The Last Friday Of 2006

It's Friday!!  Hurrah!! 

It seems like it's been Friday all week this week, because only a handful of people have bothered to come into work.  I like these days..  Sure, there isn't much to do, but, nothing like getting paid for doing hardly anything, right?  Why waste a vacation day?!  Clients aren't coming in, and the courts don't have many cases scheduled this week, so it's been feeling like Friday all week.. 

But of course, our lovely receptionist, Rita is not here again today.  On average she is here only 2 days a week.  She's worked here almost longer than anyone, and management will do nothing about it.  There is security in County Government jobs; a little too much sometimes.  Why won't this woman just retire, so we can just hire someone to be here every day?!  She is always calling in sick, or her elderly mother is sick, or she is falling in gopher holes--(I'm not kidding--that was a real excuse she used earlier this year.)  When she is gone, we have to cover her desk, and it's a pain in the behind.  Oh well.. 

I went to the drug store earlier this week to see if I could get a deal in Christmas cards, and wouldn't you know it, all the good stuff was GONE!  Not only the Christmas cards, but the whole Christmas theme of the store.  The snowman, and candycanes have been replaced by yoga mats, and diet supplements!  The Christmas music is not blaring out of the speakers any longer.  It has been replaced by "My Summer Love," and "Sugar Pie, Honey Bun."  As I was searching in vain for those Christmas/picture cards, there was Kadie Lane singing, "Summer Love.."   It was very surreal.  Where did the winter go? 

Yes, summer is coming.  My mother is planning her very long vacation in the Azores.  It is my hope to go there for a little while.  Not for very long, but, my mom needs me to accompany her on the plane back home.  Can't let my poor mother go alone, you see..  I'm dreading taking a vacation without my hubby man..  But, I think we'll both survive a few weeks away from eachother.  I haven't been back since 1999; it's time to go back.

New Years Resolution:  Hmm..  I haven't thought about it yet.  Will get back to ya'.