I’ve been feeling some renewed enthusiasm for my job this week! wooot! it feels really good to come to work and be happy about it instead of that feeling of dread I have been getting every day… Yesterday and today have been different….
I guess you can say that i have not really been “at work” since early last year. at about 6 months pg, my energy was nonexistent… and i did nothing .. and i mean NOTHING. I was surprised nobody called me into their office to have a “talk” with me about it. I guess everyone sympathized with me. who knows.. i was falling asleep on my desk every day and when i was awake, i just had no drive to do anything.. then i went on leave for 3 months, which was a relief because i didn’t have to feel guilty about not doing a thing around here anymore. After coming back, though, and to my surprise, i found that i really didn’t have much drive then either.
It usually takes me a long time to adjust to change and maybe it had somethign to do with the big changes at home, the fact that i have to leave at 3pm no matter what i’m in the middle of doing or having to interrupt my day twice a day to pump (i don’t do that anymore, thank god) or still feeling drained because my hormones were all over the place still or sleeping little and having no time to just lay on the couch.. who knows. It could have been any or all of those things but what i *really* thought was happening was that I was just getting burnt out at this job.
But thank god! recently i’ve gotten a couple small projects, really dumb stuff, and now i have a new more interesting and important task to do. maybe this is the reason i’m feeling better about work? or the fact that i’m taking a walk with jada every day and it’s really works at clearing my mind and helps me unwind, or that i’ve stopped breastfeeding for a month now and my hormones are normalizing because of it or the fact that i get to sleep for 6, 7 hours straight every night… whatever it is, it’s working.
Now with my renewed energy… I find myself on this mission to organize my daily work life. Not concerning myself with home/finances/etc right now, just work. I got couple of good opensource type tools … they are not perfect but it is a start.. so far i have been finding things just about every hour that i waste time searching for even tho i’ve searched for them 100 times before. i have a mess of scripts even i can’t make sense of. etc… i won’t bore anyone with the details just know it’s all a mess. I’ve never done this for my work stuff before but I have to now. I have so many things to keep track of now at home that i can’t remember everything the way i used to..
i’m getting old…
in other news..
after we got most of the trees trimmed back and the floors refinished, yesterday we got out sprinkler system overhauled. It had not been working right since before we moved in here a year ago. Dennis had fixed the pump but that as about it. about half the sprinkler heads got replaced, and now we finally have working sprinklers!! woooo! they turn on on their own every day. i’m not sure how to explain it but every third night a different section of the lawn& yard sprinklers activates.. anyway, it works. maybe our lawn will begin to look better now.
i’ve threatened dennis with divorce if he doesn’t get some estimates for the stucco work asap! I really really want that all finished by june.
in other other news..
the dogs are happy again.. scully and bullet have been sleeping in our room with us again. they start out under the bed or on dennis ever growing pile of dirty clothes on the floor, and end up on our bed by the time i wake up in the morn. scully is in love with jada, and bullet just doesn’t like kids and already snapped at her once when she pulled his ear. (why do babies always go for the ears, anyway!?)
tela should be going to her new home tomorrow, i’ll give lab-lady a call sunday to find out how it all went.
the end
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