<p>Fall Girl - what a nice surprise! If only. I know I’ve set myself up today. Yesterday I let slip to the client that we were tracking not 1 but 3 issues with regards to something that isn’t working for them. Previously my boss made the decision to just tell them about one. We are fixing all 3 and know what the issues are so yesterday I made the mistake. He heard it from the client last night and I ponied up and said that I had told them. So all in email right now. I’m sure that I’ll hear about it for the next several days. My bad. I had forgotten that we weren’t mentioning the other 2 to them - oh well…</p>
<p>Wonderful post, shaw, and certainly struck a note around here.</p>
<p>Fallgirl - kudos on the email but also kudos on your own insights regarding your work performance. You sound very pleased with your assessment - nice!</p>
<p>mp and kmc - too funny…joy over the kiddos eating meat! HA!</p>
<p>c_q - I think I may have missed this… have you moved? How is Chicago working out for D?</p>
<p>PS - dte… upward and onward!</p>
<p>3 days so far this week and I’ve gone to the gym every day! H and I are taking East Coast Swing class on Monday nights so another hour of exercise there and I have Pilates tonight so doing fairly good this week. I don’t want to get up but finding if I do I do feel better throughout the day. Also I haven’t been working through lunch. I think that is also helping me with the stress level.</p>
<p>Shower prep continues. Nothing new finished just more steps done. :)</p>
<p>Woody,we are prepping for a move this week, but the actual final move of all household objects will need to happen next month – too little advance time. Both H and I begin new jobs on Monday on opposite coasts. Mine is just a week of training, the second week I’ll join him in our new home on the east coast and attend a software training session remotely as part of my training. </p>
<p>D is doing well in Chicago. She enjoys her job and has been made second in command for her area. She’s passed her two required certification exams. They’ve added a couple of new employees since she started in July so she’s not “new” anymore! She and her bf celebrated their 5 year anniversary, are happy and are coming to this area for Thanksgiving. Right now I don’t think we will be here (she knew in advance this was a possibility when she made her airline reservations), but she has grandparents, aunts and uncles, and cousins to visit. We’re currently planning on celebrating Thanksgiving with S and our nephew in the east.</p>
<p>RM, way to go! I have gained some weight and need to get back on the eating healthy/exercising regularly wagon. And I’m glad you’re not working through lunch! Sorry about your continued work stresses.</p>
<p>Thanks CQ but today’s work stress I take total blame for. I just didn’t remember. Haven’t seen “his highness” (my boss) yet. For some reason that is the way I think of him as he has a very dictatorship style.</p>
<p>KMc I appreciate the permission , you get that sometimes we care takers need permission.
CQ I missed not that you were moving but where. So glad your D is doing well.
D was out for MIL funeral, she was sick now I am . awesome
I did go to Whole foods yesterday. Time to get back to the nutrition, working out, etc…
People keep asking why I am in school, when I explain it makes them think, but I am a life long learner, as many here are. why do we stop when we get to a certain age (or earlier or never).
MP I hope this all works out for you and is a good opportunity, </p>
<p>Shawbridge – I think you captured it very well. Pretty amazing that your one sister developed a gratitude attitude so late in life. But, better late than never. </p>
<p>DTE – I hope today is a better day, and that you can leave some of those folks behind. </p>
<p>MP – I’m excited for you. May it be six months of good adventures, new learning, and a client that pays on-time. (And very cool about D2 getting preferential enrollment.) How is PieSon finding school?</p>
<p>DTE, we are moving to THE BIG APPLE! Which is quite a shift from where we are currently. H’s job comes with a place to live.</p>
<p>Shaw, what a great post in many ways. As to your mom being curt with Shawife, I am trying really hard to recognize intention and I would guess it was very disappointing to not have your wife’s good intentions been received as such, especially when she is generally so good at it. And I would agree that people inherently don’t change, but I will say that money has a tendency to change people - whether they had it and lost it, or never had it and now do. </p>
<p>Had a cease and desist letter sent today to a woman who is just weirdly bent on talking behind my back, which wouldn’t be actionable per say, but by spreading lies is clearly determined to damage my reputation. Good thing I have a friend who is an attorney. I asked what I owe him and finally agreed I will pay him based on his halloween costume Friday night. :)</p>
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<p>What would possess someone to do that? Very weird,nasty and scary. Glad you have the attorney friend, moda.</p>
<p>Good luck on the move CQ. I know nothing about moving. We have lived in the same house since less than a year out of college. I would have thought that we might have moved out of NY state when we retire but now with the kids living here it is looking like we will stay. Ugh. I hate being so far away from the ocean!</p>
<p>DTE - you go! I can’t imagine going back to school but am in awe of those who do it!</p>
<p>Moda – ugh – how scary!</p>
<p>MP - good luck with being at the clients site.</p>
<p>moda - How awful!
