Now It's Warm Again

So it rained all day Monday, stopped raining yesterday, and today the sun is most definitely out and has warmed everything up again. No complaints here as I cling to the last weeks of daylight and Daylight Savings Time is coming up at the end of next week. This being a Wednesday and all, I am thinking I should be busier than I am but that's more than likely just a projection of Wednesdays past. I don't really have many meetings booked until tomorrow morning when I have them all in one morning. But I do have a couple later on in the afternoon. In the meantime, I'm trying to catch up on contracts and such and other documentation I'm behind on. I do acknowledge that THAT is the part I miss Justin the most since I had him to take care of all that. But then again it has been over 3 years now since Justin left the company. I think back at that time in 2018 and I have to cringe. I left Maplewood, Justin quit and there was a lot of turbulence at work because of that... as in Data Analytics was taken from me. Which is why I chuckle that I have them back again. As in I don't even think it matters who they are under. But while under me, I intend to keep them a force as a difference-making unit. I mean we are way advanced in terms of Data Analytics as I pointed out at CCALAC last week and I intend to keep it that way. Even as I continue to help James get something done, and I help Shilpa from getting too frustrated and keep learning the data. When I think of that time the more I appreciate where I am today and I am feeling a lot of gratitude about how things ended up. Anyway the pic of me I posted on my laptop while the dog was happily dozing at my side pretty much encapsulated the morning. For lunch I got myself some nice chicken piccata from Trader Joe's. I love their lunch stuff. Quick, easy to fix by sticking in the microwave and very taste. With a little rice and some peas I already had, I was actually full. As in I almost dozed off right after lunch, reminding myself that I had one of Emma's Compliance/Risk Management meetings at 1 PM. I figured THAT shouldn't take all that long and THEn I could take a nap LOL. But nope, I had another meeting right after that with Salesforce. Sigh. Gotta get that implementation off the ground that thing. Just so I can get another quick win. Why did we need another meeting? Because we weren't on the same page in terms of context. Salesforce thought we were managing grants coming in. We were actually the grantors of the money and we needed to manage THAT. Oh well. I think we patched it up at the meeting. And so on we go to the Statement of Work hopefully.

With the weather warming up again, it was very predictable that Johnnie would want to play at the play area where the kids go when they aren't at STAR anymore since they had officially been checked out. It seems like every kid heads to the play area for a little more play time. Who could blame them?! Look at the pic I posted of Johnnie getting his last minutes of play in for the day. And there were a bunch of other kids there too. I hope he remembers the rules: No touching other kids and to be kind. I'm sure I'm going to be talking about those things at parent-teacher conference in a couple of weeks. HIs grades are just fine I think. But the behavior thing is definitely going to be talked about. Of course there is the parent's behavior I need to focus on too. As in I couldn't get a time slot booked for the conference until a 1 PM slot in the middle of the day. And of course, guess who doesn't sound flexible with that? And today she must have got all that info when she was in a pissed off move boy because she blew up at me yet again. Fortunately I know for a fact (a) it wasn't my fault (b) there wasn't a thing I could do about it (c) I could easily do the thing by myself. She has to choose. In my mind, how are you not able to just get away for 15 lousy minutes for your child's parent teacher conference?? heck I would take the day off for such a thing. But I can't judge Lisa. Something I learned a long time ago. She goes by her own drum beat and I will not try to explain. With no one to blame and nowhere for her anger to go, all she could do was hang up on me. And you know what? It didn't even bother me a bit. It doesn't change anything. Why get mad? She can get mad at herself all she wants. Another reminder to be grateful of how things turned out LOL. In the meantime, Johnnie and I have Domino's thin crust pepperoni pizza to enjoy. And I threw in some penne with sausage too. I realized I could make this thing as well couldn't I? And then we went retro and watched the Magic School Bus. Yay Johnnie!I felt very very good that I didn't let Lisa's antics move my state. Hey It's an R&R week for me right? Johnnie must have been tired from all that play. He was out in 5 minutes. All good.