Tuesday, January 31, 2006
I’m stuck on the phone with PRISM support. I called before 7:30am (I love that they’re open for East Coast customers so I can get all my PRISM issues worked on before anyone shows up for work.) So, I call at 7:20am and here I am still stuck on the phone. I’m thinking that Steve could have called me back on this, but he’s got me tied up on the phone hear with my screens all looking up stuff. So…in between him talking (mostly to himself) I’m looking up local news and typing my blog. – I’m pretty sure I felt a minor earthquake this morning about 6:30am. I had just arrived in the parking lot and turned off the car for about two minutes when I felt the whole car/ground vibrating or shaking. There were no buses around and the construction a block away doesn’t start for another hour. I called Frank and told him, and I haven’t seen any new about it yet. There was an earthquake centered not even a mile from hear the other night. – Steve is now explaining to me what changes from our latest upgrade could possibly be causing the errors I’m experiencing. I’ve been on the phone for almost 45minutes now. – I’m going to think about grocery list now…
Diapers (Almost don’t need them anymore, but still do)
Laundry detergent (big laundry spree lately with five month old dog and swamp yard)
International Delight French Vanilla Creamer and Crème Brule Creamer (I do French Vanilla, Frank is Crème Brule)
Del Monte canned corn (small cans) (Lexie and I love it)
Chunky Soup (chicken dumpling) (Mmm. My favorite to take to lunch)
Diet Cherry Coke (Mmmm…)
Dog Treats (Thumper loves ’em)
Those papers that go on the bottom of the Clorox version of the Swifer wet jet. (Thumper brings the swamp onto the linoleum multiple times a day. We stopped using the Swifer thing for a while, but now I’m in love with it again.)
8:06 and still on the phone…I’m listening to Steve talking, “Okay, I’m grabbing the first file…I printing from your system since it’s your data dictionary we’re having to live with…(typing, typing, typing, silence silence silence, more keystrokes) I’ll have to do this a different way, I’ll have to go a different direction…I need to dial into your system a different way…I’m going to have to ask you to hold a minute, I’ll be right back.” Then he sets the phone down, and I’m going to work the missing fee ticket report while a can. Back later…8:14 and he’s back talking to himself and occasionally me to let me know what he’s doing and ask me a question…”File, print…second one…set up…oh…there…(some oral clicking noise)…(small sigh)…setup (he’s now basically whispering)…OK, let me get this off our printer, hold on…(he puts the phone down on his desk)…Ok, Rachel?”, yeah, “I’ve got the printouts for everything…” And now he’s going over the relation ships between all the files in my report. I’m tuning out and I’m going to work on missing fee ticket some more.
Finally, I got of the phone with him about 9:04. I got an email response back from KGW stating no reports of earthquakes this morning and pointing out a cool website for me to look at real-time (ish) earthquake data in our area. So, I wonder what I felt?
9:21am, calling Cerner about completely different issue. This call only takes five minutes, but the issue is not resolved.
Word(s) of the day: ARCH NEMESIS TREMOR
Lexie log: She made another blockhouse last night. Different design, and still neat. This one included a cylindrical block and a funny shaped Lego on the roof. She uses a combination of old-fashioned wood blocks and shapes and the peek-a-block blocks and Legos. I took another picture and will post it later. – Lexie re-discovered corn last weekend. I took a couple bites straight from the can and offered her one and she now requests corn frequently. As long as it isn’t heated up. She likes it straight from the can (so do I). – Today I get off work at 12:00 for Lexie’s three-year exam. I’m so excited. I love doing stuff that is about her. – Grammy’s biopsy is done, and she sounded fine yesterday afternoon. Minor procedure, and although she will probably be sore, she’s still coming over to visit Lexie et. all this afternoon.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, hands free headsets for long phone, leaving work early- for it is Hell here today, and the promise of future laughter and happiness.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Monday, January 30, 2006
Scooby Dooby Doo...Where are you?
Monday, January 30, 2006
Ahhhh…another great weekend has passed. Back to the old grindstone. I posted some pictures yesterday of Lexie and Frank at the office, and Lexie building a house with blocks. – Today, Mom is having a biopsy… I have a positive feeling that everything will come out with negative, which is positive. – Early last week, while I was on the phone at my desk, my boss, Barb, put a flyer for a one day seminar on supervision on my desk in front of me. Some time early April. I hope I get to go. I really like these seminars. I used to go to a couple a year when I worked at Aetna. I’ve been to a few on team leadership.