C_q - would love to get together once you are settled!</p>
<p>woody - that would be lovely, of course right now I have a hard time believing I will ever be settled! Looking forward to that mythical time in the future!</p>
<p>Moda, glad you had an attorney buddy.</p>
<p>H’s sister was actually taken to court over things she was writing about someone in her blog. SIL somehow thought it was okay to trash someone if she didin’t mention the person’s name - of course, everyone in the area who read her blog knew who she was talking about. Of course, wrongdoer SIL called me for advice before her court date. I bit my tongue and didn’t give her a moral lecture. I kept it strictly legal - show up for the hearing, be respectful, obey any order of the court, etc. You’d think the simplest lessons we learned in kindergarten or Sunday School (e.g. the Golden Rule) would keep folks from doing things like that.</p>
<p>c_q, sending you energy and patience during your move. </p>
<p>What a year of change it has been!</p>
<p>Best of luck on the move, c-q.</p>
<p>MP, sounds like a great opportunity (plus a smaller commute). As I write, I’m patronizing your new client.</p>
<p>ShawSon is de-stressing a bit. Got a 97 on the mido-term quiz in his hard course and so has an A- average. Each of his courses seems to have problem sets and drops the lowest one or two grades. This week during mid-terms he opted to not do his math problem set (he says at this level he can do very well because the other kids don’t have the same experience with doing proofs that he does although at the next level, the kids will have as much experience as he does or more) and in his programming class (though he started it to make sure he knew the basic concepts they were getting at). In the programming course (actually called Computational and Mathematical Engineering)J, he is catching up from not having one semester or year of prerequisites but is who he is and is just gutsing it out and will probably end up with a performance he’ll be comfortable with. He can continue on for the year with two more CME courses or two computer science courses. The computer science courses play more to his conceptual strengths while the CME courses are much more engineering oriented – how to get the program to be as efficient as possible. The former will undoubtedly be easier for him, so the question is what would be best for him. I am on my way out to have a few business meetings and then get together with him. </p>
<p>How is the moving prep coming along c_q?</p>
<p>Glad Shawson is settling in. Proofs gave me the dickens of a time, but they clicked pretty well in formal languages for no reason I was ever able to explain.</p>
<p>Moda – ugh. I hope this woman stops right now.</p>
<p>Yikes Missy - I definitely have “referred” to this person on fb, but more what she is doing to me. I just had a letter sent to shut the heck up, and since it’s not liable but more slander because she isn’t writing it. And of course, it could make the whole thing worse. 
I gotta figure out a way to send more postive karma out into the world. The negative drama is something I just can’t seem to get away from of late.</p>
<p>Oh… so S sent me his spreadsheet with passwords etc of schools. I only was able to easily navigate to one portal and saw his application had been on hold. There was an option to update, and of course, since he wasn’t checking online statuses beyond your application is complete, who knows how long ago he was put on hold. So then, I check the status and the next day the school sends out a slew of rejections - S’s being one of them. I got this email that asked what I had done! I was like… whaaaat? Then I saw about 20 other rejections posted on forum I lurk on. I was quite literally relieved, but then I said, I wonder how many who sent updates were sent rejections. And now I am curious if he is checking all applications, which he absolutely should. His point is, he did the work, and doesn’t want to become obsessive about it, which I think is fair. Who knows. </p>
<p>So today I went to a halloween store and bought a big heart/clock necklace that is supposed to go with a tin man costume from Wizard of Oz as accessory and I also bought a pair of wings. I am going as Time Flies. That’d be the extent of my halloween creativity thank you very much. </p>
<p>I like your costume, Moda. Someimes less is more ;). …Unless like me its none ;)</p>
<p>I have the Halloween blues this year…I miss “real” Halloween. Where we live now is too remote to get any kids at all. I should probably have volunteered to help hand out candy at one of my friend’s houses. And my friend most likely to have a Halloween party is off to LA this year instead 
There are a handful of zombie parties downtown tomorrow, and a major Halloween rave right by our studio, but getting mch to one of those is much less likely than to a smaller house party.</p>
<p>I have to make a point of remembering to make plans next year. I don’t think I’m willing to give up dress-up This year it just got away on me. It’s about the only time I don’t like living out here and its easy enough to fix if I think ahead!</p>
<p>Enjoy those trick or treaters for me, guys!</p>
<p>It should not surprise you (given the Christmas tree posts) that we are “that” house on the block at Halloween…the house with 7 of the huge inflatables and of course, it doesn’t stop there. H loves this stuff. Son is coming over to help pass out candy. We always make a pot of chili. Of course, it’s not great having my last day in the office be Halloween, because H and Son will be disappointed if I work late.</p>
<p>There is a tower with a ball on it that is part of the Dallas skyline. This morning (driving to work in the dark) it is a Jack O’lantern. </p>