My daughter had to work yesterday, and today as well. The Multnomah County court system is moving to electronic records, and this week is the final push to get everything into the system before they have to start using it. Some family friends with kids about the age of hers are babysitting for the weekend.
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She'd be happier about 16 hours of overtime if it didn't mean 12 days of work in a row.
This past week has not been a particularly happy one. Not miserable, but not happy, either. The offspring have been passing assorted germs among themselves and the one I caught (from my daughter) was a gut bug.
I have the constitution of an ox, so it didn't hit me bad enough to let me stay home from work. However, I didn't talk as much on the bus as I usually do, and I did spend most of the week with my office door locked. If anybody needed to deal with me in person, they could knock and wait for me to open it. I don't get many visitors at the best of times, so this wasn't the problem for other people that it may sound like. And I felt a lot better for doing it.
My daughter was feeling a lot better on Thursday and told me she thought the whole thing (she took time off work) might have been stress. No, kid - stress may have aggravated it, but you had a genuine germ. I guarantee.
I only did about half my payday shopping after going to my chiropractor Saturday morning. I will probably be out today doing the rest. I think tomorrow I will be all well.