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    Yay! Short Week This Week! Boy, Do I Need The Break

    GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,579 Member
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    My son changed jobs very recently, going from the night-shift to a day shift at a different company altogether. That leaves me babysitting his little son, who just began Kindergarten this year. Since it's been a good 27 years that I've done the back and forth to school; drop off and pick up again, thing; I had all but forgotten just how the half-day of kindergarten can really shred a day. :( It's been very hard these past two full weeks, to say the least. It's getting really cold where we live and I've had to readjust how I do things. (For instance, I no longer wash my hair on Monday morning, because it's very long, very thick and I don't normally like to blow it dry because it causes split ends.) So, I've had to get creative. Not only that, but I managed to come down with a cold last Friday. Getting up and going was monstrous.

    I don't have a great deal of energy since my head exploded (something others have had to deal with after a 'stroke' and what I experienced is considered the 'mother of all strokes' [ruptured brain aneurysm] ). I'm grateful to be alive, but this schedule is killing me.

    So, learning that today is a very short week has me all kinds of happy. I stayed home all weekend long, to rest and try to feel better from this cold and it seems to have helped. While still sick, at least it wasn't a misery just trying to get up and get going today. Not only that, but learning that this week is even shorter than I originally expected (normally Thanksgiving is a four-day weekend, starting with Thursday) I was very excited to learn, this week is ultra-short. He goes today and tomorrow, only. And tomorrow, he gets out early. After that, his mother is supposed to take him.

    This mini vacation couldn't come at a better time for me. Yay! Doing a happy dance. :D

    Thank you, I just had to get that off of my chest. :p
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      ohhmystarrsohhmystarrs Posts: 52 Member
      I am SO ready for this break as well! I am taking 4 classes in college, working over 40 hours a week, AND have had to complete 45 volunteer hours in less than a month. This week is coming at a long awaited blessing. I am glad to hear that you too are feeling good about its arrival and hopefully things will calm down a bit for both of us soon!!
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,579 Member
      Thank you for the response! I hope you'll get your 'battery' recharged and will be able to get those volunteer hours in!. Me? I'm just Grandma. A worn-out one, at that. LOL I actually did something today I don't normally do. Once my grandson left, I curled up in my armchair in front of the fireplace and took a short snooze!
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      icmnfrshicmnfrsh Posts: 18,789 Member
      Glad to hear that. :) I'm sure you deserve it after caring for your grandson and going through an aneurysm.

      We don't celebrate Thanksgiving here (being a non-American) but tentatively this week, my company is switching to a different office building. So that means we won't go to work on Thursday and Friday, and we'll work from home instead. Not exactly a huge break, but at least we have the option to choose where to work. Maybe even in bed without pants. :o I might visit my old professors in college and work in the lab I did my thesis project in.
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      RaishaRaisha Posts: 129 Member
      Hurray for a short week! My family definitely feels like we all need a break, too. The kids have been struggling to keep up in school, my husband's work has been crazy, and we all keep passing around this awful cold. I joked that we should do chicken noodle soup instead of turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. No one else liked that idea, so there will be turkey after all, but I'm not counting on much of it getting eaten on Thursday. Well, there will be leftovers to get us through the weekend, I guess.
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,579 Member
      I highly recommend chicken noodle soup. Scientists have discovered there is some kind of healing qualities about it. Me? I've fallen back upon it since I started coming down with this cold. Our Bishop (who is now our Metropolitan here in the U.S.A.) has said, should we fall ill during the Fast, it is acceptable to break the Fast by having chicken noodle soup. But, once we are well again, we go right back to the Fast, of course. And we are not to have a very slight case of the sniffles, mind you, to justify our breaking of the Fast. For those 'not in the know', Advent began on November 15th and ends on December 25th.

      I have to say, the soup is working its magic on me. While I'm not 'well', I do feel better enough to keep slogging forward. Have a very Happy Thanksgiving to all of my fellow Americans. Watch yourselves on the roads, should you be traveling, and don't overeat and cause yourself a heart-attack. :D

      Thank you all for your responses. Happy Simming!
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      thankucatgodthankucatgod Posts: 398 Member
      I've had chicken noodle soup a lot the past couple days, I've also been sick. I'm pretty much better now, other than my horrible coughing fits every 10 minutes. It'll be nice to snuggle up in bed for the rest of this week and hopefully get over what's left of this flu.

      Anyway, I hope you enjoy your long weekend. :) Sounds like you need it!
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,579 Member
      Take care of yourself!
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