Yeah, in spite of all my griping, complaining, and whining, I am blessed. I truly am. There are good points and bad points in most people's lives, and I just use this place as my sounding board most days. Although I could really go off on it this morning, but I will choose not to. No need to bore everyone to death.
Our Company won the contracts in the State that they applied for so everyone is quite happy. And they should be. They worked very hard to get these contracts - very hard. I know, because I had to schedule the meetings and I know how crazy it was getting everyone together in the right location at the same time! It is success in action. It also means my work load is going to increase drastically. It's been busy, but not overly so most days, since I started. But now that we have the new contracts, my understanding is that we will be hiring more people (which means I get to schedule more interviews) and there will be more meetings, more trainings, etc., as we gear up for the start date of October 1, 2018. We celebrated with cake yesterday afternoon, as did our Tucson office. AND, I didn't eat any. Wasn't even tempted. I did have to cut the cake, but that was ok. I'd rather have a good piece of pie than cake any day.
My middle child text'd me last night and invited me to lunch in a couple weeks. The first date he asked for was, of course, the weekend we are getting away. If it was just me, I would cancel the getaway just to have an earlier time with him, but I knew better than even mention it. So we scheduled it for the following week. I sometimes wonder what we will talk about.... but we always find conversation to fill up the time - and now we have the great-granddaughter to focus on too. I am looking forward to spending time with him.
God answered my prayers regarding out tax preparation yesterday too. Last year we had to pay Federal $1600. This year, if hubby pulled the right figures (I only question 1 and I have no idea where he came up with that figure or why as we both discussed that item and agreed it was zero....but that's another subject) and put them in the right places on the form. I gave him all my information, and when "we" sat down to go over it, every time I questioned something or commented, I got "will you let me finish" so I just shut up. I wish he would file his own and I could file my own. I don't trust his information.... and he won't let me have the finances back. again, another subject. Anyway, long story short, we only have to pay Federal $168 this year and get a little back from State which will cover the Federal. So to me, that is an answer to prayer. I didn't care if we broke even - I just didn't want a $1600 bill again.
I was able to get my grandson the other day for a few hours and I enjoyed him so much. I called his mother to ask if he wanted his birthday money or to go shopping with Grandma..... and of course he gave the right answer. "He needed to spend more time with Grandma". I love it. We had fun, I think, at least I did. Nothing found at the first store, I returned by the house so he could see Grandpa, then we headed to Walmart where he found something he liked. Then of course we had to go by Dairy Queen and pick up a box of dilly bars for him to share with his family - that has gotten to be tradition as well. He was going to get a blizzard, but by this time I needed to get him back home as his family was taking him out to dinner to celebrate. All in all, I enjoyed my time with him so much, and I believe he enjoyed his time with me as well. I really need to get more of the grandchildren more often for just a few hours. I miss being able to be around them as much as I want to.
I guess I need to stop and get busy - have meetings to schedule and things to do. Hope that your day has been a....
Blessing!
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