Vacation

I was so tired when I was writing last night that I think I fell asleep a few times. For sure my eyes were drifting closed and watering every couple of minutes, lol. Today is Thanksgiving and I sure do love food. My sister had it at her place at their new house and it was awesome! She did such a good job, dinner was amazing. We had a good time. My niece was sick so she was struggling, the poor thing. She said she couldn’t get out of bed yesterday, the poor thing was so ill. I wanted to snuggle her but she didn’t want to get anyone sick. I’m hopeful that no one gets sick because that would be sucky. I only need to make it through another 2.5 pay periods without taking any sick leave in order to get an extra four hours of vacation time. Considering the trips and such I want to do in the next year or two, I’m going to need all the PTO I can get! 

My birthday is in January and my friend and I like to do something fun for our birthdays together and we’re hoping to keep up the tradition. It’s also going to be my dad’s 60th birthday this coming year (in October) and he wants to do something big for it. He’s thinking about doing a trip to Ireland which would be AMAZING and so of course I want to be able to do that. And then I’ve already purchased my ticket to DragonCon soooooooo yeah. I need to make sure that I have as many hours racked up as I possibly can. I’m sure there will be other things I want to do too. 

The first couple of years with the library I only earn like 10 days vacation (everyone earns 12 sick days though). But I’m going to earn 8 hours of vacation (or something like that) for working tomorrow… Although I’m not sure exactly how that works. But if I can avoid using my sick leave for a while then I’ll earn 4 hours vacation time—for every 7 pay periods (in a row) I can go without sick leave I get 4 hours. If I have to use sick leave, I have to use it, but I’m hoping I can at least earn an extra day that way before the 60th birthday bash for dad. If I can combine these trips with one of my three day weekends to make it a little easier to conserve the vacation time. 

I need to go to bed because I do have to work in the morning.