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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
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| 12:10p |
I hate doing the bills
You know when the first of the month rolls on in, I stress myself out wondering where the funds are going to come from. we went through so much money in the last year and a half and I am sick to my stomach. Still I am the only one who is bringing in any income and I wonder and get frustrated on when the hubby will bring some in? got to go, more later.... | | 12:37p |
Mini Vacation
Well the family went on a mini vacation to Kansas for a Pheasant Championship. It isn't my sport of choice, it is my husbands. So we leave on Thursay and drive 9 hours with 5 dogs, we get there and had a good night, the next day, the weather is soooo cold, it was a high of 5 with the windchill of -22. I don't think I have ever been in that type of weather. That afternoon, my oldest daughter has her youth championship and there I am out in this weather following her taking pictures(mind you, I only have wind pants on, didn't know any better). I got some great shots, but there againn froze my ass off. We get done and go back to the hotel and chill out for the night. the next morning we get up at 4:30 am to start the day, we feed dogs and walk them in this nasty weather and go to the trial. I sat in the car most of the day due to the weather, had my seat heater on, the car heater and my book. I got to do some reading, I started this book about a year ago and still haven't fininshed. It was a very peaceful day, I would get out of the car every once in awhile to go talk to people, take pictures of the dogs in the trial and use the bathroom, that was it. That night all hunters decide to go to this place for dinner, so we finally get there and we sit start chatting and one of the twins tells me she feels sick to her stomach and thinks she going to throw up, I hurry her to the bathroom and there she blows. That dinner needless to say got cut short. So for dinner it was Mcdonalds.
The next day was much like the first, but this time the high was 22 with a wind chill of 15, believe it or not that felt like a warm spring day. The kids had a blast because they got to clean pheasants for the hunters and made a buck a bird. It was funny to look at my 3 and watch them pluck and gut a bird. You couldn't pay me to do it. By the end of the day they had made alot of money and they were so excited. That night, we hung out with this other family for dinner then went back to the room and fell asleep almost after walking into the room.
We got up the next morning and had breakfast with the couple that threw the trial and that was very pleasant. They are such a nice couple. I could hang out with them for quite some time. We started home after breakfast and got home late that night.
We came home to snow and Ice all over the ground, they received a bad storm when we were gone, but it was sure nice to have moisture on the ground for a change. We need some serious rain around here. I want my pond to fill up again.
All in all the trip was great. I guess I didn't expect it to be, but I think that alot of the way I felt was due to the meds I am taking, I think I am starting to enjoy life again. I love it. | | 1:00p |
Drama at work
Well for starters there are 4 offices to our district, this one woman in another office was driving me insane, well call her Cindy. She is obessed with this certain project and our attitude in this office is, we will get it done when we have time. Well cindy kept e-mailing me and calling me, because I guess she liked me and I was easy to deal with. Anyway, I was having one of those days, for 2 days in a row, I was tring to clear off my desk before vaction and couldn't get it done because she was hounding me to do this project and another girl in the office just wasn't pulling her weight in the office and plainly I was just having a shitty day. Just to let you know I did tell Cindy that I was working on her project and I was at that time, but that still wasn't good enough, so I made a change in the office.
So here is where I started the conflict. I e-mailed Cindy back and told her that I would nolonger be handling the project that I had alot on my plate and even listed what I do in the office on a daily basis, then I told her that I would be handing it over to (who well call) Linda, knowing in the back of my mind that Cindy hates Linda and told her that linda had more time on her hands, unlike me. Linda didn't do anything in the office but socialize with the men that came in the office and constantly talk on the phone on personal phone calls. Needless to say, I didn't here back from Cindy on that project and Cindy then started e-mailing my bosses. I guess I set her off, the sick thing about it, I knew I would, I knew exactlly what I was doing. I wanted it out in the open.
So, after that happens, the very next day, I went on vacation for a week.
The night before I have to go back to work, a co-worker of mine calls me to tell me that our boss e-mailed a nasty e-mail to the office, saying that there is catfighting going on and if anyone is going to be giving orders it will be him. Susan (co-worker) is worried that I would get upset, but I told I wasn't because I didn't care everything broke out into the open and that was great. We talked a little more and she told me that Linda ran into the bosses office and whined about me telling her what to do, so I told susan that tomorrow Linda and I were going to have our talk, it was months over due.
Well that next day, in the afternoon, I pulled Linda aside in a private office and told her to her face that I didn't feel she was pulling her weight around the office. You should have seen the shocked look on her face, it was great. I told her that I had a problem with that being that she wanted to be office manager but was not setting a good example. You lead by your action and not your words. So we ended up talking for about 2 hours, where I let her know quite often how I think things should be done differently in the office and how she needs to step up to the plate. I told her that I like her as a person, I just didn't like her work ethic.
Something in that convesation must have worked becaause now, it has been a week and she is working for a change, and whats even nicer, she has taken back some of the load she should have had all along, but I ended up with 5 months ago, so now, my work load is so much lighter and I am less stressed and now I have time to work on Cindy's stupid project.
Life at work is great now, I haven't got pissed at linda for being lazy, everyone is working so much better together and it is so much more pleasant. I think my big mouth and attitude finally did some good for this office. I guess you can say, I am proud of what I did. |
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