Sinking In

I meant to sit down here yesterday (rather, Sunday) to update this thing, but got busy doing other stuff; then I didn't actually have time earlier today (rather, yesterday now), so here I am, and this technically counts as Sunday's post ^_^

And the thing that I meant to post on Friday (though it should have technically been Thursday) is just-finished and below, but not vitally important (sez you :P).

I'm going to go ahead and consider that last couple of weeks to be my official freak-out period. Not only was work stressful, which is expected this time of year, but I think some things concerning my imminent future kind of sunk in, and started to feel overwhelming. I've been going from being unable to sleep to sleeping too much and not wanting to get out of bed. The latter happened on Friday, so I ended up sleeping straight through Black Friday. Honestly, I think it was probably a good thing that I didn't have to go through the stress of that work-day, but I'm afraid I've created a perception of unreliability with the bosses, which is funny, because I've always been a go-to guy at Target. With only a month left, I don't want them to think that I've adopted an "I'm invincible" attitude, though I could if I was a lesser person. I know they need me there, and I know they won't fire in my last four weeks, so maybe I sub-consciously have taken that attitude, but it's for sure not deliberate. Nobody said anything about it today, though, so it's all cool.

Did I mention that I have to work six days in a row this week? >_<

On the Air Force front, a bit of an issue came up last week that got me conflicted and bothered, but it ended up working itself out, so I'm back to being much less freaked out about the whole thing. In fact, I feel pretty darn good about it; I even slept well today for the first time in a while.

I quit Farmville, because I was tired of my life being controlled by and scheduled around stupid fake raspberry crops =P I joke about it, but it really does free up a lot of time, and has helped with the lowering of the stress meter.

After work today (er...yesterday), I went over to visit with my friend Bryan, who was in town for Thanksgiving, and who I hadn't seen for a good long while. It's always nice to just sit and chat about everything and nothing, especially with someone you don't get to see often. I've realized that the next time he's in town, I won't be (unless, perhaps, we both come back here during the same holiday time or something), so that's just one more thing that makes this whole military ordeal that much harder.

I sometimes can't believe I VOLUNTEERED for this ^__^

Anyway, like I said, I feel like I've gotten through a massive stress-out period, and feel mostly good about everything right now. I just need to slow things down a bit and enjoy my last month-and-a-half before basic.

Oh, and since it's now the first of December, I must mention that today is my father's birthday! Usually, for birthdays, I like to make silly comments or post cute pictures (see the post below), but for this one, I'll forgo all that and just use my man-voice to simply say Happy Birthday, Pop!