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Wedding Woes
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Tuesday
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How's everyone? Midterms week here at work so it's slightly different, which is nice. How's everyone else?
Re: Tuesday
Chiquita took a hard soccer ball hit to the head Sunday night. We scanned her for concussion symptoms and she's passing all tests but her head is bothering her. Despite the request to stay off screens she was glued to her phone. Today it's 'get home and get your homework done and leave your phone away from you day.'
We promised parents of a friend of Chiquito that he can sleep over on Monday night while they're OOT for work travel and so I need to make an effort to get the house in better shape.
SSDD for me. We have icey/ slippery weather conditions till toon and I have plans at 6. They say it should clear by then. It’s actually a reschedule from two Tuesday’s ago when we had a storm. Why do we get bad weather on my WFH days when I’m bored all day and WANT to get out of the house?
On Dec 30th I mentioned that I signed up for bodi on demand. I remember liking beachbody on demand years ago. I found out that they lost more than 1/2 of the workouts and pretty much ALL the ones BB is known for. Nope. Not for me. I’m so glad they had a 30 day money back guarantee. It’ll be cheaper to buy the classics (I actually own a few still I have to get back from my mom lol) and use them the old fashioned way. Now. To find out if my bluray still works……I can’t remember the last time I used that thing! If it doesn’t do they still sell dvd players? Joking but not joking . Do people still use them?
Waiting on meeting today. Likely taking offer with current job.
Yesterday, I was at an on-site work event. I had to sit next to the co-irker who's really been pissing me off lately with dumb shenanigans. I played nice and then also got facetime with the bigwigs (introduced myself to the top guy and everything). I then went to Bath and Body Works after and got $85 worth of stuff for $45 after coupons and free product rewards. I came home and made bomb-ass fettucine and roasted broccoli for dinner. Pretty great day...and then I was clumsy enough to scratch my cheek and draw blood. So I look like a baby that needs the little gloves on its hands. LOL
It's my bday today.
Hope all continues to go well for Chiquita. The screen thing is so hard, I'm sure. I've said many times I'm glad I didn't have to deal with that with my kids.
Boys in The Boat was so good! I want to reread the book now. I also told H I would see it again with him if he wanted - he enjoyed the book too. We went to PF Chang's for dinner after the movie. It fixed my craving for chinese food that I have had for a couple of weeks - not many chinese restaurants around here.
The weather is cool, gray and rainy. Just want to stay inside and puppy snuggle.
@mrsconn23, Happy birthday! Congrats on some facetime with the bigwigs.
My bigwig story. The company I previously worked for had 40K employees nationwide. We were finishing a major project, giant floodwalls to protect New Orleans. It was even featured on a tv show called Mega Engineering. All these top people were coming for a site visit.
The site required steel toed boots for anyone going there. We kept about 6 pairs in the office as loaners. I sent an e-mail to all the participants to let me know if they were going to borrow a pair and what size.
I get a phone call from a friendly sounding guy. He says, "Hi Jennifer, this is John Richardson (fake name) and I understand you're the person to talk to about boots?" I almost dropped the phone. That was the CEO of the whole frickin' company! I assume he has an assistant, so was pretty surprised he was calling me directly.
He wanted to check if we had size 13. We actually did not. But I told him we would definitely have a pair of size 13 boots for him. As soon as I got off the phone, my hunt for size 13 boots that could get there in time for their visit commenced, lol! I ordered two pairs just to be safe and when they came in, wrote his name on the box for one of them.
I worked at that job for two years. Great job the first year, exciting project. Became very toxic the second year (sigh). But the contacts I made there helped me get the job I currently have.
Edited to add: @charlotte989875, that sounds so scary! I'm glad Baby J responded well and you all are back home.
@charlotte989875 that's horrifying. Big purple vibes that gets figured out. Glad J is feeling better, you guys have had a rough start.
@charlotte989875 I hope baby J continues to respond well, and that you get a chance to get caught up on sleep!
Hurry up and wait day at work .... right now I am waiting. But the hurry up is imminent, lol. I really do hate waiting on people when I know that I'm going to be crazy busy once I have what I need from them.
Being annoying AF is what I've learned. Just harass them on every level an every day until they get it right.
Does he have any confirmation e-mails or texts from them? Do they have a site/portal where he can view claims? I hope so. ((hugs)) Have a bourbon at 2pm after dealing with that fuckery, I say.
Not a big issue but a bit of a bummer.
happy birthday @mrsconn23!
i had an issue with my time off balance years ago and since then, I’ve kept my own spreadsheet. I balance it every now and then to make sure. Probably doesn’t help in your situation though, @charlotte989875, since it sounds like his requests went *poof*.
Work is annoying, home is fine, SSDD really.
SSDD here. I'm in a funk and don't know why. I think I'll make myself a snack and dissociate on the internet for a little while to see if I can shake it.
Oh, HELL NO! I especially need health insurance and most certainly had signed up. I dug out my copy of my paperwork and provided HR with the proof. I was worried I was going to have to battle them, but they got it fixed quickly. Unfortunately, I found out at the doctor's so had to pay for the appointment out of pocket. And then it was a hassle and a long wait when I requested reimbursement from the insurance.
Good luck to your H, @charlotte989875. I hope he gets everything sorted out soon. Red tape always feels so helpless when companies do you wrong.
I previously had a coworker who argued for 6 hours straight on the phone with the hospital she'd delivered her baby at. Unfortunately for them, she was a Contracts Administrator and had gone over all of her bills with a fine tooth comb. I don't remember all the billing issues, but it came out to almost $4K in wrong/incorrect charges. But she eventually got everything corrected.