User talk:TheEileen/Jan 2008
January 2008
01-04-2008
I updated the list on the 31st but no time for the wiki. I did list and wiki today. A fair amount of movement, particularly from F2 to PP. I've had no time for content or anything. I have been sick since the 27th, so I had this cold for a week. It appears to be tapering off (please) so can think and breathe and BE again.
Work, still heckish. The transmission in my car was fixed, I was out $2000, and I got it back yesterday. On the drive home from work today? The transmission went wacky again. Oy vey! And my sink backed up while I was sick and so tired and late at night I looked at it, and said outloud, please don't do too much damage, I have to go to sleep, I cannot deal with you. When I woke up in the morning, it had all drained out. I poured four gallons of boiling water down the sink over the course of the day, what the plumber said to do last time this happened - (apparently my garbage disposal sometimes decided to choke). If I could compost without attracting things I don't want to - I'd rather do that than put the food down the disposal. It stinks in the garbage so that's not good. None of my neighbors compost and the city doesn't pick it up. Sigh. Now to sleep!
01-09-2008
Updated list and wiki today. Little movement. I would have done yesterday but so overwhelmed at work and tired when I come home. The sink backed up again, I just waited it out and realized that until I could afford the plumber, no using dishwasher. At least this time it didn't back up into the laundry room -- did I mention the original backup flooded my laundry room? And that the transmission in my car went out the day after I got it back, from fixing the transmission? As you can see, it's all fun and games until someone loses a car! :rueful sigh: Off to bed!
01-13-2008
Updated list and wiki today. A little movement and one posted. I see the need for a new excel spreadsheet which I think will make things easier. I can't work on it today, but ...
Okay, so Saturday when I did the laundry, everything backed up, kitchen sink & laundry room. That was fun. I tidied what I could, cleaned what I could, eventually everything didn't just gradually drain away but actually about three hours afterwards a massive sucking sound occurred and the two inches of standing water was sucked down the drain. I'm going to buy a big can of drain cleaner and try the laundry again later this week. Work crazy - outside auditors in so stress city. I'm tired but can't sleep, one of those cycles.
01-17-2008
Updated list and wiki. Two posted projects. Huzzah. I have been given a hint to try for getting my guiguts to work. One of these days, I swear it ...
Week of outside reviewers is over and only one thing was found we didn't know about. It looks like, fingers crossed, we may even get some help on something I've been hoping for some time about. Back to more normal tomorrow, except for working with training new guy. I am thanking my lucky stars so far for him, easy to work with, flexible, smart, adaptable. I can give him a broad outline and he does the project with details. Heaven. I've been leading everyone by the hand and spoon-feeding them, so it's nice to find someone else who is an adult in the workplace. ha!
01-21-2008
Updated list and wiki. Very little movement. Done several pages and mentoring. No content provision or PP work. Giving myself the space and time to work on what interests me and no guilt for anything. My big thing this weekend is dealing with this timeshare I want to get rid of. It's fine, I just a) can't travel as much as I did and b) don't want to. Some people love going to Florida every year; my mom did which is why she got me to buy this with her. But she's gone and I don't want to go and yet I'm tied by money to this timeshare until I can sell it. I've been telling myself I'd look into it and research for over a year. I've finally sat down and started doing it!
Car still in the shop but I hope to have it back by this week. Pleeeeeeeeease.
01-26-2008
Updated list yesterday and wiki today. At least five things went from F2 to PP and that is cool, since I moved three of them myself. I do concentrate in F2 on either quals, FFF, or things we did in F1 list and I work particularly on those items that were CREATED the longest ago. Not what was in F1 longest or on the list earliest, but actually in the system as a whole for the longest. If a PM has been working on some of these (and I'm excluding the periodicals here) that started in 2003 ... geez. However, at least so far as I can see, most of the ones created in 2003 didn't even hit R1 until early 2005 so, most of the delay was NOT in the proofing foofing. Still, I try to work on them, like a good little gravedigger. Ha!
I need to do content today, I need to work on my PPing software today and I want to go to a movie and finish my laundry. lalalala. It was beautiful these last few days if blastedly COOOOOOOOOOOOOLD. Now we're back to overcast but not as freezing, so I don't mind so much. Car is back and if I think it seems to rev awfully to get from 1st to 2nd, maybe I just don't remember anymore! I think I'm super-sensitive to the car now. :rolls eyes: Finances suck right now. Why must everything come due in January. The fix was over two grand, then there is the insurace, for house and car, and the timeshare dues, and the increase in everything else. I'm scant until Feb and then, only if I get a decent tax refund. Sigh. I make plans: I want to save for my next car, but I need $2500 to start the savings program as separate from regular savings (to get the good return rate). If I try to just put in my general savings, it gets folded into paying for things now. I've been struggling for eight months to get my savings high enough and yet ... no. I don't have much debt so that is good, but I'm going to really give my finances and budget the eye because something is amiss here. It shouldn't be this hard. (Personally, I blame part of it on this travel I've had to do) I have a sneaking suspicion I know what it is, and that'll not be an easy fix. Well, off to the dishes and laundry.
01-30-2008
Updated list yesterday and wiki today. I keep realizing too late to do it and I want to update. So I do and this waits. No worries. Small movement, one posted. Did some content, some PPing software with a "try this" suggestion to do today. I did go to the movies, I saw "Mad Money". Enjoyable but not logical. Boy, did I want to grab an editing pen and have at it. For a caper movie, you still have to identify with someone and they didn't do a good job with Diane Keaton's character.
Anyway, off to write e-mails to friends to keep in touch.
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