So my Case of the Monday's was a week long affair. I just hope it doesn't continue on for the rest of busy season. That would be a lot of Mondays until September. Ugh. Although, if I could have September through March be all Fridays (or better yet, Saturdays) then I could deal with the Mondays for a while...wait, NO what is wrong with me? hehehe.
On Thursday I had printed out my report on the fancy letter head with Friday's date on them so that they would be ready for my boss to sign on Friday. I also printed out the transmittal letter, 11 covers on the fancy color block cardstock, and gathered up all the dividers and back covers for when I bind the reports on Friday. I thought I would be proactive because I new that Friday I would be getting more work in. Also, since my intern, my sister, and Val were all on vacation I would not be getting much help.
Friday came and I gave my boss the report and the cover letter to sign. She reminded me that there was still a questionable part of the report and that she needed to call and verify that we could send out the report. (I had forgotten that she had said that on Monday..err!) My boss tells me to go ahead and start making the copies and binding the reports while we wait to hear from the people. I went up front to drop off the transmittal so that the girls can start getting the labels and stuff ready for overnight.
So there I am making the copies and putting the reports together. It has been MONTHS since I have bound a report. I usually have my intern do it, and before that my sister. I don't mind it so much because it's a nice break from looking at spreadsheets, but my workload has increased tremendously over the past 6 months that I don't have the time to be binding. So there I am sweating and binding, wishing I was confident enough to take off my sweater, hating the fact that I wore knee socks (damn me for being cold in the morning that I would feel the need to wear knee socks to stay warm!) , and cursing myself for not having the rubberband around my wrist that I use to put my hair up in a pony tail.
It took me 3 hours to bind all the reports. I promptly put 9 of them up front to be put in their envelopes and sent out. I go back to my desk to sit down (man was I tired!) and I pull the arm of my chair towards me...only the chair doesn't come towards me. There I am, all sweaty and irritated, wanting to sit down, holding the arm of my chair and watching the rest of my chair slowly spin around. DAMN IT! Of course the arm would come off now! I look to see what was up and realize that the knob used to adjust the chair arm was missing. I didn't see it anywhere on the floor in my cube..and then I have a very vague memory of having a random knob in the box of my stuff from when we moved our office from upstairs to downstairs...but that was 3 years ago! I have no idea where that knob is now! So I switched chairs with one of the empty cubes.
My boss-lady then comes up to me and tells me that its okay to send out the reports because she was able to get a hold of someone. DOH! I had forgotten that I was supposed to hold on to the reports after I bound them! OOPS! Good thing they were okay because I didn't want to have to go up front and tell the girls that we weren't sending them out today after all.
Two big boxes of work came in for me on Friday too. Another 12 binder audit for me to work on. Yay me... *sigh*
At least the Mondays only happen at work. This weekend has been great! Fairly low-key. I got a lot of stuff done for next weekend. I also watched a few movies and caught up with my friends. After a week of phone tag I finally got a hold of Chris! YAY!
Now if I could just get a new cellphone that doesn't drop my calls, sign me on and off of AIM on its own, and actually sends and recieves emails and texts when I send and recieve them, that would be great!
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