Just for a week but that’s better than nothing. It’ll be so good to get back east where I belong. Where there’s green grass and REAL trees. Honest to goodness mountains instead of hills with delusions of granduer. Properly prepared Chinese food and authenic New Yawk style pizza! And rude people that I understand…no fake nice politcally correct crap there.

I’ll go see the couple friends I haven’t completely alienated and drive around to soak in all the goodness that is life on the east coast. And take LOTS of pictures.

And hopefully I can convince Mom that that is where we need to be. Housing market be damned! We can sell this albatross of a house for whatever we can get and leave this dirt-strewn shithole once and for all.

So yeah, I’m excited. I think this feeling might even be approaching…HAPPY!

For the second month in a row I caught a break. My sister decided to take Mom to bingo on Mother’s Day, which being a Sunday gave me a whole 5 hours to myself. And what did I do with it? Not much…as soon as they left I found myself back in my bed where I stayed until just before they came home. Oh well, I haven’t been able to do that in almost 7 years so it was good.

Sunday May 11, 2008 – 11:01am – 4:03pm = 5 hours and 2 minutes.

So I got hauled in to Human Resources for another talking to about my attitude yesterday.

This incident occurred at the gate as we were leaving for the day. Some girl (I think I know who she is) went to the HR manager lady and complained that one day while trying to exit the gate her car stalled and I was behind her gesturing and “saying bad things” (apparently she could read my lips – yeah right!) and the upshot was that she was very scared (GOOD!!!!!). She thought I was upset because her car stalled so I calmly explained to the Hr manager lady and my department head that I was upset about the fact that before she could get to the gate and stall out her car, she had come flying out of a side aisle without looking almost hitting me (I love how she didn’t tell them THAT part). THAT was what I was upset about, not that her car stalled.

So I have to ask again…what is with this “running and tattling to mommy and daddy” mentality we seem to have cultivated in our society these days. When I was a kid you were taught to fight your own battles. And haven’t any of these people today ever heard of the old “Sticks and Stones” saying? I know some think that I’m doing the same whining here and I am, but the difference is that here I’m not fucking with someone’s life. I’m not going to cause someone to lose their job because I think I’m all that and should be treated with kid gloves.

Anyway, we had pretty much the same talk as before…me explaining that there is too much stress in my life right now between home and work. Of course my department head tried to convince me that all this mandatory overtime (yes, 6 hours again this coming Saturday) was actually part of the job. No I beg to differ. My job is full time and according to the agreement I signed when I took the job that entails 40 hours a week, 8 hours a day Monday thru Friday. Period.

The upside here was that I was not put on corrective action this time, apparently I’m an excellent employee in every other respect, but it was STRONGLY suggested that I call the behavioral health hotline and get myself straightened out. And I actually agree with this. I know I need help and I want it. So that’s what I’m going to have to do. I’ll keep you informed.