Counting Down Days Like Christmas

When I was a younger man, I would count down the days to Christmas. As I am sure many of you have done, or still do.

One of the ways that I would try and get those days to go faster would be to reason something like this:

Christmas Day doesn't count because it is THE day that you are counting down to.

The actual day you are counting from doesn't count because it has already happened - or is happening

So, if you are on the 20th of December there are only four days to Christmas - 21-24.

By that reckoning I have three days left to work at this present job. Today doesn't count, neither does next Thursday (I know, I know, Christmas is a morning thing and usually work ends at the end of a day, but cut me some slack). My plan is to work the bulk of my hours Monday - Wednesday and have only a few left on Thursday to make my forty hours for the week. BTW, all salaried employees here have to use the time clock so that the owner can make sure that they are working 40 hours a week - so you HAVE to get your 40, or close to it.

That makes me happy on the inside. Things are fairly manic as it sets in to the owner that I will actually be gone. He would get this anxious when I took a week off for vacation. That vacation anxiety makes the present spasms look like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.

I received 12 To-Do's via email last night after 9:30 p.m. and 3 more this morning before 7 a.m. - all are frantic, last minute things that have been pending for weeks or months - can't go any quicker than they are moving - but there they are.

My job right now is to do my job well and finish well. It has been exhausting. I'm looking forward to a less hectic weekend.

WH