Word of the Day: mayhap There, I've done it. I'm on my merry way through the Harry Potter series. I finally finshed reading ...and the Sorcerer's Stone. And by finally I mean JD bought the book for me months and months ago and I only got a chapter into it before I got distracted and forgot about it until now. And yes, admittedly, it was a good book, highly entertaining and suchwise. In other news, Patrick was sick for about a week with that RSV crap, and it sucked a lot for the both of us. I tried to go to work last Thursday, but the daycare called and said he was throwing up [which he never did at home] and had a little fever and so I had to bring him home for the rest of the day. I suppose, since that was his first sickness, he felt more comfortable at home, though I could tell he was tired of me by the time the weekend came. He was absolutely inconsolable most of the time. He wanted to be with me but then he wanted to play but then he wanted to sleep but then he wanted to drink [he wouldn't eat, but he would drink]. It made me so insane, we were driving each other crazy. And what angered me even more was that JD was hardly home to help me with him because he had to close at the store or he had school. He had to work last Saturday at the store and he volunteered to work Sunday morning there while already working Sunday afternoon at the lab. I was quite upset when he told me about that Sunday, on top of being tired and moody and restless. He told me that he could have stayed home with Patrick during the week and I asked him why he didn't, why we couldn't have switched off. He said since I said I was staying home with Patrick, he didn't worry about it, and I said I only did it because I thought he couldn't take off from work. I'm fine about it now, but at the time I was hopping mad. 'Hopping mad'? Where the hell...that damned book. Any road, in the end I told JD that next time Patrick got sick that he was staying home with him. Work has been pretty sucky lately. Adrian insists on cutting more and more payroll, so that there're no porters during the day, there's only one maintenance person there, either Yadida or I have to be at the desk because Adrian keeps making Jeff send Anitra home, and it's difficult to get anything done becuase no one's there. I haven't been able to mail off invoices for about a week and a half now, what with me having to stay home with Patrick and having to be at the desk when I am there. On Wednesday Adrian had sent Antira home so I was up at the desk, and all the managers except Joy [who's been moved to housekeeping] went off property to have lunch. So for about an hour and a half absolutely nothing could happen, and we nearly had to beat someone over the head to have them drive the van to Bloomington. I was so mad I didn't talk to anyone the rest of the day, which is really uncharacteristic of me even being mad. For a little while I was bothered that my work was piling up so high, but then I thought, 'Why the hell should I care? Obviously neither Cyndi nor Adrian care or seem bothered by it, so I'm going to stop worrying about it.' And I have. We bought Christmas stuff, a tree, decorations, stockings, a little bit ago and up everying up yesterday. One of the things I look forward to during the holidays is making traditions with my family. It's going to be even better when we're living without JD's mother, but really, what won't? Any road, we had Patrick put the little star on top of the little tree, and it was cute. Now it just needs to be cold and it'll be a fine first Christmas season for my little babeh and us. PS. I just bought ...and the Chamber of Secrets on amazon.com for three cents. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee