Can't it be my vacation yet???

I am scheduled to take vacation next week, starting Friday. It's really only a long weekend (4 days to be exact), but still, it's my first vacation since I started nearly a year ago. It is much needed and long anticipated. But, I'm in one of those "so close yet so far away" situations...couldn't I just fast-forward through the days between this week and next so I can vacation already???

To make the coming week even more troubling, I have a SIGNIFICANT (so significant it deserves all caps) amount of work to accomplish before my departure from the office on Thursday. And I just got assigned more. What. The. Hell. Seriously? So, I guess, to compensate for taking next weekend off of work, I'll have to work both days this weekend. I'm irked. I feel like I'm coming down with a cold, and want to rest up so I don't get a full blown cold before said vacation, and getting assigned more work than humanly possible to complete does not help with the resting and the relaxing.

At least I got to come home early today after court. Of course, upon arriving home early from court, I get a phone call from the office wondering where I am (why would I drive 20 miles back to the office at 4 p.m. when my house is 6 miles away???), and assigning me more work. Fantastic.

Alright, that's it. I'm resting. No more answering texts, emails, or anything else electronic.