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Two meetings down, two to go.  One meeting to come is one w/ hr re the lead admin, to discuss her development plan, which she requested.  Boss drafted one and submitted it to hr and now hr wants to discuss it.  Will probably tell us it needs to be revised in some way to cover ourselves legally.  We’ll see.  Annoying. 

Speaking of annoying…the lead sent the boss a couple e-mails asking the boss to request something for the new admin, and copying me.  The boss then sent them to me telling me to take care of it, which makes sense.  The lead is obviously still being difficult.  Now I’m wondering if the boss mentioned to the lead that I’m going to give up my supervisor duties.  And then I wonder if I ever brought it up to her myself in the past.  Always speculating and second guessing myself.  Sigh.  Anyway, I don’t really care how much glee the lead may take in this news, or that she might feel she’s won some kind of battle.  I just know she won’t be my burden anymore. 

Enough of that.

Last night the movie “Last Chance Harvey” was good.  Just a nice little movie.  It was a bit romantic, but didn’t get into any chemistry/intimacy  stuff between Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman’s characters.  This will sound awful, but I’m glad of that, as Dustin is no spring chicken.  LOL.  It’s been a long time since I saw Emma Thompson in a movie.  I’m told she is in the Harry Potter movies, but I haven’t seen any of those, so it’s been a while. 

Our plasma tv is very nice, but bf was driving me nuts last night telling me how certain cable channels don’t fill the whole screen and some do, blah blah.  The worst however was when I got home and he was watching a Yanni concert.  I’m not into that type of performance/music much at all, so it was annoying when he kept telling me to come watch the violinist, the keyboard guy, etc.  I felt like Oscar the grouch and didn’t mean to dampen bf’s enthusiasm, but I just didn’t want to watch that or hear the techy details! 

I brought a sandwich for lunch today.  Tonight will be the gym. 

That’s about it.  Have a good day everyone.

Better make this quick, meeting in 15 min.

Closed door meeting in boss’s office this morning - not me, the lead admin.  I hope the boss was setting her straight on her behavior.  She’s being deliberately difficult and I also think she’s “poisoning the well” as far her conversations with the new admin, meaning she’s probably not being professional and neutral in her comments about me.  She needs to be more neutral in her communications, but she’s a judgmental perfectionist nutjob so she can’t help but act that way.  It was so nice when she was out of the office yesterday.  But hopefully the seminar she attended helps her behavior - it was about managing your emotions and dealing with pressure.  Perfect for her!

I finished my taxes last night.  I decided to pass on pursuing the other deduction option because it would be a lot of work for what I ultimately felt wouldn’t even be something I could take.  I couldn’t probably even count on getting one big chunk of the infor I needed.  The bad news is that I tried to phone the co that did our windows, gutters, etc yesterday to get the sales tax breakout on the job they did for us and they did not answer the phone - and no answering machine either.  This is bad not for the taxes, but because they had not installed the oversized downspouts we ordered and still owed us that.  The standard size aren’t doing the job with these big rains we’ve had. 

Moving on before my blood starts boiling…I didn’t exercise last night except for one set of pushups.  Dinner was a Polish sausage and some potato salad. 

Tonight is movie night.  We’re seeing “Last Chance Harvey” with Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.  It looked good and we are finally catching it at the dollar theater.

Our plasma tv is being delivered today, so bf will be happy. 

Gotta run!

Friday was alright because I left work at 12:30.  I caught a bus to the garden show, ate a quick lunch (a mini pizza, not very good).  I bought my ticket to the show, checked my coat and backpack ($2.50 per item, what a ripoff!) and went into the show.  I was disappointed that that they’d run out of the usual show programs they provide.  Not that it’s hard to navigate the show floor or anything, just because I wanted one.  I enjoyed it, but not as much as I used to.  I think there wasn’t much that was very different about it from past shows.  Maybe I just need to go only every couple years…  Still, it was nice to experience the sights and scents.

I got home about a half hour earlier than I usually do, and it was nice to be home when it was still bright and sunny.  Bf and I got out of the house around 6:30 for dinner and then we went to wal-mart.  The crazy one that I don’t like.  Bah!  They didn’t have my brand moisturizer, but they had most everything else I wanted.  We stopped at another store for my moisturizer and it was on sale so I bought two of them. 

