I did manage to get the lawn mowed this morning. The kids made me crazy and run too late to get a haircut. Jami said she’d try to get me in sometime this weekend though, so that rules. So does Jami.

This afternoon and evening I dug through our clutter. I filled a 55 gallon trash bag with stuff. It wasn’t like there was garbage lying everywhere, but it was just stuff that we didn’t need or want. Also managed to finish 4 loads of laundry, sort socks, and organize the kids’ dresser. Oh, I vaccuumed too. Now that I look around I can’t say it looks like I did much, but man I’m tired.

The house does “feel” cleaner though. Maybe I did accomplish something.

Original title, huh? I’m taking Friday and Tuesday off. I think I deserve the mini-vacation.

It’s always fun to see how many calls I get on my days off. Generally I’ll have 4 calls or so before people figure out I’m not working. Then when I come back there are at least 8 voice messages and 5 emails or so. It’s nice to feel needed.

Tomorrow I’m going to mow the yard, take care of the mother-in-laws’ yard bags, get a haircut, and clean this darn house. It’s a lot to do on a day off, but it’ll be nice once it’s done and I can relax the next 4 days.

Monday I plan to host a get-together for the immediate family. Just cook some burgers, hot dogs, chicken, and whatever else crosses my mind. It’s not set in stone yet, I still need to run it by Emily, but I think it’ll be fun.

Today was pretty uneventful at work. Standard questions from customers and employees. Some issues with a roaming partner, but nothing that was my fault. 🙂

danvoyles.us/photos is now alive. I’m going to fine-tune and organize it before I link from the main page though. There are zoo photos and very few from last Christmas over at Marilee’s house. More to come, I promise.

From the moment I arrived at work until about now. Nothing seemed to go my way today. I forgot my mobile at home so I was almost late, work was unpleasant, Erich had an incident at Pre-K (last day, of course), and nothing especially good occurred to balance it out.

The positive is that I wound up at work on time, completed my assigned work, Erich learned from his experience, and the kids are being fairly well-behaved this evening. I haven’t had to correct them much and that’s always great.

Does anyone actually read this? Not that I care, it’s just nice to vent, but a comment here and there would be good.

We need to make Monday a national holiday. That way we don’t ever have to go to work on Monday, begging for 5 to get here. Also, it would clear up the middle of the week. Right now we can get excited about Noon on Wednesday, but we still have 4 more hours to go after lunch in that day. I don’t think that’s fair.

If we made a 4 day workweek, then once Wednesday was over, we could celebrate that the week was half over. Just my thought.