Fall weather has me doing this all week:
It just feels sooooooooo good!!!
This week, I worked my tuckus off. We (the agency) have a very important audit coming up. Important like — the results make or break the agency. Whatever happens, I’m comforted that I’ll be okay but the audit means that for my dept, me and our new employee must go through all the personnel folders. All of them! We found things that needed to be filed from two years ago — 🙄 — I’m sure some of it was in the desk drawers of the “departed”. It’s daunting to say the least (I worked late every day this week except 1) but we stepped up to the challenge and we’ve made remarkable progress so far. I’ll have to work next weekend but we’ve vowed to get it done. Yesterday, we turned on Pandora (online radio) and rocked the day away until close to 7 pm last night.
Despite all of that, I feel good! A difference in mind-set, a less emotionally stressful work environment and a daily dose of vitamins, left me good tired. Not the dragged out, beaten down kind, but the good kind of tired that comes when you know you’ve gone above and beyond!!! So instead of October kicking my butt, I’m Jackie Chan-ing it with all that I’ve got! Thank God for His goodness. 😀 And the Fall weather’s making everything even better! The weather’s finally changed to cooler, wonderfully crisper temps and I’M. LOVING. IT!!!
Today, I’m grateful for:
- the support I’ve gotten from other departments. Some supervisors/department heads have been uncharacteristically patient; that really gave me some breathing room to prepare for the audit.
- A tremendous effort between myself, the insurance company and our COBRA administrator that ended with an employee being able to do surgery on Monday despite the fact that she was the one who didn’t complete her COBRA paperwork on time.
- A call from the employee on leave to say that she’ll be back on November 4th! Wooooohoooooo!!!!
- A “I love you, hope you’re having a great day” call from my younger brother this morning. ❤
- My weekend wind-down — it has been positively delightful!!!!! I went out and got some “necessary” supplies for the upcoming Fall & Winter seasons: (never mind the bad photos :P)
I’m not a coffee drinker but let me tell you — these are AWESOME in tea or cocoa!!!
LOLOL! What?!!!! Aren’t these in your “must have” Fall & Winter supplies? If not … you better get on this! LOLOL!
I’m ending the week with my supplies, Fall candle holders and some peppermint candles
curled up on my couch, either knitting or reading and enjoying my “fireplace”
With the lights low, music, some hot cocoa in hand and the heat from my radiators coming up … my “fireplace” almost seems real!
Happy weekend to you all! Hope you each had a wonderful week; cheers for a great upcoming week!!!! ❤
but yet … always drama with her. She resigned two weeks ago and did not tell any of the staff except for four people that she was leaving. And of those four people, she alternated between her son having special needs and that I would prevent her from leaving the dept or I would be mad if she applied for any other position there as her reason for resigning. Yesterday, as she left the building, whoever she met on her way out, she gave them the impression that she quit suddenly, leaving a storm of questions and gossip-mongering coming to me. I had to nip that in the bud by informing all staff via email that she formally resigned two weeks ago, (so they would know that it was not sudden and hopefully see that she chose not to let them know she was leaving) and what the department functions/changes would be until we found a replacement. I was made to understand that once she got outside the building, whoever she met, she told them that there were “people” who were happy to see her go. “People” who didn’t like her. That nobody there liked her anyway. It was a very surreal, distressing, frustrating and hurtful situation. So much so, it was on my mind this morning when I got up. I’ve never had this kind of experience at any other job. I’ve always gotten along with everyone and I’ve always left jobs in great standing. The destruction she tried to do to my professional reputation last week and this week wouldn’t be forgotten but I’ll continue to pray that she finds mental health, positive self worth and every imaginable success. But God helping me, I NEVER want to supervise anyone again. I am happy being responsible for my own work; I don’t feel the need to be a manager or supervisor to validate that I have a great work ethic. I don’t need to be a head-honcho to be successful; I don’t need that kind of validation. Some people are great at it, but I’m not — at least with personalities like hers. I’ve supervised 9 people since I’ve been at this job and she’s the only one who I had that type of distressing relationship with. It’s tiring physically and emotionally and I NEVER want to have to do it again. I’m glad I got my Quince birthday loot yesterday because I definitely needed a pick-me up. Le sigh.
D'NALI 
