Tales from the Love Shaque: This sucks.

So yeah, the shit literally hit the fan today. Sorry if my language isn't G-rated but it's been a bad couple days.

I got a call from work yesterday saying I was basically "non-essential" for *at least* the next 2 weeks and to not come in. But apparently the coworker who has less seniority and "retired" for a couple months while she went & worked for a competitor IS essential????

WTF.

And they're using our vacation days for this BS.

The Spouse has been working from home for the last week. He got a call Thursday afternoon from his manager telling him about a very nice bonus he's going to be getting. We had some hope for a while. Then Friday they sent out a company email about they'll be letting employees know early this week about who they consider essential, who will get cut hours, who will be laid off, etc.

And since he does support work for field inventory operations - which are currently not happening.....we wait to see what they decide. So possibly instead paying down the credit card and saving a nice amount, we may be using his bonus to live on for a while.

Then today there was also major drama with the Spawn - too much drama.

I can't even put it into words right now.

This would be funnier if I didn't have to explain Non-Judicial Punishment!

Woke up to this crap this morning.

My Lenten Rose decided to start growing under the mulch - then I cleaned out the flowerbeds and now it's freezer-burnt. Bastard.

EXCEPT THEY'RE CLOSED DOWN, TOO!!!!!

@^!*$#%!$&#

OK, whew. Now that I got that out, maybe I can breathe. It just seems like when it rained, it poured and I like to think of myself as a calm, rational person (usually). But I had reached my limit!

I'm trying to think about the positive side. We have a solid roof over our heads. We're warm. We're fed. We're healthy. We have enough $ where we can get necessities, if we can find them. We have clean running water. We "together" well without getting on each other's nerves.

We'll be OK.

Sometimes you just need to nap in a box.

So it looks like the plan for the foreseeable future is getting some much-needed cleaning & purging done in this house. And working on the Blogging A-Z Challenge that I totally have NO motivation to do. I have no idea for a theme, let along any posts pre-written. Maybe I'll go explore some cemeteries, because where else can you find such peace?

OH!! Speaking of...

(random oddness ahead)

I am the chair-lady of a scholarship we offer at my VFW.

Backstory, A WWII Veteran passed away in 1994 and left $62,000+ to the post. We used $12K to build a monument out in front of the building, and the other $50K was put in the bank as a scholarship in his name. (We're still awarding 3 kids $1000 of that each year!!) Well I got to thinking, where was this comrade buried? Nobody at the post knew and I couldn't find an obituary for him. So I did some searching and came across one of the local libraries' genealogy department, so I emailed them. Of course all of the libraries had already shut down, but the lady told me she had the records on her home computer and thought he was at a different cemetery than where I'd already looked. So I called and not only did they confirm he was buried there, they told me the exact location! So I went and found his headstone! AND I got to talk to this man's niece on the phone who said she would be happy to share some personal photos of him!!

I'm pretty excited to let people at the post know.

Our township had a "Chalk your Walk" even this weekend where they wanted people to go out & draw / write positive & uplifting things on their sidewalks & driveways. And then go out for a walk and see what others had done. I took the grandson for a walk while Spawn was at work and didn't see any driveways done, but found this at the park.

Plenty of pumpkin pie liqueur at the grocery store! If I didn't have a bottle of Captain Morgan Pumpkin Spice Rum sitting in the kitchen at this very moment, I would have gotten a bottle.