Thanks, all.
Things are better now; we're watching the PeeWee Herman Christmas special (Hec has it on tape and right now both the cable and the DVD player are crapped out) and Matilda is being an utter boo. Also, Hec made an amazing pasta dinner, full of mushrooms and cream and spinach and oh ah mmmm, and there's a big Ritter Sport square waiting for later. And, best of all, I don't have to go back to that place for two and a half days.
I just... two people. Out of everyone in my work environment, all these lovely persons, two people are fucking it up and making me feel like a crazy incompetent useless piece of shit, on almost a daily basis (and, ugh, I spend so much time around them behaving like a cringing abused dog begging not to be kicked again, it's loathsome). And they're both big and senior enough that, unless I want to Take A Stand and spend the next several years flailing away at it through various official channels (which, no; somebody should, but I just don't have it in me), my options are to suck it up or to leave.
Which I was going to have a sit-down with one of the kindly bosses with all week, but one crisis after another kept exploding and it never happened, and now it's the weekend. I'm'a try to just give my brain a holiday on the subject until Monday.
Brain holiday sounds like a good idea.
Kitty~ma to erin_o.
Car~ma to sj and TCG.
{{{JZ}}} I don't really know what kind of ~ma to send for you, but definitely health~ma for the doc next door and her little one.
JZ, let the brain take the weekend off on stressing and then talk to the kindly boss next week. Remind your brain that it can't help with this until Monday. So the weekend is for to relax.
erin, I am sorry for your friend's loss.
bt, that sounds like an AWESOME week. Well, except for Slacker!Grandpa. Is it due to busy schedule? Or is there family friction? Can't imagine wanting to not see such an adorable baby.
Oh, he has his reasons.
Slacker
reasons.
erin, kitteh~ma headed your way.
JZ, whatever-kind-of~ma would help for you. Sounds massively stressful - I hope it all improves soon.
I am going out for breakfast. Forms will look much nicer over the top of tea and eggs. Ooh, maybe I should go and look for pancakes. Hard to find here. Worth the effort.
{{{JZ}}} Hope you have a relaxing and pleasant weekend.
Sausages and scrambled eggs...
The universe has forgiven me! We've managed to get a cancellation at the lovely lovely venue, on a *Saturday* (dude!), for a civil partnership date in August. Deposit has been sent. I'm going to be a married lay-dee. Yay.
It's nice when nice things happen to make up for the more irritating things.
Edited, 'cause I really have to stop calling this a wedding. Us in the UK haven't quite won *that* battle yet...
Kitty~ma for erin
JZ, let Matilta be a comforting love. Sometimes, that kind of unconditional care is just what you both need-- it's not that you're falling into some sort of trap of making her think she's responsible for your well-being, it's that she's learning to trust in and develop her empathy and nurturing skills. She's a sensitive girl and that's a good thing, especially at this age. I've seen entirely too many kids who are already thoughtless little beasts at far too young an age.
The universe has forgiven me! We've managed to get a cancellation at the lovely lovely venue, on a *Saturday* (dude!), for a civil partnership date in August. Deposit has been sent. I'm going to be a married lay-dee. Yay.
WOOOOT, Seska!
