Happy Halloween

Halloween happens to be my second favourite holiday of the year (after Christmas -duh), but sadly I don't really get to celebrate it this year.

Toothless from
How To Train Your Dragon

In past years I've held a Halloween party at my house for friends to com over and eat yummy treats and watch a Halloween themed movie, and just enjoy eachothers' company. However this year, I'm working on actual Halloween, and then between work, school, and Peter being home (yay) for a few days, a party just wasn't going to happen this year.

Zero from
Nightmare Before Christmas

So I didn't go out and buy a costume this year, which is a little sad since I LOVE costume shopping. I was feeling a little bummed about my lack of Halloweeniness this year, but last night I carved a couple of pumpkins, and it made me feel a little bit more Halloweeny.

I carved a real pumpkin and a fake pumpkin. I'm actually slightly allergic to pumpkin, and touching raw pumpkin for a prolonged amount of time can lead to a painful burning feeling on my hands, so my Mom lovingly hallowed out my pumpkin for me. I'm wearing my Halloween socks, and I'll change into an old costume before heading to work, so Halloween is still slightly alive. Hooray! Maybe after work if I'm not too tired, I'll watch Nightmare Before Christmas or some other Tim Burton movie -I've never seen Frankenweenie, so maybe that (maybe I shouldn't since I have work early the next morning, but psshhh, sleep is for the dead).

Jack Skellington from
Nightmare Before Christmas

I kind of miss Halloween when we were kids and how your costume was a super big deal, and you'd have a Halloween party at school, and do Halloween themed things for weeks before Halloween actually came. I suppose one Halloween themed thing I've done this month is turn my house into a haunted house complete with Zombies and a Ghost (my dad was walking around the house moaning like a ghost for weeks -it was really annoying).

Anyway, I'm not really sure what else to say, this entire post feels far less coherent than one of my normal posts, I mean, I don't normally have a proper narrative in my posts, but this can't even be described as following a train of thought, it's just sort of madness, so HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Also, it's only 55 more days until Christmas! (I don't have a problem, I swear).

Sick Days

So I've been sick for nearly two weeks now, and it's getting ridiculous.

I was bedridden for an entire week because I had super high fevers. I got sick on a Wednesday night just before I had work. I went to work and was super miserable the entire time, and when I got home discovered I had a fever. After being sick for a few days and the fevers not letting up, I was taken to the doctor to see what was going on.
The doctor thought I had either strep throat or mono (apparently the symptoms are super similar) so I got to do a bunch of tests including a blood test (I hate needles) to check for that. I was then given antibiotics and sent on my merry way.
I then proceeded to miss three days of work. Where I work being sick is both a big deal and not a big deal. When you're sick, you don't have to do silly things like bring in doctor's notes, because they trust that you actually are sick, but there is a high amount of pressure to try and find someone to replace you, which when you're sick, is one of the last things you want to do, and when you work at a place that is super short staffed at the present time (like I do) can be dare near impossible. The first two shifts that I called in, I wasn't able to find someone to cover me, so I'm assuming they just worked short staffed that day, and I felt super bad, but there was nothing I could do about it.
The last shift that I called in for, I found someone to cover my shift after calling literally everyone I possibly could have, and someone finally willing to take my shift. I almost started crying I was so grateful that I wouldn't have to call in the next day and say sorry but I can't help you out.

After I had been on the antibiotics and it now being a week since I originally got sick, I went back to the doctor. The doctor then decided that I didn't have strep throat or mono but bronchitis. I was given a new set of  antibiotics. I then proceeded to go to work that evening, and was completely exhausted when I got home.
I get off work usually at 10pm (sometimes 11pm on Friday or Saturday nights if I'm unfortunate enough to get stuck with such a shift).
Usually when I get home I relax for an hour, watch some TV, read a little bit, maybe do some homework, and then go to bed. This particular night I took my medication and went straight to bed. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. I was that tired.

I have since started to go to classes again and work fairly normally (I got sent home early on Friday because it was an insanely busy 8 hour shift, and I was pretty much dead at that point).
My current problem is that I'm not sick enough to justify staying home, but I'm still very sick. I'm coughing constantly, but the main issue is that I'm just so tired. I stagger from one place to another, pretty much barely making it until I can sit down, and struggle to stay semi-conscious is my classes.
Plus I have so much homework and stress to deal with now.
For the next month I have 2 assignments due each week, and I'm stressed out about these assignments, but I also am struggling to get them done because I get home from classes and all I can really do is proceed to take a 3 hour nap because my body is just drained.

This cold is seriously screwing me over. Why can't I live in a world where everything will actually wait until I'm fully better before I need to stress about getting it done?
Oh well, time to write an essay. Or take another nap. I'm tired.

Drowning

So I have a bajillion homework assignments. Normally I have a few essays here and there, and I'm able to keep up on my reading assignments until the last month of classes at which point I saw screw it and only do my written assignments. I don't even have time for my written assignments it seems!
Good grief.

Also work is crazy. We lost ANOTHER employee, and things are just pilling up. Literally. I come in to work and see that we have 2 full shelving carts worth of books that need to be shelved, and then there's piles and piles of shelving sitting on the receiving desk that we need to deal with also.
And there there's all the toys and clothing that need to be received. There are so many boxes that need to be put into the system that you can't move the shelving cart out of the back room, so it's difficult to do shelving, which is piling up and there's so much.
We have one of our old employees coming back upstairs (she was stolen by the downstairs people in August) but she isn't coming back until they've hired someone to replace her, and who knows when that will be.
And there are these swaddles that haven't been folded, and they're just sitting there, and each shift I've meant to fold them for about two weeks, but there's shelving, and schools, and receiving. WHAT ABOUT THE SWADDLES PEOPLE! WHO WILL THINK ABOUT THE SWADDLES!

I have a paper due on Monday about a book that I haven't read yet. So I need to magically instantly read a 200 page book so I can write the paper. But I have work tomorrow, and Sunday I'm teaching Sunday School (which I haven't even started to plan for yet), and then I have Quidditch (which I really want to go to because it's one of the few things that makes me happy lately), but I can't write my paper until I read the book, and I can't go to Quidditch unless I've read my paper, but I'm losing most of my Saturday because I'm at work all day, and then I need to plan Sunday School because I can't just show up and not have something to teach, because that would be terrible.

Ugh.

UGH.

UUGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Do I even make sense anymore?