Friday!!!!!

[rere]

This has been a long weekend. I worked from 6:30 until 8 Tuesday due to travel and a board meeting, so I am going to skip out of here after my 10 am meeting. I'm going to straighten up the house, them maybe hit up my friend to see if she is poolside today.

For the rest of the weekend, not much planned. My brother and SIL are in, but for a wedding of one of his best friends, so he is tied up. We thought we were hanging out with them last night, but he blew us off the go set up the venue aka drink beer with his buddies. So Dh and I are on our own. Dd is hanging out with her roommate.

We may have the nephew over for a while Saturday. He's not going to the wedding and gets bored at moms. He loves Dh and just follows him around prattling on.


On a weird note, I almost tripped over a homeless woman again coming in the employee entrance. It's secluded on 3 sides with a concrete wall. She had a shopping cart, box of tampons, 2 containers of food, blankets, and a couch cushion. I woke her up and said she better move along before the director gets here. She urinated on the patio and left.

[mae0111]

This week has been a bit of a whirlwind with DD2's pneumonia and BIL's health issues and pending diagnosis. I'm spending the morning on a training call for a new software, and then I have a few other rather time-consuming tasks to work on before I can wrap up for the day. Both kids want to have friends over - fine, but I'm not in the headspace to referee today, so we'll see...

Tomorrow we don't have anything planned. DD1 will probably spend the day gathering last-minute items for camp. Sunday we take DD1 to camp. I don't know what the plan is there... DD2 still isn't great, my parents are not in a position to hang with her for the day. So I may try to hunt down a sitter, or I may just stay home. She's still struggling with her breathing so I'm not super comfortable leaving her home alone for 6-7 hours.

So probably/hopefully pretty quiet...

[campermom]

Back from a quick trip to the beach w boyfriend. Heading for a 3 hour trip for my nieces wedding w boyfriend and my kids.

PDQ one of my kids has recently finished Intensive Outpatient Program for therapeutic support after a huge mental health decline since Feb. The program was 7 weeks, 3 hours per day 3 days a week virtually after school, with every other week psychiatry appointments. It was a commitment. Especially during 3 sports.

My nervous system is really in repair mode right now. I’m on summer break, I do work for 2 weeks in July but I’m very nervous about how my child will make it through camp. Camp has created a plan based on schools BIP, and are giving some of my other child’s friends service hours to be a 1:1.

We have an EEG scheduled next week and the bloodwork came back w negative Lymes and bartonella but the strep numbers were very high. The neurologist has ordered antibiotics.

I’m so very tired.

[twinmomma]

This has been a weird week. I had Wednesday off for Juneteenth and it was the first full week of summer break for the kids, so I feel like I've been all over the place. I feel like I've spent most of my week writing marketing emails, which is not something I usually do anymore. I don't typically write the actual copy and man, I'm bored. This feels like the level of work I used to do back when I first started in marketing. So today I'm procrastinating hard instead of writing more.

One week until SIL and her crew arrive to stay with us! The kids are already barely able to contain their excitement. I'll spend this weekend getting the house ready for guests with new sheets, towels, cleaning, etc. We don't get the kids back to us until SIL arrives, so I can clean this weekend and not worry about it getting immediately trashed again.

Tonight I'm getting my monthly facial and I can't wait to kick off the weekend in such a relaxing way. DH will be at work, so I think I'll come home and watch Bridgerton since I haven't seen the new season yet.

[sdlaura]

This weekend kicks off with the start of DD's district championship for all-star softball at 2:15 pm today. It's actually kind of nice that DH and I can both go watch without having to supervise any little kids, since they're all in camp/preschool, since normally we'd be working on a Friday afternoon. Her team got a tough draw, so we'll see what happens.

Tomorrow there will be more softball, first basketball practices for DD's and DS1's summer teams, and a friend of mine is having a birthday pool party. Her group of friends mostly doesn't have kids so it's a nice change of pace to hang with women in a different life situation than I usually end up hanging out with, out of proximity. Sunday there are basketball games for both older kids.

Next week is going to be nuts between me having to go to Boston for work and us leaving for a week-long vacation next Saturday. I need to get most stuff together before my work trip.

[supertrooper1]

The weather is supposed to be beautiful here this weekend. We don't have any concrete plans yet but we want to be outdoors. Beau's back is still hurting but at least he's moving again, so nothing too physical. Today is his brother's birthday and I have a feeling we'll end up with last minute dinner or breakfast plans since his family never plans anything in advance.

[waverly]

We are picking up DS from sleepaway camp tomorrow morning then heading on our family vacation. Pick up is 8 am so we got a hotel nearby for the night before.

I weeded a little bit of my garden. Something that DH planted is taking over everything so now we are trying to get rid of it. Well apparently it gave me a rash on my face because I must have touched my face and my elbow because I washed my hands but not my face and elbow. My garden has been trying to kill me this year.

[mommyatty]

We leave for vacation a week from tomorrow. I am so glad. Work has been super busy and it’s not slowing down any time soon.

