{"id":796,"date":"2008-08-26T11:02:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T18:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=796"},"modified":"2008-08-26T15:15:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T22:15:19","slug":"tuesday-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took my fill-in boss’ <\/em>advice and stayed home from work today. After working way too much OT last week and spending chunks of my weekend putting out fires, I really did need a break. My ability to hold a coherent thought has pretty much gone out the window and my ulcer is acting up.\u00a0 I’m sure it’s all stress related but I feel like pooh.\u00a0 Of course a 4 day weekend break would have been better than a Tuesday break. Beggars can’t be choosers though.<\/p>\n

Staying home doesn’t mean I’m not working. I can’t help myself. Type A work-a-holic; that’s me. I’m working from the comfort of my home office – putting out today’s batch of fires and throwing in my two cents everywhere – while attempting to convince myself that I don’t need a new iPod today. My old iPod finally bit the dust and I’m eyeing a replacement this week.\u00a0 I can’t purchase it until next week though.\u00a0 I have to wait for my allowance.\u00a0 Can’t use family money.\u00a0 Must use my own.\u00a0 Or so I’m trying to convince myself.<\/p>\n

It’s noon and I’m already bored out of my gourd.\u00a0 I can’t stand not working when I’m perfectly healthy.\u00a0 I have no idea what to do with myself in these situations.\u00a0 If I’m not careful I might succumb to the urge to be a keener<\/em> and start working through the course readings for my Enviro Chem class.\u00a0 Classes start back up next week and I have the textbook and reading lists sitting less than 5 feet from my desk.<\/p>\n

Or maybe I’ll pick apples from the apple tree.\u00a0 I can bring a bunch to co-workers in the morning.<\/p>\n

UPPERDATE:<\/strong> If I had gone to work today my day would be over and I’d be in my truck heading home.\u00a0 Instead I’m on a “sick day” and have put in at least 4 hours of work, including fielding calls and emails from the office.\u00a0 Not a horrific day by any standards but I think Drew’s annoyed I didn’t spend the day in bed trying to catch up on my sleep.\u00a0 I am very tired – mostly mental and emotional exhaustion – and will need to toddle off to bed early tonight.\u00a0 Hopefully our dinner friends will be of a similar mind and willing to call it an early night tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took my fill-in boss’ advice and stayed home from work today. After working way too much OT last week and spending chunks of my weekend putting out fires, I really did need a break. My ability to hold a coherent thought has pretty much gone out the window and my ulcer is acting up.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-a-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}