1/21/09

I had the day off yesterday. It wasn’t overly productive. I’m feeling like I’m in over my head as far as juggling work, the kids, the house, my relationship with Josh and my social life is, literally, non-existent. Maybe one day I’ll be able to manage it all. They fired the dude they re-hired a few weeks back. He didn’t show up or call for two days in a row. So he got the boot, again, yesterday. Which means I’m back to being first in line for his schedule. I think getting off at 3pm everyday will be a huge help. Not only will it eliminate my issue with someone picking up the kids when Josh deploys (yes, we’re back to him deploying… -sigh-), but it’ll give me more time to do things around the house and actually cook meals every night. Something I miss having the time to do. It wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t having to get up at 4:30am every morning to be out the door at 5:45am and start work at 6:30am. A 9-5 job would be sweet.

I went home sick this afternoon. I stayed for 6 hours and got the majority of the hard work done before even asking to leave. Honestly, I wasn’t really "sick" enough to leave. I do feel a bit on the icky side. But mostly it’s stress induced. Josh & I are having some issues, on both sides, that we’re working out. And it gets worse before it gets better. Hopefully the worst of it was yesterday and we’ll be going up from here. Good thing is, we’re both the most stubborn people on the face of the planet – but it works against us sometimes, too. I did spend some much needed one-on-one time with Josh before he picked up the kids, and got in a decent nap, too.

George flies into town Friday morning. He’ll be here for the weekend. I just so happen to have the weekend off, too. I think we’re going to take the kids to the Discovery Center. Too bad Josh has to work both Friday night  and Saturday night.

I desperately need a shower and then am going to crash. 🙂