Its been a week of ups and downs. A lot more downs than ups, but I'm thinking that will change starting today. No matter what life throws at me, I'm trying hard to keep a positive outlook. Negativity breeds negativity and I want to be positive!
My cat is recovering nicely after his brush with death the other day. It appears that only his tail was run over by the car. Its still missing a lot of fur, but the exposed skin is healing purrfectly! He's still not running around as much as he use to, but I would imagine that he is sore. Within a week or so, he should be good as new.
After my daughter told me she needed a graphing calculator for school, I freaked out a bit. I don't understand how a school can require you to buy a calculator that cost $100. I began hitting up my friends and coworkers to see if they had one or, in some cases, their child who is now out of college has one. My efforts paid off because a coworker found one at his house and he is going to give it to me for free.
The girl that was working with me is being moved to another department and they are not replacing her. I will have to pick up most of her workload. She honestly didn't do much, but it will add 6-8 hours a week onto what I already have. I was extremely frustrated by this at first but after throwing my little tantrum, I decided to make the most of it. I went to one boss and asked if she could have someone else do a few minor tasks that I perform. She agreed that it was a good idea. I went to another boss and asked him to take on a few spreadsheets I'm required to do. He agreed to do those. I went to a third boss (I have 4 bosses that I report to. Kind of feels like Office Space) and asked him to follow up on some issues -m having with another department so that I can streamline my work. He thought it was a great idea. All in all I managed to cut my load down by about 3 hours a week. Hopefully I can squeeze in the rest by working harder. If not, I will have to work some overtime but they will pay me for it. I am a pretty good negotiator!
I was supposed to go to Atlanta this weekend to meet up with a friend and his wife for his birthday. Friday, at the end of his shift, my friend was fired. I was upset to hear that but somewhat relieved when he said that he wouldn't be able to afford to go to Atlanta. When I received a picture message an hour later of him getting a pedicure saying "screw it. Its my birthday and I'm going to have fun" I was not only down hearted, but also disappointed in his behavior. If you're broke, then how can you afford a trip that will set you back at least $150??? My best friend told me that it was none of my business. My thoughts: if my friend were an alcoholic and I was going to a bar with him, I would be encouraging and enabling his behavior. Why is this any different? I personally don't think a good friend would keep their mouth shut and so.... I won't.
The best news of all, I finally weighed myself for the first time since December 28th. I have dropped 8.4 pounds. My daughter has dropped 6.2. Our work has begun paying off! Now just 61.6 more to go! I think I will kick that off by walking. 5K this morning. Hopefully, my daughter will come with me.
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