This or next week, I will need to get out of the house. I will need to go to the office to pick up a new laptop. I’m waiting patiently for my IT counterparts to get back to me regarding when the new laptop will come. At this point, I am at their mercy!
It’s Monday and I am up at six in the morning. The lights were abruptly turned on for me in the bedroom so that I could wake up and wave good day to my lovely husband. Ha! Joke’s on you buddy, because I was already awake as the alarm clock went off at five in the morning and I woke up with all of the sounds that were coming out of that phone. So I get up and wave goodbye to my love and make my coffee. After I drink my morning coffee I get online and am looking through my insurance to figure out how to get claims, once I think I figure it all out I get to my emails and am returning emails to my lovely people. It’s shortly eight thirty in the morning and my alarm clock goes off…guess it’s time to “get up.” So I get dressed and ready for work. I do this because I never know when I’m going to be on a video conference call. Better to be prepared than to get caught with your PJ’s on. So, I put on a nice sweater and some jeans. This morning I have a bunch of conference calls and they go and on and on…until noon. I don’t have time to do anything else besides having my headphones on and be on these calls. At one point my anxiety gets the best of me and I start multitasking. I’m glad no one can see me. I am doing my other work as I am in all of these meetings. It worked out alright. At one point, I got so into what I was doing that I kinda sorta tuned out from the meeting. But no worries, there weren’t any question or to do’s for me. Need to be more careful, not so good at multitasking. Apparently, I can only do one thing at a time. I have friends and family members that I know who can be listening to a conversation and do their work at the same time. Or listening to two conversations at the same time. So jealous…I wish I could do that! During my lunch hour, I am scheduling and rescheduling doctors appointments. I’ve been able to get a teleconference type of appointment for one of the doctors. Nice! Now we don’t have to go into the doctors office for the appointment. We’ll go online and go through the appointment that way. Love technology! After al of the phone calls, it is back to work.
Today, one of the items that I have requested from our developers has come to fruition. You see, there are a few systems that I work on that takes half an hour for them to “talk” to each other. This means that I post an item to one system and this item then takes half an hour to get to the other system. It’s like waiting on hold at the DMV. Not fun! What do you do in the meantime? Within the half hour that I am waiting I have to multitask. I’ll do another project as I wait for the systems to do their thing. So today, our developers were able to change that and turn half an hour into five minutes. They do magic like that. This new update makes me so very happy!! I no longer have to wait for such a long time to get my work done. No more multitasking then forgetting that I have work from the other systems that I have to get to. Anyway, Go Developer! I thank you for your quick turnaround.
And I did! I found out who worked on this request and then I sent a quick instant message to that developer who worked on the request. As a Business Analyst, I now have a direct line to the developers’ team as I am able to talk directly to them. In the past, I would have to go through one of the Business Analyst or IT. Now, I am that Business Analyst, and I have a that direct line. Sounds better than it is. Trust me. All that means is that I am responsible for stuff…lots of stuff. As they say…with power comes responsibility.
In the evening we have dinner of steak and bowtie pasta. My little one is finishing up her homework and then she has some of Grandma’s sweet pumpkin soup. Delicious! After dinner, I wash the dishes as fast as I can as I still have to take out the garbage and am dreading the outside cold. It is really cold outside and it is going to snow tomorrow in the afternoon. I hope it’s not a lot. Not a big fan of the snow. Sure it’s pretty, but the cleaning of the said snow! What a drag. Makes my shoulders hurt. I’m not used to that type of workout.
Ahh Tuesday…it’s cold out there. The snow is to come down at noon and it is very cold. I get up at around seven in the morning and get ready for my day. I write down my affirmations, get dressed in a comfy sweater and then get right to work. My boss sent me a reply nice and early about my laptop refresh and I was able to get down to the nitty gritty of it. So, I won’t be getting my new laptop for another few weeks. That means that I can take my car to the shop to get it fixed. I need a new muffler, oil changed, new blinker and a few other, hopefully, minor things. The check engine light is on but everything seems to be in tact. We will take it to the car doctor and they can tell me more. Cuz, there’s always more.
