Monday, monday, monday

I went in for a few hours Sunday to make sure everything was set up in the new system so we would be good to go Monday. Sun PM my coworker calls and she cannot be in on Monday because her son broke his arm. My heart just sank.

It all ended up being just fine, EXCEPT I did have to put in another 12-hour day. But I have everything IN ORDER. Not caught up, but IN ORDER for the first time for as long as I can remember.

The software dude is there, and it always goes well when he is there. We told him he needed to move here from the town he lives. he likes our podunk town, but I doubt he would like it for long. Pretty podunk.

Anyway, tomorrow, I just need to double check some documentation, and follow up on a thing or two. Then hopefully we get lots done and I can leave early Friday like I have been planning. I feel like I hvae earned it. The only problem is whenever I take time off, I pay for it later. Things are all a mess when I come back and I have to figure it all out again.

My coworker has been pretty good on and off. Some days she is excellent, and other days she worries me. We have not been double checking things as we should and things have been going out wrong. I have not been cking her work at all. SHe has been frazzled. I have to do a review on her, which is actually overdue. I think she brings home issues to work with her a bit. She seems distracted some days, but when she is focused, she is pretty organized and no problems. I found LOTS of errors today. I wonder what I didn’t catch? I will find out cuz we will hear about them. Trust me.

I like staying late at work cuz then I can concentrate. Everyone goes away, and the phones stop ringing. The tech dude distracted me a little, but he is so helpful. We discovered why my coworker has been having problems with one field in the new system. I had trouble but I knew what I did, and it helped him figure out how to prevent it next time, and if you can’t prevent it, how to FIX it after the problem has already occurred! Now that is what we need.

Anyway, I have writers/typers cramp from too much keyboard/mouse work, so I have to cut short. Will write, type more next week…. maybe sooner. Thanks for your support! So nice to be able to write out my thoughts and have someone “listen”!

faith hope and love, but the greatest of these is love.

PS

Son saw me online and tried to IM me, but I wasn’t paying attn. I felt so bad. He says “yay, I get to chat with mom.” “If she’s there.” “Mom?” “R U THere?” then nothing. He was gone. SO I missed out. He doesn’t call often, and usually it is short and abrupt. OK, gotta go now. Done now. Not like dau, who can talk FOREVER and tell you every detail. Son is just like, hey, just called to say hi. OK, said hi, now gotta go.

I miss him so bad. I remember asking him, before he left, “Who am I going to idolize once you leave?” He kind of poo pooed that, but I could tell he was pleased that I said it. And, yeah, I got no one to idolize.

I have resorted to downloading his anime series that he watched so I can watch them. There are two series and I always said I didn’t like the one, but I download and watch both of them. I told son it was so things seemed a little more normal around here. He said, “I understand.” I hope he is adjusting ok. I would never know if he wasn’t unless I caught him in one of those confide-in-you moments that happen so rarely. Like that is going to happen since he is 8 hours away.