I am a busy person, and I would love it if people would stop giving me stuff to do. I could do without people volunteering me to take on special projects ( Read more... )

After the new year, I went to my bosses and requested that someone else stay late at least once a week so that I could leave early to do something for me ( Read more... )

What a month ( Read more... )

After the most incredibly busy week, I'm now 90% packed and ready to jump on the plane and vamoosh for a few weeks.

Hand off with my boss was nuts. He questioned everything 2-3 times and it took over an hour to run through my notes to him. And that was only one part of my job. WOW. I hope I don't come back to a mess.

*bounce*

I'm almost out of stew and veggie quesadillas, so I looked up a new recipe. I've been craving curry, so I found two recipes. One for curry veggies and one for curry rice & lentils. I've got the latter one all made up and I'll pop the slow cooker on once I'm ready to go to bed ( Read more... )

I'm alternating between enjoying the challenge of finding good healthy food to eat, and being frustrated. It's all so much easier at home in my own surrounding3, with my fridge chock full of veggies ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took Fergus to one of the local dog parks, and on the way he discovered that if he uses his paw to push the button on the arm rest down then the window will go down. Lucky we were at a stop and I quickly put the window up and put the child locks on ( Read more... )

The General Manager made it a rule that we had to send out a notice to the whole office when we are going to be out of the office ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, a parent company fella who was 38 years old, who had come up from Texas to work with us for a few months and just recently went home, passed away from Cancer. Found out he had Lung Cancer and was dead within 2 weeks ( Read more... )

It's friday, it's been a hard week. Two more folks were let go here at work, moral is low. People are scared for their jobs and just about everyone has dusted off the resume and is looking. Prepared for the worst ( Read more... )