Things making me happy:
- Ms. P's father is out of the hospital. He's home and on oxygen, and he might have to be on oxygen for a while, but he's home.
- I found a job I want to apply for, in a company rated very highly as an employer. It's an editing position focusing on personal finance and investing, and while I'm by no means even intermediate in my knowledge of those things, I keep finding myself wanting to know more, so there we go. I applied. Now I'm just biting my own fingernails off waiting to find out if this will translate into an interview.
- I did Ms. P's taxes on Saturday, and we're getting a nice little chunk back. I <heart> doing taxes.
- My W-2 came yesterday, as did some other tax information I needed, so I can do my own taxes. I <heart> doing taxes.
- I spent five hours on Saturday putting our receipts into Quicken and reconciling all of our bank accounts. We hadn't done it since October. In times past, I would have said fuck it, put in an adjustment, and started over. It was perversely satisfying to get it all worked through. I think I've turned a corner with finances.
- We're having a happy hour at work at 2:30, since mid-terms mean a half-day. This will give me something else to do/think about instead of my performance review. (See below.)
Things making me unhappy:
- My office is colder than my refrigerator. We're all walking around wearing coats.
- Ms. P is home sick for the third day in a row. Technically she's working from home today, but that's involving a lot of naps.
- R is similarly incapacitated, although his is a sprained ankle. It's been a week and he's still laid up, poor baby.
- My performance review with Mr. Burns is this afternoon, and I have no idea how it's going to go. I mean, I've been going crazy trying to manage not only my own job but all of the transition tasks, too, but my strategic plan was written without the transition in mind, so I haven't met all of my objectives because some of them have been pushed aside in favor of other ones. I don't know how he's going to spin this.
- Ms. P and I are struggling pretty hard around the time stuff. We've got a plan to try to fix it, and we're both committed, but the process has been (for us, anyway) kind of brutal, and Ms. P is having a lot of anxiety around the relationship. It's not very much fun, although I'm a lot happier and a lot less sad now that we appear to be getting somewhere.
If you suspect I'm moody right now then, by George, you've got it!
:-) Possibly a little moody. Break a leg this afternoon!
Posted by: dale | January 24, 2008 at 04:42 PM