Dear Diary Tuesday...

It was a very long, long, long weekend spent doing lots of yardwork, lots of housework, and Dylan working lots and lots of OT. We saw each other for a maximum of about an hour each day....and thankfully it will be over for him this week.

Yesterday I woke up on the wrong side of the bed and stayed in that attitude for almost all day. I had an epiphany last week at work and it carried through with me yesterday, and even today. What I came to realize/learn is that if you are not a good worker, in fact, pretty much a piece of shit who makes their job harder than it really is, makes more work for themselves, makes up lies about how busy they are, then your boss will leave you alone, check on you to see if you need anything, and lets you continue on your merry way. However, if you are a really good worker, go above and beyond your job duties, try and help out your co-workers and your boss by doing extra projects, then they keep piling and piling and loading up your plate with more and more things to do. So, I am gonna be one of those "pieces of shit" who is too busy to do much of anything else this week....so far it has worked for me. Next week I will work on a better attitude, but this week I am gonna keep the one I have.

And another realization, some relationships are just TOO HARD. I have a co-worker that I was trying to help out and so I was nice and gave them my cell phone and home phone numbers so that they could talk to me....BIG mistake. Looks like I will be changing my cell phone because this person has turned into a full fledge stalker. If this person had just mellowed out and relaxed a little bit, we could have probably been good friends and I would have listened to the never-ending tales of self pity and woe and given my shoulder for them to lean on. But not anymore! Now I am just rude to them and only allow them to speak to me about stuff that is work related. I just can't do the "high drama" friendships anymore. It has to be a total 50/50 relationship, or nothing. This co-worker has YET to say something like, "Hey, how are YOU doing?" because they honestly do not give a shit. They are so involved with themselves and their lives that they don't realize that there is a world out there, that there are other people out there....people who probably have it a lot worse than they do! Oh well, good learning lesson for me.