Wednesday, December 28, 2005

What vacation??

Have a few days off. Kinda forced since these are personal days - use it or lose it deal. Unlike our actual vacation days that we "banked" and accrues up til 1.5x your allowed vacation. Have 4 weeks of vacation banked, mostly saved for our trip to Malaysia which never happened.

Made a mistake yesterday and worked a little. It's a long story and can't talk about it. Throughout the entire day, I was worked up about these few things and I can sense my neck tensing, then my back and then the stomach. Ugh, hate that feeling. Had to go to hubby to prioritize what I should do with the work. You laugh but sometimes you need an uninvolved 3rd party to "set you straight" because YOU ARE TOO CLOSE TO THE PROBLEM! Anyway, it worked.

Took munckin to see some friends at work. Spent a couple of hours chatting and munchkin collected some candy and gifts for the visit. 5 min after we left, she was out. Kinda nice. Came home and worked some more. Had to, took care of a few problems and called it the day.

What did I do on my day off? I 6S! Ever looked in your pantry? Well, I did and out everything goes, well almost everything. We get this supply of M'sian spices from our folks when they visit and never use them all. As of yesterday, I S.P.A.C them - sorted all the spices together, purged those that expired (it's debatable whether there is an expiration on spices), assigned them by frequent of use and containerized them. Thanks Julie Morgenstern! I now have a pantry I can see and more space for our next shipment of Chinese spices my brother is going to send. All our spices are now in one area. Even had extra cabinet space for other stuff.

Oh, and the night before, we had some unexpected house guests and it forced me to clean up munchkin's room as well as the living room. We love our house now but there's more to be done to "Mission Declutter" this week.