My review (which was really due at the beginning of May), is going to take place today. I've been having intermittent nightmares about it for several weeks now. I have no idea what to expect, because I never know how I'm doing here. I also have this really strange problem of always assuming I'm in BIIIIG trouble.

I was terrified about last year's review. But when I went in, they told me that I was getting a 5% raise (the highest they give, I guess), and the only thing they had to complain about was that I tended to work 38-hr workweeks instead of 40 and up. This was my first year at Corporate, and when I worked in the stores, we were instructed to work 37.5 hrs and to avoid the potential for overtime like it was toxic (or tied to your manager's bonuses, more likely).

I have been anal about working EXACTLY 40 hour weeks since then, which has caused me no small amount of stress, since my commute was generally an hour or longer each way, and I had to be sure to get back to the city before 6 pm to pick one or both kids up before the preschool closed. I basically haven't taken more than 10 lunch hours in the past year. I don't work out at work anymore.

Now that we've moved closer and Jake will be taking a schoolbus to kindergarten, that issue should ease and hopefully, I'll be able to relax a little.

Unless my review sucks, in which case you can assume I'll be freaking out for another fucking year. Welcome to my Type-A psychosis!