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Tired…
Posted under How I See It, Wife by MikeWhat the hell?
Because of the weird way things have worked out here at work, I have an abundance of vacation time. I need to use it or lose it when I leave in a couple of weeks. With that I’ve gone ahead and used my vacation time to take four day weekends for the past couple of months.
Friday through Monday away from work. Four days off and only three to spend at the office. You would have thought I had died and went to heaven.
With all this time off I was afraid I’d be in the same situation as Jen who writes The Cubicle’s Backporch. Jen, who recently found herself without a job wrote a post called, “If My Job Kicks The Bucket List” List. She asked her readers for suggestions on how to stay busy while looking for employment.
If only I had that luck.
The list of things I’ve been asked to do grows like a “baseball player on steroids.” The last few weekends I’ve spent my time…
- Painting the living room. How do you get blue paint out from under your fingernails?
- Building a six drawer chest of drawers for my wife. Thank God my wife speaks “Ikea.” I don’t read the instructions. It’s a guy thing.
- I’ve been to three, (count them) three plays in the last couple of weeks. Rent, Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Forbidden Brodway. I’ve been told that I should expect more stage time soon.
- The wife and I have been to California Adventure (Disneyland Jr.)
- She’s planning for us to go to Disneyland (the original) in the next week.
- She’s now decided that we need to paint the kitchen, the stairwell and the upstairs hallway. Who knew that there were that many shades of yellow?
- My wife’s birthday is today. Happy Birthday, Honey!!! (crap, got to get that present wrapped).
- My mother’s birthday party is at our house this weekend (I’ve got to get the house cleaned).
I need to go back to work.
I could use the rest.
I’m tired….
This sounds much like my life. I should get four-day weekends to go with it!
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nice going dude:) Sounds very cool indeed for a tense situation.
Wasn’t Rent your daughters play? How did it go?
I always considered the fact that my husband doesn’t read instructions to be a fault of his. I hope he doesn’t get wind of this “speaks Ikea” thing. He’ll be patting himself on the back!
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Your wife and my sister share a b-day!
You should be able to get out of going to more shows, after all, where is this money coming from?
Gotta love those honey do lists!
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Wish your wife a happy birthday for us! 4 day weekends. Sounds like fun, I might need to try those some day.
Must be a computer programmer thing, for some reason, I give the directions one good read and then do them from memory. At least with the Ikea stuff. It’s also fun to try and speak scandahoovien.
Look at it this way… at least you’re needed.
Happy birthday to the wife.
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Who knew being without a job could be so much work??
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Happy Birthday (belated) to your wife and to mom too. Al that time off sounds exhausting.
It sounds like you almost have to be let go from your job in order to get all your things accomplished!!!
Thanks for the shout-out!
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We don’t need no steenking instructions!
Happy Birthday to the misses!
I might suggest some tavern benchmarking…
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My Mom and your wife share a birthday. Always seems to fall on Cinco de Mayo.
When you’re done at your place, we have a few rooms where the paint is looking shabby.
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Sounds like you need a vacation! I swear we got more accomplished when my husband was working outside the home.
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Hmmm…..guess you need a vacation “from” your vacation!!!
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I was lucky my last employer gave me money for my unused vacation time. It came out to an extra month of pay.
How’s that list coming?
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