I Got My Voice Back

My breakfast today. Cereal, graham crackers, pineapple tidbits and grapes.
I added milk and it tasted yummy!:)

After two days of nursing my voice with ginger and hot tea with lemon. I was back to work last Thursday. My team captain instead of charging my two days absences to sick leave had me on furlough. The two days will be charged to my vacation leave within the month. The company allows us six days sick leave a year. 

If we do not use the sick leave, we received the cash equivalent of six days or whatever remains of our sick leave comes February of the succeeding year. We, employees had been bombarding management to convert to cash at least six days of our vacation leave in addition to the six days sick leave.  In this way employees would be encouraged to report to work.  Management could not decide yet. That is one thing with big companies. They have to reconsider budget, and all.

Events for the Day

As mentioned in my previous post I had another vacation for four days since Tuesday this week. We are not allowed to go on leave on Mondays. This is due to heavy call volumes being the first day of the week. My vacation leave started Tuesday. I still have I guess three more days for 2009. I filed another set of vacation leave comes first week of September. I lost counts actually of my remaining vacation leave. It was our team captain at work who advised me to use all the vacation leave. Accordingly, if we do not use the vacation leave for 2009 all unused, will be forfeited by end of September. Our vacation leave is not convertible to cash. It is only our sick leave the office converts to cash, given to us February of the following year.

What did I do for four days? Two days I spent the days doing nothing. Just eat, sleep, log online and watch television. The next two days are for my household chores. I had planned to go to the mall. Later in the day, I made up my mind not to. It is too early to scout for Christmas presents for my family. I guess this September would be fine. I am limiting my budget for Christmas presents. Due to possible expenses we may incur at our family reunion. We are having the reunion for our mother. She is not sick. When she turned eighty-one years old last 22^nd of June, she had been lazy to move around. She would rather sit and watch her favorite soap on television. Although mother stays with my other brother. I am glad we were able to look for someone who takes care of her, who has patience for an old lady.

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Okay folks need to rinse my bed sheet now. I do manual washing. I do not have washing machine. To have a laundry service takes care of my bed sheet is easy. But I want to have some form of dumbbell exercise. Right, the bed sheet is the red one on the above photo. Afterwards, I will go to water refilling station to have my four liter bottle refilled with distilled water. Health is wealth. I set aside a budget for a safe drinking water. It is only a walking distance from where I live. The water station will not deliver for this size. I need more exercise anyway.  ☺