a day in the life: [02-16-2010]

2-16-2010

Oh wow. Today. Let me tell you it.

So after oversleeping and missing my train, I guess I didn't get off to too bad a start. Had a nice uneventful train ride into the station near the office and a relaxing walk from the station to the office. I realized this morning that the way I'd been walking previously added about 10 minutes to my total time to walk, so I modified my route a little and still managed to squeak into the office at a fairly reasonable hour (for people at my office) and got started with the breakfast of champs, a twix and a mt. dew. Yeah, so totally can't run late anymore. That's a horrible breakfast. I'm not in college anymore!

Anyway, after my lovely breakfast and catching up with my various emails, I got my morning work squared away and started looking at a few higher priority items that got tossed over the wall to me. Nothing too big, just needed attention right then. So, I knocked them out and then went back to looking at the special project that I'm helping out with. I'm assisting another group with testing an application they are trying to roll out and getting up and running for everyone's use. Unfortunately, time has been a little more limited than I'd like, ad I'm sure the other team would like.

So I mostly bounced between things a lot today, and as I was getting ready to bounce to go home, my boss calls and says we have a meeting. Note, it's 5 PM. The meeting wasn't on the schedule. So I stick around and get trained on something, takes about 30 minutes for the "quick" overview and we're cut loose for the day.
It's interesting stuff, but I wish they'd have given us a little more notice.

Anyway, headed home, dropped J off at the house and went up to the coffee shop to get the guys and to talk to M for a bit. Apparently the guys were total nutballs all day today. I don't know what I'm going to do about them. Some days are perfect, but then there are days like today, where nothing gets done and everything apparently stops making sense in their minds. So we split them up for a while and left the oldest to help close up the shop while I took the youngest with me to buy groceries.

While we were at the store T and I decided to get flowers for around the house. Brighten the place up a little bit. It's always so stark and cold in the winter time. I thought we needed a little bit of something to spruce the place up and it would make the girls happy. So I grabbed three bouquets of flowers and brought them home and placed them around the house and it does, it makes the place feel more alive.

After dropping off the groceries and putting flowers up, T and I went back to the shop to pick up A and M and head home for the night. M still had a paper to finish and I needed to get diner cooked. It's spaghetti night!

So home we came. M fixed the red sauce, while I got the rest of the stuff for dinner prepared. Noodles, Salads, Garlic Bread. All of the yummy things that make you come back for seconds or more.

While I was fixing dinner, A was working hard at his school work that he hadn't finished earlier in the day. T had been scrubbing things around the house for use, being really useful as he did. At some point, however, he appears to have wandered off to bed. So once dinner was all ready and I had plates out and was calling people to dinner, we noticed 2 people we not here. Both J and T had curled up and gone to bed. We managed to rouse T, but J just kept sleeping...

After dinner, I tossed the kidslets through various showers and got them shuffled of to sleep. Where I should probably think about heading myself sometime shortly.

So that was my day, in a nutshell.