Mood Most Foul

It seems of late I've been having "bad" moods. It doesn't take much to get me this way and I can't say I like myself when I'm so bitchy. My team avoids me at work (thankfully) and my family leave me alone.

What causes this? What brings it on? To make this two-day funk mood go away, I plan on going for a long walk (alone) tonight in hopes of dissipating it. As a back-up, I also made some chocolate chip oatmeal cookies--either should do the trick I'm thinking. :-)

My hubbie had several polyps removed today surgically, saying a prayer that the tests come back negative next week. It was a gorgeous day weatherwise, and nice to be away from work!

Mood most foul--be gone!

16 and Driving.....

....driving me nuts! At every opportunity she feels the need to drive by herself with my new 2008 PT Cruiser like it is her God-given right. My parents only let me drive when I had a band concert or had to play at a football game. And even then, I had to come straight home. Perhaps if I didn't have a new car, I wouldn't feel this way but I do. I have to remember that it won't be long and she'll be off to college.

Brain Fuzz

Have you ever had the kind of day, week, month where your ability to remember important things dies a slow death? It seems to have snuck up on me this summer but I've noticed that my ability to remember is proportionate with the amount of work I have on my plate--both at work and at home.

We just finished a 7000+ employee acquisition at work this summer and I coin this summer as the "summer from hell." Right about the time of the acquisition, my star employee got promoted to another team, another employee went out on short term disability and my least favorite employee left the company. The timing was awful. That left one employee and myself to do the work of 5 employees (we still haven't replaced an employee who left last winter), not to mention all the added work. Despite all of that, we managed. We're still not back to 100% workwise but we're slowly getting there.

Now on the homefront, my lovely teenager is in her busy season. Multiple AP classes at school, marching band, 4H and varsity volleyball. We have no life from now until the end of October.

Today my darling husband writes about labwork tomorrow and how he cannot drink his frustrations over not getting a job and it occurs to me--what labwork....remote work? I had completely forgotten he had his annual physical tomorrow as well as the insulation guys are coming to blow more insulation all over our old house. (We live in a historic home that is 118 years old this year.

I'm convinced my forgetfulness is due to stress. I really need to take some time to discover what is important and then strive to obtain it.

Time.....what a commodity.