Tired!

I am so tired. I just got home from 13hours of work and I want to sleep. But first I must relate my silliness. I had no one to share it with at work today, so I will share it with all of you. At zehrs, during my 11th hour of work today, a customer asked me a question which I did not understand AT ALL. It turns out he was wondering where we keep our fliers, but I heard something about adding fire and I got very confursed. Anyway, a short time later this customer came through my line and I apoligized for the confusion and I proceeded to explain that I was so tired that I could not comprend things. Comprend. not compREhend, which is the english synonym that means to understand. No, I said comprend. That is FRENCH for understand, and no I did not do it on purpose in a franglaise kind of way. I said it in French by accident. Apparently I am so tired I don't know what language I am speaking in. I guess I should just be glad that I didn't start speaking Xhosa - the clicking might have freaked the customers out!!

Now it is time to sleep

Can I have a do-over? Please?

I guess it was bound to happen eventually. I mean, I try to stay organized and on top of things. I even bought a cute planner so that I can keep track of all the things going on in my life and I thought I was on the ball. But really, when you are working 54 hours a week, 13 days in a row or more, I was bound to drop the balle eventually. It's just that eventually came much sooner than I thought!

I have never really had problems with mondays. It's not my favourite day of the week, but they are not unbearable normally. Today may have changed my view of mondays.

So now you are all asking, "Laura, what happened?!" Actually you are probably asking "Lolo, what happened?" but I will pretend that you use my real name. Well, let me tell you what happened. I left my house today at the anticipated time, 12:15 to catch my bus. It takes me two buses to get to my job at Arvato which is where I was going. My first bus was 10 minutes late. I arrived at the corner where I connect to my second bus in time to watch it go past. This is normally not a big deal because this second bus runs every 10 minutes so I had time to walk into Starbucks for a peppermint mocha. This helped me pretend that it was Christmas even though I was not even wearing a coat because it is so warm. I caught the next bus easily because it too was about 10 minutes late. So I walked into Arvato at around 1:20.

They were surprised to see me. Sometimes this is ok, because I generally pick what days I go in depending on my schedule at Zehrs so sometimes they forget when I am coming. But today this got me worried and I pulled out my nice new, very cute planner to see what was up. Oh S#$*t. I am supposed to be working at ZEHRS!!! not Arvato, and my shift started at 1. By this time it is 1:30 and I call Zehrs, explain what is going on to my less than impressed boss (who, thankfully, is also the mother of one of my best friends and knows that I am not normally this stupid!)She asks if I can be there by 2. I laugh. I have to take the bus home, then change, then take the bus to zehrs. There is no way that I can do this in half an hour. So because this post is getting long, I will sum up saying that I got to Zehrs at around 3pm, two hours late and even later than I should have been because all my buses were, of course, late. Three hours later the day was over and I had spent as much time on the bus and waiting for stupid late buses as I had actually working. Now I am hoping that I wake up in the morning and it is monday again so I can try it again and get it right this time. Either that or I wake up with no memory of this stupid stressful day.

Chillin'

It's friday night and instead of going out bowling with friends like I had planned, I'm just chillin in my room. The parents have monopolized the living room so I tried to watch a DVD on my laptop. Those of you who have watched DVDs on my laptop may remember it's annoying tendancy to freeze up and throw a hissy fit. This has not changed so I didn't get too far into it. So now I am sitting on my floor listening to musique and chillin. My cat is reading over my shoulder.

Christmas is starting to freak me out. Amp has posted about feeling stressed out about the season, and I can relate although I think my stress is different. Last year I didn't really think about Christmas until December 20th - this is when I got on a bus to go to Botswanna to visit with the Allison-Jones family with whom I spent Christmas. This year Christmas is freaking me out. Even the though of going to the mall makes me a little sick to my stomach and the craziness of the season at Zehrs is driving me a little nuts. All of this would be easier to deal with if only we had snow to go along with it. It was 12 degrees here today! I want snow!!

So to combat the freakin I have been doing more chillin. I have been a little bit of a hermit the past two weeks or so. Aside from work, and my small group on tuesdays, I haven't socialized much except for the tupperware party last night. That was fun and I met my friend Mel's baby and I got free stuff:) More on that another time. I am being an introvert extrordinaire these days. Chillin is good.

Silly Questions with Obvious Answers

So I was sitting in church this morning (WMB, not grace), reading the bulletin and there is an announcement asking if I would like to go to Rwanda next summer. Um, let me think for .000012 seconds .... YES!!! I would like to go to Rwanda, and so I think I will. The trip isn't till august and it is only for three weeks but I am already very excited. I was in a great mood my entire shift at Zehrs today. That says alot!
Then after church Suzanna Muntz (sorry about spelling...) asked if I might be interested in a position working with Refugees and training volunteers to work with Refugees coming into our area. Let me see. Um... YES!!! So far this position doesn't even really exist I think and they are applying for funding so it may just be volunteer at least for awhile, but still it sounds really cool.

So does anyone else have any silly questions with obvious answers for me?!