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random Tuesday thoughts
I should be working from home right now. I have paperwork catching up to do. I don't want to. So if I don't want to do that, I should be doing stuff around the house that needs to be done. I don't want to do that either. So I'm not doing anything.
I'm crossing my fingers that my new running shoes get here before I have to leave at 12:30, so I can wear them tonight!!
I'm grumpy that it's so dreary outside. I'm grumpy that the winter apocalypse we were supposed to get turned out to be nothing, so I still have to work. The good thing is that hopefully this means I won't be running on a skating rink tonight.
Final grumble: I just found out that, contrary to what my supervisor always told me, I do NOT get any of my vacation days returned even though two of them ended up being snow days and nobody had to work. I wouldn't mind it so much if I'd at least known that was the policy. But this goes back to a pretty consistent complaint I have about my workplace - it's damn near impossible to find out what a policy really is until you end up on the wrong end of it, because every supervisor will tell you something different. (Then again, that's not just my workplace, but mental health agencies in general in my experience. Insert long story about me as a lowly intern with another agency, who couldn't find a way to get a suicidal client to the hospital because none of the supervisors could agree on protocol.)
Re: random Tuesday thoughts
I'm remote today as well. I have a lot of paperwork to get through and notes to update - so far the only thing I've accomplished is painting my toenails, checking my email, and setting up our Feb budget. I'll get important stuff done in a bit, but trying to do any of it when I'm less than focused is not a good idea.
I'm wondering if my H's boss ratted me out. I sent H's boss a text message last night that said "Tomorrow is H's 39th birthday. Please give him the appropriate amount of grief at work tomorrow." FWIW - I've met his boss several times and we're friendly. He responded "Will do!". So, I'm wondering how H's day is going so far. I'm also hoping that everything goes well with us going out for dinner and things don't end up being lame. It seems like everyone either wants to combine H's birthday with his sister's, his cousin's, a friend's when it comes to celebrating (seriously - we know A LOT of people w/ 1/28 b-days that want to combine his cake with theirs) - and if we don't do that, then his mom always wants to dictate how he spends it (dinner with her, usually her choice of restaurant). I think he's pretty happy that we're going out, just the two of us, ON HIS BIRTHDAY, FOR JUST HIS BIRTHDAY, and that he's getting to pick the what/when/where of it. It better not be lame.
I'm not working remotely, which is probably a good thing, because my motivation is nonexistent as it is. I AM, however, annoyed that I bustedass to get here this morning, only to find out at 9:00 that we were closed until 9:30. I called the hotline a million times this morning before I left the house. They need to make these decisions earlier for those of us who start our workdays at 7:30.
I'm also annoyed with the Census Bureau for releasing data using the wrong geographies and refusing to fix it. What should have taken me a week is now taking well over a month and counting.
But on the bright side of things, I'm meeting friends for lunch and tonight I have nothing planned except sitting on the couch
Baby GIRL EDD 5.21.13
My Blog | My Chart
2012 Races Heart Half Marathon 3.18.2012 - 1:51:01 (PR)
Flying Pig Marathon 5.6.12 - 3:50:28 (PR)
Leadville Trail Marathon 6.30.12 - 7:32:23 (not a typo)
Esri 5K 7.25.12 - 21:57 (PR)
Baby GIRL EDD 5.21.13
My Blog | My Chart
2012 Races Heart Half Marathon 3.18.2012 - 1:51:01 (PR)
Flying Pig Marathon 5.6.12 - 3:50:28 (PR)
Leadville Trail Marathon 6.30.12 - 7:32:23 (not a typo)
Esri 5K 7.25.12 - 21:57 (PR)
H had surgery yesterday. He is at home in a lot of pain and I am not there to help because our IT person is a FOOOL! So, anyone have IT people they recommend? We're looking for a new one.
Good news is I was supposed to be in Westerville for an 8am meeting today. It got postponed, so I am "ahead" of where I thought I would be. So, leaving here in an hour and a half to take care of H and other things around the house.
To clarify - I'm not saying that I hope what he picks isn't lame. I don't want the reservation to get messed up, or us to get a crappy table or a waiter with attitude - that kind of lame. I want him to feel special and TLC'd for his birthday.
It occurred to me this might have come out sounding wrong.