I had to work today, but it was only a half day. My boss was generous enough to let me only work from 9-1 every day this week so I can spend afternoons visiting with my son. That works out great because by the time I get home my son is just getting out of bed. He never used to be a night owl before going to college, but he is now! So it has been nice being able to come home early and visit with him a while before I have to go to bed! I don’ think I’m going to try to stay up until midnight, though; I haven’t done that in years! Besides, I’m having a big family dinner here on New Years Day, and I need to get some rest!
Archive for December, 2008
I was expecting to have to pick up my youngest son at the Metro Station tomorrow; he has some time off of college and was coming home for a few days. He had told me that he needed me to pick him up late at night on Saturday. So I arranged to work an early half-day at work so I could go home and take a nap and then pick him up. Imagine my surprise when he called me last night and told me that he was coming in today! I’m working a full day today! Oops!
So I told my boss and he suggested that my half day on Saturday be later than planned so I could sleep in. I was grateful for his flexibility, and that is what I’m going to do. I have to go pick him up in a few minutes; I’m so excited to be seeing him again – it has been several months since I’ve seen him and I miss him dreadfully!
I was surprised again to have today off of work! I thought for sure that being the “new gal” at work that I’d have to work Christmas Day for sure! But I found out that Christmas Day is usually so slow that only the pharmacist works, and ALL the techs get Christmas Day off! I was really glad to hear that because I wanted to spend Christmas Day with my family, but was reluctant to “rock the boat” by asking for the day off! Unfortunately I haven’t worked there long enough to get it as a paid day off, but that’s ok with me! I hope everyone has a great day today! Merry Christmas to all of you out there!
I was really surprised to be given the weekend off this week! I thought for sure that they would have me working! But that’s fine with me, it gave me the time to put the finishing touches on the Christmas tree, plan our Christmas dinner, and get caught up on my bill-paying duties. They’ve scheduled me to work a full week coming up so I won’t have much time to do anything related to Christmas prep from now on. I’ve asked my hubby to do the gift wrapping this year, and much to my surprise he agreed to do it! That’s a relief off of my mind; I thought for sure there would be no wrapped gifts this year!
The pharmacy I’m training in has asked me to concentrate on getting the Computer Based Training courses done first, so I’ve been spending almost eight hours every day this week sitting at the computer, taking courses. That is really hard on the eyes, and it gets boring and very tiring. After a while you realize that you are no longer paying attention, and are just fighting to keep your eyes open! I’ll be really glad when this part of the training is finished. Unfortunately, this is not the kind of training that works well for me; I’ll be lucky to remember any of this when I’m done!