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Worn out!

Taking a good chunk of the weekend off is having its consequences. I don’t regret it as I really wanted to see Kelly, and the C. clan, and the opportunity for a ride doesn’t come along that often – but I’m exhausted. I normally catch up on my sleep during the weekend as well as household chores, and I did neither. It’s only Tuesday and all I want to do is put my head down on my desk and take a nap! It’s times like these that I’m glad mom doesn’t live too close. She’d probably have a heart attack if she came in my apartment right now. Heck, she has a heart attack when I’ve spent days getting ready for her!

To add to the frustration, Yahoo is giving me fits again. Once again they’re not recognizing my password and I know beyond a doubt that it’s right. (So if you need to reach me, post a message here or send it to me at work.) Before I have a meltdown about it, I’m going to try it from home. Work has been tinkering with all sorts of security settings etc. and it is playing havoc with all sorts of stuff on my computer. So, there’s the outside chance that’s the problem. The good news – hopefully it won’t take two weeks to get the problem resolved again since I just went through this a few months ago and still have all the documentation from that.

I normally listen to music in earphones at work to block out all the noise, and I left my earphones at home! The guy that moved into the office right by where I sit deals with the finances of the company – and just listening to his conversations stresses me out! I’m not a numbers person, and there are always people arguing about what something should have cost, and why we paid x for it etc. Or what happened to such and such, or where’s the invoice for this or that – just every day things I know, but still, I only have to look at a spreadsheet in Excel to have a virtual panic attack! I keep waiting for him to come over and say, “Why did you pay this writer x?” etc.

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