Ahhhhh!!!!! Stop the world, I want to get off!
I just realized that I haven't written in my blog in 5 days, and that my half-assed review of our last gig was pretty damn lame considering how awesome of a show it was. It's just this time of year - it's so busy! I really don't have time to write now either, but I've only been at work for 2 hours and have already worked on seven different projects... I need to breath! Speaking of breathing, you know that feeling when you're swiming out in the ocean (or a lake, or deep pool, whatever...) and you're WAY under water checking our some coral, or looking for the cell phone you dropped (or whatever) and you think you've taken a pretty good breath, but when you look up and see how far it is to the surface, you think "oh crap... that's a long way... I'd better start heading up now!" - so you start swimming up, and you see the surface is still so far away - and all of a sudden your lungs are bursting and you're thinking "crap, I'm not going to make it... just eight more feet, come on, come on, almost there.... you can do it...." Then "Ahhhhh.........." - the last few inches seem so far and the feeing is so intense like you're going to have no choice but to open your mouth and take a deep gasp, but you want to be doubly sure that it's air and not water - but, you aways make it. And it feels soooo good.
Well, that's how I've felt this last week... every day counting down to today at 3PM. The presure gets more and more intense, the stress getting laid on thicker and thicker by the second as I count down to my last minute of work for the year. Yup, as of this afternoon at 3PM, I won't be back at work until Monday, January 5th. Yay! But there's soooo much work to do.... Yesterday we had a meeting and our boss told the three of us (big group, eh?) point blank that there are 45 man days worth of work (each) that have to get done by mid-January. Since there are only 30 work days between now and then, the rest of the hours will be on OT. I said "we get Over Time?" - he replied "no, no, no.... that's your OWN time" - so, calculate into those 30 remaining days the fact that I'm on vacation for 17 of them, and you can imaging how busy my last week has been, and how busy my first week back will be.
Anyway, with the exception of maybe 6 to hours worth of work that I'll have to do this weekend (for a project due Monday) I don't plan on even thinking about work until the new year. I plan on drinking, skiing, gigging (we have a show in Abbotsford on Jan 7th lined up), catching up on my household stuff, reading, watching movies, and generally chillaxin'... but not necissarily in that order...
I've got a LOT of work to do on my computers at home - I've got to get some REAL content on our band website, and I've got to get some of the video from the last show up on the site. We also gotta get a band photoshoot done some time in the next couple weeks, and I've gotta get all my finances in order before the new year... oh crap, there I go again, thinking of all the stuff I have to do!!!
I guess my breather break is over - see ya later. I've gotta get back under water now.