The Other Side of the Weekend

I had a very relaxing weekend for a change. I finished my editing job on Friday night, and while I have some homework deadlines looming, none of them were close enough to make me work on them all weekend. So I didn't. Well, that's not completely true - I did some research on my Flash project, and figured out how I might be able to do parts of it, but the actual execution is going to wait until probably tonight. The rough draft is due Wednesday.

So, with no editing work to do and no homework that absolutely had to be done, I decided to - big surprise coming here - relax and play the Sims. It's not even funny how addicted I am to that game. The hours it eats up! Simming took pretty much all of my Saturday, but it didn't get to take all of it, because when I went to bed on Friday night, I remembered that I had forgotten to print some advertising table tents for the dining hall, and since the event they were advertising is on Tuesday, they kind of needed to be on the tables all weekend. So I went in to work about lunchtime, printed them out, cut them out, and delivered them to the dining hall. And I didn't even clock in to do it, because I had plenty of time to do them on Friday, if I had only remembered.

Going in on a Saturday sucked a bit of ass, but it was something that was quick to do, so I was in and out in 20 minutes or so, so it wasn't too bad. And I was right back to Simming afterward, so that's all good. :)

Sunday I woke up early and relaxed for a couple of hours, and then Jamie came over and picked me up. He got a new (to him) Chevy Malibu on Friday, and we had made plans to go out on Sunday so that he could show it off and I could get a ride. We went shopping. I was supposed to get a vacuum cleaner and two dog beds. I got the dog beds, but instead of the vacuum, I ended up with Quantum Leap season four and The Sweetest Thing. I still need the vacuum, but I love my DVDs, so it all balances out somehow.

I needed the dog beds, though, because...I kicked the dogs off my bed! I had been letting them sleep on my bed at night, but I was just getting sick of it. They take up most of the room, Willow gets jealous of Bernie and growls most of the night when they're both up there, and to top it all off, Bernie has decided that he doesn't need that winter coat anymore, and he's going to shed it all. All over my house, all over my lawn, all over my bedroom floor (hence the need for the new vacuum cleaner) and all over my bed. Only not on the bed anymore, because he's sleeping on his own not-so-little dog bed. Ha! I foiled that one.

And then the weekend was over, all too quickly, and it is once again Monday. Sarah called in sick today, so I'm chat buddy-less, but the day is going pretty quickly anyway. Every Monday morning, though, without fail, I wish that I could win the lottery and never have to work again. I think this whole two days off, five days of working thing is backwards. I wouldn't mind working two days a week, but five? With only two days to relax and do what you want/need to do in your off time? It's a horrible system. And yet I need the money, so I continue to show up. Sigh.

And now that my blog has been updated, I once again feel better. I also just went and bought a Diet Pepsi, so hopefully I'll be waking up for good soon, and then this week can really get started. Oh, have I mentioned lately that school is almost over? Yup, this week and next week, and then classes are over. I have two finals in the beginning of the following week (two weeks from right now), and then I'm done. I SOOOOO can't wait. And now I need to go do some work to keep the boss happy, so that's all from me for now. I hope everyone out there is having (had) a great Monday!