For the second year in a row, Sweetie is the only person at his work who had to stand and watch them hand out bonus checks this year, and not get one.
He has gone in early, completed everything they've asked him to do and then some, and almost ruined his back several times over trying to lift and do things he isn't supposed to do according to his orthopedist.
He is beyond hurt, and i'm hurting for and with him.
It means no Christmas for us again this year, too. Just a small token for each kid, and no more.
Could be worse, i know. It doesn't feel like it right now, though.
Today is:
Bake Cookies Day -- the holiday for everyone!
Eponalia -- Roman Empire (feast of Epona, goddess of fertility and horses, mules, and donkeys; during the Saturnalia and the only Roman honoring of a Celtic deity)
Flake Appreciation Day -- snow or human, your choice!
International Migrants Day
National Day / Founder's Day -- Qatar
National Roast Suckling Pig Day
Nuestra Senora de la Soledad -- Oaxaca, Mexico (Our Lady of Solitude, Patron of the lonely, of Oaxaca, and of sailors who bring her pearls)
Republic Day -- Niger
St. Flannan's Day (Patron of Killaloe, Ireland)
Tulya's E'en -- Orkney Island (beginning of the Yule season when evil spirits roamed; date approximate, as we aren't sure if they equated Yule initially with Dec. 25 or the 22nd)
Wear a Plunger On Your Head Day -- observe this internet generated holiday at your own risk (and you will be one of the human flakes, i guess, that the rest of us appreciate)*
Anniversaries Today:
New Jersey becomes the 3rd US State, 1787
Birthdays Today:
Christina Aguilera, 1980
Katie Holmes, 1978
Earl "DMX" Simmons, 1970
Rob Van Dam, 1970
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin, 1964
Brad Pitt, 1963
Leonard Maltin, 1950
Steven Spielberg, 1946
Keith Richards, 1943
Ossie Davis, 1917
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, 1917
Douglas Fraser, 1916
Betty Grable, 1916
Ty Cobb, 1886
Today in History:
Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic, BC218
Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan", officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China, 1271
The Mayflower lands in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts with 102 Pilgrims on board, 1620
Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand, 1642
Thomas Fleet publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children", 1719
Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia & Moravia, 1774
The first celestial photograph (of the Moon) is made in US, by John Draper, NYC, 1839
William Bond obtains the first photograph of Moon through a telescope, 1849
Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Mesa Verde, 1888
The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic, 1900
The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is supposedly found in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by Charles Dawson, 1912
Japan joins the United Nations, 1956
Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker, 1966
Dominica joins the United Nations, 1978
HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium, 1997
The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia, 2006
*Unless this should have been Wear A Brand New, Never Before Used Plunger on Your Head Day, and was started by the plumbing supply industry
Friendly Fill-Ins Week 443
14 hours ago
Horrid about the bonuses. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteOh.. so sorry to hear it. That's miserable. Why?
ReplyDeleteThank you, Leah.
ReplyDeleteHilary, we have no idea. He was guaranteed he would get one this year, then had to stand back and watch again.
No explanations are forthcoming. Just how life is.
Surely, it must have been an oversight then. I'd be asking them to look into it.
ReplyDeleteHilary, it wasn't an oversight. He asked the boss if his work was sufficient this year, and was told that he had done superlative work, and that he had their thanks, nothing more.
ReplyDeleteNo explanation.