Saturday I don’t recall what I did in the morning.  In the afternoon though, bf and I took doggy for a nice walk and then went out to look at some tv stands.  We went to a store that had some stands designed to fit into corners, but our corner is odd (one wall is only 18 inches from corner to edge and on the other we have a heating vent that’s 30 inches from the corner that we don’t want to block).  We will likely end up getting a bracket to mount the tv to the wall and then hopefully find a smaller cabinet for the cable box and dvd player.  Of course this will be more complicated and expensive, but that’s the way things go.  

We met friends for dinner (pizza again - yes, I could eat it daily and it seems like I’m doing that lately).  They came back to the house for a bit.  We mostly talked about baby names - they are expecting in August.   Interesting to consider names that someone will have to live with for their entire life - also have to take nicknames and initials into account!

It was a late night last night, so I slept until 9 this morning.  I worked on my taxes, but didn’t complete them because I need more documentation for a deduction I plan to take for sales taxes paid.  Because of some major purchases last year, it might be a better deduction than the alternative.  On the one hand, I’d like to get the deduction if it’s higher than the other deduction option, but I’m not sure if it’s worth the extra effort.  I suppose I’ll be angry at myself if I don’t at least check it out, so I’ll do just that. 

Puttered around the house after that - looked at the newspaper, drank tea, did some laundry, emptied out soil from last summer’s potted annuals into a hole in the yard that needed filling.  My experiment to try  and keep some of them going all winter was a bust, so I finally got sick of the dead stuff sitting in the basement. 

I went to the gym and did an upper body workout.  My feet feel better today, but I wanted to take it easy on my lower body because yesterday everything seemed to be sore - my right hip and knee and whatever muscle, tendons or ligaments run up the outside of my lower legs from the ankle.  Probably because I was walking differently to avoid the soreness in the arches of my feet. 

Nothing much else to report.  Once again the weekend was too short.  At least we’re getting a couple more days of mild weather. 

Unlike the mean old journals, the blogs let me post this without a title!!  But I couldn’t stop myself from coming back and reporting this (and inserting my title).  <grin>

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So very glad it’s Friday.  All week I’ve woken up before the alarm and not been able to get back to sleep.  Maybe it’s a sign I should just start my day earlier.

This workweek was another “character builder”.  Yuk, yuk.  Glad it’s over, but I feel like I’m starting to take things more in stride after the turbulence of Monday.  More likely is that I’ve made my decision to offload the supervisory work and take on other assignments and the boss and I have started making concrete plans for that.  Yep, I feel calmer already. 

After work yesterday I actually did end up meeting a friend for drinks and food.  I had three beers (for some reason I like that Bud Light Lime) and a steak sandwich.  And salad, and cole slaw.  Yup, not a nutritionist’s dream meal by any means.  But the talk and the food were good.  Unfortunately, I missed the 7:30 train and so we had another beer and then all of a sudden it was time for the 8:30 and I dashed off to get it and missed it by a hair.  If I’d gotten there just 15 seconds sooner…  But no.  I pounded on the closed door of the train, but the conductor just shrugged and the train started to move.  Sigh.

So I used the restroom, went to the food court and sat at a table and tackled the crossword, jumble, and sudoku while I waited for the 9:30 train.  No, I didn’t finish any of them. 

Well, today’s my half day and I’m antsy to just get out of here.  Unfortunately (okay, 2’s my limit for that word in any one post), my feet have been hurting for 4 days now.  It must have been something in Monday night’s gym workout.  I think I might have overstretched the muscles or something in the arch of my feet when I was doing my calf raises (using a calf raise machine).  And I noticed immediately after my mad dash to the train last night that my hip joint started hurting again.  Grrr.  Anyway, these aches are a problem because I’m going to the garden show this afternoon and it’s a good amount of walking and standing around in the exhibit space.  Oh well, I’ll just take it easy, take my time, take a load off my feet every so often and enjoy myself.  It will actually be quite pleasant to sit for a spell right in one of the display gardens (some of them are quite elaborate and beautiful). 

