Saturday marathon

t_cole said in yesterday’s comments:

Was at work exactly 23 minute this morning - got peeved about something, flipped on my blog - came to check you out and found this.
coincidence? I think not.
Thanks for JUST what I needed JUST when I needed it!

She beat my by 20 minutes. I must have had a premonition when I posted that before leaving the house yesterday. I walked in to find that because a whole bunch of other people hadn’t done their jobs, I was going to have to have my project finished by noon.

No problem, right? Of course not. Because Learning & Development will never be the bottle neck. No.Matter.What.

No matter that the subject matter experts didn’t give me the basic information about the product until 36 hours ago…when it was due Dec 21. No problem that NONE of the decision makers are available to review and approve the final product. We’ll get ‘er done. Because we can’t be the bottle neck.

Never mind that that the n00bs in IT haven’t even begun their development of their piece of the project…so, uh, that makes it really hard to build training on something that DOESN’T EXIST YET.

So JE, BA and I spend the morning hauling a$$ to get it to a point where it could be reviewed and approved. And we made it by noon. And then had to wait until around 12:30 before the decision maker showed up to review and approve it.

Then I went and had a wonderful (and I really mean that) off-site meeting with three people from church who have been involved with a synod initiative that they really want me to be involved with throughout my internship.

I actually left that meeting feeling invigorated and happy. Of course, it could have been the Imitrix.

Nah. I think it was the conversation and the opportunity to talk with them about things that really count.

BUT. The Imitrix did do the trick with the impending migraine (something that should be expected when chewing adrenaline for breakfast for 5 hours) and I didn’t even wake up with one.

I was an exhausted slug last night though and stayed home from 2 (TWO!!!) parties I was supposed to be at. One was a going away party for a friend who is moving back to Pennsylvania and the other was the holiday party at GolfPro’s new studio.

I just couldn’t make myself leave the house again. Plus, I hadn’t been with the boys for days and days… all week really.. and even though I fell asleep on the couch around 8 o’clock it was nice to be in the same room with them for a while.

Slept in today, but shouldn’t have. I want to try the new smoker, but you know if I don’t get it going by noon we’re going to delay. 6 hours lead time for a meal is something I’m going to have trouble getting used to.

We have to take the tree down today and I have to make sure I’ve got everything ready for going to my Dad’s for Christmas tomorrow afternoon.

Not to mention grocery shopping and laundry. And DS2 wants to go to MOA to spend his holiday money on more Legos. He already can’t see the floor in his bedroom. I have no idea what he’s thinking. Oh, yeah. 14. Not.Thinking.

My mom has called twice this week to “no pressure!” remind me that my grandmother’s birthday is today (she’s 96) and that if we’re “out and about, she’d really like you stop in for a piece of pie. Just for a few minutes.” I’m not proud of the fact that I feel resentful about the whole thing.

I suppose if we head out to MOA it’s on the way. GAAAHH I hate being a people pleaser!!!!!!!
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