Hi there my dear reader. This week was fun filled with snow here on Long Island! My little one and I made some crafts. And, work was the same old bull. Lots of things to do and dealing with interesting, aka annoying, projects.
It’s Monday and it’s Presidents’ Day. I have the day off as it is a national holiday. And, since we can’t go anywhere due to covid, we stay home and play bored games, I mean board games. Those games are so boring to me. But, my little one loves them, so I play along with her. We spend the entire afternoon playing these types of games. We also play with blocks. The ones that have letters and little pictures on them. My little one likes to build with them. So I am thinking of getting her a Jenga game for her birthday. Her birthday is coming up early next month and we are working very hard on figuring out what to do to make her day special. I’ve gotten balloons and other items from the party supply place and we will be getting her a little cake. Not sure what else to do, because she wants to see her little friends, but due to this terrible virus, we are stuck having a small party at home with just the four of us. I feel for my little one. She wants to see and play with her friends very much but…no can do at this time.
It’s Tuesday and I get up nice and early and get my coffee and breakfast going. I then get online and send an email to my HR representative. I have a friend who is interested in working at my company and I would like to submit her resume through our intranet system. I log on and the link is not working. So I send an email to my HR person. But she is out of the office. So I forward that email to another representative. Hopefully she will be getting back to me with a site link so I may submit my friend’s resume. She doesn’t so I ask a friend who is in the education division and she directs me to another person. Well, that person is also out of the office. Is anybody working today. So I search some more and then I find someone in the department that I am looking for and send her an instant message. She is very nice, I was very impressed on how nice this person was. She sent me the link right away and said for me to contact her if I encounter any issues. How lovely! I should send her boss an email to let them know how delighted I was with her customer service.
In the evening we go out for a drive. Today, we get to listen to a few different radio stations. My husband has been all about hip hop recently and we’ve been listening to the latest hits. But today he must have been bored and we listened to another station and the station had a lot of songs from the 90’s and I was singing along to all of them. I know almost every top 40 hit that is on the radio. It’s a gift. Can’t remember what I at this morning, but I remember the song lyrics. I have a love for music and know almost every chorus to every hit song made in the 80s and 90s, some of the 2000’s too. I’ve lost track of songs after my little one was born. I am no longer in the radio business, like I used to be back in the day, and I’ve gotten bored with the latest songs. Anyway, I was singing along and my daughter was shocked that I knew all of these ‘new’ songs. Then my husband heard a slow song and he wanted to, as he put it, slit his wrists lol. The song was from Leann Rimes “how do I live” Yes, it’s a very slow song but I really like it and I was belting it out. It reminded me of my prom, yes, my prom was way back in the 90s, yup, I’m that old. So, after the song was over he turned the station to a grunge station. And I said I did not like it, no sir! Then a Dave Matthews Band came on and I was singing along to it lol. Just because I don’t particularly like it doesn’t mean I don’t know it. Then there was a song from Nirvana. Oh brother, do we disagree on this band. He likes the band very much… I do not. I think our buddy Kurt Cobain is a complainer. Sorry…not sorry. Then a Foo Fighters song comes on and I turn it up. My husband is now confused. He said, “you know, the Foo Fighters are just Nirvana minus one.” So I told him that the complainer had left us and the rest of the band stayed around for us. If you don’t know, Kurt Cobain took his own life. Then the rest of the band made a new band and call themselves the Foo Fighters. I like their music. It’s rock without the whining. Sorry Nirvana fans. It’s just not for me. Don’t get me wrong, he was a fantastic singer and song writer, but the music was too grunge and sad for me. Not enough rock & roll.
It’s Wednesday and I woke up way before the roosters. It was still really dark out, it was four in the morning. And then my husband was rustling around in bed and then got up really fast from bed. So I asked him where he was going. He said with a bad attitude that he needed to go to the bathroom. I asked him what his problem was and he said it was the way I asked him where he was going. Guess I must have asked in a nasty way. Wasn’t my intention, I just wanted to know where he was going so fast. I couldn’t sleep after that so I get up and get ready for my day. Today is my exercise day, so I put on my gym clothes. As I’m doing that my alarm clock goes off. Oh can you hear that , it’s time to get up. I get to my treadmill a little earlier than expected, but not to worry. I have an early morning meeting that I need to attend to so getting to my exercise earlier in the day is just fine. On the treadmill I walk then run for a little while, then walk again and run again. Doing my exercise in intervals today. My cousin, who’s a trainer, told me it’s the best way for strength and, I’m guessing, weight loss. So I do just that for about 45 minutes. After my exercise, I get my coffee going and then, get in the shower. I’m now ready for my early morning meeting. So I get to my laptop and message my colleague to see if he would like to get on the call earlier than our 8AM call. He said he has a meeting to attend to. I was thinking, yes silly, my meeting. But nope, my stupid a$$ set up the meeting for us for tomorrow, not today. What a dummy I am lol. Oh well, this gives me time to get other work done in the early morning hours. While I’m working, I start to feel drained. It’s way too early for this. But I get myself onto my bed and lay down for a few minutes to see if I can get out of this funk. It doesn’t! I hope it won’t be like this all day today. I have much to do and no time to waste. I eventually get my energy back and get myself to working just fine. The day went well and I stayed online until about six in the evening to get all of my work completed for the day. There is some left over for tomorrow.
