Thursday updates

[mommyatty]

I just officially accepted the job offer. Now I have to give notice tomorrow. So nervous, but I really feel like this is the right move for me.

[mae0111]

mommyatty - congratulations! So exciting. You will do great!!

[twinmomma]

mommyatty, Congratulations!!! I am so excited for you to get this opportunity! You deserve to move on to bigger and better things.

[librarychica]

I have updates. They’re school related.

DD2’s school closed early due to germ and there are 101 new rules for January. None are an issue for us as we are going no places with people and doing no things anyway, but she also has to be periodically tested and since she tried to run from her flu shot this year I anticipate that this will be fun. Luckily her sister has been tested and is reassuring her it is NBd.

DD1 finished her asynchronous remote learning for the year. The program was actually pretty challenging for her (esp ELA) and I am so proud. She got all As but more importantly really improved her handwriting, is super independent at her science projects, and can write a decent essay now. Proud mama bear over here. I can’t believe she’s been doing this half a year already.

Just a few more days and I am off until January 4. It’s a hectic time of year but I don’t think I’ve ever been this ready for us to close. Not even the year I was 9 months pregnant this time of year.

[librarychica]

Congrats mommyatty! This is a long time coming. Good luck!

[mae0111]

twinmomma, I hope you are surviving the storm! I'm about to start shoveling...

One small vent... I've been working on a fundraiser for the school, which I pulled together really quickly and promoted the crap out of... and because people can't follow directions, the school is going to miss out on a bunch of money. All people needed to do was add a coupon code to their orders... and from what I can see, a ton of people forgot it.

Sigh. Reading comprehension matters...

[twinmomma]

mae0111, Thanks! We got shifted into the 12-18+ range. My kids have a snow day, beau's son still has to do remote. And I just ran a company-wide meeting on Teams with that chaos on the background. So killing it over here! haha

Two big pieces of good news this morning!

Beau got called back for a job at a local fine dining place, so he's SUPER excited about that. His restaurant is closing for the winter, so he needed to pick up shifts somewhere to bring in money. They're willing to be flexible and want him to start ASAP, so he's feeling really good.

And I just found out that even though the company's performance wasn't where we wanted it to be this year, I'm still getting my full bonus! I've never gotten a bonus this big - now that I'm at director level I'm eligible for a much higher amount than I was in the past.

[186momx]

Congrats mommyatty,
twinmomma, you are rocking it!

I called my doctor yesterday afternoon and asked for an anxiety prescription.

[erbear]

DD1 (almost 12, 6th grade) has struggled with school since forever. She's super bright, but undiagnosed ADHD and a stint of PANDAS really made elementary school hard for all of us. Her report card used to be really a tough read - lots of struggles, lots of "requires support" on non-academic standards. It was rough.

Since she's been in middle school (5th grade for us), she's made a ton of improvement - we started her on ADHD meds last winter in 5th and her end of the year report card was great - lots of "3"s (standards based reports) with a few "4"s mixed in. Only one "2" in any of her 8 classes, each with 5-6 standards. I just saw her 6th 1st trimester reports. Her narrative comments were so positive and all her grades were "4" with only one "3". I'm so freaking proud of her!

[traveltheworld]

mommyatty, congratulations! I know you've been looking for a change for a long time and I'm super excited for you!

Nothing really exciting over here. Still have too much work. I also haven't been exercising so I'm not feeling the greatest. The kids have been home all week and they've done ok.

[sdlaura]

So many good updates! Good luck giving notice mommyatty!

Tomorrow is our last day with full childcare and then we will have lots of family time for the following 16 days. Everything is closed here and we’re not allowed to travel locally (rightly so, given our COVID numbers). The big kids do have skateboard camp at the YMCA Mon-Wed both weeks.

So I figure we have this weekend, then some childcare Mon-Wed, then Christmas and a weekend of new toys, then three more days of some childcare. So hopefully we can maintain sanity till New Year’s Eve. But I foresee being totally over immediate family togetherness by that long 4-day New Years weekend.

