Tired ...

I really didn’t want to get up for work this morning. I’ve been burning the candle at both ends lately, working hard and having far too many late nights and I’m extremely tired.

I felt awful when I woke up this morning, and wanted nothing more than to roll over and go back to sleep. Quite apart from the fact that I had to get the kids up and ready for school, and then take them there (and let’s face it, once you’re up you might as well get on with the day); I haven’t had any time off sick at all since November 2005. Nearly 18 months – yay me! I’ve had a really bad sick record in the past, what with the gallstones, excruciating head pains (which turned out to be teeth-related), depression and a tendency to suffer from migraine; and for a couple of years I was probably off sick more than I was actually at work. But, no more! I struggle on even when I’m feeling a bit pants, in the knowledge that when the time comes for the next wave of redundancies (I’m sure there is bound to be one at some point in the future), my sickness record won’t go against me. Last time our sickness records were one of the factors that they looked at when deciding who was likely to go, and I was naturally very concerned that I would be at the top of the list.

I’d like to think that I could get an early night tonight, but I know its unlikely, even though my body is craving sleep like its going out of fashion.

Colin took my very dead hard drive to work with him today, in the hopes that the IT guy there would tell him how to retrieve the data himself rather than us having to pay for it to be done. However, the IT guy is apparently off today, so it’ll have to wait until tomorrow. Despite my conviction that I could cope with the stress of not knowing what will be recoverable, I find myself getting a bit twitchy now. I really cannot cope with the thought of having to redownload three months worth of kits. My immediate concern, though, is that I still have a layout to get completed for my Kiki Scraps CT gig for this month. Hopefully I can get that done tonight. And then I need to do my layout for my Scraps of Life challenge on DSS, for the May challenge. I won’t tell you what the theme is just yet, but I do have an idea of how I want the layout to look, providing of course that the stash I want was backed up before the big crash!