Friday, August 11, 2006

Mello Roos...Hello Booze!

This has been one crazy week...everynite I had a hard time sleeping...everyday I woke up thinking it was the following day, then realizing it wasn't and playing catch-up all day. When I woke up this morning, I thought it was Saturday...and then my alarm clock went off and I realized I needed to get up and get my ass to work.

Monday wasn't so bad, doing the work thing...had a staff meeting and realized, oh shit there is a lot of things that need to get done by Thursday (is it Friday yet!?). Everything that we have been doing since February was leading up to August 10th (Thursday). The last day to turn in special charges to the various counties to be placed on the FY06-07 Tax Roll...exciting huh? hee hee hee. I have a couple of projects I work on for that deadline. Unfortunately, most of what I work on does not follow the same August 10th deadline. I work on the Acquisition side of the Mello Roos Districts. That's me..the auditor...auditing developer invoices and payments to determine how much they should be reimbursed. The developers do not like not being able to get to their money...and believe you me they do think of it as their money. Anywho, instead of the big deadline, and have random spurts of mini-deadlines. On Monday not only did I share the August 10th deadline with my co-workers, but I also had an August 9th deadline for my acquisition work. I was also trying to get my butt to the gym after work, but didn't make it, so I did the stretching and the weights in my room.

Tuesday started out much better, I had completed some of my major tasks that needed to be done before Thursday, which was good. I still had that Wednesday deadline for one of my projects and was really in the zone and got a ton of stuff done...then at 4:30 I open an Excel file from one of my clients and my Excel file that I had been working on all afternoon closed, without saving. AHHHH! I lost 2 hours of work. My boss told me that I need to save things more often, we discussed my deadline, she said there were other things higher on the priority list and that it could wait, and told me to just go home. So I did, and I even made it to the gym. I stayed on the elliptical for half an hour and then spent another half hour on the bike. (yay me!) I even came home and I did the stretching and the weights in my room. I missed Rock Star: Supernova...argh.

Wednesday, one day before the major deadline. I had to nag one of my bossess about one of my other projects...I hate nagging people. Everyone was stressing about August 10th, it was all about the August 10th. I was glad that my Wedenesday deadline was pushed back, but then I thought it was a shame that I had wasted all of Tuesday trying to meet it when I could have been working on something else. And I had very little to show for it because of the computer malfunction. Anywho, by the end of the day we had submitted most of what needed to be submitted. I didn't make it to the gym, I fell asleep at 7pm, woke up to watch the last half of Supernova, did the streaching and the weights in my room, showered and then watched Project Runway (you kinda had to know that Bradley was going to go bye bye, what kind of outfit was that?! and why did he do pants when it's quite obvious from past shows that his pants construction isnt the best?)

Thursday was the day. Sending out the last of what needed to be submitted, tying up the loose ends, and now we are waiting to hear from the counties if our work has been accepted. I even made it to the gym and did some crunches at home...and watched Without a Trace (I don't know why I like that show so much).

Friday was more like Fried-day. It was very hard to concentrate. We had lunch at CPK with an old co-worker. Did a lot of gossiping...momentarily broke the printer...went home on time for a change. I watched Crash and read a little.

But, yay! At least its the weekend and I can relax and not think of work until Monday! Wahoo!

Ooh I can go shopping too! I have a $25 Harris-buck that I have been saving since last November. I should buy something good...or maybe something alcoholic...either way I must save the receipt.

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