Birthday Plans (sort of)

Capricornucopia is around the corner. I think I still have some outstanding invitations to send for that. Oops.

I am considering getting myself a massage-type-thing as a present to myself. I've heard good things about Ovarium, plus they have this neat sensory-deprivation bath thing which sounds really lovely and relaxing. Not sure about this yet, but we'll see.

I'm also thinking about doing something extra for my birthday this year, because it's a Big Number. Maybe I'll do a Hurley's Night. Not sure. I'm open to suggestions. :)

An upside-down day

I missed going to owldaughter and ashforestwalker's post-Christmas thing today, because I lapsed into a coma upon getting home and didn't awaken until 20:30.

*sigh*

I guess I needed the sleep, but I've seen so little of my friends this month that it's pretty disappointing overall. I hear the weather wreaked havoc with people's plans today, too. The roads were already pretty treacherous when I walked home at 07:00, but I thought it would get better and not worse. Would you believe that I'm still tired after 12 hours of sleep?

The good news is that my friend from high school, Alex, is in town for the holidays! He lives in London, now, and I haven't seen him in over a year and a half! It'll be great to catch up. We're having coffee tomorrow afternoon.

The other good news is that I may be getting a futon on Monday! Plans are not concrete yet, but kino_kid is giving me her old futon, and so I may actually have room for people to sit until I get a sofa! Then the futon will be going in the basement and serving as a guest bed and place to sit when I do my crafts. I'm very excited!

Tomorrow morning I'm going to be doing some cleaning. I haven't touched this place properly in about two weeks, and things are starting to pile up: laundry, tidying, dishes... bleah. Still, it must be done. My cleaning lady should be coming this Wednesday, but I'm not sure about that because it's December 31st, so she might be coming the week after. It's a mystery. It would be great if she does come, though, because I'm having guests the next day, and so having the place clean(er) would be a huge bonus.

Another of my colleagues has called in sick (the one I mentioned in a recent entry). Apparently it's not a cold, he has done something to his back. I have more sympathy for that, but am not convinced that it's entirely real. I really hope they don't call me in for overtime on Monday. I have plans on Monday, dagnabbit!

I may actually refuse. I had a talk with Efficient!Supervisor yesterday (who was replacing my sick coworker), who said that they could force us to do overtime, but not to come in for overtime: they can force us to stay if we're already there, and if we leave before we're relieved, then we get fired for dereliction of duty and abandoning our post. Good to know.

We have a n00b coming in toward mid-January, and according to Efficient!Supervisor we should be getting an influx of n00bs in the spring. It's going to be a rough few months, because even when the n00bs get there they still have to be trained, and that's going to be complicated. We'll manage, though: we always do. It'll be nice to have time freed up for things other than work.