workaholic

(za husband helping me clean after our thanksgiving guests had left)

busy, overwhelming, exhausting....
those words sum up wednesday-today.  the office i work at moved to a new building.  this required a lot of planning and hard work on my part and za husbands.  so basically every night we both came home physically and mentally drained.  i was looking forward to the weekend so we could relax and get caught up on things around the house.  friday night we had a christmas party to attend.  our plan for saturday was sleeping in, doing something fun, and working on chores around the house.  little did we know that the world would basically blow up in the department za husband works for and he would end up working all weekend.  you see every 6 weeks or so he's on call.  he carries around this dreaded pager for a week at a time.  during that week we can count on not making fun plans and loosing some sleep.  it seems that no matter how tired i am if he gets called in to work i am wide awake until he gets home.  he had the pager over thanksgiving so we figured we were in the clear for a while.  if there ever was a weekend we were really looking forward to it was this one....for sanity and relaxations sake.  yesterday morning will gets a call that there are some serious computer problems at work and they need his help.  this was right as we were heading out the door to do a little shopping and catch a movie.  at that point he thought it should only be a few minutes to an hour until he would be done at work so i wait for him to call and tell me we can go ahead with our plans.  hours pass and every time he calls he thinks the problems are almost fixed but then it turns out they aren't.  hospitals rely on computers now more than ever for all aspects of patient care so if they go down it's a really big deal.  a whole group of people from his department have spent the better part of the weekend at the office....even during the night.  yesterday i was really being a baby about all this.  i kind of took my frustrations out on za husband for our fun plans going down the toilet even though i knew it was out of his control.  after thinking about it i felt bad for being irrational.  being the great husband he is he still took me out on a date late last night because he felt bad that i was waiting at home for him all day.  now i am feeling extra bad because guess where he has been all day.  that's right, work.  he basically never had a weekend.  sometimes i don't give him as much credit as i should.  he is a wonderful, dedicated, selfless, hard working guy and he's mine.  that makes me happy.