It's finally Friday!!! Gosh does it ever feel good to be able to say that. I mentioned in a previous post that I've been working up to 5 hours of overtime per week and I won't lie, it's exhausting. At this point in my life, and with the job I'm currently at I have a negative view on overtime. The extra money is great, especially since I used a lot of money at Country Fest [post(s) still coming!] and I'm going to have to pay for tuition pretty soon. But I'm going to be honest with you, I see overtime as more time to get upset that other people couldn't do their job right and I am now babysitting to make sure that it's fixed. It sucks!
But enough of that negativity.
Tonight and tomorrow night my family, or at least parts of it (like my grandpa, aunt, mom, and dad) will be going to the races at the local quarter mile track. We're going to the Larry Detjens Memorial race. From what my mom told me about Larry Detjens he died in a racing accident, the guard rail came through his car and killed him. A family friend who worked on his car had recently cut roll bars out of the car to make the car lighter, per Larry's request. Talk about a hard thing to get over. The late model feature is a 150 laps so it should be a great two nights of racing in memory of a great Wisconsin racer.
My mom and grandpa are excited to go tonight because of the autograph session featuring people like Dick Trickle (raced locally and went up to the big time NASCAR), Mike Miller, Ross Kenseth (Matt Kenseth's son), and local people who I grew up watching. I remember being to embarrassed to talk to these drivers when we would go in the pits after the races but I always wanted their autographs. I'm sure I won't be that way tonight.
I'll do my best to take some pictures so I can do a more exciting post about the races.
Tomorrow morning Bo has his first vet appointment (since we've had him) so I'll be getting up nice and early to go with my dad. I'm anxious to see how much he's grown. We haven't weighed him in a while so I'm curious how much he weighs now after we've had him for 3 weeks. He's definitely growing fast though as he's getting taller daily it seems!
Enjoy your Friday people!
What are your weekend plans?
Showing posts with label overtime. Show all posts
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Ramblings In My Head
I would love to be posting the second part to my camping weekend but while at work I'm unable to upload pictures from my camera. So here's a little something to hold you over until I get the post written up with pictures.
First of all Bo is on my mind. He has sooo much energy lately and he's using it in the wrong way. He's been biting my fingers, hands, and arms a lot lately. I barely get him to let go and he's back at it again. I've tried to hold his mouth closed and say "no bite" in a strong voice but that doesn't seem to be working. I am open to suggestions! I know he's just a puppy but seriously, I try to play with him using his toys that he is allowed to chew/bite on but of course he goes for my hand/arm instead of the toy I'm holding. He does have a bone which he'll chew on it for a little bit but then seems to lose interest and is back to my hand/arm. It's getting frustrating and makes me want to not be around him. It's also frustrating to my brother who is home alone with him during the day so there is no escaping Bo. My dad doesn't seem to have this problem, not sure what's different about him. And my mom doesn't get on the floor to play with him a lot because of this problem we've been having. There has to be a happy medium between Bo sleeping and being (as we call him) a terrorist dog. What are you suggestions for teaching a puppy that people are not acceptable toys to chew/bite on?
Next thing on my mind is overtime. My department is in a big collections push as a result of a big billing push. Basically because the billing department has been told to "bill, bill, bill" for cash flow reasons, my department (credit/collections) is now being told to "collect, collect, collect". I'm not opposed to the overtime pay, and it's not that I don't have enough work to fill my time, but it makes for long hours at the office. Yesterday I worked 8.5 hours by only taking a half hour for my lunch break but wow was it ever a long day. It took until 4pm to get into a rhythm on the project I was working on. So, until 4pm the day seemed to drag by. I put a post-it note over the time on my phone because it sits right next to my computer screen which means I constantly glance at it. I even put papers over the clock radio that sits slightly behind me and is not in my direct line of sight. When I can't look at the time the day goes by a little bit better. If you follow me on Twitter you probably thought I was crazy when I posted a picture of my post-it note on my phone last week but I do it so I don't go crazy. Do you ever have to work overtime for your job? If so, how do you get through the long days?
