Saturday, September 30, 2000

We are now entering the truly exciting phase of this project that has kept me up late every night for weeks. Testing. This is when we find out if all of the hard work paid off or if we came up short somewhere. I feel really good about it. Every day presented an obstacle that seemed unsurmountable and every day we conquered the problem. Only one constant problem remains - I won't bore you with the details of that because we will work around it until it is resolved. When large corporations are involved, there's bound to be nagging problems that hang over the entire project. The big picture is good though as this is the first project that involved all of us working together as a team and we did good. I'm really looking forward to a few evenings of no work except housework. The house has been declared a disaster area but I don't think I'll have to call in the haz mat team. As tired as I am and as messy as things around me have become, it still feels damn good to be supporting myself. Big thanks and mucho love to my mom and Todd for keeping up the homefront for Christopher. Hopefully they can rest now too.

posted by Lisa 9/30/2000 11:20:00 AM | link it |

Sunday, September 24, 2000

Wow - things sure can change in a hurry! Just a few short weeks ago I was complaining about the heatwave and no air conditioning; now it is struggling to reach 50 degrees and raining. My oldest brother called last night and said he was stranded in Wyoming due to snow. SNOW??? This early?? I hear meteorologists predicting an early and nasty winter. That makes me pretty damn happy because I am one of the few who absolutely love the snow. However, if the predictions of higher energy costs hold true also then I may be building a snow fort to live in and that wouldn't make me happy at all. I shudder to think what it is going to cost to heat this big old house in a harsh winter. I've lived here five winters now and they have all been pretty mild. Those bills were bad enough.

Speaking of predictions, I have one of my own. I've been working long hours again and pushing myself to the extremes to keep on top of things. It seems like when I do that, I get wore completely down and end up sick. If there is truth to that, then I need to get a flu shot this fall because I am already running down and still have a couple of intense weeks ahead of me before I can take a breath. I used to go to bed at night and spend an hour or so thinking about the day I just finished and what all I needed to do the next day. Lately, I go to bed and within 3 minutes I am out cold and wake up a few hours later feeling like I've been hit by a train. I read this article the other day about a father leaving his infant son in the backseat of the car all day and thought that was almost impossible to believe. The more I think about it though, the more I think that could quite easily happen. It seems like everyone is just rushing through life at an alarming pace. I wonder if this guy worked long hours and was simply worn out. Still seems hard to believe that someone could forget their child. The other day I asked Todd to go pick Christopher up from the babysitters and he came back and said he wasn't there. Once I took a second to think about it, I remembered what day of the week it was and that he was at his grandma's instead. That was a little unnerving. Maybe everyone should just take a week off. That's it! Everyone take the week off and I'll see you back here on October 1st : )

posted by Lisa 9/24/2000 02:37:00 PM | link it |