Nothing going this weekend except for getting my taxes done.  Otherwise, I really do need to get out and do some errands.  By this I mean shopping.  I’m at the bottom of the barrel, so to speak, on my facial moisturizer and all out of eye makeup remover.  Bf and I should also get out and look at some tv stands.  You know what, I never mentioned that last weekend, when bf was advising one of his buddies about buying a new tv, and we ended up making the decision to go ahead and buy one!  The buddy found a very good deal on a big plasma screen tv, but it was at a discount store.  I told bf that I’d rather buy from a store that specializes in that stuff (we have a really great store like that which we’ve been using for years).  So our place matched the discount store deal, but we’re getting the newest model, not the one that was being discontinued.  It’s nice to use part of my bonus on fun stuff.  Bf and I are looking forward to getting it (tv is currently on backorder for a couple weeks).  In the meantime, though, we’ll need a new tv stand.  Need to measure and get out to the stores.

I also want to plan some lunches and dinners for next week and do some grocery shopping for those meals.  I told bf we should prepare and eat more home-cooked meals and that maybe we should have a rotation of sorts.  One of his ideas was having fish at least once a week.  I really like that idea because a lot of fish recipes are quick and easy to prepare. 

Okay, I better post this and get some work done.  Have a good weekend everyone.

I need to figure out how to change my pw for the blogs.  I don’t like the one I was assigned.

Last night bf wanted to go to another location of the gym and I didn’t want to.  So I figured I’d exercise at home.  I decide to finally try the pilates video that’s for our total gym equipment.  So I unwrap the vhs tape, put it in the ancient vcr in the basment and it promptly gets eaten by the vcr.  Grrr.  It worked fine the last time I used it… who knows how long ago.  Sigh.  I couldn’t get it out without breaking the filmy stuff inside the videocassette.  Grrr.  So much for that.  And the dog was driving me nuts whining at the top of the stairs because he didn’t want to be down there with me and wanted me to be upstairs with him.  Groan.

I went upstairs and ate some tortilla chips with a corn & bean salsa, but the salsa was just so-so.  I also made the mistake of having one of those little frozen burritos, and it was not good at all.  What did I expect for something that costs around 59 cents?  So that was my Mexican fiesta dinner, lol.

My neighbor phoned and picked up two more packages of clothes she ordered and had delivered to our address.  While her husband was in the shower.  Yeh, she’s keeping it secret from him.   She said she pays for them, and doesn’t want there to be an argument about it.  Hmmm.  Whatever.  She also phoned me (after she’d rushed back home to squirrel the packages away), and of course that was another 30 minutes of chat I wasn’t really in the mood for.  But it was nice to finally talk to her because she hasn’t been at the movies or on her computer lately, so we haven’t really talked. Her life is still one drama on top of another. 

I got to bed at a decent time.  Today I didn’t bring lunch to work, but still have snacks.  Yeh, I do need to get into a groove of getting lunch and snacks prepared the night before!  Also need to either find time to grocery shop myself or give a very specific list to bf.  Otherwise, I often end up with lunchmeat for sandwiches.

Tonight will be the gym.  I haven’t heard from the friend I was supposed to meet after work, so I’m figuring it’s off.  I’ll shoot her an e-mail as well - don’t want to assume it’s off and then hear she was waiting around. 

Okay, time to post.  One more day for me!

Don’t have much to say today.  Well, I don’t have much time to say it is more accurate. 

Stayed home last night and watched TBL.  Sort of lost with why one person had immunity and why she could work out but not do the challenges… Interesting show yesterday, but too long.  I fast forwarded through some of it.  The luxury day made some things interesting, and I like how they keep changing things up.  Still too much drama, but I was sucked in anyway. lol.

Didn’t exercise, though I did give wall squats a very short try. 

Work is okay today, but still too much time is being devoted to employee stuff rather than my other work. 

Wow, it really got cold yesterday and today - very cold and windy.  It was back to the down coat for me!

Finally stepped on the scale this morning and I’m down two pounds from my year end weight - yay!  Might just be a fluctuation, but I’m happy anyway.  I’ve decided that if I’m striving to get my lunch and work snacks in better shape I’m going to try and experiment with more foods and give veggies and salads more of a try.  I think I let guilt steer me away from  them - guilt from them going bad in the fridge!

Still looking forward to my half day on Friday even though I’m not getting nearly enough work done this week. 

Okay, time to post and get back to work.

