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Keeping the petals down

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*and you may think she’s defeated but her petals point down so all of life’s rain will just roll right off her.
 

So there’s the light in every tunnel I suppose.  Time cards littering my desk, but it won’t be my duty much longer. Yay me.   It utterly sucked at work today. 

 

 

 It was supposed to be one of those quiet mondays.  Instead,  I was flying solo today.  Serving 5 new people who all descended on my office at once, while  I was simultaneously trying to punch in people’s time card. Ugh!! 

Tommorrow, more of the same. 

 

 

 So should I have spent all morning lamenting over my “non existent vacation”  which is now in the dumps? 

 Well, whether I should have or not,  I did.

 

 

*incase you were just stumbling onto my blog.  I had been planning a vacation since May!  I carefully saved and planned it out being sure to communicate to my spouse, my need for a semi solo getaway and the surprise I planned for my older daughter. 

We got passports early on.

My spouse and I agreed on this small time of respite and planned accordingly, so I thought.

 

 

Time was approaching for this lovely week away.  I had booked and paid for hotel and flight.  When I was informed… he would not have money for he and the girls to make it until next pay day 10 days from now. ( I’m talking groceries…Food.)

 

 

    Regretfully, I had to cancel all the plans.  ALL of them.  

 Can anyone not feel the pouts through their computer screen right this minute??   I was sad.    It hurt.    

 

 

  The only ones who truly noticed today are people that know me, and knew that I am usually not the petulant employee that I was today.  No vacation equals a sad Sweetie.

 

 

  But my kids, who are none the wiser are happy now, with groceries now bursting from skinny pantry and frig.

They have popscicles and icecream and punch and soda, and fruit, and nice kid cereals.  They have Kid Cuisines and chicken nuggets and sammiches and popcorn, and chips, and frozen waffles.

  Even the puppies have a huge box of Milkbone dog cookies.

 

 

 I don’t quite know what to get my oldest daughter for her birthday now. She said that all her friends were looking forward to meeting me.  Now,  Somehow,  no present I give her will be able to equal the vacation that once was in the works. 

 

 

 So nice night isn’t it?  Is the moon round and fat for you too?  was it orange early on and low in the sky,  it’s presence reminding you of some looming problems on the horizon, like it did for me tonight?     


6 Responses to “Keeping the petals down”


  1. July 7, 2009 at 5:17 am

    I’m sorry to hear about the cancellation of the plans :( Where were you planning to go?

  2. 3 Noobie2
    July 8, 2009 at 2:45 am

    I’m so sorry that you are not going to Japan! That is horrible. You have to do something else…maybe something in the States and less expensive.

    I miss you so much! I’m sorry you got swamped with time cards and new employees. When are they going to hire someone else? Any word?

    I have been emailing you at work and there has been no response. You better junk your junk mail or something. I even tried your AKO. What’s up?

    I don’t see Doug on FB anymore. Why not? Are you guys avoiding me?

  3. July 8, 2009 at 4:23 am

    NOOB! Nine comments! Thanks :-) I saw that you sent an email with an attachment at work but the file is the one that I couldn’t open… No one’s trying to avoid you. doug plays that stupid farm game on face book and doesn’t do much else, he’s obsessed with it! They just now put in another requisition to hire for your position. It will be like this until summer is over, you know. I will email you later, promise.

  4. July 9, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    Holiday cancellation, Ouch bummer of a break, Sorry for you that it didn’t happen

  5. July 10, 2009 at 12:57 am

    Tony~we are still going. Just not where we first meant to… lol.


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