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Monday Moans, anyone?
Today has hit me like a load of bricks.
We started our house hunt today. We saw four houses - of course, the one we really wanted to see we couldn't get into. ::sigh:: Of the four that we saw, three were absolute no's. The fourth one was at the top of our price point, but still had quirks. We don't think it's worth what they're asking, simply because of all of the "added" things we'd need to improve upon.
A parent just called me. His daughter, one of my featured dancers, appears to have torn her achilles. ::headesk:: My show opens in a month. I have to figure out how the HELL to replace this kid dance-wise, while still keeping her in the show, because her father is painting ALL of my sets.
Oh, and it snowed again. F*ck you, snow.
Go!
RIP Dr. Irving Fishman - 10/1/19-7/25/10 - thank you for holding on for me.
You made my wedding day complete.
Re: Monday Moans, anyone?
Be careful when you say go! lol...
I just can't seem to get ahead on planning. I have to constantly change things around and it seems like this unit on Congress is just dragging on and on and on. So now, I feel like I'm sacrificing some of my slower students' learning to finish the unit we've been doing for like 5 weeks now. The short week this week isn't helping either...especially because they need class time to complete this project, but giving them that means we don't have time to do an in-class test review. AGH! The stress is getting to me.
Also, the weather here is rainy and gross, making me not want to do any work. So I just started like an hour ago.
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Aside from the obviously.....im trying my hardest to get back into the swing of things.
But everything and everyone at work is getting on my nerves. I know im just super sensitive about things right now, but is also that b/c of this whole stuff with my dad, im realizing that i dont want to be at this job much longer. I'm not appreciated and i spend more time worrying about work at home than i do just enjoying being at home. I need to update my resume and find something i dont hate. I dont want to be stuck in something like my dad was when we were kids, where we never saw him and when we did see him, he was sleeping. Thats no life. I want time to spend with my family and i want time to actually HAVE a family at some point.
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I think the nest needs a "like" button because I just had the urge to "like" your post, Kim. I second your urge to have time to actually HAVE a family!
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I took a really hard fall skiing on Saturday and my entire back, tailbone, and neck hurt.
My supervisor at work is EXTREMELY hard to work with, has caused two people two quit (which means way more work for me) and you never know when she will come in in a horrible mood. She speaks disrespectfully to us and Friday she called everybody "a bunch of idiots". I had had enough and basically told her that she's not the only one that knows how to do her job, and now our working environment is really tense. But not any more tense than she makes it on a daily basis. I have repeatedly told my director about this and she has spoken to my supervisor and things will get better for a while, but she always goes back to being her crazy self eventually.
I would try to find another job but I've been here five years and have an awesome amount of vacation time, and make good money there. Plus they just let me go down to 32 hr./week which will start this spring and be good if we start a family. Plus I don't want to leave just because my supervisor is such a b*tch, because that's not what's best for DH and I. So I guess I'll just keep on keeping on until something better comes along or (hopefully) my supervisor moves on!
Wow that felt really good to get that all out!
So your boss sounds like Ohio's governor... calling people idiots.
I painted all weekend. It is taking so freakin long!! The first two walls of the one room look awesome. The second two walls look like crap. I have no idea why. I think i will take pictures and bring them to Sherwin Williams and see what they have to say. And my whole body hurt last night.
And I dreamt that I overslept today and missed the test and got fired. The test that I was proctoring- not taking. Why do I still have test anxiety even though I am now the one GIVING the test?? I did oversleep, but made it to work in plenty of time. My boss thought that was great and told half of the first year med students that I said that
And we are finally trying to finish picking pictures for our album.. and we had at least 700 to pick from. We narrowed it down to 120 last night, and need to narrow it down another 40 or so. This has been super hard for me to do- b/c I looked at the pictures when my dad was in the hospital, and then maybe once since then. He was SOO happy that day! At least I didn't completely break down last night (or no more than i expected to).
I agree about the like button. I wonder how I will do my job and get home and have enough energy for my (future) kids. I also bring too much about work home (stress, worries, co-worker issues, etc.) My moan is one I have had before..people at work who do nothing or do as least as they can, while I do everything I can to help my students.
Also, I was just out and people were driving like crazy. People need to slow down and enjoy life...myself included!
My monday moan is just with work. There is one of the technicians that has really been bossing me around a lot lately and its becoming harder and harder to act nicely towards her and not react to it. It frustrates me because while I'm training to do the jobs that the vet techs do I am still just an assistant so cleaning and restocking everything is still something that I have to be conscious of.
Today we were super busy and I was busy bathing 5 fluffy dogs so that always takes forever to get all the soap out and blow them dry, one of the dogs was just being recidulous, and he is a 120 lb great dane so it's really hard for me to not get jerked around by him. So while I was dealing with bathing them, bossy tech stuck her head in the bathing room and said "hey I know your busy", and laughed, and then goes "but after you are done you need to do:" and then proceeded to give me a list of seriously 10 other things to do. Then when I did get to her laundry list of those 10 things she kept interrupting me with other things she needed me to do right then. I seriously felt like Cinderella today like it was Laura do this, Laura do that, hey while your at it do this, that needs to be done!
My mind can only handle so much at once haha I can't remember every single thing that I'm supposed to do on top of all that is being piled on me to do that bossy tech is more than capable of taking 2 seconds to wipe something off the counter, or to put a dog in a cage herself. Plus all of that while trying to learn what I need to so I can move to a vet tech position.
*sigh* Today was just an exhausting day!! There is my Monday moan! haha
My Monday moan is all the freaking snow we got again last night. Friday was such a tease here in MD because it was 75 degrees... amazing. All the snow had finally melted, and I thought we were finally done with the white stuff. I am soooooo ready for spring. But no, we got about 4 more inches last night. Luckily DH's work did not open until 12 today, so we were able to shovel together. But I seriously am so annoyed with the snow: shoveling, ice in the morning, how it looks like glorified dirt after about an hour on the side of the road, and how it clings to Mason's fur and he literally becomes a snowball puppy and it takes him about an hour to melt.
Spring, please hurry!