Word(s) of the day: SPURIOUS ANOMALY
Lexie log: Saturday we visited Gramma Betty for a short time, she wasn’t feeling well. We walked Thumper around the block a couple times, then went home for a while. Lexie and I went swimming at the pool. We had a blast. We found this corner of the pool where the jet was turned up all the way, and pointing towards the surface. It was creating a pretty amazing current for a swimming pool. Lexie wore some arm floats, I would put her in front of the jet stream, she would hang on to the wall, then let go and get pushed across the pool. Like riding a mini rapids. We both just thought this was the best. After a while she got so good at it, that she could position herself so that it would spin her around in circles. We spent a good hour and a half playing in the pool. She did much better at swim on Sunday. She did better with her kicking and she went to the bottom of the pool to get a toy, twice! I started to feel a little tension a couple times when she would stop listening or paying attention, then I just reminded my self that this was for Lexie to have fun and socialize in an environment she loves, water! If she learns to swim, super, water safety, even better. In fact, I’m sure she will, I need (and perhaps Daddy too) to just relax and enjoy her enjoying. – After swim, we stopped by the house so Daddy could make the cup of coffee he missed earlier, then off to work. It was such a treat to be able to bring her and Daddy in to work with me. I think it was nicer too, that no one was here except the new network tech. I get too nervous when they’re here with everybody. The software install and subsequent application backup each take 10-15 minutes to run without intervention, so I got to take Lexie on a tour and show her my desk and spend time with her. We turned on the TV in the conference room to arena football. I got Lex a plate of crackers and water. She loved the oversized rolling chairs in the conference room. She got to see the little frogs. If I’d thought of it, she could have gone to the peds waiting room and played on the mini gym and looked at the fish tank. Next time. We took a mini-tour down to the basement, which was awesome. We wished we could peek at the super scary boiler, monster huge, but we didn’t have the key. The new tech guy (Paul), and I told Daddy and Lexie about all the creepy things with the clinic. Lexie just loved this, and when we looked into the creepy phone switch room (remember, this building has been annexed onto for the last seventy years), she was delightedly creeped out and called out, “Scooby Doo, where are you!” I loved to have her here and I wish I could bring her once a weeks. She fell asleep on the way home and napped for a couple hours. – The hardest part about Mondays is missing her.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, weekends, overtime with Lexie and Frank, movies, pillows, laughter, and happiness.
Ahhhh…another great weekend has passed. Back to the old grindstone. I posted some pictures yesterday of Lexie and Frank at the office, and Lexie building a house with blocks. – Today, Mom is having a biopsy… I have a positive feeling that everything will come out with negative, which is positive. – Early last week, while I was on the phone at my desk, my boss, Barb, put a flyer for a one day seminar on supervision on my desk in front of me. Some time early April. I hope I get to go. I really like these seminars. I used to go to a couple a year when I worked at Aetna. I’ve been to a few on team leadership.
Word(s) of the day: SPURIOUS ANOMALY
Lexie log: Saturday we visited Gramma Betty for a short time, she wasn’t feeling well. We walked Thumper around the block a couple times, then went home for a while. Lexie and I went swimming at the pool. We had a blast. We found this corner of the pool where the jet was turned up all the way, and pointing towards the surface. It was creating a pretty amazing current for a swimming pool. Lexie wore some arm floats, I would put her in front of the jet stream, she would hang on to the wall, then let go and get pushed across the pool. Like riding a mini rapids. We both just thought this was the best. After a while she got so good at it, that she could position herself so that it would spin her around in circles. We spent a good hour and a half playing in the pool. She did much better at swim on Sunday. She did better with her kicking and she went to the bottom of the pool to get a toy, twice! I started to feel a little tension a couple times when she would stop listening or paying attention, then I just reminded my self that this was for Lexie to have fun and socialize in an environment she loves, water! If she learns to swim, super, water safety, even better. In fact, I’m sure she will, I need (and perhaps Daddy too) to just relax and enjoy her enjoying. – After swim, we stopped by the house so Daddy could make the cup of coffee he missed earlier, then off to work. It was such a treat to be able to bring her and Daddy in to work with me. I think it was nicer too, that no one was here except the new network tech. I get too nervous when they’re here with everybody. The software install and subsequent application backup each take 10-15 minutes to run without intervention, so I got to take Lexie on a tour and show her my desk and spend time with her. We turned on the TV in the conference room to arena football. I got Lex a plate of crackers and water. She loved the oversized rolling chairs in the conference room. She got to see the little frogs. If I’d thought of it, she could have gone to the peds waiting room and played on the mini gym and looked at the fish tank. Next time. We took a mini-tour down to the basement, which was awesome. We wished we could peek at the super scary boiler, monster huge, but we didn’t have the key. The new tech guy (Paul), and I told Daddy and Lexie about all the creepy things with the clinic. Lexie just loved this, and when we looked into the creepy phone switch room (remember, this building has been annexed onto for the last seventy years), she was delightedly creeped out and called out, “Scooby Doo, where are you!” I loved to have her here and I wish I could bring her once a weeks. She fell asleep on the way home and napped for a couple hours. – The hardest part about Mondays is missing her.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, weekends, overtime with Lexie and Frank, movies, pillows, laughter, and happiness.
