I’m back after 2 weeks off. I worked quite a bit while I was off, so it’s pretty much like coming back after a business trip. Mail is stacked up but email isn’t.
I have my first business trip of the year on Wednesday, so at least I’m only here a couple of days.
I woke up with the tinges of a migraine starting, so I'm taking meds and pounding coffee in the hopes that I can shake it. I'm already feeling a little overwhelmed by this week. I have 4 baskets of laundry waiting to be folded and my dishes are piling up because the dishwasher isn't cooperating. So I started the week with an already messy house, which I hate. Then Wednesday and Thursday night already have activities planned that will get us home late when I have the kids. I had high hopes of going home tonight and cleaning like crazy to get caught up while the kids aren't home, but if my headache lingers I'll end up going home and going to bed.
I started the day with 2 radio interviews, which is quite a lot of personality for a Monday morning. Thankfully, the radio station was by Dunkin Donuts, so I treated myself to a cappuccino. The kids were both sluggish. DD spend the ride rearranging the world so that nothing started until at least 10 and be done by 3. DS had a club meeting at 6:40 AM.
We are in debates with DS about a job. He has made decent money at odd farming type jobs. This has spoiled him because for a month he was making $17 an hour. The lowest he made was $11. He sees not sense in getting a minimum wage job now, when this spring he could make a lot more money. Plus, he has a lot of early and after school activities with his club. I never had to work in high school as long as I was in sports, so I played something year around. He is not in a sport, but he is very active in his club. I see his points, but this extra $50 a week in gas is hurting, plus he has a list of things he wants, which I don't plan on paying for just because.
Post by covergirl82 on Jan 6, 2020 10:52:05 GMT -5
Back to reality today. I only worked 3 days in the last 2 weeks, so it was hard to get up at the normal weekday time today. The kids were surprisingly agreeable about waking up this morning. It was also hard to get lunches packed efficiently. I realized that I forgot to do a few things last night that would've saved me a few minutes this morning.
I switched my Friday off from last Friday to this Friday, so at least it is a 4-day week for me. (Although I'll probably work from home for an hour or two on Friday.)
If I don't hear today from the recruiters for the jobs for which I've done phone interviews before the holidays, I'm going to email them tomorrow for an update.
I haven't had much time off in the last few weeks, but that doesn't make today any easier.
My coworker is out for the 3rd week in a row. We're all pretty worried about her at this point and hopeful her doctors can get her figured out. Selfishly, beyond just wanting her to be okay, I need her here. For work stuff, yes, but just for the general chit chat and updates and venting. She is one of the few people that I talk to regularly (at work or outside of work) for anything beyond just pleasantries, and I really miss her.
I'm having a Monday. Forgot my breakfast so eating my afternoon snack as breakfast. Came back to 20 missed calls half of those were on Saturday but only 2 messages. I'm feeling very stressed and frazzled. Need to talk to my dad so I can deal with a couple clients today that he only deals with and I need to check his email which I don't know the password to but I'm on hold because only my mom has a phone and she is at the dentist right now so I have to wait until almost 10:30 so hopefully these two guys don't show up early this morning. Deep breaths, I can do this yes I can!
Our office was painted over the weekend and I feel like they completely trashed everything. We were told to move things away from walls, but not to put anything that you didn't want covered in a ton of dust away. Like, I wish I had moved my chair out of the office, in addition to everything else. They may have drop-clothed for painting, but they definitely didn't for sanding. I was not happy to spend my first hour at work dusting and vacuuming.
Post by traveltheworld on Jan 6, 2020 13:39:08 GMT -5
I'm back today after 2 weeks off. My GC sent around an email announcing my promotion this morning, so aside from the usual chit chats and catching ups, I've had a string of people coming to my office for congratulations. It's a good problem to have, but that means I haven't done anything productive.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Jan 6, 2020 18:06:01 GMT -5
Ugh.
Our son's shipment of medicine was supposed to come on Friday and the pharmacy called us because it was going to be delayed. When they called we gave them our home address because no one is at my office on Fridays (honestly if they had talked to me I would have had them ship it for Monday instead because you can't count on anyone being at our home either).
Anyway, they didn't fix the address, tried to ship it to my office, the shipment was then on hold at a fed ex office and we tried to get it the day it was delivered but when H showed up they told him a shipper had sent a courier to pick it up. Which they apparently did not do. The specialty pharmacy then told us we had to open a claim with fed ex, which I did. But now that a claim is open, fed ex won't update us on it because we aren't the shipper.
So after getting nowhere today I finally called the pharmacy and laid down all my lawyer wrath on them, but it's thousands of dollars of medicine and they seem to not be wanting to resend until fed ex finishes its investigation.
I'm over them. 100. Luckily DD and DS have the same medicine and we have a 3 month supply of hers (because shipping a 3 month supply instead of one month is a new rule). But fuuuck. This sucks. And H is flipping his shit and not being rational. So I have to be mad and rational.