Hump Day

ei34

How's everyone?  Hope all are doing okay.

ei34

Meet the Teacher Night at my school and I'm dragging a bit.  Silver lining is it's from 6-8 this year (it's usually 7-9) so at least I'll be home an hour earlier.  

My AP told me that I'm the only teacher who signed up to read tests in Italian this year so that'll be a nice paycheck boost (as opposed to one of many Spanish readers).  

Casadena

Tired today. Both boys were up in the night and N woke up just in a rage this morning. Definitely not the best tone for the day. Long afternoon of meetings! Out of town for meetings tomorrow during the day and looking forward tot he weekend already. 

mrsconn23

I’m ok. The kiddo, gf, and babes were over last night. Mr. Man is just so fun at this age. I will do anything to make him giggle. He isn’t cuddly though, he’s got to be moving all the time. Having baby X around is nice because I get snuggles from him. 

Work is slow, which is normal for this time of year. I’m now working at a fund company, servicing 529s and mutual funds. End of year through tax season is busy and then end of summer is 529 season. 

Other than that, nothing much to report.  

Casadena

How fun to have babies around @mrsconn23! Glad to "see" you back and hear that you and the fam are doing well! 

levioosa

Good to “see” you @mrsconn23! I’m glad you are doing well! 

SSDD today. We planned our Yosemite trip for next year. I think we’re gonna try to stop in Napa before we go. I’m not gonna lie, the hotel situation feels overwhelming. There’s so many. I spent two seconds looking at Auberge because it looked really nice and then lol-ed at my delusion because it was $1300 a night. It was nice to fantasize for a second. Curse this bougie body of mine. 

Otherwise, not too much else is happening. 

ei34

Glad to see you @mrsconn23 and yay for the babies and the smooth transition at work
A Yosemite / Napa combo sounds glorious @levioosa

VarunaTT

Work is busy AF right now.  We're short a support staff and an attorney.  But the team is coming together to make it all happen and I just really love that.  My manager just told me she's retiring.  I'm happy for her, sad for me.  She's honestly the best manager I've ever had.  I hope they replace her with someone else as good.

I'm getting furniture out of this studio today, so I can finally start moving around and not getting weird bruises from bumping into the things that are leaving.  TBH I'm enjoying the purge.  I never would've had all of this stuff if I didn't have a 1650 square foot space to fill and I'm fine with it heading out.  I'm a minimalist at heart, just with a lot of color and style, no beige.

HI @mrsconn23!!!  Glad to see you back.

Otherwise, SSDD.

MyNameIsNot

Well almost jinx, @VarunaTT. My group is going through a reorg right now and today is the day we met with our VP to learn our fate. My role is changing a little, but I'm safe. I just found out about an hour ago that my boss is impacted. They're eliminating her current role and I think a couple others at her level, and then creating a new one so I have no idea who I'll be reporting to. I've worked with my her for 10 years and finally started reporting to her 2 years ago. I'm so sad and so, so heartbroken for her. (I don't know if she'll go out for the new role or not.)

Nothing much else happening. I am fully unmotivated to do work right now.

MNNEBride

@MyNameIsNot—I'm sorry for your boss and the unknowns that a reorg causes. We are in the same boat here. With the instability at work and in our country, it's hard to feel stable.

I'm unmotivated to work right now, too. I'd love to log off and craft for the rest of the night, but alas, that's not going to happen.