Good morning!

8-12-15

I made it to Wednesday!

I am always amused when I have sort of random celebrity dreams. I don’t tend to lust after the standard actors. You won’t see a Brad Pitt or Ryan Gosling in my head. The man last night was none other than Bradley Whitford. I had a mega crush on him specifically when he was on the way too short lived show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. I was not only obsessed with the show, but his character in particular was quite appealing to me. I suppose based on that I had a crush on Danny Trip, not so much Bradley, but still. That show went off the air 9 years ago, so it was strange to have him pop up. I don’t recall having watched any shows or movies with him in it recently. You could make the argument that I had been watching Friends when I fell asleep so perhaps Mathew Perry triggered the images what with him being the co-star on the show. I also didn’t do anything with Bradley. I was on some trip to Italy with a group of other people I didn’t know. He happened to be sharing a room with me. This wasn’t the strangest part of the dream, especially because I recall crashing a prom and there was something about an orca in a canal, so I don’t know what was going on. I also spent most of the time gushing over his role in Studio 60 to him, telling him I adored him in that show and he was so incredibly kind about it. And all of this was brought to you by a completely sober Gena mind.

The work day yesterday was super chaotic. You would have thought it was the Monday after my vacation return, but for some reason all of the errors and issues from while I was gone seemed to pop up on Tuesday instead. It wasn’t bad, but it was super busy at many points through the day. I also had to spend a lot of time convincing people of said problems. I had an invoice that didn’t get charged with the credit card it was supposed to and the department who should have handled this didn’t believe me that there was an open invoice. Yeah, stuff like that. I could tell I was fairly well rested in terms of nerves because I wasn’t nearly as annoyed as I could have been. Instead, I just spend a lot of time herding ducks into multiple rows for each situation that came up, and then deployed them to get things fixed.

Sadly, another hiccup took place outside of work that caused the postponement of movie day with my mom. Not a big deal, but Ken called me to tell me the fan belt broke on his car and I may need to go and retrieve him from Costa. I took the 3 minute downtime I happened to have at this point to cancel the afternoon viewing of the Contender and get back to chaos on my desk. I heard back from Ken when I was already walking out the door (10 minutes after I normally leave work) to say all was well. I could have probably had my mom come, but by that time it was already done so I just opted to reschedule for 2 weeks from yesterday. I was able to get a bunch of soccer paperwork together and scrub the kitchen thoroughly which needed to be done, especially with our upcoming house guest.

Speaking of soccer, I finally figured out when Dax’s goalkeeper clinic is. I know, that makes it sound like I was clueless, but in reality it was just ignorance. I hadn’t truly read through the emailed confirmations. It looks as though Dax has M-F, 9 to 3 next week of skills. On Saturday the 22^nd from 9 to noon he has his goaltender clinic. 6 days of soccer is heaven for my child. I think this weekend, or maybe just later this week, we will need to go get both boys new cleats. I figure it works out well for Dax to break his in next week.

I am expecting a call today from MBAH to tell me that hopefully the kittens are negative on their set of tests. Ken took them yesterday to get tested for Feline Leukemia and the panel of bad things. If they are negative, they will be introduced to the general population (Insert salute here) for the week so that I can get the guest room ready for the UK coach.

My hopes for this afternoon, aside from some basic cleanup downstairs will be to continue paperwork organization for all my soccer stuff. I had plans on scanning all of this current fiscal years check request forms so that I could have them up on a public drive in order to help facilitate not only transparency but also to hopefully make upcoming audits easier. I also need to make sure that FY paperwork from July 2014 to June 2015 is in order since that audit starts soon. I am also at a point with the registration payments this past couple months, to implement a payment policy for next year. I have had too many families ask to post date checks or have contacted me asking me to hold checks they just gave me. As much as I want to be kind to these families, it isn’t exactly easy to keep track of all these multiple deposit dates, plus I don’t think that the child should be set up on a team until the payment is deposited. Of course this means I need to write something up, so that will take some time.

I find it humorous that Jennifer Anniston got married last week and Jimmy Kimmel was invited but the guys from Friends were not.

Tonight is an early soccer game for Ken so he and Dax will be gone at like 7:30. It means Bobby and I have GTA ahead of us. I am going to attempt to stay up as late as I can with him, but I know that I will end up going to be a little after 8. I sometimes wonder if I will change my hours when the boys hit JR High/High School. I mean, it isn’t going to be as crucial to get home when I do. Hell, it isn’t super crucial now being that I get home a full 2 hours before they do. Sure, I will be helping with homework for a few more years, and chores still need to be done, but I am betting being home that early isn’t going to be the most important thing to me. I also have to decide if I want to be around this office after 1. Ha! Time will tell. I could easily come in at 5 instead of 4:30 and still leave pretty early at 1:30. It would give me a full half hour extra which sounds nice. I need to evaluate some things.

I need to go to Costco. I have decided I want to get this shelf with the soft drawers for downstairs. I fear I have waited too long, though.

It is time to face my day. Happy morning to you all!