Thursday, July 19, 2012

nothing, nothing, nothing...

I got nothing. I'm running around, like the proverbial chicken with my head cut off this week. While my entire office has known for weeks that I am on vacation next week, now is when that fact is actually registering. So everyone wants things done NOW. Do what I can, but I can't fit 50 hours of "I really need this before you go!!" into what's left of my week. As I mentioned, we have expanded out company recently, and added some new staff. (we bought out another company that was going under and inherited some of their people). These are the main culprits. I get a lot of "Well, that's not how we did it at XXX!" I'm so close to saying, "And XXX went bankrupt - see the correlation??"
So I've gone to my boss and asked him to give me a priority list, which I have attacked in order. There are some unhappy people, but I'm one person, and can only do so much. And I have one day left to do it!
Add in the fact that my husband is pretty much going through the same thing at his job (except he owns the place, so it's a little worse for him), and we are trying to get everything together that we want to take, plan out most of the meals so I don't have to go into town if I can help it, and still get the boy to baseball games and other sundry affairs - well, the knitting has taken a back seat.
I'm still knitting sanity-saving socks, but that's about all my fried brain can take right now.
I do have grandiose plans for our vacation week, though - If I can only decide what knitting / weaving / beading I want to take...
Oh to hell with it - I'm taking it ALL!
I'll probably be posting from the cottage - once the wine, beer and "cottage coffees" work their magic on me...

5 comments:

Acorn to Oak said...

Sounds like my husband's job too. Good luck and have a wonderful vacation!

Saren Johnson said...

(hugs)

Enjoy the vacation.

Knit and Purl Mama said...

Sounds like you will certainly enjoy your vacation!

Needles said...

At a girl. Why waste time making stressful decisions. I'd go with taking it all too. Have a great vacation

Anonymous said...

We'll miss you Tuesday.
Have an extra "cottage coffee" for me!
Nancy