4 months ago
He said it all
Sunday...
I hated that fact that I have not taken photos in a long time. 
So, I grabbed my camera and went outside.
While doing so, my husband deiced he was going to be adventurous and made "Irish" oatmeal cookies. With nuts and chocolate chips. What makes them Irish? They are from "100% Irish Oats", or at least that is what the box said.
It sprinkled for 3 minutes. Rain.... at least as close as we get to it in southern Cali. Here are some vintage plates hanging outside my husbands music studio.
Today I mowed the lawn, made chicken and bean burritos, we used tomatoes from our garden, watered, and shopped for groceries and am about to go back outside. Life is nice.
What a week
New contracts are in full speed. No one is on vacation. New hires are ready to go.
We had meetings on Wednesday and Thursday and Friday. Of course the number of meetings one had to attend depended on who you were and your job title. I had to go to all three. The Friday meeting was the most interesting. It was long. It was with an outside consultant. It was with my colleague and the CEO as well. The CEO, in the 4 hour negotiation/presentation continually kept tossing out analogy after analogy for every point the consultant was trying to make. Ones that myself and my colleague have heard over and over again. So many times we actually finished some of his sentences under our breath. The best was at the end. The meeting was over and I had to get to some clients and missed the best part. The consultant asked for an update on the contract we have with them. They have contracts with multiple sister sites of ours and yet did not have our contract on file. Her firm has already come out to train different departments at our site and she too has come out to meet with us, e-mail and trading phone call with my colleague and yet where is the contract.
He called the powers that be and put them on speaker phone. The voice on the other line basically stated.... 1) the paper work was never put to the board (CEO dropped the ball) 2) that means the consultant is working for free.... 3) and she (voice on phone) does not like the consultant's firm and started to name specific people. The consultant heard all of this as well as my colleague. In the end, my boss fixed the whole paperwork mess, admitted he dropped the ball and the board should approve it early September. One week before our next scheduled training with this firm.
Why?
(A flash back photo from our trip to the Grand Canyon)Why do fiscals years begin in July. The ball starts to roll fast in August and the the whole world is at your door by September? To many questions. Maybe another Banana Rum and Strawberry/banana nectar drink is called for.
What a way to start a post .... too many questions and alcohol.
Work... I don't know where to start. New hires? New Accounts? Budgets? Inter office battles?
All I know is that I'm taking DIVA to the top. We are almost there... I can taste it. I'm willing to work with everyone. I'm willing to share the light to get the department ahead. It is my department after all. I started today thinking "Positive... positive". We made a pact in Atlanta. stay positive. One thing... three of the five new hires are Latinos. All three speak a lot or at least some Spanish. This will help with our new target population. At least now, when the "Latino" prospective is needed all eyes won't be on me. "We" will be the eyes looking at everyone else.
My mind just went blank... so enough about work.
Yesterday my mom came by for lunch and informed me that the man who crashed into and killed my step grandpa had his second hearing in court.
The night before my husband and I took our dogs out for a moonlit walk. When then came home and played Uno. He won... 5 times!!! Oh well, I'm still the scrabble champ. I had to unwind from work.
Good news... my tia is not expecting another baby. Another family member is.
The break down with out divulging to much;
1. The baby's mother is clinically depressed
2. They have only known each other for three months
3. They are two months pregnant
4. My Tia knows nothing of the family neither does her kid because they have only been together 3 months.
5. My brother who works as a producer for Court TV, was able to pull info about the family so at least we know something.
What a way to start a post .... too many questions and alcohol.
Work... I don't know where to start. New hires? New Accounts? Budgets? Inter office battles?
All I know is that I'm taking DIVA to the top. We are almost there... I can taste it. I'm willing to work with everyone. I'm willing to share the light to get the department ahead. It is my department after all. I started today thinking "Positive... positive". We made a pact in Atlanta. stay positive. One thing... three of the five new hires are Latinos. All three speak a lot or at least some Spanish. This will help with our new target population. At least now, when the "Latino" prospective is needed all eyes won't be on me. "We" will be the eyes looking at everyone else.
My mind just went blank... so enough about work.
Yesterday my mom came by for lunch and informed me that the man who crashed into and killed my step grandpa had his second hearing in court.
The night before my husband and I took our dogs out for a moonlit walk. When then came home and played Uno. He won... 5 times!!! Oh well, I'm still the scrabble champ. I had to unwind from work.
Good news... my tia is not expecting another baby. Another family member is.
The break down with out divulging to much;
1. The baby's mother is clinically depressed
2. They have only known each other for three months
3. They are two months pregnant
4. My Tia knows nothing of the family neither does her kid because they have only been together 3 months.
5. My brother who works as a producer for Court TV, was able to pull info about the family so at least we know something.
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