would be floundering if I were a store manager trying to repair and refresh a broken store that wasn't in good shape to begin with. But I know myself well enough to have refused a "promotion" to manager.
[deleted rant about a coworker]
At the end of a hard day, I thought about looking for another job.
Maybe I will. I really should earn more money before I get too old!
I came to my senses though. I'm not going to quit my job over this coworker, who is nothing to me, personally.
I quoted the logical Mr Spock to a coworker:
"May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans?"
I'm one too, of course.
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