Short week Hump Day

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• ei34 member

  

  July 2

  Saw two students this morning but just typing up visit notes before heading home. I started at 8:15 so I’d like to stretch to 10:15 😉 
  
  ExH did see the kids yesterday. It was a 20min trip to Dunkin, but baby steps I guess.  

  
  

  Touch of family drama, my brother who often means well but is also often a PITA can get super bossy, he’s in that mode right now and he and one of my sisters had huge words via text last night (a group msg I’m on.)  I agree with her but am better able to just blow him off I guess? Either way it’s annoying.

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• Casadena member

  

  July 2

  Short week here! Today is my birthday - definitely feeling almost 40 this morning with a back and head ache, lol. Moved a meeting already today so that feels good - for some reason people at other locations keep forgetting i'm CT and scheduling meetings at noon. Probably not a huge deal, but a big corporate pet peeve of mine. I need to start blocking it. 
  
  Ready for the week to be over. 

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• ei34 member

  

  July 2

  Happy happy birthday @casadena and I hope you begin to feel better soon! Good luck with the meetings and I hope there’s also time for something enjoyable for you today!

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• banana468 member

  

  July 2

  Casadena said:

  Short week here! Today is my birthday - definitely feeling almost 40 this morning with a back and head ache, lol. Moved a meeting already today so that feels good - for some reason people at other locations keep forgetting i'm CT and scheduling meetings at noon. Probably not a huge deal, but a big corporate pet peeve of mine. I need to start blocking it. 
  
  Ready for the week to be over. 

  I'm guilty of this.  We have people spread in multiple time zones and sometimes I need to talk to multiple people across multiple zones.  If the issue is lunch there are points where I use the mid day as a last resort but can't pull back two hours on some critical issues.  I also have a boss in Pacific time and that means I'm avoiding early meetings because an 8 AM or 9 AM my time is at 5 or 6 AM out there.
  
  
  
  
  

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• CharmedPam member

  

  July 2 edited July 2

  Happy Birthday, @Casadena, if your feeling it now, just wait a few more years when the thought of a long car ride is torturous for your back a week after getting back from it. Or maybe it’s just me and my back?
  Glad exH didn’t disappoint the kids even though it was just for a short amount of time @ei34

  
  

  Does anyone know anything about cars? When I started up my car, for a good minute it smelled bad. But then it would go sway. It smelled like dry sweat, is the best way to describe it. I apologized to a friend I was driving around and she mentioned the air filter. I got an oil change yesterday and the only thing they did recommend was a new air filter. But they said their supplier had the cost so high and I could get it cheaper elsewhere.  No. No. Just do it. I’m here now and will pay the higher price (but I do appreciate their honesty!) but even with a new filter, when it starts up, a funky smell still occurs. Not AS bad and not as long. Is that just the norm when starting a car in heat? 

  My dentist saw me and I was right. A cracked filling. Why isn’t there a MD after my name? I’m so good at self diagnosing. She has to redo it, and got me in for tomorrow. We used to get out early a day before a holiday, but we haven’t gotten emails lately about it. So, I’m doing it on my own. 

  Edit, to point to the right people!

  
  

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• Casadena member

  

  July 2

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  banana468 said:

  Casadena said:

  Short week here! Today is my birthday - definitely feeling almost 40 this morning with a back and head ache, lol. Moved a meeting already today so that feels good - for some reason people at other locations keep forgetting i'm CT and scheduling meetings at noon. Probably not a huge deal, but a big corporate pet peeve of mine. I need to start blocking it. 
  
  Ready for the week to be over. 

  I'm guilty of this.  We have people spread in multiple time zones and sometimes I need to talk to multiple people across multiple zones.  If the issue is lunch there are points where I use the mid day as a last resort but can't pull back two hours on some critical issues.  I also have a boss in Pacific time and that means I'm avoiding early meetings because an 8 AM or 9 AM my time is at 5 or 6 AM out there.
  
  
  
  
  

  Totally get that and am obviously flexible when needed based on the meeting content. This one was a 20 minute quarterly catch up with an outside account rep that absolutely does not need to be today, lol. I'm going to see her next week anyway!

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• charlotte989875 member

  

  July 2

  Happy birthday @casadena! 

  
  

  I have multiple people across times zones so I try to not schedule at 9am (or earlier) east coast time but also our footprint is 95% eastern so I will scheduled a 10am (and occasionally 1-3pm when it could be lunch for people). I tell my teams to block times they’re not available, especially for recurring things. 
  

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• charlotte989875 member

  

  July 2

  Things are fine. J is waking up early, M is in a new “no nap, kindergarten prep” room at school and I’m exhausted. H has a double header of softball tonight and I’m solo parenting. He’s gotten a lot of alone time lately which is telling me I need to schedule my own because I’m starting to get annoyed. 

