Merely noon on my first day of vacation and I already feel accomplished.

May the rest of my vacation be just as (un?)productive.

Today's lesson:

Frequently check your online paycheck so that you know if/not you have actually been contributing to the 401(k) you filled out paperwork for.

This had better be a fixable mistake. *headdesk*

The excitement of being able to come home early due to the rehab department's pseudo-snow day was dampened by the fact that I just added -2 hours to my PTO account bringing it to a grand total of -10 ( Read more... )

Today was another long day. I think the stress of starting a new job has finally accumulated enough to start weighing on me. Too many small things piling up behind me and I find that the work is beginning to feel very exhausting (if generally rewarding ( Read more... )

Finally, a peaceful weekend after a very busy week ( Read more... )

I am going to Charlie Brown around the house, goose-stepping with the sad Charlie Brown piano music playing the background until I get over and/or accept that I am a massive screw up and will have to live with my massive screw ups and will not in the near future be allowed to be an unsupervised SLP because I am such a massive screw up ( Read more... )

I have a sofa. A comfy sofa at that. All activity may now move to the living room. (It's amazing how much a sofa makes a flat look more lived in. Granted, the "lived in" look in my flat can only go up from where it was ( Read more... )

+ Achieved 80% productivity today ( Read more... )

Today was (surprisingly) a good day:

+ I got my 2 year old fix for the week

+ I did all the swallow treatments on my own today

+ I went to the library and checked out God: A Biography and Atonement+ I paid my electric bill with money from my first paycheck ( Read more... )

I have finally admitted to myself that the United States Postal Service has lost approximately half of the books that have traveled with me the past three years.

I love reading. I love books. But I don't really buy a lot of books. I never considered myself particularly attached to my books either. I don't buy a lot of hardcovers, and I'm not ( Read more... )