It’s Thursday and it is snowing on Long Island. There is to be four to eight inches of snow on the ground by tonight. I am not looking forward to the clean up. But my little one is looking forward to playing in it. This year has been a snow filled one.
While at work, I’m sleuthing to find out who is the individual who is looking for a marketing specialist. I instant message a few friends and after a while I find out who the individual is. I send him a message and let him know that one of my friends is looking into the position. We talk a little bit about life and find out that he and his wife are having another child. I am so very happy for their growing family. I then throw my friend’s resume at him so he can take a look right away. He is looking for someone with a lot of experience. I may even look into it. Kidding, I am very happy doing my BA work. Just wish the paycheck was a bit better. But hey, who doesn’t, am I right? Anyone could always use a salary increase.
In the evening, it stops snowing. So after work, I have myself a slice of pizza for dinner and then go outside and shovel the snow from the back and front stoops as well as the walkways. These days the cold doesn’t bother me that much anymore. My body has started running warmer than what I’ve been used to, so being outside for an hour or so, is no big deal. Plus, I have a lot of warm clothes on. I have a snow suit and snow jacket, that I’ve had for years. As for boots, I use a pair of crocks that I got a while back that I was going to use for gardening. But these are very comfortable and great for the snow. I wear two pairs of socks as the crocks aren’t that warm. But again, I am running hotter nowadays and it’s no big deal as long as I keep on moving. Once, everything is all clear of snow, I come back inside and my little one wants to do a craft. Poor thing is so bored. The school is on spring break and my little one must be bored to tears. So we get out her crafting box and we make a craft for Gramma. It is filled with hearts and and I love you’s and other pretty spring kind of stickers. And we add a small plastic flower to the craft. The little one wanted to use glitter tonight. But mommy was not about it. It makes a huge mess and honestly, I hate glitter. It gets everywhere and it never leaves. So we had to negotiate that we’d play with glitter tomorrow or on the weekend. She tried and tried again to be able to add glitter to the craft, but mommy was adamant about it, no way Jose! We made a couple of crafts, all filled with love and she gave it to Gramma. Of course Gramma she loves them. She has so many crafts from my little one that she will need to get a box to add all of these. Tomorrow we will make some more. Maybe one day, she will make a craft for mommy…here’s hoping lol.
It’s Friday and I should have done my exercises this morning. But I got a little lazy. I shoveled last night and that counts as exercise right? So instead I get up a little later and get my breakfast and coffee going. This morning I cheat on my diet and have a maple glazed doughnut with my coffee. It’s a couple of days old but it’s still delicious! I then get online and start my workday a bit early. I take a pause from work and get outside and take a few pictures of the snow. One of my coworkers is from Vietnam and really likes the snow. So I get out there and take a few creative photos of the snow.
I then get linkedin this morning and remember my friend who is interested in the marketing position at my company. I’ve found out who the hiring manager is and I’ve let her know who to address her cover letter to. I also let her know the wage range for the position but also let her know that everything is negotiable. This is so she is aware of what the company has to offer. She can also go to glassdoor.com and find out what is available out there in the area. I’ve checked, and the wage my company is offering is reasonable. Again, it all depend on how the deal is negotiated. I’ve learned that one the hard way. I didn’t know any better so I did not negotiate for my position. I was so happy to get a new job offer that I took whatever they were willing to offer me. Dumb, dumb, dumb! I did not know any better back then. But now I do and I will need to negotiate. Once covid is over I will be doing some negotiations with my own company. As for work, I am testing a lot of items for us to launch at the end of the month. They sites in the backend are a pain as they sometimes do not work properly. I constantly have to clear my cache, going into an incognito window does not help, I still need to clear cache. Clearing cache is like clearing the cookies and other items that are stuck on the site. I need to do this multiple times a day and it tends to get very annoying. I am also working with my Latin America people and today there was an issue where our internal people could not reset their passwords, as the site was giving back an error. As their BA, I had to figure out who to contact to fix this issue and get it resolved as quickly as possible. We found out that it was a language issue. If a user was on the Spanish version of the site, the system would not allow the user to reset their password. So we figured out the issue, now it needs to be solved. I am working with the developers to get this fixed. I had to troubleshoot and try a bunch of different things in order to figure all of this out. Meanwhile, having to clear cache each and every time. Seriously #annoying. But at least we have a plan. It’s a matter of the developer to figure out how to fix the problem and implement the fix.
In the evening my little one and I do some more crafts with paper and play with her dolls. It’s a quiet evening as my husband is sleeping on the couch. He has been working very hard lately and we let him take his time to take a nap on the couch. Meanwhile, we are watching Kitchen Nightmares on TV with Gordon Ramsey. I notice that some of the people at the restaurants are just dumb. I don’t know if it’s for the show of it all or if they are actually like that in real life. After
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