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Kicking and Screaming
Dec. 11th, 2008 04:51 pmI have been dragged into the 21st century. I have a cell phone. Emergency use only, until I need to use up the minutes I paid for, dangit. I guess it's a good thing, based on the 3 cars I saw slid into ditches on the way home. There's an answer, I guess, from the meme yesterday... "What was your least favorite Christmas Present?" One I bought myself... sigh. Seems like an awful waste, but it's better than being frozen in a ditch out in the middle of nowhere, I suppose.
Had the day "off". Boss called at some point last night, "don't come in tomorrow till I call you. Snow's supposed to be pretty messy later". 'Kay. Nothing but rain all day, which pretty much froze the moment it touched ground, but the roads weren't that bad. Got some shopping done, successfully forgot to get the same items at three different stores (have to take care of that some other time. I'm done for now.), found the AT&T store (on the "wrong" end of the street... map reading skillz fail.), and am now the owner of the most budget-conscious cell phone I could find. And upfront cost was still nearly two months' worth of landline bills. Gah.
Am still waiting for the phone call. It will come at 2 AM, I am sure. Not sure how the "lost" day is going to be made up. I really wasn't planning on using my last day of vacation to account for it... In a perfect world, since I was "on call" and waiting to be told to come into work, I'd get some sort of compensation, yes?
Decided last night, too, that I'm not going to have a Christmas Tree, at least not a traditional one. We're going to my parents for Christmas, and I don't want to come home to a carpet full of needles because nobody was around to water the tree for a bit. Also don't want to put it up and take it down on Christmas Eve, because that's really depressing.
So Sam, my lovely Tangerine, will be a fill-in. A Southern Christmas tree, of sorts... I think one string of lights will do nicely, and the lighter ornaments won't be too much for the little branches. Also, being in a pot, there's much more room for presents!! Yaaaay!
Had the day "off". Boss called at some point last night, "don't come in tomorrow till I call you. Snow's supposed to be pretty messy later". 'Kay. Nothing but rain all day, which pretty much froze the moment it touched ground, but the roads weren't that bad. Got some shopping done, successfully forgot to get the same items at three different stores (have to take care of that some other time. I'm done for now.), found the AT&T store (on the "wrong" end of the street... map reading skillz fail.), and am now the owner of the most budget-conscious cell phone I could find. And upfront cost was still nearly two months' worth of landline bills. Gah.
Am still waiting for the phone call. It will come at 2 AM, I am sure. Not sure how the "lost" day is going to be made up. I really wasn't planning on using my last day of vacation to account for it... In a perfect world, since I was "on call" and waiting to be told to come into work, I'd get some sort of compensation, yes?
Decided last night, too, that I'm not going to have a Christmas Tree, at least not a traditional one. We're going to my parents for Christmas, and I don't want to come home to a carpet full of needles because nobody was around to water the tree for a bit. Also don't want to put it up and take it down on Christmas Eve, because that's really depressing.
So Sam, my lovely Tangerine, will be a fill-in. A Southern Christmas tree, of sorts... I think one string of lights will do nicely, and the lighter ornaments won't be too much for the little branches. Also, being in a pot, there's much more room for presents!! Yaaaay!
