Life in my house has been quiet the last three weeks. The kids have been up in Pa visiting their grandparents and other family members up there. They go every year for a few weeks at a time. This year has been harder for me than any other since the very first time they went. I think partly it is because Mike has worked third shift for about 2 months now. I would come home from owrk and start the process of waking him up to be sure he went to work on time. This is usually about an hour process because he is just fully exhausted and each time I would wake him he would drift back to sleep. Usually I would have to finally say "If you don't get up right now you will be late" and then he would get moving.
The next three weeks will be a little better because Mike is starting days again in the morning. For the next week he will have crazy hours still because of the remodel he is working on. Then he is one week in his regular store at his regular hours and then a week of vacation and we go get the kids. I look forward to them coming home.
We have a new dog that we got last week and the kids are looking forward to meeting him. He is a cocker spaniel mixed with something. He is getting on better with our female mutt ( lab, pekenese, australian spaniel?). She didn't like him at all when we first brought him in. She is calming down and liking him better. I am glad because I really like him and want them to get along.
Work has been really stressful to me lately. We have had some issues with the boss being sick and since it has been so much time that he is out of work they have chosen to bring a COO in. He has made some changes and I don't handle change really well. Most of the time I just figure I need to do my job regardless of how or what changes come about. Sometimes it is distracting though when there is a change that comes in... i.e. we now need to write a step by step explaination of how to do our jobs. First of all, I do my job automatically and don't necessarily think about how I do it. I mean since I am really the only one that does the health insurance and the business insurance WHY do they need a manual about HOW to do it? I know I need to still write that manuel but WHY should I if I am not planning to go anywhere. One of the biggest issues too with having to write that manuel is that there are laws as to what information is available and to whom it is available. I don't want anyone to have access to that information so I don't feel that I should tell anyone how to obtain the information. I am just really frustrated with all of this.
Anyway.... that is the way things have been going for the last several weeks around my house and work and life.
The next three weeks will be a little better because Mike is starting days again in the morning. For the next week he will have crazy hours still because of the remodel he is working on. Then he is one week in his regular store at his regular hours and then a week of vacation and we go get the kids. I look forward to them coming home.
We have a new dog that we got last week and the kids are looking forward to meeting him. He is a cocker spaniel mixed with something. He is getting on better with our female mutt ( lab, pekenese, australian spaniel?). She didn't like him at all when we first brought him in. She is calming down and liking him better. I am glad because I really like him and want them to get along.
Work has been really stressful to me lately. We have had some issues with the boss being sick and since it has been so much time that he is out of work they have chosen to bring a COO in. He has made some changes and I don't handle change really well. Most of the time I just figure I need to do my job regardless of how or what changes come about. Sometimes it is distracting though when there is a change that comes in... i.e. we now need to write a step by step explaination of how to do our jobs. First of all, I do my job automatically and don't necessarily think about how I do it. I mean since I am really the only one that does the health insurance and the business insurance WHY do they need a manual about HOW to do it? I know I need to still write that manuel but WHY should I if I am not planning to go anywhere. One of the biggest issues too with having to write that manuel is that there are laws as to what information is available and to whom it is available. I don't want anyone to have access to that information so I don't feel that I should tell anyone how to obtain the information. I am just really frustrated with all of this.
Anyway.... that is the way things have been going for the last several weeks around my house and work and life.
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