One Day More
Only 8 days until I have open heart surgery...
Have any of you ever listened to the soundtrack for or seen Les Miserables? (The broadway musical, not the movie with Liam Neeson.) Well, the song, "One Day More" has been running through my head today. Why, you ask? Because the movie I have been anxiously awaiting all summer is opening in one day more? (Pirates of the Caribbean - Aaargh!) No, not because of Pirates and yummy Johnny Depp. (Although this movie is the reason I didn't have open heart surgery this week. Hey - I gotta see it on the big screen!)
Nope. That song has been running through my head because tomorrow is my last day of work! For the rest of the summer! WOO-HOO!
It's not that I don't like my job, 'cause I do. But things have been so stressful lately because I've been frantically trying to finish what no one could finish in a 60-hour work week (and I've been careful to only work 40 hours during the past two weeks). Add the stress of preparing for major surgery, and y'all know why I take Benadryl to help me sleep.
But the past week hasn't been so bad. I've somehow managed to change my mindset from thinking that I have to do EVERYTHING, to thinking that if I don't get it done, someone else will. That has been a great stress reliever.
And my coworkers and supervisor and boss have all been telling me to think about my health first, family second, and work third. So I've been taking their advice to heart this week.
But that still doesn't dampen my spirits for ONE DAY MORE! Tomorrow is for cleaning up my desk (which I've been trying to do this week already), cleaning out my inbox so my mailbox doesn't go over the size limit while I'm gone (which it always is), tying up loose ends (creating my out-of-office auto reply and new outgoing voicemail message), and turning the work I didn't get done over to other people. HOORAY!
So I shall celebrate my freedom tomorrow night by watching Johnny Depp- er, I mean Pirates of the Caribbean.
Then on Saturday I have to start getting everything set (picking up the house, washing all of my new PJs, working on my list of questions for my surgeon, etc.). My coworkers were really good to me and pitched in to give me a gift certificate to Merry Maids. Yep - I will be living out thousands of women's fantasies while I watch other people clean my house. (Aren't my coworkers great?!)
But for tonight and tomorrow, I will enjoy having ONE DAY MORE!
Have any of you ever listened to the soundtrack for or seen Les Miserables? (The broadway musical, not the movie with Liam Neeson.) Well, the song, "One Day More" has been running through my head today. Why, you ask? Because the movie I have been anxiously awaiting all summer is opening in one day more? (Pirates of the Caribbean - Aaargh!) No, not because of Pirates and yummy Johnny Depp. (Although this movie is the reason I didn't have open heart surgery this week. Hey - I gotta see it on the big screen!)
Nope. That song has been running through my head because tomorrow is my last day of work! For the rest of the summer! WOO-HOO!
It's not that I don't like my job, 'cause I do. But things have been so stressful lately because I've been frantically trying to finish what no one could finish in a 60-hour work week (and I've been careful to only work 40 hours during the past two weeks). Add the stress of preparing for major surgery, and y'all know why I take Benadryl to help me sleep.
But the past week hasn't been so bad. I've somehow managed to change my mindset from thinking that I have to do EVERYTHING, to thinking that if I don't get it done, someone else will. That has been a great stress reliever.
And my coworkers and supervisor and boss have all been telling me to think about my health first, family second, and work third. So I've been taking their advice to heart this week.
But that still doesn't dampen my spirits for ONE DAY MORE! Tomorrow is for cleaning up my desk (which I've been trying to do this week already), cleaning out my inbox so my mailbox doesn't go over the size limit while I'm gone (which it always is), tying up loose ends (creating my out-of-office auto reply and new outgoing voicemail message), and turning the work I didn't get done over to other people. HOORAY!
So I shall celebrate my freedom tomorrow night by watching Johnny Depp- er, I mean Pirates of the Caribbean.
Then on Saturday I have to start getting everything set (picking up the house, washing all of my new PJs, working on my list of questions for my surgeon, etc.). My coworkers were really good to me and pitched in to give me a gift certificate to Merry Maids. Yep - I will be living out thousands of women's fantasies while I watch other people clean my house. (Aren't my coworkers great?!)
But for tonight and tomorrow, I will enjoy having ONE DAY MORE!
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