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• MNNEBride member

  

  July 2

  @CharmedPam - are there more air filters in your car?  We have an air filter for the engine but also a cabin air filter.  You might check your owner's manual.  We have an occasional funky smell outside the car when I first turn it off or when I'm outside and it's running.  Almost a rail road tie smell?  I guess it could be "dry sweat" smell too.  I thought I got some bad gas but it has continued despite filling up with different brands.  I have an appointment for the car tomorrow morning so will ask about it then.
  
  
  

  

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• levioosa member

  

  July 2

  Happy birthday!!! @casadena
  
  @charmedpam air filters are (usually) one of the cheapest, fastest, easiest things you can do yourself with a car. You could probably even figure it out without a YouTube video. There’s usually one in the glovebox and another in the engine. H became near apoplectic the last time I told him I just paid the dealer to do it (no judgment though, I too would rather have someone else do it for me lol). 

  
  

  Work today. The new staff in my new area are already driving me nuts and are giving me a ton of pushback. Fml. I hate this new, stupid, illogical move. Meanwhile the rest of the clinic is drowning because they yanked me away without a contingency plan and the other two NPs are out on vacation for the month. Not my fault admin had a seeming inability to think ahead (or logically). 

  
  

  Anyways, SSDD. 

  
  

  
  

  

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• ILoveBeachMusic member

  

  July 3

  Happy Birthday, @Casadena. 
  
  A member of our book club has invited us all over for dinner tonight. She is an excellent cook and likes experimenting with us trying the recipes. Win win for all. The theme is Peruvian because we all go to this great Peruvian restaurant when we go to Florida in the spring. She is trying to recreate what we all like. 
  
  Other than that not much. PT literally and figuratively kicked my butt today. 

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• MyNameIsNot member

  

  July 3

  @ILoveBeachMusic Yum! Lomo Saltado?

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• ILoveBeachMusic member

  

  July 3

  MyNameIsNot said:

  @ILoveBeachMusic Yum! Lomo Saltado?

  I don't know what Lomo Saltado is but everything was delicious. She did a great job recreating some sauces/dip to use with bread. Actually I would eat those sauces on just about anything. She even made Pisco sours - yum! There was a shrimp dish for the entree and coconut flan for dessert. I just about had to be rolled home.

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• short+sassy member

  

  July 8

  banana468 said:

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  Casadena said:

  Short week here! Today is my birthday - definitely feeling almost 40 this morning with a back and head ache, lol. Moved a meeting already today so that feels good - for some reason people at other locations keep forgetting i'm CT and scheduling meetings at noon. Probably not a huge deal, but a big corporate pet peeve of mine. I need to start blocking it. 
  
  Ready for the week to be over. 

  I'm guilty of this.  We have people spread in multiple time zones and sometimes I need to talk to multiple people across multiple zones.  If the issue is lunch there are points where I use the mid day as a last resort but can't pull back two hours on some critical issues.  I also have a boss in Pacific time and that means I'm avoiding early meetings because an 8 AM or 9 AM my time is at 5 or 6 AM out there.
  

  
  My work involves the client's job site in Asia.  I've been having beau coup IT issues for about two months.  One of the Help Desk (HD) people decided to really escalate things and tried to schedule a meeting with me, herself, and two other IT/HD people.
  
  She's in an Asian country and I think the other two people are also.  She tried to schedule the meeting at 1am-1:30am my time, LMAO.  I don't think so.

  

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• banana468 member

  

  July 9

  short+sassy said:

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  banana468 said:

  Casadena said:

  Short week here! Today is my birthday - definitely feeling almost 40 this morning with a back and head ache, lol. Moved a meeting already today so that feels good - for some reason people at other locations keep forgetting i'm CT and scheduling meetings at noon. Probably not a huge deal, but a big corporate pet peeve of mine. I need to start blocking it. 
  
  Ready for the week to be over. 

  I'm guilty of this.  We have people spread in multiple time zones and sometimes I need to talk to multiple people across multiple zones.  If the issue is lunch there are points where I use the mid day as a last resort but can't pull back two hours on some critical issues.  I also have a boss in Pacific time and that means I'm avoiding early meetings because an 8 AM or 9 AM my time is at 5 or 6 AM out there.
  

  
  My work involves the client's job site in Asia.  I've been having beau coup IT issues for about two months.  One of the Help Desk (HD) people decided to really escalate things and tried to schedule a meeting with me, herself, and two other IT/HD people.
  
  She's in an Asian country and I think the other two people are also.  She tried to schedule the meeting at 1am-1:30am my time, LMAO.  I don't think so.

  Hahahaha!  If I was ever pulled into something like that I'd be saying "I expect to take the next day off without charging PTO."  But unless it was a dire issue i'd be full of the nopes.  Big difference between impacting your lunch and impacting your sleep! 

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• ei34 member

  

  July 9

  Welcome back @short+sassy, sounds like it was a really nice vacation  

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