I just passed a horrible night, and I have no idea why. I’m exhausted and I don’t think I got 2 hours in a row of unbroken sleep. It’s gonna be a long day.
Our camping trip is off. **FCD **was looking at a weather site and it’s projected to be far too rainy for an event centered around motorcycles. Not to mention the ride there and back, and setting up/taking down the camper… so he canceled our space reservation and this morning, we’ve got to call the kennel and cancel that. Maybe another time.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 72 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 94 for the day. I should be spendin’ the day at the cee-mint pond. Alas though, one must irk.
flytrap why ruin what appears to be a perfectly loverly vinaigrette with fart blossoms? ICK! Also, you have posted to my fb good mornin’ post on several occasions.
Herbs don’t be out there overdoin’ it, ok?
BBBobbio I trust by now you have had the gallbladder divorce and are recoverin’.
Ok, I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy is hongry. Then, alas and alack, irk purtification must commence. Today I get to explain all the paperirk involved in startin’ a new participant, the paperirk involved in transferin’ from one host agency to another, how to complete an employment plan, and the various ways one can exit from services and the paperirk involved with that. Envy my new assistant!
ETA: MOOOOOOM sorry the trip got canceled. Ok maybe not cause my idea of roughin’ it involves stayin’ in a hotel where you have to walk across the street for dinner.
I’m not a fan of roughing it, but I’ve never been camping so this was going to be a first. On the other hand, it was a site without electricity and it’s been hot and icky, so even without the threat of rain, it wasn’t going to be a pleasant time sleeping. We’ll go again sometime… eventually… Maybe in the fall?
We had terrible storms after midnight, lots of lightning and thunder. Not sure what I’m doing today. Most likely it will be something like cleaning the kitchen and sorting out things that I absolutely want to keep. We’ve pretty much decided that we’re not moving anywhere for at least 6 months, but it would be nice to get rid of some of the clutter.
Very strange, I just went to fb to wish Dave’s brother (Mr. HFUN) a happy birthday and I noticed two things, his birthday is listed on fb as the date of Dave’s birthday and also his place of employment is listed as my catering business that I closed last year.
I’m sorry your camping trip got cancelled, FCM, and I’m glad your cruise is back on course.
Congrats on the job, Sticky!
I hope you and your gall bladder have been separated, Bobbio.
Ugh, it’s been a rough couple of weeks. I am tired, and not sleeping more than a couple of hours a night anymore. I really need a vacation about now, but unfortunately, I can’t take any until August. It’s going to be a long month and a half. Work is going to be extremely stressful for the next three months, much of it due to increased scrutiny for much higher headquarters. There has been a lot of fire putting out, and explaining over and over again, that we have already done this or that thing that the higher HQ is telling us to do.
I have to give a demonstration and class on one of my “products” today. The “class” consists of showing people how to operate effing pivot tables. For some reason people don’t understand how to move around in a pivot table, much less use a filter on a column heading. :smack: These people should already know how to move around in a pivot table and how to use Excel. My little class will occur during one of my many meetings today. Monday, my nine hour workday included two meetings that sucked up six and a half hours. That doesn’t leave much time to do any actuall work, does it? :dubious:
ARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!111 Ok, a pay period begins June 30th, the last day of the fiscal year. TPTB have decided that June 30th must be paid from current FY funds. Thus, on June 30th everybody is bein’ required to submit time for that one day by July 2nd. This means I get the joy of tellin’ all my folks and their host agencies. I just know that no matter what I do or how carefully I explain, there will be those who do it wrong. I told new assistant this will be her chance to really see how dumbass people can be. She laughed. Yep, think she’s gonna work out just fine.
I really hate talking on the phone, but at least today, it straightened things out and saved me some money. Our homeowners insurance went up again, and I started looking around at other companies. But I decided to call our current company and get clarification on some of the things on our policy.
Turns out we’ve been paying for a Value Added Package that would cover us if our sump pump failed and our basement filled with water. Except we don’t have a sump pump, and we’ve got a walk-out basement that faces downhill, so even if we did get water in the basement, before it accumulated, it’d go out the door and down to the neighbor’s yard. So that coverage is gone. We also got rid of some other stupid coverage that was there in case we said something bad about a business and they sued us. WTF?? And we raised our deductible, Anyway, it’s saving us a bit over $200 per year, so that’s good.
Then I was supposed to call the mortgage company and tell them that they’d be getting a reduced insurance bill so they didn’t overpay next month when it’s due. The phone tree there is hideous, plus despite giving them my loan number and other info to be routed to the correct department, I still had to repeat all of that when I was speaking to the customer service rep. And it turned out that he wasn’t the one I needed, but he did connect me with the correct person (who, thankfully didn’t have the thick accent that the first guy had) and I got all of that resolved.
And I called the kennel to cancel. Whew. My ear is exhausted!!!
Today feels like Thorsday but it is only Hump Day. I go look at more houses on Firday and I still haven’t heard about the one I put the offer on.
I wish they would accept the offer because I am tired of looking.
I want to move, I am so annoyed with every damn person in this house except for Sah-son and even he is getting close to being on my list.
Does anybody know how to clean the screen on a laptop.
**sari **- I use a damp paper towel. Comet was too scratchy. :eek:
Just finished some studio time. I’ve got 3 egg plates that are now in the drying stage. I’ve also got 2 wall sconces - one that could be a planter, since it has a half vessel on it, and the other has a little shelf. I’m going to make some patterns so I can make pairs of sconces.
I’m still awake, which is an accomplishment in itself. And I’ve decided that supper will be steak, smashed N.O.T.s, and some sort of vegetable matter. And grilled onions to go on the steak. I may spend the rest of the afternoon on the recliner - I’ve started another afghan.
Murphy the mattress was fully inflated when I got up this morning so I’ll keep him. However, get up time is quite early this time of year, especially when one doesn’t have any window[del]treatment[/del]s.
I was 'posed’ta have a veggie side w/ ma lunch; however, it wasn’t in the bag in the irk fridge, nor was it in my car. Did they not make it out of the home fridge into the bag this morning?
Work is going to be extremely stressful for the next three months, much of it due to increased scrutiny for much higher headquarters. There has been a lot of fire putting out, and explaining over and over again, that we have already done this or that thing that the higher HQ is telling us to do.