3 days with no glasses! Glad you found them.

My work day is officially over and now I have 4 days off, yay! I had halfway thought I would go winetasting on Sunday but that's already sold out so now I have no commitments whatsoever. I will start with turning off the alarm for tomorrow morning.

I, too, have four days off, yay!

Driving up to my sister's tomorrow, then chilling. I think I'm done shopping. Wasn't that much, really. Will wrap up there. And I need to remember to take my now New Year cards with me.

Yay for long holiday weekends! Today was very quiet so I don't think my practices are very busy.

It's been a good couple of weeks out in Florida first working with the Gay Mens Chorus, and then also seeing my FiL and having Kristin here, but I'm looking forward to flying home on Christmas Eve.

Thanks for the salad recall info, Cindy. I read it halfway through eating a salad from Kroger, but fortunately mine wasn't from one of the affected facilities.

I work until 4 tomorrow and then am off until January 3. My co-workers and I all agreed to take three of our bonus days next week, so the office is officially closed between the holidays. And with the client all of my current workload is from also closed, I don't even have to worry about what will be waiting for me when I'm back on the clock!

I had planned to head up into the Ozarks for a few days, but between Omicron and my mom's fridge costing more than I'd planned, I think it's going to be a staycation with a couple of day trips. But at least I'll finally have the time to sand and restain the floor messed up by one of my prior desk chairs.

but I'm looking forward to flying home on Christmas Eve.

You should find a small package from me waiting there.

work has announced that people should be ready to telework again. Really that was the announcement. No WFH mandate. No, "Managers are strongly encouraged to have their staff go on a wfh rotation schedule". No, "Offices should aim to be at less than 50% capacity". Just, employees who are able should start taking their laptops home and be prepared to WFH if told.

Practically useless in every single way and yet IT CAUSED A SHITSTORM. a million calls, employees in my own department (who btw cannot even do their jobs from home) COMING TO MY DESK when they should send an IM or an email, asking if it pertains to them and omg should they be leaving RIGHT NOW to wfh.

Of the 5 things on my to do list this morning, 1 got done. My to do list I brought home is 10 things long and realistically the only one I could make any headway on at this point tonight is my self eval, which if I did now might be full of curse words.

This surge of COVID is a motherfucker and I hate it and everyone that helped it emerge by: refusing vaccines and hoarding vaccines and not wearing masks and carrying on as if nothing was going on with activities and world events.

Jesus, msbelle, that sounds awful.

My office was mostly empty yesterday, so I didn't bother going in today. Got about 2/3 of a day's worth of work done. Tomorrow I have a half day and then all day Friday off. I'll pick up some gifts, although I need advice:

What do I get for a 13-YO girl with undiagnosed ADHD, whose parents really don't want her to have any more books? She's wildly into dragons and adventure fantasy novels, and she plays hockey, and she got into baking during the pandemic. I have a Kindle Fire that I won in a raffle but that's a no-go.

I’d get her an age appropriate book either with a character with adhd or straight up about adhd. Because I’m a bad relative.

Some sort of baking mix, maybe with a few kitchen items? An apron or, I don't know, a bundt pan or something like that? (I would also be tempted to get her books anyway -- how can you have too many books??)

We are at my parents' house in Massachusetts, where my Southern children were overjoyed to find a small patch of ice in a park and spent a good 20 minutes playing with it and exclaiming over it, picking up pieces of ice to show us and then dropping them to watch them smash on the ground. I really hope we get some actual snow while we're here; that would be about the best Christmas gift I could imagine for them.