8 more days!!!

Only 8 more days til we will be at the beach. It kinda feels like its never going to get here but at the same time this weekend seems to be going by WAY too quickly. I have to work 13 hours before I can leave for the beach though. So I am going into work at 1am on Sunday morning/Saturday night, however you want to look at it. And staying til 2pm maybe 2:30pm. So every place I have ever worked at in the past you started the new year with a certain amount of time off you could take. Well at Labcorp we get so much time put into our personal leave bank (PLB) per week. So anyways I missed two days because it snowed, I took two days at my birthday, other days here and there. Needless to say I am about 18 hours negative right now. I cannot be more than 40 hours negative at any given time. So with that being said I have to work those 13 hours on the same week as I am on vacation so that I won't go over 40. Its pretty lame. Especially considering I still have like 60 hours or so coming to me this year after I take the 40 out. I tried to cut some kind of deal, like not being paid for some of my vacation time, it was shot down. Like working over time gradually and not being paid for it or adding it to my vacation. But human resources wasn't going for it. So I just hope I can make it those 13 hours. I will have plenty of work to do but I have never worked an all night shift. Especially not one starting at 1am. So Goodluck to me! I just have to remind myself it will all be worth it in the end. And with that I have attached a picture of my mom at the beach in 2007 enjoying her vacation.