About once a year I treat myself to a piece of my favorite cake (berry chantilly) at whole foods when I am feeling particularly extra sad/emotional/stressed. Today was that kind of day so I drove 25 min to whole foods and they were out of my cake 
I had a very sad piece of carrot cake instead for the effort but it was not the same.
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Boooooooo!
Sorry 
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I already got into PJs, but now we decided to take a walk, so I have to put real person clothes back on.
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I’m getting really sick of everyone at my company assuming that I and my coworkers in my department are interchangeable.
There is a problem on a project that I have never worked on - so clearly the solution is to schedule a meeting at a time when my co-worker who actually worked on it and knows something about it is unavailable. And invite me instead, when I know literally zero about this project at all.
As an added bonus, this is the last nice sunny 70-degree day we’re likely to have until, what, May? And the addition of this meeting now ensures that I can’t take a lunch break and step outside.
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Have to get blood drawn on my baby. It’s been bad enough this whole first year, but now she’s much stronger, much more aware, and has quite the set of lungs on her. I’m truly, deeply dreading this.
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Decline the meeting with the explanation that you have no knowledge of this project, and your co-worker is the proper contact.
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Y’all live so far away. I’m heading into town to pick up things from the restaurant supply store and keep feeling like I should ask if anyone needs anything.
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If I do that then the printer emergency doesn’t get fixed. Sigh.
This is what happens when you have mass layoffs.
(ETA: I mean, she can do the work, that’s not the issue. It’s just the meeting that I’m crabby about. I’ll take notes and explain to her what to do.)
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Cream - lots of cream for creme brûlée
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First call of the day is an angry parent who wants to cancel their kid’s coverage under other parent. Caller states they have court orders in hand granting primary custody, but is unwilling to send them in because they “don’t want to and shouldn’t have to do the footwork.” Thank goodness they disconnected the call before I did, because they were pulling out all the tricks.
“What’s your name again? Do you have a phone number? No, do you have a direct line?”
FFS. Just send in the paperwork.
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Percy pup has a delicate digestive system and I guess it’s getting worse because it seems like her incidents of upset tummy are happening more frequently. We should do a better job of making sure she doesn’t get people food but I think all she got yesterday was a single noodle and yet she still has an upset tummy this morning. Maybe Kiddo dropped some food and that’s what’s causing the problem? I gave her medicine so she should be okay later. She is also not fond of Kiddo. She is almost perpetually within five feet of me, but when I’m working sometimes Kiddo will come in to play on his tablet or color or whatever just to hang out in the room with me and the second he comes in she’ll leave. The second he leaves, she comes back in. This means if he goes to get something from another room real quick she’ll come in, lay down, then immediately get up again. Seriously dog? Just wait a goddamn minute for pete’s sakes.
It’s not all bad, we also have an after Kiddo-bath routine of “chase” around the couch one time where she likes to bark and join in. But it’s just one more thing on the mile-long list of stuff that wouldn’t be so annoying if we weren’t all home together all the time. Sigh.
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Not only does my landlord continue to have constant loud construction going on in her unit below mine, but as an added bonus, her workers keep ringing my doorbell instead of hers when they need to get back in. I find doorbells super triggering for Reasons.
This has been going on all day. Once I am no longer chained to my headset for back to back meetings, maybe I’ll put a sign up. Except, the doorbells ARE clearly labeled re whose unit is whose… and yet.
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Disconnect the actual bell? Often it’s a pretty simple thing to do.
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The report I am running has drastically slowed its progression to completion since getting to 70% progress… I’m pretty darn sure it is going to time out before it finishes. Another TC: I’m pretty confident that this report is not going to have the info I need.
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Had to pay a medical bill…by writing out my HSA card number on the bill and sending it in the mail. Even weirder, this provider USED to have a pay online option, now they’ve gone backwards.
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It’s payroll day. And big website for doing payroll is down. With no communication from Company about it. In a holiday week. Grrrr!
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Was hoping to stock up on apples one more time before winter, but local orchard was so slammed with customers they are already closed for the season. Normally they make it to after Thanksgiving or even first week of December
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I need to pee but I’m under a pile of blankets and the cat is sleeping on my leg. Whyyyyyyyyyy.
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People are horrible. I have to make calls to clients today, and sometimes the phone numbers are outdated or incorrect, it happens. But this call was made using a Russian interpreter and the people who picked up were just disgusting. Things like “speak English” and “give me the little girl” toxic shit. I asked the interpreter to disconnect the call immediately. I’m sure they would have been rude to just me, but probably much less so than to the interpreter.
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Ponder woke late and was slow to get ready so I used my energy on childcare instead of work. I am displeased.
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