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Friday, January 27, 2006
People say "Yo, Humpty, you're really funny lookin' ", that's all right 'cause I get things cookin'
Friday, January 27, 2006
Didn’t make it in to work yesterday. I got about a quarter mile from home, and as soon as I got up over 10 miles per hour, I heard it…The dreaded ‘thump, thump, thump’. Flat tire. Frank went out to start to put on the spare, but it was only 6:30am, dark, freezing, raining, and on a slope. I made him come in, when I found out Les Schwab didn’t open until 8:00am I called and said I wouldn’t be making it in. Frank put the spare on and took it to the tire place at 9:30am. He came home with a ¼ inch by 1 inch piece of steel that they pulled out of the tire. It looks suspiciously like something that would come from the 24 hour fitness construction I drive by every morning. The nice part about it was that I got to take care of Lexie and do some housework while he was gone. I made me wish, again, that I could be a stay at home mom. – The flip side of this is that I have to come in Sunday to do an upgrade install to our billing software. I asked the administrator and Lexie and Frank and come in with me. I think that’s neat and I’m excited about bringing them in, unfortunately, Frank seems to have taken the approach that he will be sitting around for an hour. Reminds me of the episode of Raymond we saw last night when they got to go to Italy…although my work is far from a vacation in Italy, at least it’s a new experience that he can do with Lexie and me.
Word(s) of the day: FLABBERGASTED
Lexie log: “He’s a big bear, like that. And he’s falling down, you know, like that. And he’s running, he’s running, he’s running. He’s silly.” Excerpt from Lexie speaking on Fred, the Fred Meyer bear at the Aloha store last night. I love her story telling. She talks about sharks and the kitties, mostly about Thumper. When we’re in the car, she gets excited about street lamps and thinks the tress that go by are all falling.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, weekends, swimming, Les Schwab, coffee, weekends, laughter and happiness.
Didn’t make it in to work yesterday. I got about a quarter mile from home, and as soon as I got up over 10 miles per hour, I heard it…The dreaded ‘thump, thump, thump’. Flat tire. Frank went out to start to put on the spare, but it was only 6:30am, dark, freezing, raining, and on a slope. I made him come in, when I found out Les Schwab didn’t open until 8:00am I called and said I wouldn’t be making it in. Frank put the spare on and took it to the tire place at 9:30am. He came home with a ¼ inch by 1 inch piece of steel that they pulled out of the tire. It looks suspiciously like something that would come from the 24 hour fitness construction I drive by every morning. The nice part about it was that I got to take care of Lexie and do some housework while he was gone. I made me wish, again, that I could be a stay at home mom. – The flip side of this is that I have to come in Sunday to do an upgrade install to our billing software. I asked the administrator and Lexie and Frank and come in with me. I think that’s neat and I’m excited about bringing them in, unfortunately, Frank seems to have taken the approach that he will be sitting around for an hour. Reminds me of the episode of Raymond we saw last night when they got to go to Italy…although my work is far from a vacation in Italy, at least it’s a new experience that he can do with Lexie and me.
Word(s) of the day: FLABBERGASTED
Lexie log: “He’s a big bear, like that. And he’s falling down, you know, like that. And he’s running, he’s running, he’s running. He’s silly.” Excerpt from Lexie speaking on Fred, the Fred Meyer bear at the Aloha store last night. I love her story telling. She talks about sharks and the kitties, mostly about Thumper. When we’re in the car, she gets excited about street lamps and thinks the tress that go by are all falling.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, weekends, swimming, Les Schwab, coffee, weekends, laughter and happiness.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Come on feel the noise...
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Taking an early break to blog this morning since it will be another busy day today. Happy Anniversary to my Mom and Dad. I’m pretty sure they’ve been married for a hundred years now. Isn’t that the paper anniversary or something? Mom works every other Wednesday, I can’t remember if she has this one off or not, but I hope so. – Today is the day the new network technician starts. That should be interesting. I hope he can get to organizing the backup tapes pretty soon. I’ve lost about three to four tapes in the last couple months and never could get replacements very easily from Seth. – I’m starting to settle into a nice grove here. Although, I do feel like I’m making an excessive amount of silly mistakes lately. Learning curve? Actually, I probably was just secured in my little niche of insurance accounts, and now that I’m out with my hands in darned near everything, I’m liable to trip and flounder a bit. Nothing time and experience shouldn’t handle.