So this weekend I’m going to finish making sure we all have what we need. I think we are there, but I’m going to do a final check. Plus we are going on some boat rides that don’t allow spray sunscreen so I need to make sure we have lotion sunscreen that’s not expired.

[librarychica]

I am exhausted but it is Friday!

I worked my tail off this month except when I’ve been on PTO. I am living some kind of snarky saying about PTO being a directive to squeeze 40 hours of work into 20, but that’s what I get for taking off so much time in one month. But it is Friday evening and my deadlines have been met, documentation has been written, assignments have been assigned, tickets have been closed, invoices have been paid, project statuses have been statused, slides have been slid, workshops have been worked, and timecard has been filed. I am caught up and clear to be out for a week starting next Wednesday and Wednesday afternoon will have less boob than I began the day with.

DD2 had a hard adjustment to boring everyday life after a week at the beach with cousins and then a week at camp, but she seems back to normal. This is her first summer not in daycamp most days and went a little nuts. We had some talks about setting routines and making time for regular meals,exercise, getting dressed even if you have no where to go. DD1 stepped up to drag her sister away from the iPad and cook her lunch when she didn’t eat the food in the fridge, and even did the dishes without being asked today. She’s getting so big!

This evening I took the girls to the craft store to buy a birthday gift for a friend and pick up a few things to keep them busy the next few weeks. DD2 has decided to make a journal/scrapbook, DD1 is trying her hand at using fabric paint to perk up old clothing. Tomorrow H will take them to a kid skating bday party, in the evening we will go to a birthday party at a restaurant for an adult, Sunday will be house chore catchup and then my parents are coming for dinner. I’m hoping to squeeze in some gardening Saturday while everyone is skating.

[186momx]

Long first week of summer. No plans for the weekend as DH I working for the neighbors. I'm hoping for a quiet weekend and finish my book.

[vasc]

We drop my two off at sleepaway camp this afternoon. It’s DD’s 6th year but DS’s first. He is excited but still needs pull-ups at night and is self-conscious of that. Camp staff knows and I am sure it will all be handled fine, but he’s MY BABY. 😭

[k3am]

Im pretty sure I’ve made my decision. I have until Tuesday to tell them. They can wait until the last minute on Tuesday.

[waverly]

Jun 23, 2024 16:08:19 GMT -5 k3am said:

Im pretty sure I’ve made my decision. I have until Tuesday to tell them. They can wait until the last minute on Tuesday.

Which way are you leaning?

[k3am]

Taking the severance.

I’m just not sure I can get past a few things. In November, they moved my department to sit with our subsidiary. With big grandeur of how we’d cross train with them, they’d cross train with us, yada yada. Never happened. I asked outright if I had anything to be worried about, and the answer was no.

Flash forward to early June, and suddenly the department is being eliminated. They have a position for me, don’t tell anyone. Wait 3 weeks to find out more, but in the meantime, every conversation has me doing something differently. First I’m only the face of my portfolio (so they don’t risk losing clients), then I’m doing it all, then something else. Most recently it sounds like I’m still doing everything for my portfolio - Granted it will be shrinking - On top of another role. I haven’t gotten any clear guidance on how I’ll be trained on a new product set, what success will look like, etc.

On Friday I had coffee with the EVP I’d report to (he’s currently a skip level report, and I really like/value/respect him). According to him, he wanted to give me the offer letter day one, but there was red tape, I know how slow this company moves.. Well it certainly didn’t move slow when deciding to kill off my division or how it all plays out.

So the idea of putting myself in a situation where day after day I’m going back to a company that made a huge decision like that without giving it proper consideration is just hard to swallow.

I alternate between thinking I’m bat shit crazy for wanting to turn down a guaranteed position knowing what flexibility I’ll have at my same pay.. especially in the mornings and when I’m sleeping. But every day that I’ve pulled into the parking garage, it feels like what I should do.

I am still not 100% certain, but definitely leaning that way.


DH and I both agree that if they hadn’t left me hanging for 3 weeks with only how I feel about how it played out vs having the tools I need to make a decision, it probably wouldn’t be a hard decision and I’d take the other role even if I hated the prospect.

[mae0111]

k3am, I think I would feel the same way that you feel, and I likely wouldn't take the job either. If you took the job knowing how you feel right now, you'd probably be looking for a new job within a few months.

So take the severance, take a little time for yourself, and find the right spot for yourself. And you will find the right spot.

[twinmomma]

k3am, That's what I'd do in your shoes. It will give you a chance to figure out what a new position at a new company looks like to make you happy, rather than just sticking with the safe option and being unhappy. At this point I wouldn't trust your current company as far as I could throw them and wouldn't expect the new role to be worth it.

[waverly]

I was leaning towards severance for you but it’s not my life lol. I think it would give you time to figure out your next move whether in this industry or another.

[k3am]

Jun 24, 2024 9:02:51 GMT -5 waverly said:

I was leaning towards severance for you but it’s not my life lol. I think it would give you time to figure out your next move whether in this industry or another.

It is so not my life either! I’m quite risk averse.