Gasoline, and, I have to stop making insomnia look easy!

[lafs]

This has been an aggravating week.
Monday I went to the hardware store and bought Demon. It is a powerful insecticide that one mixes with water in a chemical sprayer, and sprays around the house. It's non flamable, no odor, and very effective. I asked the landlord if I could use his sprayer, and he said that he was spraying another trailer that day, and if I wanted, I could use it after him, or he could come in and spray mine when he was done. I took him up on his offer to have him do it, and let Alex know where the Demon was, to mix in with what he was already using. I wanted it extra strong, they are becoming a problem again. I woke up, because I had worked all weekend and slept while he sprayed, and found that my package wasn't opened. Grrr. I left specific intructions! Why can't men do what we ask, the way we ask it? He didn't have to use two of my packets, he could have just stirred in one extra packet of mine before he sprayed my trailer. I mean, I had paid for it, so it wasn't like he was losing money by using it up! I asked Shantelle if she would come and spray my house, and I'd share the extra packets of Demon with her, and she could do her house. I don't know what I am doing with pesticide, but, I am going to get her to show me, it can't be too hard, and, once I'm confident with it, I can do it on my own. She shared her secret of keeping them under control to me, as she lives in a mobile home, too. She sprays her house with Demon once a month, but since she sprays so often, that now she only uses one packet, normal strength, doubling up a couple of times a year, but, usually just normal strength. That sounds reasonable, so, I think that is a plan for me, too. But, these first few months, double strength, I feel like I've been invaded!! (I know, gross subject, eww! )
I used to be the "go to" girl for OT. If someone called in, then they would call me and ask me to cover. It got to be aggravating, it would happen so much. It used to happen every weekend last summer, I couldn't even make plans, because I knew I'd be called in. The money was good, but, it burned me out after a while. Thursday afternoon, one of my coworkers called in with the flu. Don't know if it is the swine one or just the regular one, but, she called in. My boss called me to see if I wanted overtime. I was sleeping at the time she called, so, I didn't answer. Another coworker got it, that was fine, I am not the only one who needs the OT. Same sick coworker called in the next day, and I didn't get a phone call. I had left them a request that if she did call in to call me, and I would answer the phone this time. No call. So, I didn't sleep all day anticipating this call, I was afraid I'd sleep through it again. I called up at my job eventually, and was told that she did indeed call in again, and that the OT had been given away to the same person who got it yesterday. Now, I am not an OT hog, I think we should all get some OT, we all need extra money. So, I called my boss, because she did not come in to work that day, she can do that, she's the boss, and I asked her how come she didn't call me to ask me if I wanted OT that day. She got all "you are punished and I can do this" on me and told me that since I did not return her phone call from the previous day with the previous offer of OT, she assumed that I was not interested in ANY OT, ever. Such a girl!! I nearly break my phone from gripping it so hard, and I calmly informed her that I was asleep at the time she called me the previous day (such a bad girl, sleeping and all!! I should be shot for that!!), and didn't get her message until it was late in the evening, and if she really wanted me to interrupt her sleep by calling her at midnight, then the next time, I will call her back, no problem. She told me that if I wanted the OT, I'd have to call the worker who did get it, and ask him if he'd be willing to give up some hours, letting me come in a little early, and getting some OT. I felt like she was asking me to beg for my OT, which she was. This pissed me off greatly. I started throwing things and screaming, I scared the cat and Alex! I did call my job, and spoke with the two coworkers that got the OT, and was told that the one who was staying the latest agreed to give up some hours, and I could come in early.
So, I'm coming home Saturday morning, after working all night Thursday, not sleeping Friday morning, working a 12 hour shift Friday night/Saturday morning, and they have my road blocked off. I figured it was an accident, so I went to Shantelle's to wait for a few minutes, and then I went back. Well, it was blocked off even more then, with several fire trucks, it seemed like every police car, and a few ambulances. I had to travel 30 minutes out of my way, all the way down 1960, past Humble, Atascosita, Kingwood, across the Lake Houston bridge, into Crosby, through Huffman, to get to my house. I got to sleep around 11 am, and woke up at 2:30, because one of my drivers promised to put in my car stereo, for $25, if I got to work today by 5 pm. Well, I got up, called the pizza delivery man, because I figured that if anyone will know if the road is unblocked, it would be them. They told me what was going on, that some crazy man had soaked himself down with gasoline, and had threatened to burn down his house, with him and his family inside. The delivery man also told me that as of 1 pm, the road was still blocked, but instead of going the whole Huffman to Humble route, he knew of another route, which he himself took, that was much closer and more convenient. Yay, new routes!! I told him that a lit match, or a lit cigarette would solve this problem. He said that he agreed, but as long as the family was safe, cause why should they suffer? Anyway, I left, and it was cleared away, so I didn't have to try the new route. Got here by 4:30, and no driver to put in the radio. Grr. I could have slept for another hour or two had I known that he wasn't coming to do it today.
The sick co worker said that she was coming in for her Sunday shift, if she comes early, I'm going to see if she will let me leave early. Also thinking about calling in Tuesday, as I'm off on Wednesday, and that would give me two days off in a row, but, I probably won't.
Anyways, all for now. Be good or be good at it.