Word(s) of the day: NEPTUNE
Lexie log: Monday Grammy came over and took Lexie out in the court for a tricycle ride. Yesterday when I got home, Grammy and Grandpa were there, and Lexie was laughing infectiously. She is so in love with her Grammy and when Grandpa comes over too, it’s a special treat. She is drawn towards them both. When they went to leave, Lexie said, “Don’t leave, I love you!” It made butterflies in my tummy and tears in my eyes. – I can really see a relationship develop between Lexie and Thumper. They treat each other different, like buddies or siblings, it really kind of neat. Daddy took some great pictures of them in the backyard yesterday, since we finally had a sunny day, and I’ll post a couple soon. – I made up her bed last night, and told her it was time for bed, but she refused. So I went around and turned off every light in the house, sat down next to her bed with a book and a flash light and waited. She crawled into bed, scrunched around and got comfortable, so I gave her a kiss and read the book of nursery rhymes. She was hyper the whole time and talking, so I asked her to close her eyes while I read. I looked over at one point and she had her eyes closed so tight, she was probably seeing stars. I had to sound relaxing and convince her to relax. I read Sponge Bob a couple times and some other book too. I’m really going to have to come up with a good couple of bedtime story books, longer than the ones she has right now for younger babies. After I don’t know how many readings, she finally rolled on her side and started falling asleep. I stayed quiet for a really long time, and then tried to get up. She stirred when I moved so I had to be as stealth as possible. After over an hour of putting her to bed, I finally made it to bed myself. But alas…not a half hour went by before she woke up crying and crawled into bed with us. Sooner or later we’ll get down a good bedtime routine.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, coffee and creamer, weekends, Tupperware, Advil, and lots of other stuff.
Taking an early break to blog this morning since it will be another busy day today. Happy Anniversary to my Mom and Dad. I’m pretty sure they’ve been married for a hundred years now. Isn’t that the paper anniversary or something? Mom works every other Wednesday, I can’t remember if she has this one off or not, but I hope so. – Today is the day the new network technician starts. That should be interesting. I hope he can get to organizing the backup tapes pretty soon. I’ve lost about three to four tapes in the last couple months and never could get replacements very easily from Seth. – I’m starting to settle into a nice grove here. Although, I do feel like I’m making an excessive amount of silly mistakes lately. Learning curve? Actually, I probably was just secured in my little niche of insurance accounts, and now that I’m out with my hands in darned near everything, I’m liable to trip and flounder a bit. Nothing time and experience shouldn’t handle.
Word(s) of the day: NEPTUNE
Lexie log: Monday Grammy came over and took Lexie out in the court for a tricycle ride. Yesterday when I got home, Grammy and Grandpa were there, and Lexie was laughing infectiously. She is so in love with her Grammy and when Grandpa comes over too, it’s a special treat. She is drawn towards them both. When they went to leave, Lexie said, “Don’t leave, I love you!” It made butterflies in my tummy and tears in my eyes. – I can really see a relationship develop between Lexie and Thumper. They treat each other different, like buddies or siblings, it really kind of neat. Daddy took some great pictures of them in the backyard yesterday, since we finally had a sunny day, and I’ll post a couple soon. – I made up her bed last night, and told her it was time for bed, but she refused. So I went around and turned off every light in the house, sat down next to her bed with a book and a flash light and waited. She crawled into bed, scrunched around and got comfortable, so I gave her a kiss and read the book of nursery rhymes. She was hyper the whole time and talking, so I asked her to close her eyes while I read. I looked over at one point and she had her eyes closed so tight, she was probably seeing stars. I had to sound relaxing and convince her to relax. I read Sponge Bob a couple times and some other book too. I’m really going to have to come up with a good couple of bedtime story books, longer than the ones she has right now for younger babies. After I don’t know how many readings, she finally rolled on her side and started falling asleep. I stayed quiet for a really long time, and then tried to get up. She stirred when I moved so I had to be as stealth as possible. After over an hour of putting her to bed, I finally made it to bed myself. But alas…not a half hour went by before she woke up crying and crawled into bed with us. Sooner or later we’ll get down a good bedtime routine.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, coffee and creamer, weekends, Tupperware, Advil, and lots of other stuff.
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