We finally all slept in!! I mean granted we didn't to go to bed until 12:30, but it was nice not waking up at 3am. I woke up at 6, she was still sound asleep so fell back to sleep for an hour. So nice.
Had a mellow day. Lots of outside time. Made lamb for dinner. Watched some tv. Today is a holiday and I don't plan on doing much today either.
Yesterday was rough. C had the stupid shit. 10:30-6:30. You all know how I feel when I have to teach that schedule. I spent the whole day dealing with dog. Spent more time outside than I have in the last six months. Then when C got home, Sandy missed her so much she was peeing in the house. Which frustrated C. She ended up going to bed at 8:30. I stayed up until midnight. Now she has to work again today 6-2. Plus tomorrow 2-9. I am not mad at her, but I am mad at her job. She needs to tell them this schedule doesn't work. Sigh. It's complicated. Made tacos for dinner.
Round 2 of presentations went well. 121 people showed up for this one. That means over a two day spread, out of 407 people invitied, 291 showed. Apparently from my insiders, the response was overwhelmingly postive. I will take that. I was stressed all day about it. Once it was over it was like a huge weight lifted. It's a holiday weekend and I plan on enjoying it as much as I can.
Remember the client I was bitching about yesterday? Woo boy did he cause major problems yesterday. This is the client I am doing monthly presentations for. I did one yesterday at 8am and another scheduled for today at 2pm. Well he sent no less than three emails explicitly saying what he wanted covered this month and I was not to deviate from his list and I'd better cover everything. Well, I did. Halfway through my presentation to 172 people, he unmutes and tells me to stop talking about certain topics. Huh?? Firts off you completely just fucked my flow up by unmuting and just talking. Second, huh? Turns out the CIO was in the background chewing his ass out for having me cover things that they will not be buying any time soon because the CIO doesn't want to spend money OR show end users anything that could possibly cost them money in the future. Seriously? For example, I am no longer allowed to mention system requirements in my classes because then users go and want better hardware than the shit he has been buying for them. The whole thing turned into a fiasco and him trying to dump the blame on me, me standing up for myself saying um, fuck you, and then me having to rework my whole presentation for today to remove all of the offending pieces. The sad thing? The users LOVED my material. Major kudos were given to me, sent to them, etc. Everyone fucking loved it. The problem is every time I do something for these people it immediately shows how woefully unprepared they are to do anything. Of course this makes me the enemy of IT, but the savior of the people. Go figure.
Another day of being a dog parent. One week to be exact. So much crazy. Can't believe it's been a week already. We went on two walks, made pasta for dinner, stayed up until midnight, up at 3am, back up again for our 6am. So tired but it's so worth it when she snuggles with us.
Time to pay bills.
Some people just don't think about other people. Especially clients who see people like me as toys they can just use at their whim. Remember the client who wanted me to go overseas for them? Here's what they thought was reasonable:
Like excuse you? It's a 12 hour flight from Singapore to Germany not even counting the time difference. Are you nuts? I would be woefully unprepared to teach. I need at least one day in each country to get my bearings let alone be prepared to be functional. Plus I am NOT flying economy for 40 hours total. Kiss my ass. We figured it out and flight costs alone will be 20-30k. Nope. There is NO REASON for this to be onsite if it's only 2 days in each country. Ridiculous.
So yeah that was my day. Fighting that. Dealing with a hyper dog. Spending the afternoon and evening alone. So fucking tired of everything.
Weather was horrible all day yesterday. In the evening we were sure that power was going to go out. C's mom and sister were under tornado watch and a tree ended up falling on her mom's house. No damage luckily, but scary and now they have to have the tree removed. B ended up with branches coming down on their cars and almost getting hit by one. They did end up losing power. Us of course has to take the dog to the vet and go outside for walks in it. Fun times. We did take baby to her first vet appointment. She did great. Got her first set of vaccinations and we got to ask the vet a thousand questions. We do love her so. She of course loved the doggo. Said she was in great health, no issues, and is on the slightly larger side for her breed. We go back in 3 weeks for her second set then in December we will have her spayed and chipped. Then we will be good until Feb. Ah, the joy of parenting.
I worked on stuff for tomorrow's presentation. I have a good presentation put together if I do say so myself. Very impressed with how it turned out. I feel like I could use this for other things. I didn't want to try and cook last night because of the weather so we had burgers delivered. Went to bed at 10, C at midnight, and we skipped the 3am based on the doctor's advice. Thank god. She told us to wake up and see if she was asleep. If so, go back to sleep ourselves.
C closes again tonight. Joy. But the weather is a little better today and shouldn't be raining.
Same shit different day. No sleep. Puppy is life. So tired.
Worked on stuff for upcoming presentations. Had client change what they want so have to redo today. Leftovers for dinner as C worked until 9:30. Went to bed at midnight. Awake at 3. Next potty break at 6am. Going to vet today. Get shots and all sorts of fun stuff.
A little less tired today. Because I have to work, I went to bed at 10, C stayed up to do midnight, then woke up for 3am. I will do 6am, then she will do 9am and noon. Then she is off to work and I will do 3, 6, and 9. Rinse and repeat. This should only last another week or two. Baby is very smart. Smarter than some humans I know. We took her on a ride yesterday where she had some car sickness, but we're learning. She goes to the vet tomorrow. She got to meet B and play with Pip. Good for her to get out and about. We were gone for a good portion of the day. We spent time outside when we got back and did more leash training. A tiring but satisfying experience is being had all around. My roast came out nice. Was very happy with dinner.
Long days and long nights. But I signed up for this. I didn't sign up for C being at work so much. Well, I guess I did.
I wished my friend a happy birthday yesterday but in case he missed the text - Happy Birthday.
Not a whole lot going on outside of puppy work.
We are cronching some breakfast behind me right now. Little chomping noises are so cute. She is such the baby. We are on day two and doing good. No issues, no problems. Little whining last night when we went to bed and turned out the lights. Repitition and follow through are key. We were looking for mama last night when C went to work, but she was okay with me. Those two have bonded like crazy. I love it. I worked during the day, ordered BBQ for dinner as C closed. Same thing tonight. Overall it wasn't a super exciting day and that's okay.