I got through work yesterday.  I can’t say I was overly productive, but I wasn’t obsessing over the employee issues too much either.  No, I didn’t do that until the train ride home.  And this morning before work.  Sigh.  It is a mess, and very disruptive to the department. 

Enough of that.  I’ll probably blog about it some more in future postings, but enough for now.

Last night bf and I went to the gym.  I had a good workout.  I didn’t think about work or my cold or much of anything except the exercise. 

Food: Breakfast was a banana at home and then a bit of cottage cheese at work.  Lunch was a bologna sandwich and a bag of chips.  Snack was baby carrots with some ranch dressing.  Snack before the gym was some peanuts.  Dinner was 3 slices pizza. 

Today’s food so far: 

B:grape nuts cereal w/ skim milk, banana

L: rf salami sandwich on whole wheat, raw veggies w/ ranch dressing

Snacks will be an apple and an orange.  We bought a box of nature valley granola bars - apple crisp flavor, which we’ve never tried before.  I forgot to bring one to work.  Darn.

I’m skipping the movie tonight as it doesn’t start until 8:25.  Too late for me and I don’t want to get sick again, so reasonable bedtimes are needed!  I’m feeling pretty good today - this cold, knock on wood, has been  rather mild.  I might go to the gym again tonight for some cardio. 

Not much else to report.  Feeling down about the work situation, and it’s rainy and gloomy today, so that doesn’t help.  I’m looking forward to Friday.  I’m taking a half day off work and going to a local garden show.  C’mon Friday!

Yes, this is a whiney post. 

The boss is back from vacation and so a big chunk of this morning was spent in her office.  I had to hear her tell me that “people” (I think it was just the lead admin and the other mgr) have told her all is not well with the new admin - that she feels she can’t talk to the lead admin and that she doesn’t have enough work to do.  The former is not true and I thought I’d made this clear to her.  The latter might be true.  I admit that I haven’t piled the plate high with projects for her, but it would also help if she told me she was running out of work before she was emptyhanded.  I meant to have a talk with her Friday about this, but I was out sick…  And of course the lead admin issues came up as well - she’s still mad at the boss and at me and still reluctant to give some of her work to the admin.  Aaargh. 

The other part of the meeting was the boss hearing me vent.  I don’t know how to explain it and won’t even try, but the behavior of the two admins is driving me nuts.   I also mentioned that the idea of giving up supervisory duties is something I am seriously considering.   Apparently I would not lose anything in terms of pay grade or salary if I did this.  Naturally I would pick up other duties, but I hesitate to make that type of change without serious thought.  Even though there aren’t currently any layoffs at my co, now doesn’t seem the time to make this type of change.  That said, I’m about 95% sure I’m going to do it.  :lol:  Oh, and I also had to tell the boss how she might not be clear with people, because she said this was mentioned by someone in the department as an issue.  She told me to “be blunt”.  Oh the fun I’m having today. 

The weekend wasn’t so great either.  I felt lousy on Friday, and Saturday wasn’t much better.  I didn’t go to the birthday party Sat. night.  Sunday I felt a bit better, but didn’t do much. 

Food was crummy - I was bored sitting around the house and kept snacking.   I finally put one of the boxes of Girl Scout Cookies in the freezer - after I’d opened it and eaten about 6-8 cookies over the past 3 days.  The other boxes are unopened, but still need to be stashed away out of my sight! I didn’t get any exercise over the weekend except a dog walk on Friday.

Sunday it rained buckets and we had the usual seepage in the basement.  I guess I got some exercise going up and down the stairs to check on the newspapers and rugs we had soaking up the water.  BF and I went to the market and bought a lot of groceries.  We ran into one of my movie friends and chatted with her a while, so when we finally left it felt like we had been in the store for hours.  So much for the rest of my weekend - grocery shopping and cleaning up water in the basement. 

Nothing special this week.  Probably a movie tomorrow night.  I want to go to the gym tonight.  I just have to make sure I get home and get to bed at a reasonable time.  I need to make sure I get adequate sleep and not run myself down.  I don’t want to stay sick or keep getting sick. 

Okay, here’s a blog entry.  I dont’ know what all the other stuff is, tags, categories, etc.  One thing at a time.  I think it’s getting cut off, or was that just how it looked in preview.  Now, how to publish it…

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