Mike came home about 6 am Monday morning, and he just left a couple hours ago to head towards the dock again. He said they only have a 30 hour window for weather, so he'll probably be home again on Friday.
I called my work today to see if they would let me use my Floating Holiday today- I am scheduled off tomorrow and I'm working Friday and Saturday, but Mike was home today and he didn't know at the time if he would be home tomorrow or not. The thing about my Floating Holiday is that I just accrued it on Nov. 5th, and I have to use it by Dec. 31st- that doesn't leave me with a lot of options. The way it works is, when you call into work, if they have the time "available" you can use paid time off, whether it be Holiday Pay or Vacation or whatever (we have about 20 different titles for paid time off LOL). If not, and you need to call in, you don't get paid and it's considered unexcused, and you get 11 unexcused absences before they will terminate you. Well they told me today that they didn't have any time available today so I couldn't use my Holiday, but then I told them I tried several times for several different dates to get my Holiday pay, and they keep emailing me back that there isn't time available, so I asked them when exactly they would like me to use it since it expires at the end of the year! They then told me that TOS (my department) has no available time for the rest of this year, so they overrode it for me to take the time today.
So, long story short, I got to spend all day with Mike today! And it's a good thing I did because he got a call today saying he needed to be at the dock at midnight, so I wouldn't have been able to see him tomorrow on my real day off! We went and saw the new movie in theater with Seth Rogan, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" it was hilarious!!! My friend Samantha gave me a gift certificate to the movie theater so we used that, and then we went to dinner at Chili's. I know, I just told you how broke we are... we really are, but Mike and I haven't gotten to do anything really nice together this month because he has been working so much, so I guess we just splurged. It was worth it : ) Actually, if I think about it, I wouldn't normally consider movies on a gift card and dinner at Chili's splurging..... whatever.
Anyways, I had a wonderful time with my hubby today, and I am so glad that I was able to be paid for today and be home at the same time! Mike should be home by the weekend, so I will see him soon.
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