Vacation here I come

I need a vacation and I am going to take it! I had one really bad day. I went to work and was told to start a fire. Well little did I know that they had closed the damper the night before and since it was always open I didn't bother to check it and smoked out the restaurant. Between that and just all the other stress that went on the hectic weeks lately I just started crying. The restaurant has been really slow. It's that time of year and there is a new restaurant in town so it's been unbelievably slow. Well since we were over staffed I asked if I could go home. I didn't want to hear the staff joke with the customers of my mistake. I understand that they were making sure that the customers weren't upset with the huge cloud of smoke but it still didn't feel great. Well on the way home I called Todd's sister and asked if she would mind if I came to visit her in LA for a week with Logan and she was happy to hear it! I got home and then the shelf in the fridge fell out and the boysenberry syrup fell and broke all over the carpet. So I looked up flights on the Internet and will be taking my trip feb 5-feb 10. It will be great to get away from the apartment and my job for a while. This morning isn't going any better. I got a call from family that was going to watch Logan that they are sick and can't watch him. Well the other half of family is going to a dinner party and all of the teenagers I had in mind are out of town or busy. So all day I have been trying to get a hold of my work and tell them that I can't make it in due t the circumstances but it's not even that big of a deal I was supposed to be 1 of 2 bartenders. We have been so slow, they really don't need me. But I can't get a hold of them to tell them. I can't wait to get out of here! Here's to a better days to come.

Mercy

Mercy! I give up! The Drama will not leave me alone. Things are okay with Todd and I but everything else is falling apart. My brother who was scheduled to come home from Iraq in March, but as for Bush's new plan he is extended for at least 6 more months. My family is pretty upset, he's in some pretty dangerous areas and some of the members of his team died. The caretaker job is stressful as hell. The woman that was the caretaker before myself had one apartment turnover and in the three months that we have been in charge we are up to 6 with two more coming in a month. We have had to paint 5 apartments beside have our normal jobs and take care of our ever busy 11 month old baby. And the drama hasn't stopped there. Tonight I have a 16 month old sleeping on my couch. She is from across the hallway and her mother was in the hallway saying that she had to go to another town and I told her that if she was coming right back that she might as well leave her here because she was coming right back. Well I went to work and her step dad is there and she is supposed to come to work at 6 and at 7:30 we are all starting to get worried! She broke up with her boyfriend last week because he got violent with her and she needed to do what was best for her and her baby and she was going up to pick him up in another town. Didn't occur to me that it probably not the smartest thing to do at the time. But she called from a casino crying with him yelling in the background and that is all we know! I have the baby until the grandmother gets off work at midnight. I am so glad that I got the baby from her! I can't imagine! But other than that I am helpless. I don't feel that it is my part to call the cops, her family is aware of the situation and unless there is something going on at the apartment they can call the police if they feel it's necessary. But until we find out all I can do is take care of this little girl. I need a vacation so bad!