Even though the month started well, with an extra day off on December 1 (making a five-day Thanksgiving weekend), it's been going downhill from there.
December 3 - they announced layoffs at my company. I survived, but Gidget did not, and now I'm in the uncomfortable position of having had a friend help me to get a job, and then all-but taking away her job a few months later.
December 5 - My car's heater hasn’t seemed to be working for the last couple of weeks. I took the car to the ship. The damage? They found $3,800 worth of stuff they thought needed to be done. Only $900 was "urgent" or "safety-related," so I had that done now. The other $2,900 will have to be done no later than early March.
December 8, yesterday, I worked from home because, of course, I had no car. By the time the poor R.C. arrived home after work and was ready to take me to get my car, the snow had started.
Ugh.
Today, December 9, one of the Argonuts Afield, in direct contradiction of the rules and our constant warnings, made a mass of changes to their own campaign--changes that had the potential to damage the business of the other four locations that share that campaign. I got in a snit, deleted all their changes, emailed Vela to contact them instantly and tell them to knock it off, and took myself outside for a consoling smoke (The NSP? Not such a success so far.). On the way, distracted by my furious musings, I missed a step on the stairway and tumbled down.
Those who know me know I'm prone to doing that about once a year. Which fact does not make it any less painful when it happens. (Last time, I scraped myself all up and cracked a rib as well. Looked at form that perspective, I was lucky to just wrench an ankle this time.
Anyhow. I brought myself home while I could still drive, wrapped my ankle, and logged back in to send apologies to the management staff and try to get some actual work done.
Except that I decided that first I should give y'all an update to explain the long silence.
I'm working through pain!
How unfair is it that I don't have any potato chips?
December's been pretty sucky for a lot of folks - my sister-in-law knows three professional sorts laid off in the last month - though I don't know anyone as accident-prone as you!
And car stuff never, ever comes at a good time. It's impossible to budget for Murphy's law: it'll always cost more than you plan for.
posted by: Jonathan Dresner on 12.09.08 at 08:26 PM [permalink]I'm one of the world's champion klutz's, that's true. :)
The layoffs are painful--I've heard of several other people who have also suffered this month. I guess December is the layoff season, these days.
posted by: Anne on 12.10.08 at 08:12 AM [permalink]