And finally the last thing on my mind (but not on the bottom of the list of importance) is fitness. I haven't been doing any sort of activity, unless you count walking around the yard so Bo goes to the bathroom. Tonight, despite the scorching heat, I will be going for a walk. I don't care how it gets done, with Bo and my parents, with just Bo, or alone but it will get done! I've weighed Bo twice by holding him in my arms while on the scale, and then weighing myself alone on the scale. While it's not the scale I usually use to weigh in and I didn't record my weight I still did not like what I saw. Time and time again I say I'm going to kick my butt into gear to lose this excess weight but time and time again I'm not actually doing anything more than thinking about what I should be doing. News flash to self you won't lose weight by only thinking about what you should be doing, you need to actually do it!
There you have it, the ramblings that are going on in my head right now. I'll be posting the second part to my camping weekend (with pictures!) soon and hopefully not too far down the road I'll be posting my Country Fest 2011 recap (with pictures!) too.
First of all Bo is on my mind. He has sooo much energy lately and he's using it in the wrong way. He's been biting my fingers, hands, and arms a lot lately. I barely get him to let go and he's back at it again. I've tried to hold his mouth closed and say "no bite" in a strong voice but that doesn't seem to be working. I am open to suggestions! I know he's just a puppy but seriously, I try to play with him using his toys that he is allowed to chew/bite on but of course he goes for my hand/arm instead of the toy I'm holding. He does have a bone which he'll chew on it for a little bit but then seems to lose interest and is back to my hand/arm. It's getting frustrating and makes me want to not be around him. It's also frustrating to my brother who is home alone with him during the day so there is no escaping Bo. My dad doesn't seem to have this problem, not sure what's different about him. And my mom doesn't get on the floor to play with him a lot because of this problem we've been having. There has to be a happy medium between Bo sleeping and being (as we call him) a terrorist dog. What are you suggestions for teaching a puppy that people are not acceptable toys to chew/bite on?
Next thing on my mind is overtime. My department is in a big collections push as a result of a big billing push. Basically because the billing department has been told to "bill, bill, bill" for cash flow reasons, my department (credit/collections) is now being told to "collect, collect, collect". I'm not opposed to the overtime pay, and it's not that I don't have enough work to fill my time, but it makes for long hours at the office. Yesterday I worked 8.5 hours by only taking a half hour for my lunch break but wow was it ever a long day. It took until 4pm to get into a rhythm on the project I was working on. So, until 4pm the day seemed to drag by. I put a post-it note over the time on my phone because it sits right next to my computer screen which means I constantly glance at it. I even put papers over the clock radio that sits slightly behind me and is not in my direct line of sight. When I can't look at the time the day goes by a little bit better. If you follow me on Twitter you probably thought I was crazy when I posted a picture of my post-it note on my phone last week but I do it so I don't go crazy. Do you ever have to work overtime for your job? If so, how do you get through the long days?
And finally the last thing on my mind (but not on the bottom of the list of importance) is fitness. I haven't been doing any sort of activity, unless you count walking around the yard so Bo goes to the bathroom. Tonight, despite the scorching heat, I will be going for a walk. I don't care how it gets done, with Bo and my parents, with just Bo, or alone but it will get done! I've weighed Bo twice by holding him in my arms while on the scale, and then weighing myself alone on the scale. While it's not the scale I usually use to weigh in and I didn't record my weight I still did not like what I saw. Time and time again I say I'm going to kick my butt into gear to lose this excess weight but time and time again I'm not actually doing anything more than thinking about what I should be doing. News flash to self you won't lose weight by only thinking about what you should be doing, you need to actually do it!
There you have it, the ramblings that are going on in my head right now. I'll be posting the second part to my camping weekend (with pictures!) soon and hopefully not too far down the road I'll be posting my Country Fest 2011 recap (with pictures!) too.
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