Evil Congestion

2-12-15

I want to go back to bed.

Then again, that was a place of hell last night. My congestion from either allergies or a new strain of cold was attacking me hard last night. I was able to fall asleep quickly, but around 11:30 I woke up coughing and stuffy and it was in an epic battle with my exhaustion. It was not fun to be that battlefield. I considered taking some NyQuil, but this was at 12:30 and I didn’t think that it would be good to use it so close to getting up. Tonight I am going to be proactive and prep better with the NyQuil, my Vicks and whatever else keeps me sound asleep.

I had a crappy day at work yesterday. The president of the company, a gentleman I respected greatly and liked a lot, was fired unceremoniously yesterday. An email went out after hours on Tuesday so it was the first thing most of us saw when we came in on Wednesday. It’s a real shame the company opted to eliminate his position/him, but knowing him, he will be ok. He is a smart cookie, and honestly, one of the nicest executives I have had the pleasure of knowing. He was always very receptive to input and he was always super friendly to me, which I have to admit made me a little cocky. Either way, it was quite the bummer.

The rest of the day proceeded with sales reps being grouchy and Trusty being ignorant. Once again, my countdown clock is on for next Tuesday. Trusty and his faithful sidekick in the department are out of the office for 3 days to tend to our banking issues for processing our incoming checks. It will be three glorious days of not having to deal with either of them.

I needed to de-stress when I got home so I had some pot and got to cleaning. I did a whole lot, including some Cinderelly style scrubbing on the kitchen floor. I was even done with all that I worked on (laundry put away, kitchen cleaned, downstairs clean, boys’ room cleaned) before the boys arrived. Boy, you need a miracle cleaning product, I am telling you, marijuana is the way to go.

I had considered postponing my Target run until after practice tonight. I am so glad I didn’t delay. It would have been a pain in the tush to have to go get those Valentine cards tonight and then to make them address them after practice in order to bring them in to class tomorrow.

It was a rather successful outing in terms of finding multiple things we needed for reports, holidays and shoes. Both the boys were quite thrilled I remembered to get them new shoelaces that were neither too long nor frayed at the ends.

Sadly, both of them were super active in the store, which was incredibly frustrating. I could let some of their running around go, but the constant arguing was mind numbingly frustrating.

If I could skip practice tonight, I would certainly consider it. That being said, I don’t see that as an option, so I will hopefully get the boys motivated enough to finish homework by 5 so we can head to the park.

I have to pack for our trip still. Not that an overnight bag is a big deal, but I have 3 of them to plan (Ken is on his own). Thankfully it looks as though my tomorrow evening is quiet so I can get everything in place for a weekend away from home.

I am hoping today is less annoying while I am on the clock and that the evening is smooth with our afternoon activities.