It has been quite a long while since I had such a busy time at work before Christmas Eve. Who would have predicted the extent of the decay in the financial systems of the world? The current economic slowdown has yet to rear its ugliest head, and already the casualties of this war has included my Warden and I.
Warden was recently retrenched from her job of five-and-a-half years. Somehow, she caught wind of what was to come, and seemed to have been mentally prepared for it. After the news was broken to her, she has remained positive and gone about doing her part-time Property Agent work, and at the same time, her job search. Kudos to her never-say-die attitude!
I was caught up in my own web of incredibly-frustrating-and-impossibly-anal IT consulting work. Sorry to my employers and clients, but that’s just how the work is like at the moment. Due to the short work week, I was rushing like a headless chicken trying to pull things together that are fast falling apart. On Wednesday, 23 Dec evening, I was contemplating trashing the entire laptop and just throwing in the towel. But I relented and stayed in office with Scrumpiness and another colleague, until 1:30 am, 24 Dec morning. I looked at my phone which was set on Silent, and had a shock of my life when I saw 3 missed calls from Warden around 12:50am. But I guess she was sleeping when I tried to return the call. When I left, I believe the two guys were still talking about their work plan for the next phase of the project.
When I got home, Warden was sleeping soundly as I thread lightly like a little thief (or perhaps Santa Claus who was a bit early) into the bathroom and had my shower. Shortly after 3am, as I was trying to sneak into bed without waking Warden, I accidentally knocked over the alarm clock at my bedside table and froze! Unfortunately, the noise was so loud it must have woken her up and she mumbled something to me about the time. I just told her to go back to sleep. I got into bed, cursing to myself that I had only less than four hours before I had to get out of bed again.
Such is Life. I look forward to a peaceful and restful Christmas Day.
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