Thursday

short+sassy

Since I'm probably one of the only people working today, I'll start the thread, lol.

It's festive and fun at work today.  People are in a good mood.  The department next to mine threw together a blow-out breakfast table this morning.  And not just cookies and donuts.  There were savory items also, which is my preference. 

I'm a little surprised how many people are here today.  I know tomorrow will be a complete ghost town.  A lot of people WFH on Fridays, plus the most popular schedule is having every other Friday off in exchange for working slightly longer hours the rest of the week.  And that's in addition to I'm assuming a bunch of people taking a vacation day.

But not me, lol.  However, I have a schedule where Fridays are my half days in exchange for working 9-hour days M-TH, so it won't be too bad.  And one of my coworkers who will also be slogging in the trenches tomorrow has promised to bring Lebanese coffee! I've never had that or Turkish coffee either (similar) and am curious to try it.

ei34

Yay for the festiveness @short+sassy!  It's a holiday pajama day at my school and it's amazing being in jammies...it's a spirit day that I always participate in.  No treats or eats but the pj's are enough.

Dealing with some congestion but no other symptoms, and my knee pain from earlier this week is thankfully gone

kerbohl

I'm in until the end of the week.  And then in again starting next Thursday.  Most people in my company are working but our client is pretty quiet right now.
I would love to work longer hours to have every other Friday off.  That sounds amazing!  I wish my company would offer that.  Maybe the company that bought us out has that option.  
I wish it were Friday.  I want the weekend to be here.  Or mostly just want to be done work for a little bit.  

CharmedPam

Not working but I’m bored, lol. 

I’m almost certain my friend does coffee readings with turkish coffee.  The stuff is strong! Lol.  She tried reading me once but it’s hard when you know someone well.

Yesterday was my eldest niece’s christmas concert and she and her friends wrote a play for it.  So she debuted her acting talents as evil Mrs.Claus. Lol.  I don’t know where she gets the love of the stage from because other than my Dad, we’re all shy and hate the limelight.
Also, my youngest nephew started walking yesterday

ILoveBeachMusic

Started the day with a dentist appointment - yay clean teeth. Everyone is arriving tomorrow so I have finished getting the house ready and finished baking with the exception of a pie for dessert on Christmas. 

It has been an emotional day. My cousin (actually cousin's husband but I've known him my whole life) passed away this morning after a brief and unexpected illness. My cousin is the oldest of our generation and my brother and I are the youngest. I was a baby when they started dating in high school. As a child I always looked up to them and spent a lot of time with them and their family. Since I've been an adult we haven't seen each other very often. I'm just so sad for her and their kids, grandchildren and great-grand child. It is never easy to lose someone but this time of year is the worst! I hope I can get to the service (they are in SC and we're in Indy).

VarunaTT

Bossman, as expected, just dropped a load of shit in my lap to get finished before vacation.  I shoudl be annoyed, but I was prepared.  I'll probably have to do some overtime tomorrow and Saturday, but it'll be worth it still (it is paperwork that has to be filed before the end of the year).

I'm just counting down hours right now.

charlotte989875

So sorry for your loss @ILoveBeachMusic, that’s so tough this time of year especially so when it’s unexpected. 

charlotte989875

Threw out my wrapping plans when sister texted and said niece asked if we could have “alone time with Aunt Charlotte”. So I ran up to their house, we watched Turning Red and had lunch. Didn’t get anything done I wanted but totally worth it! 

I have a haircut shortly. I’m thinking about dying my grays again (I stopped during the pandemic). Don’t have time for it today but wondering if I’ll regret going back to dying it again. I have really dark brown hair so it takes so much maintenance! 

kerbohl

I'm so sorry @ILoveBeachMusic.  At any time of year losing someone so quickly is hard.  Hugs, and I hope you can make it to the service.

short+sassy

@ILoveBeachMusic, I'm so sorry to hear about your cousin!  And such an extra tragedy to happen just a few days before Christmas.  It sounds like he had a long life, filled with loved ones.  

@kerbohl, the schedule flexibility is one of the few perks for working here!  I love having Fri. afternoons free.  I can get to places that are only open during the weekday without having to take time off. Though people have been campaigning for years to have a 4 10s work option.  But the company has always been adamantly against that.

I've seen studies where companies save a surprising amount of money only being open 4 days/week.  Things like less utilities and all the way down to less TP and coffee being bought.  But that's only if it is a company-wide schedule.

@VarunaTT, speaking of schedules, I frequently have a mini-version of what you are talking about.  People who have all week to send me stuff they want me to do.  But don't get around to it until Thursday late afternoon because they are trying to get it off their list for the week.

I'll try to make it work if it truly is extra urgent.  But if it isn't, my half-day Fridays are already busy with my weekly reports and they can just wait until Monday.

