Work

Remember the move "Gremlins"? Add water to the cute little guys and they multiply? Feed them after a certain time and they turn into monsters? Well, someone has been watering and feeding my desk.

AND I have found myself embroiled in a situation that really ticks me off. We have a person in the office who did something REALLY unprofessional, offensive, rude and just plain stupid. To give you an idea: Remember the movie "The Rainmaker" with Matt Damon? (If you haven't see it, you should.) In the movie, an insurance company writes a letter to the mother of a child (albeit grown man) with cancer and says, "You must be stupid, stupid, stupid." Our employee basically did the same thing, but in reverse. She sent MANY letters to an enormous insurance company telling them how "IMCOMPETENT" (yes, that is how it was spelled) they are and how they aren't being "FARE" to "THERE" insureds. The examples could go on...but you get the point.

So anyway, in the midst of finding this stuff out, I also find out SHE TRIED TO BLAME ME. Not for sending the letters, but because I hadn't finished the form letters she is supposed to use. Now, let's all keep in mind that ANY time she came to me and asked me to do one that she needed right way, she'd have it within a half hour. She hasn't asked me for one in a LONG time, so I assumed (we all know what that does) it was safe to take my time since I have a half billion other things to do around here, too. Apparently I was mistaken. In any event, at no time, in no way, would I have written anything even remotely similar to the content she did. That isn't to say I wouldn't have thought it...but I definitely wouldn't have put it in writing.

Not only did what she send out make me furious, but the fact that she blamed me for not giving her the form letters really TICKED ME OFF.

Yeah, so while I'm processing all this, guess who gets told to do the write up form????? Guess what I wanted to write...

Monday, November 19, 2007

The weekend was good in parts and not so good in parts.

I didn't have my usual childcare on Friday (although I know I could have taken him to Liz), so I decided to work at home some and do my typical routine with Evan. I did alter it a bit, though, by taking him to have his pictures made and taking him to my office to show him off. (Normally what I do is work, go pick up Pat's check, go to the bank and then maybe the store before I get Evan.) It made for a long day and Evan didn't get much of a nap (maybe 45 minutes in the car), so he fell asleep at home at about 5:30. He slept pretty much from then until about 7:15 a.m. Saturday morning.

On Saturday, Pat went to work and Evan decided he needed to go swing (which is something that he talks about almost every day since he can see the new play/swingset thing the neighbors two houses down built). So we did some things around the house (he likes to help with laundry and loading and unloading the dishwasher, sweeping - although that is sometimes messy - all the big kid stuff), then we loaded up and went to the park in Summit Lakes. That didn't last long, though. I think he was bored. And there were MILLIONS of little black flying things around. Cobwebs, too. UGH. After that we went to Lowe's and got stuff to fix our fence so the maniac doesn't get loose. We helped (ha ha) Mikel fix the fence (Evan was so cute banging on the fence with his little sand rake) and then went to Wal-Mart. That's where things got not-so-good, but we'll just leave that out. I'll just say that Mikel and I got into it at Wal-Mart and things went downhill really quickly...kind of like watching the winter Olympics...Add the OU loss to that and the end of the day was pretty much a disaster.

Oh...and then Evan didn't really sleep ALL NIGHT, which, in turn, caused me to not sleep. It was terrible!

Sunday was much better. We went to church (Evan LOVES Journey Kids), then to Sam's (where I got both diapers and Christmas gift ideas). Evan fell asleep on the way home and slept for FOUR hours. We went to Nora's birthday party after that and then home again. Pretty uneventful, really. Nice, but uneventful.

Long Time, No Post

So, it's been a while since the last time I posted anything. Let me think of what has been going on...

Evan turned 2 in October. Did I mention that previously??? Of course, since I only have two readers, who both already know anyway, the point is rather moot.

Mikel will turn 18 (God help me, please) on Thanksgiving.

I have recurrent, extremely irritating cocydemia. Yes, I have a pain in my butt. Both literally (like dislocated tailbone) and figuratively (caused by household members and employers).

I have a torn meniscus in my right knee. Well, they're about 98% sure that's what it is. To be positive, though, they want to send me for an MRI, which is totally expensive and I'm not doing that unless it is so bad I can't walk and think I need surgery. Or unless my deductible is met...

I read in a ParentCentral e-mail that a two- to three-year-old should have about a 50 word vocabulary. That made me laugh. Evan's vocabulary is unreal. Now, granted, there are plenty of times you have to get him to repeat or slow down and he gets tongue-tied because his brain is on overdrive and he's trying to talk like a grown up, but man...

I have a LOT of things to do to finish my house - like finish painting. And Lord knows I'm going to be the one to do it.

I really need to figure out what is wrong with the plants in my front flower bed. They look dead and I just planted them.

I really need to do some Christmas shopping, but sometimes it sucks to do it alone. Any volunteers?