[waverly]

It’s my work from home day, and every Friday I wake up feeling like I’m not going to make it with everything I have to do. For example, everything in my house has been breaking. You all know this, I’m sure. My son lost DH’s air pod somewhere in the house. He used them for a school scavenger hunt. Why?? Those things aren’t cheap, and I’m tired of replacing broken things. I need a new couch because of the dog my husband wanted so bad but put no effort into training. And I need all new windows in my garage but DH refuses to address all the garage issues, but is renting a Tesla for the weekend. Preferable to buying, I guess and life is hard right now when we can’t see anyone. But I’ve had a broken window in my garage for a year. It makes us look trashy IMO. Oh and I have to swap DD’s Chromebook for the 4th time.

[mommyatty]

Whelp, I sent my boss a meeting invitation for a 15 minute chat later this morning. I sent it about an hour ago and I haven’t heard back. Which could kind of be Exhibit A for why I’m leaving. I can’t even get his attention long enough to quit politely.

[mellym]

Congratulations mommyatty! Let the celebrations begin!

I started PT for my neck and that has been helping a bit. Also back to an exercise program, 3 weeks in and I haven't missed a day yet. I feel so much better mentally.

We had a record year and expecting 2021 to be even better so I feel good on the work front. There is just so much to do. Still uncovering issues after our software conversion in Q4 and now it's year-end. We grew another 20% and haven't made any organizational changes to my team. Focus is on technology to manage the growth and increase efficiency. However, that requires us to do a lot of pre-work and testing the technology solutions on top of our normal responsibilities. I'm just tired from all the change on all fronts of life.

[twinmomma]

mommyatty, When I quit my last job I ended up having to just call my boss on his cell phone to quit because he just no-showed to the office the day we were supposed to meet. That was my exhibit A for why I was leaving that place.

[mae0111]

twinmomma, mommyatty - same. I had to resign to 2 bosses simultaneously with schedules like that. One had refused every other meeting I’d ever set up with him. Luckily I was friends with their admins and begged them for a 10 min slot. Then one of them used 8 of the minutes to talk about himself and how busy he was.

Then the other finally said, “well, we aren’t here to talk about that. What are we talking about?”

I answered, “My resignation.”

😱

[mommyatty]

It’s done. I survived, and my boss was awesome about it.

[waverly]

My co-worker is driving me a million percent insane. She is not above me but has opinions on every single thing that I do. For example when I asked if I could hire a 20-30 hour person which is budgeted for and approved, she told me that I need to hire 2 12 hour people. WTF? She has NOTHING to do with my department or my hiring. She nickels and dimes everything. Yes being frugal is important and I get some people waste or even embezzle money. Not us though. We've done everything on a shoestring budget and to have her come around and act like that is not enough is infuriating especially when our job is to spend money on our community- like literally our job. And in certain accounts, we get in trouble if that money is not spent.

And the school. We've swapped out 15 million chromebooks and they give me the wrong charger, even after I said where is the charger. Um no that isn't the right charger, so then she proceeds to lecture me on the fact they have 2 types of computers, I KNOW because you keep giving me the wrong chargers for them, so why don't you give me the correct charger and stop lecturing me about YOUR mistake. She admitted she was wrong, and then keeps going on the 2 types of computers. Yes I am quite aware.

[k3am]

DDOT: I may have mentioned that DH bought an Oculus "for the kids" for Christmas. Minus one game (ISS space station which is actually pretty cool but gave me massive vertigo that lasted a couple days), it is so rad. All of our neighbors have one now (DH is a great marketing tool), and my favorite is a video game doubling as a workout. I don't know how DS will feel about it, but I think DD will love it.

[186momx]

Doctor office finally called me back. I have to have a telehealth appointment which they can't get me in until mid January. Doc said in November all I had to do was call if I changed my mind about the anxiety drugs. I'm barely holding it together. If I knew it was going to be this long of wait I would have just got in November but I really didn't want the drugs because I've had issues with them in the past but all my normal tricks aren't helping. I totally broke down on the phone with the receptionist.

[k3am]

186momx, any chance you can get the doctor to make an exception? Or is it something like Kaiser that it's impossible?

[186momx]

k3am, Triage nurse called. My chart does say what I told the nurse but my doc is on vacation until 1/6. Doctor that is in refusing to write RX without seeing me. I was to told to try and get me time, meditate, and drop anything that isn't necessary and she would ask the doc that is in to review my chart since I'm just asking for something to take when things gets overwhelming and not something for every day.

[k3am]

186momx, fingers crossed.