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Tuesday Toot

I've never done this but one of the mommy blog communities does a "Tuesday Toot" in which moms are supposed to toot their own horn. While it hasn't been officially announced here at work, I was just told in my annual review that I have been promoted to a senior accountant. WAHOO!

Don't become an accountant!!!

OK for those of you that might be reading this that haven't gotten your college degree or you might have children getting ready to go to college, let me explain why they don't want that accounting degree if they want a normal work schedule.

It's year end close. I work in oil & gas and the facility I support sustained damage in Hurricane Ike in September. We came back online just to go only to go down again for "turnaround" which is scheduled maintenance. My work life had been mass chaos since October. So, here we are...closing the books at year-end and it's 8:49 PM, and I am STILL at work. I am so going to be in the dog house when I get home.

Parenting isn't for wussies!

So, we have had some crappy weather here (read ice & snow), so I stayed home Wednesday since it took me over two hours to make it in Tuesday in just the ice. Not a lot of time had progressed since I had called my boss and I had crawled back in my bed with the kids. W & G were in bed with me and they were playing. W growled at G and G reared her head back...right into my nose. I saw stars floating around in front of my eyes for a brief moment before I noticed fluid. Good grief! The gal had bloodied my nose. Just great!

Well it's two days later and I don't have a black eye to go along with the bloody nose (surprise!) but I do have one very sore nose and it really hurts if I touch it or sneeze or anything. OUCH!

And now I can breathe...quickly

You know, when I decided what path I wanted to pursue when I went into college, I knew I was going into business. I didn't really want to do the whole accounting thing as my mother was an accounting clerk and I knew the whole Hippocratic oath for accountants in regard to closing the books e.g. "You come in and work late; you do whatever it takes, unless you are dead. Then you had darn well better find a replacement first." Life got in the way, and I was in a hurry to graduate. I weighed my options when I transferred schools.

1. What degree could I pursue that would almost always mean I could find a job and that didn't require me to work with anything bloody (since I faint when giving blood)?
2. What degree could I choose that would get me out the quickest?
3. What degree could I chose that wouldn't lose me a whole lot of credits?
4. What degree could I chose that accentuated my strengths?

I ended up pursuing the degree that I set out not to pursue...accounting.

I'm still down a co-worker and I am still splitting all my movements from various facilities several different ways and I'm splitting them even more this month than I did last month. For those that aren't connecting the dots, more moves = more work. So quadruple the moves and double the desk, and I'm one busy chickadee right now. There was NO way I was going to get all the moves into the system and be able to meet the closing deadline, so I closed with estimates. So, while I am finally closed, I am not done. I can breathe a small sigh of relief and then delve into reversing the estimates and working through the numbers and booking them into the system one pipeline at a time. I refuse to touch those until Monday though. I'm worn out. You should see my eyes right now. They are bloodshot. I am actually wearing makeup today (a rare thing for me) because the bags under my eyes are horrific.

I'm getting ready to go through the Halloween pictures and get those uploaded. The kids were SO cute...especially Miss G. I'll have to update you on the whole Halloween debacle though. It was not fun and rather disappointing. So there's your hook...tune in next time for...why the kids didn't really get a Halloween.

My newest find

I know some moms might not like the concept behind this planner, but I ordered it just to give it a try and I LOVE it. Now, I am having to use pencil due to our ever changing crazy schedule but it's meeting my needs. It's the BusyBodyBook.

I ordered it online and it took just a little over a week for it to arrive, but it was well worth it. I must admit, I was a little concerned about the durability, but I was very surprised when I received it. There is a thicker plastic cover that covers the planner itself. I have myself, B, M, W, & G across the top and it makes it easy to see our week all at once. I also love the page that allows me to put my to do check list for the week. I am using the white space to keep track of my week at work so I can refer back to that information for my summary that is sent to management. This planner is my new best friend and like the contact page says, if it were lost, I would be lost without it!

Where are my sunglasses?

I am dying today. I have yet another migraine and I am at work trudging through it...I usually do. I can't see taking off for a headache, but I do realize that I have a substantial reduction in productivity when I am suffering with one of these. However, I have no more vacation days left until my time starts back over in December because I was out with my arm...but that's another story.

So here I am...my headache is now down to a dull ache, but the damage is already done; I'm exhausted; I'm having trouble focusing on numbers (not good when you are an accountant; I'm able to type this as I can type without looking at the keyboard (thanks for making me take keyboarding Mom!) and I only really have to look at the words on the screen minimally.). I'm nauseated...did I mention I was exhausted from the headache? ;)

People that have never really had a migraine just truly do not understand the true meaning of a headache. It's quite debilitating. The one bright spot in my day is that I am leaving work early (even if it is to attend parent-teacher conferences).

Now where are my sunglasses? (and yes, I'm whining, but it's my blog and I'll whine if I want to!)

(I promise to get football pics from last weekend and birthday pics from W's party up soon!)

I think this pretty much sums up my feelings for this week...

Anyone got any Calgon?

Runny yolks

So I work in the oil & gas biz and I support a facility on the gulf coast. We sustained damage during Hurricane Ike and were done for about two weeks, so I only was producing product for about two weeks. I'm having to split numbers between the production period and when we were down which involves a lot of number crunching. It's fun (note sarcasm here). Add to this issue here that my counterpart is no longer with the company, and I've got my workload cut out for me this month and even the next few months.

So I arrived at my mother's house yesterday to pick up W and G. My brother and sister-in-law were there as well to pick up my nephew, J, and my niece, A was there too. My mom comes up to me...
"I was going to ask how it went today, but I can see it in your face."
"Yeah...."
"You look fried!"
"Oh, I'm beyond fried. I'm telling you, the yolks are broken and the yolk is running out."
"That good?"
"Yep."
"So when are they going to start looking for someone?"
"Supposedly pretty quickly, but you know how these things go. It takes forever, and then I'll know about it as the bring the new person onto the floor."

Don't get me wrong. I love my job. I really do. It just seems like when I encounter a challenge, I really get challenged. So bake me a cake of Hurricane Ike and make it a two layer with an upcoming turnaround (down for scheduled maintenance) and then ice it with co-worker has been axed, and it's not as tasty, know what I mean? Oh, well! I do feel bad for co-worker though. Co-worker just bought a new house and this is a really bad time to lose your job. Co-worker will end up on co-worker's feet though...I just know it and will be happier, too, I think.

On a lighter note, my new bed arrives tomorrow, so I am leaving at 3 to meet the delivery guy because B is in T town for training tomorrow. You can't beat cutting out at 3 on a Friday and something new to boot. :)