Mini-Vaca

You know, sometimes I wish I could just book a room for one at the Sahara hotel and take a vacation all by myself. Today is that kind of day for me. There were thunderstorms most of the day and that means that Verizon can’t keep my Internet service on. And Grump is just, well, Grump. It seems that it’s all negativity all the time.

Today he’s angry because he feels he’ll be getting this city job, but he’ll miss out on the opportunity because his plant called him back. I made him go back because if he refuses then they’ll cut off his unemployment. But this city job is not going to materialize. In February they told him that a man was going to retire at the end of March. Apparently he still hasn’t retired, but will do so in August. Well, we can’t wait around hoping for some job that might not come available. We need his income and he’s angry about that. Yes, it sucks, but that’s life. The bills have to get paid.

And while I was trying to get away from his attitude and do some of my own work, the storm hit. Well, no internet or satellite for a while and that meant I was doing the moping. I went out onto the front porch to watch the winds and rain and pretend I was somewhere else. It didn’t work very well, but I was close. Grump didn’t come out to bother me and I could pretend I was somewhere getting pampered with one of those nature CDs instead of the actual rain. It was nice for a minute.

Then the rain stopped and like all vacations, it was time to come back to real life. Things have settled down a bit here and the winds have died down, while the humidity level has gone up, but I still want that mini-vacation. Just me. In a swank hotel, getting pampered.