Because I have so much time to burn at work and we still don’t know what’s going on with our jobs, I decided to go ahead and take Fridays in May off. This plan is to help me gear up for another weekend with The Niece and next weekend is Memorial Day weekend so that’s four days off in a row–bliss.
I talked to my supervisor the other day and she encouraged me to burn sick leave (since I have 207 hours of that) instead of annual leave which I will need more of should I stay employed. Yesterday as I was signing out on our big board, I wrote down sick leave for today. It always feels weird to me to take a sick day if I’m not actually sick or going to a medical appointment. I’m not one of those people who wake up and say screw it I’m taking a sick day.
I bet you know where this is going. I woke up with a monstrous headache and am actually glad that I don’t have to go to work today. I had one of these headaches a few weeks ago. That one took until after lunch to go away. This one is dying back slowly but it lingers still. Funny how some headaches just need to run their course and they don’t really give a fig if you take pain or sinus medication.
I need to figure out what I’m going to do today. It’s very tempting to lay around until late afternoon when I have to pick up The Niece. But, I put one coat of paint on the room we call the lounge last Friday. I really need to finish in there so the shades can be put back up and the rest of the stuff in the middle of the room can be dispersed back into proper formation.