Work Ate My Weekend

One of these days I'm going to get a weekend where I have nothing to do.  No yard work, no cleaning the house, no work-work. 

Unfortunately this was not that weekend.  Yesterday I busted my ass getting the yard ready for winter, then cleaned the house.  Instead of spring cleaning we had fall cleaning.  I was even going to scrub the baseboards but by that time I was pretty much exhausted and said "Enough!". 

Today is work-work although I have made a deal with myself that I am done at 5pm whether I'm "done" or not.  There is currently a database loading in the background, thus my ability to blog and work at the same time.  I was told by the parental unit known as Mom today that I need to learn to say No.  The thing is I do say no.  I feel like I say it all the time.  It's just that the projects with the super short timelines tend to get assigned to me.  Maybe if I were more of a slacker they wouldn't be but that isn't my work ethic. 

Oh well - 30 minutes and counting until I'm done for the day.  The rest will have to wait until tomorrow.