Ugh, Maria. Lack of sleep doesn't help anything.

Is that the non-glare acrylic, Matt? That's what I was going to suggest. Sorry about your glass-everywhere, Maria, and your crazy work schedule and everything. Some days you want to bite peoples' faces off and you have to smile instead. It's very stressful.

I'm melting down, personally. The burnout is reaching untenable proportions. I'm gonna have a talk with my boss today about moving some work around.

2d cup of coffee:

Thanks, sj! This whole week at the restaurant is going to be interesting. National Night Out is tonight, with a festival in one of the town parks and block parties afterwards, then tomorrow starts the sesquicentennial celebration for the town, which runs through Saturday. Parades and entertainment in the town square, which means a lot of people. And since we're right off of the square....

Lack of sleep doesn't help anything.

HAHAHAHAH. Truer words were never spoken.

Some days you want to bite peoples' faces off and you have to smile instead. It's very stressful.

Yes, yes it is. I'm not that far away from homicide either. It'll just take that one person to tip me over the edge.

I'm gonna have a talk with my boss today about moving some work around.

I'm sorry you're at breaking point. Shifting work sounds like a fine idea.

NOt working today. Instead:

Mac to band camp
Electricians at my house for work
Errand to $$ store for GISHWHES items
Mac from band camp
Grocery store with mac for GISHWHES stuff I need him to take a picture of me
Fence people at house
Start bread for GISHWHES
Get outfit together and made up for another GISHWHES picture
Mac to reading class
Bake bread
Mac from reading camp
pack Mac for trip (leaves tomorrow, early morning flight) to Uncle Gary's

I am glad we bagged on a 5K we were planning on doing at 7pm. Would have been fun, but this place does them every month.

50% of cataract patients develop scar tissue after their surgery, which affects their version. I think I'm definitely in that range. Fortunately, I have an eye appointment this Friday, so I think I have a ten-minute date with a laser in my near future.

Laser in the eye like it ain't no thang is the most metal thing ever.

Wow, Kat and msbelle both have busy schedules!

I mostly took yesterday to recover from last week's work madness. I mean, I got some stuff done, but quit two hours early. Today, more low key stuff (I hope), tomorrow back on a plane.

Am a little concerned because they finally scheduled my interview...for 8:15AM the day after I get back from a trip late at night. Boo. But it's been such a process to schedule that I don't think I can't ask to move it--especially since I'm on the west coast, so early stuff is hard

Installers are back. Jack is at doggie day care and the cats are confined to my room (no big hardship for them, it is their preferred hang out).

Today they are replacing the three downstairs windows at the front of the house and the patio door at the back. All three humans have decamped upstairs and I'm considering relocating to Starbucks. Too much work to do.

Once this is all done, I'll just have three windows left to replace - two in my room and the big one in the living room downstairs. Just need to find another $6.5k laying around.

We are officially bagging on the swim lesson, so I'm taking the kids for a walk by the beach later while Cody gets some work done from home, well my sister's home anyways.

I hate that feeling that I'm a failure and thst every choice, large or small, forces me to choose whether to disappoint this person or that one because I am the instrument through which life let's them down.