Showing posts with label work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label work. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

doldrums


Work is winding down. Instead of Typing Long Stuff or Correcting Glaring Errors on Other People's Long Typed Stuff, my main job these days is Looking Busy. Which is sweet. But the thing is, I should be doing so much other crap. There are a lot of forms in my life between now and the big move West. But which to do first? Dumb, but it's causing a bit of - paralysis. Add a bum knee, a sore tooth, and a familywide stomach virus and we limp along these days. I just look at the screen, rewinding to "where should I start?" over and over.

Man I am tired of not seeing the sun for 9+ hours a day.

Yesterday after dinner, B. and I were out on our walk under a brilliant blue sky. He's exploring the yard of the street's new and very fancy (and for sale) unoccupied McMansion; we had a grand time, climbing the steps up and down (he's finally getting good at going down), looking for birds, picking up mulch, putting down mulch. But then he gets cranky all of a sudden so I pick him up and he is coughing and, oh no, I know that cough. And then right on the (new) driveway, there is the puke. It brought back lots of memories of the North Trail and, oh, who I am kidding, the THOUSANDS of places I have puked...

There should be some witty line wrapping it all up here but that is the end of the story. We went inside. And he went to bed. See what I mean about these damn doldrums?

Thursday, June 14, 2007

hand to mouth

This morning I drew two dots for eyes on the side of my hand because, hey I'm in a meeting and why not look professional? I've been cracking myself up ever since with my talking hand. He sings songs. He makes faces. He is sad. Now he's happy! A few minutes ago I was talking to a colleague and start smiling just THINKING about the antics of my hand. Sleep deprivation? Or COMIC GENIUS???

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

what everybody says

I took care of baby B pretty much by myself this weekend- I went to the shore with my folks while G had to fly to KY. It was exhausting. Sure I had a cold, as did he, so maybe we were both not our best selves. But he was still awfully good, and it was still awfully hard. I'm starting the week more tired than I left it.
BUT man I miss that baby. And it's only been two and a half hours. Every day he engages more (perhaps some day he will even respond to me as much as his does to his true love, the tinny classical music mobile). And I hate missing it.

I brought taffy for the office, but it seems this is not a taffy-loving office. So, to make up for the slack, I'm eating my entire box of taffy- publicly. Having just passed the it's-OK-to-diet milestone, I'm pretty much using my diet in order to give eating taffy, chocolate, etc. an additional transgressive pleasure. As for actually using it for determining what goes into my body, eh.

Monday, May 7, 2007

being wrong

I have had an exciting run of being wrong at work the last few days- and i hate it. In the scheme of things it's not such a big deal, but I like to think of myself as the girl who has her stuff together, not the girl who doesn't read carefully enough, makes goofy assumptions, etc. I love being right, being the one in the room who really knows what's going on. Ever since I've come back from maternity leave, I'm not that one. Instead, my meeting notes more than likely contain notes like "what the ---?"
Eh.