Sometimes TGIF just isnt' strong enough

This has been a particularly hellish week at the office, if only because of the quantity of things that need to be done RIGHTTHISVERYMINUTE.  There's no way to avoid these times, sometimes the stars just align to drop thirty-seven emails in your inbox, all with the dreaded little red envelope icon.   Red envelope icons that actually mean red envelope icon, not just red envelope icons from people who send ALL their emails out with red envelope icons because they think that everything they have to say is just that urgent.  God, I hate those people.  Doesn't everyone hate those people?

That's my excuse for not posting, for not reading, for not doing laundry, for being in a terrible mood all week.   Today my coworker asked me about a meeting I'd promised I'd attend for her tomorrow in New York, and I was completely befuddled.   "No, I went to New York last weekend," I told her when she asked if I was going to do anything fun in the city tomorrow, "This weekend I'm staying home and catching up on everything and it's going to be gr...", to which she responded with a shocked look, realizing that I had completely forgotten about her meeting.

It's not the end of the world, and I'm not going.  Hotel rooms have been canceled, the usual excuses about "scheduling conflicts" have been made, and everything is fine.  Except it's not.  I NEVER do this.  I stress over trips, I send myself reminders to check in for my flights and leave post-it notes on my dresser reminding me to bring home my good shoes from work.  I forget my lunch in the morning, I forget to look up the  number of the plumber that my friend asked me for, but I don't forget MEETINGS, for cripe's sake.  Now I'm frantically looking through my calendar, trying to figure out what else I might have mistakenly dropped off my mental to-do list.

I have a list a mile long of things I want to do this weekend, and as counterintuitive as it may sound, just looking at it is making me feel so much better already.  I am looking forward to getting my oil changed, picking up dry cleaning, getting my emissions test done, putting up the shelves that are sitting in our living room and cleaning the house, because this, this is not me.  I am a person who is on top of things, dammit, and that's the way I like it.

Comments

[Laurel]

Ack! I hate it when things get to that point, too. I've been forgetting work stuff left and right because of all the personal projects I'm working on right now--it's not good and only raises my stress level.

Hope you're able to kick back a little this weekend!!

[Isabel]

Sorry about your craptastic week. Really, I am.

I knew you were in NYC. But I just kept thinking it was the weekend after I was there. But then I realized we were there at the same time. And I'm sad you didn't meet us at Central Park for the blogger hook up. I would have loved to have seen you AGAIN.

Anyway, hope this weekend is good.

[Marriage-101]

Welcome to MY life :)

[alyndabear]

Boo to crappy weeks - now bring on a weekend of R&R, you hear? :)

[Nap Queen]

Aw rats, it's so annoying when that happens! I'm sure you're much better off staying at home and relaxing/organizing. Yes, I'm sure of it.