Life Has Gotten Away From Me

It seems life has gotten away from me lately.  For the month of October I was involved in several outreach programs in the evenings and working on a project that took extra time away from my usual duties at work.  All of these things were and are worthwhile endeavors, but it has meant many 14 hour days away from the Oasis, and has left me exhausted.

 

The problem with being exhausted is that once I am home I am too tired to do anything around the house. 

 

Hopefully things will slow down at least in the evenings after this coming week and I will begin to catch up, right before the holidays.  Or the big project will become urgent and I will sail through the rest of 2013 without recognizing what happened.  

Changes

Be the Change is the year, but the biggest change so far did not come from me but the powers that be in my work world.  I have a new boss.  I must say she is a delight to work for and each day we find out just how well we mesh when it comes to getting the job done.

She is very respectful, appreciative, and intelligent.

I am definitely being challenged.  I have learned something new every day we have worked together.

We have had a lot of challenges thrown at us since the her first day on the job, but we just put our heads down and plowed through.

Work has been a happy place everyday since July 1.

What a terrific change.

We Are All Falling Apart!

I swear going to work these days is like going sitting around a doctor's waiting room. Everyone has something wrong with them.

One girl has been sick for weeks and the doctor's cannot figure out what is wrong with her.  

Another one is out and in bed with a back spasm and her sacrum out of place.

The third one has been having major dizzy spells and heart palpitations and refuses to see a doctor, no matter how many times we tell her that could be very serious.  

Me, I am healthy since the strep throat, but today I woke up feeling off and I still feel off.  I don't really have any symptoms of anything, I just don't feel like I usually do.  

Our conversations at work are pretty much centered around how we feel, our symptoms, what the doctor's are saying (for the ones that go to the doctor), and how bad we all feel. 

Pretty depressing.

Chat, Chat, CHAT!!!! I am saying CHAT

I am not a patient person.  My sons get frustrated because I will complain my computer is slow and the reason will turn out to be the 85 windows of Firefox I have open because I kept clicking when my browser did not open immediately.

Loni calls me a Power Zero person because if I call any number and get a menu of options that is longer than three choices, I push the zero until I get a live person. 

I could give other examples, but I think you get the idea.

This week  I was given the task of finding out the time needed to take an online class my bin which my boss wants me to enroll.  I started by reading the description of the class.  It only told me the dates of the class, the cost, and that I needed class 101 first.  I then called their 800 number, where I only had to push the English button to be sent directly to a live person.  A live person that had no information but said they would email me something that should give me my answers.  I actually had the email within seconds of hanging up, but the information sent was just the registration form (which I had online).  My next option was to try the online service chat. I clicked "Online Chat."  Nothing happened.  I decided to complete another task and come back to this one.

About thirty minutes later I went back to the website and clicked "Online Chat."  Nothing happened.  I then read the instructions again and because I have a tendency to talk to myself when I am trying something new I said "Chat" as I pushed the button.  Nothing.  Well I kept clicking "Chat" and saying "Chat" with each click for probably five minutes before my boss commented from her office, "My you certainly must be having issues today, that is a lot of cussing."  I thought about it for a second and said "C H A T  chat, I want to "CHAT"  with these people.  "Oh" she said "well I was getting worried."

I never did get to "Chat."

Work

I go back to work tomorrow.