I Turned Around!
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She makes pretty jewelry too.
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Happy 50th Birthday, Kathy!!!
One of my favorite hilarious blogging friends turns 50 today! But you'd never know it because Kathy is so darn shy. Somehow I wheedled it out of her.
She makes pretty jewelry too.~ ~ ~
Yesterday was my Turn Around day - I feel about 85% myself today, way better than yesterday. I slept for about 2-1/2 hours, then puttered and vegged mostly. I asked Steve to bring dinner home, which I still couldn't taste all that much but at least I didn't have to cook it. Over the course of the 2 days I was home, I got almost completely caught up on my paperwork, both personal and business. I still have a shitload of filing to do, but at least I don't have to use valuable creative weekend time on stooopid paperwork.
And I confirmed what I said yesterday - if I'm even thinking about calling in sick, I'm sick. Because when I'm not, I don't ever consider it. I've worked with people and I'm sure you have too, who you swear must keep a Rolodex of excuses to use. I always think, I hope they have a good method of keeping track of which excuse they've used recently so they keep them all in the proper rotation. I also think if they spent as much time doing their job as they do thinking up ways to not do their job, well . . I don't know . . . some damn thing. (Don't you hate having a thought that trails off into nothingness??)
I took a box of Valentine's Day cards to work earlier in the week, including the ones I haven't gotten posted to my shop yet and sent an email to a select group of employee friends, offering them for sale. I sold about 5 or 6 last I knew so that worked out well. I'll have to get the rest listed (not as Valentine's Day cards) this weekend.
So here's to Fridays, whether it's your birthday or not. :-)
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And I confirmed what I said yesterday - if I'm even thinking about calling in sick, I'm sick. Because when I'm not, I don't ever consider it. I've worked with people and I'm sure you have too, who you swear must keep a Rolodex of excuses to use. I always think, I hope they have a good method of keeping track of which excuse they've used recently so they keep them all in the proper rotation. I also think if they spent as much time doing their job as they do thinking up ways to not do their job, well . . I don't know . . . some damn thing. (Don't you hate having a thought that trails off into nothingness??)
I took a box of Valentine's Day cards to work earlier in the week, including the ones I haven't gotten posted to my shop yet and sent an email to a select group of employee friends, offering them for sale. I sold about 5 or 6 last I knew so that worked out well. I'll have to get the rest listed (not as Valentine's Day cards) this weekend.
So here's to Fridays, whether it's your birthday or not. :-)
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posted by Stefani at 5:09 AM
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I can't imagine not taking sick days... Anyway, I'm glad you're feeling better!
My husband never uses sick leave either and I just cannot understand that.
One of the best things about my job is that I accrue annual leave and sick leave each pay period and I USE it!!! I LOVE my leave. And, yes, I'm one of those people who call in sick when they're not really sick, but I don't get sick that often and that leave just burns a hole in my account. :)
I have more leave accrued right now than ever which makes me wonder when I can take another day off. Just call me slacker.
I'm glad you're feeling better!
I've worked at my place of employment for 14 years and I'm not sure if they've ever labeled any days 'sick days'. (Someone told me once that the CEO said, "If we give them sick days, they'll just use them.")
So we get 4 personal days/year - now lumped into one category with vacation days called Paid Time Off.
Steve never uses all his PTO and I always use mine, feeling like I could use more. We both thought he got a lot more vacation than I do, but we figured it out the other day, he only gets 3 more days/year than I do. We just come at with different philosophies. (I only get 6 holidays/year, he gets 10, I think it is.)
It will be interesting to see if our policies change once the CEO retires. I think they will, not right away, but over time. Even while he's still here, we were finally able to, after being in business for 30 years, to get him to grant a 4th week vacation after 10 years. Even that, though, is being doled out 1 day for every year after 10 years, capped at 5 days.
He's just not a time-off kind of guy.
How in the world did you ever guess it was my birthday?!!! heh. Thanks for the kind birthday wishes. I'm hoping today is my 85% turnaround day, too, because if this is how I'm going to feel every day, now that I'm 50, I'm a wee bit concerned.
I am rarely sick so I never took many sick days when I was working but last year when I had bronchitis, I was home 4 days, unheard of for me. I slept and read for 4 days and I never got dressed or put on makeup. That's how I know I am really sick!
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