During my many morning meetings I am bored to tears as we are testing a new application and the the people testing are taking forever to figure out what needs to be completed. It took two hours to figure it all out. After those two hours, we find out that the systems that are used for this new app are not talking to each other correctly. Well, there’s two hours of my life I’ll never get back.
It’s now the afternoon and the snow is coming down. Heard the news report this morning and it sounds as if it’ll only be a dusting. Hooray, no cleaning up. All the pretty none of the work. That is how I like it!
It’s Wednesday and I get up early enough to get on the treadmill this morning. I bought some silicone oil to place on the treadmill so that it’ll run better, and not make so much noise! It has become a very noisy treadmill throughout the year. I’ve learned that treadmills need to be oiled every three months or so. Who knew?! While running on it, I see the advertisement on it stating that it is a quiet treadmill. Isn’t that ironic? lol So I added the silicone to the runner and then I walked on it without turning it on. That portion was as workout itself. Anyway, I took an uphill walk for about half an hour and then I had to go as I still had to shower and attend a meeting at nine. So many meetings this morning. All about the new app that will be launching next week. This app is only for our dealers so I won’t be able to share what it looks like. But, believe me, the site looks pretty. It’s following the amazon.com formula. It’s clean and it looks beautiful. It functions well and I am looking forward to being the Business Analyst for this new application.
It’s Thursday and it’s almost over. I get up at five in the morning and don’t do anything. I was going to go for a run but then decided against it. I was on my social media instead and looking through my emails and through my insurance. Turns out, I can claim some of my medical through one of my insurance companies. At least I think I can. I put the claim through online and we will see if it will take. I then get to “work” earlier than usual, at about eight, and get going as I have a long morning filled with more and more meetings. This new app is taking all of my time. But it’s ok. Everything is running pretty smoothly. There are a couple of things that aren’t working right now. But the team is fixing them and all should be good for launch date.
It’s Friday, woohoo end of the work week. We launched the new application that we’ve been working on all week and it is working beautifully. There was a setback for one of the items, but it is being worked on and hopefully it will be fixed over the weekend. It’s not a show stopper, simply something that is a nice to have. It took us a very long time to test the new app… a few hours in the morning and another few hours in the afternoon. But we eventually got it to work beautifully. This site is behind a user name and password and I will not be able to share it with you. But believe me, it is beautiful. The way the site works is much like the great amazon and it is amazing. The design is wonderful as one of my friends and his team created it and I am very happy with it. The backend however; that is a different story. It has to go through two systems and it takes a few days for orders that are placed to be processed. Apparently this process is correct, however this is what we are working on to update. Hopefully the backend systems will be a little faster. This will be a job for their new Business Analyst…me! Yup, this will be part of my new responsibilities. This new application is in multiple languages, English, Spanish and Portuguese. Right up my alley. At one point the team was testing the site and speaking in Spanish and I understood everything they were talking about. As long as they don’t use slang type of language, I’ll be fine and will work with the team beautifully.
In the afternoon we had a farewell send off to one of my good friends who is leaving the company. I felt compelled to create an online meeting and have as many of his people on the call, as possible to send him off on a good note. I will miss my friend very much. We worked very well together at the office. We are very similar in thought and would laugh, a lot, during our workdays. You will be missed my friend. I wish you all the luck in the world.
After the fun meeting, I went ahead and went to my daughters school and picked up work that her teacher has left for her. There is a math book and other types of work that she will need to get done within the month. So now, I will now need to go to the school every week or so, so that I can pick up her work. I’m so confused because from my understanding, the teacher mentioned they wouldn’t be adding work for pick up. For remote students, they would have everything online. Now I will need to march on over to the school and pick up the work. It’s not a big deal to do this, but I’d rather not. I’d rather the teacher provide the information online. As opposed to having to go ahead and pick it up. Otherwise what is the point of being remote and avoiding the virus? Make up your mind people! Anyway, the way things are going with covid are not good and we will continue to work and learn from home. Things are turning a bit for the worst and getting out of the house is getting even more scary. I’d like to take the time and let you know now thankful I am that my little one can do remote schooling. Thank you Grandma for taking the time to work with my little one on her remote learning. I’m also thankful that my company allows me to work from home at this time. I am truly thankful that my family is all healthy. All of my extended family are all healthy as well.
Until next time!
Stay Safe.
Best,
Isabel
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