I am so, so glad it’s Friday! I am seriously messed up today, I am so tired. I have been running around and awake way too late too many evenings in a row. I had such a hard time getting ready for work this morning. I think my eyes were more closed then open while I was blow drying my hair. So to say I am having a “bad hair day” is an understatement.

This weekend and up coming week alone is all about relaxation! While Gerry works nights and Allison is gone I plan to rent chick flicks and take very long hot baths. Camp out on our nice new big bed with my laptop and some yummy snacks and a glass of wine. R E L A X A T I O N !

Cold rainy afternoons make me lazy. I just watched three hours of One Tree Hill reruns with out getting up off the couch other then to refill my glass of Diet Coke. I feel like I have lead in my butt, I mean I could really take a nice nap about now. If only I had the time. Allison should be walking in the door from school in the next twenty minutes and then we are picking up my nephew for a night of movies, popcorn and Wii playing. Should be a fun night. I guess I better get ready and get my lead butt in gear.

It’s really quiet and slow again today. Most Friday’s have been like this for the past six months. It’s really very sad. I work for a third generation small auto supply company. They have been in business over 65 years. This once was a booming place. Even when I started a few years ago, we had more then four times the orders coming in daily then we do now. These days the big auto makers would rather place their orders with an over seas company at less then a third the price we can make the part for even over ordering their parts by hundreds and then just weeding out the “not so good” parts. Instead of ordering here, where we make it right the first time and stand behind it for years of use. Note, we have held the same prices for the “big three” auto makers for years.
I have decided to ride this job out the best I can. Out of the dozen employees that are here my job of answering the phone and quoting and processing jobs would be one of the very last to go. I am also very fortunate to be working with some pretty great people. I feel for the owner, as he watches all the auto disappear from our state. He is in his late 70’s. In his time, Detroit was the Motor City. I bet he never thought he would see the day we lose all of auto jobs.
Some people say we are headed for or even already going through a recession. I don’t know. I can tell you as a surf the hundreds of homes in foreclosure in my area that this is a sad time here in Michigan. Maybe the whole country? Just wondering, how is your state doing?

Did you hear that????
That was my head hitting my desk. It is so slow and quiet here at work today I am losing my mind. Yes, I have internet, thank God! But, and I can’t believe I am saying this..... but I am running out of things to Google. I have already searched and watched movie trailers, T.V. spoilers, new Benicio news, and read all my updated blogs, CNN, local news, Google news and my Basset Hound forum updates. Now what?

I was up early this morning cleaning the kitchen and doing laundry. Ya, I am wild like that on a three day weekend. I am not much of sleeper so just not leaving the house at the butt crack of dawn is a treat to me. At noon today I have a hair appointment for a cut and color. Don’t think I am making any changes this time just a trim. Again, I am that wild!  But first, I’ll be digging out my car from all the yucky snow we got last night, three to five inches. I am so over winter! Does Mother Nature not know it is now spring? WTF?

It is such a dark and gloomy day around here that all I can think about is going home and taking a nap. Things have even been extra quiet around the office today. So quiet that if I was alone I swear I would be asleep at my desk by now. At least I have a short week to look forward to. I have Friday off.