z’s bubbles 2

What a day! And it was only the first one of this work week!!! So, I slept in… it seems last night when checking the alarm clock was actually set, I turned it off. So I jumped out of bed, into the shower, blew a good-bye kiss to Roo who was so sweet when she laid out my clothes and shoes so I could be faster… Then I left the house… at 6:30.

It took me 45 minutes to get to work. I do realize that maybe the other 234 people on 75 in the morning don’t really want to go to work, but some of us do! 45 mph in the left lane! Mph.

So I get to work a little late… Nobody noticed. Makes you feel special. I try to strike up a conversation with our supervisor, after all, he was gone for a week and I ran 2 people off and attendance issues skyrocketed… You’d figure he’d have something to say. But appearantly, he was just as (un-)glad to be there as I was.

The rest of the day was uneventful besides repeated proof that some people get paid a lot of money while not doing their job and being totally oblivious to the fact that they suck at it. And after pointing a few fingers I get a nice notice from our coordinators saying the CE group was concerned about the new reports that I wrote and the impact it might have on production databases. Dufuses. The reports you saw don’t run off of any databases! They are perfectly content feeding of a web-page that is (supposed to be) realtime data. But I guess it’s easier to cry wolf than adjust your own act. After all, would they provide us with the data we need, then I wouldn’t have an excuse to get so friendly with Excel and VB, now would I?

And to top things off one of our specialists decides that he needs to go home and not tell anyone. I sure hope big K will reserve him as warm a welcome as he does for anyone who forgot to request backup material…

One good point: I didn’t have a single meal today until tonight, but I wasn’t hungry either.
Actually two good points. I guess it was a good thing that I didn’t have a current backup of the router settings thus taking PoohBear down all day. Or I probably would have taken this day apart with words like the poor fellow who replied to the DC alert sent out towards shift end… May he rest in peace…

It feels like exodus… every day we have 4 people call-in or just not showing up, 1 was moved to a different facility 2 weeks ago, 1 was fired last week, 1 quit today, 4 more will be moved to different positions/facilities and there are rumours about 6 more who may be leaving. Figures…

All I know is that there’s a beautiful silver Aston Martin (and it sure looks like a Vanquish from afar) sitting just North of here and I wont get it working here

Goodness, just when it seemed that Liam’s whining and fit-throwing was out of control, Roo saved the day again with new courage and a new strategy. Now, coincidence or not, he was much better last night and is even better today! Ironically, I was reading a journal entry from 8/24/04 and we were having the same issues… Go figure.

Work is extremely frustrating as some people still harbor a love for micro-management which can drive anyone insane! Especially when they want to dictate exactly what’s where. Blah…

And then you throw in the mess that training and planning are concocting and it does not provide an easy work-week. I’m so thankful it’s over tonight!

And to say I had 4 tickets for the Mavericks game tomorrow to give away and only 1 person out of 40 wanted them… Sad…

A year ago today, Gillian went #2 on the potty for the first time. Boy it seems like that was ever so long ago! But it still was a cute moment back then…

5 Things I’m grateful for:

• Hope !!!
• A car with an A/C that works REALLY well
• The chance to own our own home!
• Good people helping me through some trials
• Cold water

Today -should- be the last stressful day in this whole house-buying process. If everything goes well today and the house is appraised for at least how much we need it to be appraised for, then all we have to do is sit back and wait for the final day.
It sure has been hard.
I think it’s more stressful than having children.

I screwed up. Instead of sitting down with them and working on a list, I just tucked my tail between my legs and left when she announed she hadn’t even looked at what I left them.
Of course it doesn’t help that her hubby openly doesn’t like me…
And Randy says we need house meetings…

Liam just did something really cute!
He ran into our bedroom stark naked. I asked him where his diaper was. He grinned, bend down as if to check where it went, grinned some more and scampered off screaming.

Ruth said I should remind him of this event on his 18-month-old anniversary, in company of his first girlfriend… She’s so cruel…

So I just came back from showing Sarah and Thu the plan. Boy she seems gung-ho about it. Never saw much of him though except the back of his head… And I even scheduled a follow-up this Wednesday at 10am…