But I'm sure working in a law firm is a very different kettle of fish for hard deadlines.

banana468

Amusing vent:  There's a person I'm friends with on social media.  She went to the same camp area as DH as a kid and now I see her posts of all the vacations she takes with her family and some of the mama thirst trap shots she has.  More power to her!

Today she posted a family photo and said in lieu of Christmas cards they're donating to a charity.  I vented to DH how laughable and selfish I find it when the intent is to be altriuistic.  But...do you not expect people to see through it that if you're posting photos of you traveling all over spending $ on yourselves then if you tell all the people on social media that you didn't buy them cards and instead gave to charity - it really doesn't give the impression you think it does??

levioosa

I’m so sorry for your loss @ILoveBeachMusic. 

I’m here today and I don’t wanna be lol. These last two days are gonna kill me. And no one tries anything even remotely non pharmacological at home for their cold symptoms any more. I’m gonna lose it if I see one more person come into clinic with a complaint of “sore throat x 1 hour.” Then they get mad when you tell them to go home, take some Tylenol, and do salt water gargles and drink warm tea and follow up in 5 days if they haven’t had any improvement. Viral infections exist! And no one wants to check for COVID any more either and 9/10 times when someone says “it’s just my allergies, it’s just a cough,” and then I convince them to do a test it’s positive. Anyways. Same old work vent that every provider everywhere in the US is having right now. lol. 

Otherwise I had a weird dream that kind of put me in an odd mood this morning. I’ve recovered but it was thought provoking. Be nice if my limited rest was peaceful instead of stressful too. I’m still trying to decide if I should aim for Costco tomorrow or Saturday morning. I also need to call and see if they have the main item I need. 

short+sassy

levioosa said:

I’m so sorry for your loss @ILoveBeachMusic. 

I’m here today and I don’t wanna be lol. These last two days are gonna kill me. And no one tries anything even remotely non pharmacological at home for their cold symptoms any more. I’m gonna lose it if I see one more person come into clinic with a complaint of “sore throat x 1 hour.” Then they get mad when you tell them to go home, take some Tylenol, and do salt water gargles and drink warm tea and follow up in 5 days if they haven’t had any improvement. Viral infections exist! And no one wants to check for COVID any more either and 9/10 times when someone says “it’s just my allergies, it’s just a cough,” and then I convince them to do a test it’s positive. Anyways. Same old work vent that every provider everywhere in the US is having right now. lol. 

Otherwise I had a weird dream that kind of put me in an odd mood this morning. I’ve recovered but it was thought provoking. Be nice if my limited rest was peaceful instead of stressful too. I’m still trying to decide if I should aim for Costco tomorrow or Saturday morning. I also need to call and see if they have the main item I need. 

Yes!  I have weird and upsetting dreams a few times a month.  And I'll remember them.  They will often put me a funk for at least the rest of the morning.

For the more realistic ones, I'll have to periodically remind myself that it didn't really happen.


Long story that's just my dream, but it's funny in how real yet ridiculous it is:

I had a nightmare last weekend that fell in this category.  So many details that I still clearly remember.  I was at the Atlanta airport, it was a layover flying back home.  From where?  I don't know.  My dream self didn't tell me, lol.  Funny enough, it didn't look like Atlanta's airport at all.  But was very similar to the one in Savannah.

I was there hours before my flight and kept asking the counter employees what time it was.  My flight was at 7PM.  The counter person told me it was 5:30.  Plenty of time.  I didn't think much time had passed and was shocked when I asked the next counter person what time it was and she told me 7:30PM.

I started crying and asked if by some miracle the flight had been delayed. It had and was still at the airport.  But because it had already boarded, the only way I could get on the flight was with a special medical pass.  She wrote one up for me that said I had epilepsy.  I almost asked her if she could change it to T1 diabetes, since that was a condition I actually had.  But didn't want to rock the boat, so I just took the pass she gave me and hurried to the gate.

I get to the gate, but they won't' let me on the plane even with my special pass.  I'm crying again and begging them, while also worried they will somehow know I'm lying about having epilepsy.  And that's where the dream ends.  Not even any closure to if they let me on the plane or not, lol.   

All morning I was feeling upset and stressed out for no reason.  Argh!  It was just leftover feelings from that dream.

What amused me is, on the broad strokes, it was straight out of what can happen in real life.  Missing your flight and being stressed at the airport.  But when you start to look at the specific details it doesn't make any sense.  Like why would I be asking people the time.  I'd be at my gate way ahead of time, not lollygagging and wandering the airport.  But a medical pass...that said I had epilepsy (????)...allowing people get on an already boarded flight is definitely the weirdest!