and the hits just keep on coming...

Wow, I thought I was bored before!

Yes, I have work to do - busy work. I cleaned off my desk already. I worked on an ongoing project, but couldn't concentrate.

We are on our last day before the holiday (no, CHRISTMAS!) break, and all of us are feeling the need to be on vacation already. The first two hours of work this morning felt like 12 years, then we decided to play a video in one of the classrooms to pass the time. That lasted about 1/4 of the way through Notting Hill when I had to go to lunch and the phones actually started ringing a bit. I have a placement test and a meeting with an industrial maintenance program director this afternoon, so things are looking up!

Still, I think the rest of the day will last about another 10 or 12 years...

God, if I am this bored with a job to do (with things I need to be doing), how am I going to survive the CHRISTMAS break with nothing to do?
VERY WELL INDEED!!!

End of another year...

Well, the semester is about to end (tomorrow!) and Winter Break is so soon I can feel my body relaxing already! Actually, I am having trouble concentrating at work because my brain is insisting I am on break now.

Fall 2011 was a trying one for me, career-wise. I have been so frustrated at work. Co-workers, too much work, and a demanding boss rolled into too little help and employee problems have left me exhausted emotionally. It all came to a head a few weeks ago (right after Thanksgiving), when I finally decided that I wasn't going to give them all the satisfaction of knowing my feelings were hurt or that they were stressing me (one person was actually enjoying making me squirm). Since then, they have backed off, or at the least, I have not noticed so much their attempts to upset me.

Never thought I would pay into the whole mind-over-matter thinking!

Christmas is going to be quiet this year, with my brothers and niece going away for the holidays. Just my ex-brother-in-law will be here with Mom and I, which will be nice and quiet. I want to be boring for the holiday break and get some rest. I want to read Stephen King's new book and make some jewelry. One of my employees said I should have a private sale, but I have no stock right now. I have a lot of beads building up, so she is right. Maybe I will have a jewelry show!

My next door neighbor passed on Sunday. She was in the delivery room when I was born - the first person to hold me after the doctor pulled me out. She has always been there, and I keep feeling this horrible void now that she is gone. I will go to the Rosary at the Catholic Church when they have it, mostly because she would have liked that, and I made so many rosaries for her and her family. It will help me say goodbye, beyond the funeral services. RIP Mary - I love you so much!

Cold and clear - looking out the huge picture windows at work, I could almost believe it was warm out there with all of that sunshine. But I am deceived! she says in her best LOTR's evil voice. The temperature at 11am is 36F without a windchill factor. But is is beautiful!

So, no funny quips or content today. I feel bored, though!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Bloggers! Be safe and give your love as often as you can: that is the greatest present you can give to yourself!