Tamssmat

Is that how you spell it?? I don’t even care.

Last Saturday was my boy’s 13th birthday!! He’s a teenager now!! I can’t believe how much he’s matured and grown and how soon I’ll be sending him to the store to get stuff for me. It was a good day. We started with my sister bringing him donuts and me some coffee (I love you April!!) and Mom and Dad popped over to give him a present. I finished cleaning and then we had a sudden change of plans on his gift. So he went off with my sister whilst my Dad and I ran to Best Buy and Sams Club to get him a laptop. We all gathered here for lunch (pizza as the boy so desired) then went off to the bowling alley. None of us are any good at this game. I’m not even sure it can be considered a game. It’s not fun. But that’s what the boy wanted and on his birthday, he gets what he wants. Oh who am I kidding. He always gets what he wants.

Today was day two of the work week (Tuesday - get it?  See the tie in there!) and it is a trying time. The hours are insanely long, the pay is, well, I get paid so I’m grateful…for now…give it a few days.  The Wednesday before the 4th of July (so that would make it the 2nd of July to those of you who are counting) it rained considerably. I drove home from work through it. It started right around the time I left. Anyway, a couple of hours later I start getting calls and text messages from the ones that still happened to be at the office letting me know that the first floor of our building was flooding. Now, we own the building (or we do until the sale goes through - nothing like timing) so it’s not just a mere inconvenience until things get taken care of. It is a major inconvenience in that I am now the one dealing with getting estimates to either clean or replace the carpet. We have all moved upstairs into the second floor space that was already occupied by half of the staff, so we’re all happily crammed in there together. I’m also being tasked with assisting with getting all of the paperwork together for the sale of the building, while cramped for space, with no phone because I have no desk. I am actually quite enjoying being upstairs. I can’t spend a whole lot of time complaining. It’s nice to get to be with the entire staff again. I actually get to see almost everyone daily and Stephanie has been so generous as to allow me to camp out at a table in her office and let me tell you, she’s a fun roommate! But with all of the extra bodies up there, the air conditioner just cannot keep up and it gets muggy. Tams gets very cranky when she’s hot. It’s a fact. It’s not pleasant for anyone that has to be around me. Angela and Brooke can attest to this. Oh, and did I mention that I’m in HR and I miss getting to do HR things because I am spending my time gathering estimates and leases et al??

We have a new Director of Operations but she just started last Thursday. I’m hopeful still that she will be soon taking some of the accounting and building duties that I’ve been dealing with so I can get back to what I do best. Wait, hating people is what I do best. But Human Resources is kind of the same.