the boss is gone... let's party!

is it a bad sign when work is 30 million times better with the boss gone? that sounds stupid... everyone loves having their boss gone, but i mean like REALLY REALLY better when the boss is gone? like we can breathe in a full breath, walk across the room with confidence and do our job because she's not staring down our every move ready with a condescending remark to put us in our place as the childish morons that we are? oh the joys of being an employee. i do love my job, i love it so much, so much in fact that i'd willingly put up with more summers of the same boss, but there certainly are times that i feel small and hated... like monday. and the part of the week before. and most all of the week before that. the irony of it all is that i put in way more hours than i get paid for and am not appreciated for that. i probably 'volunteer' around 7 extra hours a week beyond my schedule and off the clock and it seems logical that any good boss would appreciate that, but not mine. in fact, she does a darn good job of making me feel so unwanted at times that if i stay late on a bad-ish day for her, i'll end up feeling so uncomfortable that when i decide to leave i sneak out so she doesn't know how late i stayed. sounds rather pathetic now that i wrote it out. of course there are times that she confuses me and thanks me for coming in to work. go figure. anyway, to bring this tanget to a close... donna was at work only monday and friday and other than that, i saw her for 15 minutes total the other 4 days. it was so freeing. we all enjoyed work so much more. it helps that the volunteers rocked this week, but even so, it was just so much more enjoyable being boss-less.

last night i babysat for the twins, emma and alaina. they're cute little things. 7 months old. emma crawls all over the place now, including all over me. they're the easiest babies i've ever encountered. and they smile so much and are just plain happy kids. emma was laughing so hard last night that i thought she might pass out from lack of oxygen. they love cuddling too, which makes me melt. they both fell asleep in my arms a couple times. the oddest part of the night was my discovery of how much more i appreciate dressing and changing the diaper on a baby as opposed to a full sized adult like i do at work. it's such a breeze! nikki and brian looked at me like i was insane when i told them that i rather enjoyed it last night because it was just too easy! amazing how a perspective can change.

i'm exhausted. this past week was late nights, short sleeping periods and long days. 7 hours of sleep in two nights combined with naps of 20 and 45 minutes respectively is just not enough to keep a body going all that long. good thing i enjoyed the activities that kept me from my bed. stories for another time. until then... bubyd