Gorgeous weather

Spring is finally here, at least enough to get Chael out of storage and on the road.

I actually got him out of storage a week ago. Talked the boy into picking me up on his way in to work and dropping me off after work. We talked about some of the rides he's done, the weather he's had to deal with.

Most of last week was rainy or windy, so I didn't actually ride again until yesterday. Ran up to the bookstore, cause I just needed something new to read that I haven't already read at least 10 times. Came home with a book on martial arts stretching and The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.

Work has calmed down considerably. I put in 12 hours last Sunday trying to get ready for the removal on Wednesday. Late Monday afternoon the removal was postponed because of the soft freeze for the year end.

The company's fiscal year runs May 1-April 30. We have a hard freeze, where nothing can change in IT unless it's an emergency affecting the financial systems - ie a server goes down or something goes haywire. The soft freeze for year end starts three weeks ahead of the hard freeze, where the VP of IT has to approve any changes before they are made. Removing Project and Visio at this point isn't something the VP would sign off on, so we're waiting until after the freeze is done.

That's OK with me. We weren't ready to do the uninstall even with all the overtime I've put in. That buys me some time to get a few things done and caught up.

It also gives me time to test out the new way the project lead wants to do things. I feel like she completely ignored the previous documents I've written up explaining the process of how I did things. She didn't come to ask me about how I did things or why I did them or the reasoning behind it. Now I get to figure out if her way works or not.

I'm pissed and it also feels like I'm being set up to be removed again. My boss has told me my contract is being extended, but I haven't see it come through yet. Some of it could be year end and the lower VP not being in the office to approve the extension. Still, it feels all too familiar to what happened at the last job.

Been nice to have an entire weekend to myself. Didn't quite know what to do with it all. I've done the usual household chores. I've read. I crocheted yesterday while I was waiting for Taez's brakes to be worked on. Back to the copywriting class I suppose, get that going just in case...

Back to the zoo tomorrow. See what happens.

From the Cape

The last couple days have been insteresting, to say the least.

Friday was a LONG day. Up at 3 am to catch a 6 am flight. Arrived in Boston about 11, got the car and headed for the Cape.

Talk about ants in the pants kids. They were texting back and forth from the time we landed until we arrived in the driveway. T'Sh practically tackle hugged Josh, and they've pretty much been stuck to each other since then.

His aunt MK... Let's just say my dull, boring life seems pretty exciting compared to hers. I have hobbies and do stuff with my life. She watches TV, reads and works. How boring is that?

It also feels like she lives her life in fear. She was surprised to hear I ride motorcycle, even though I'd talked about it on Friday, she really didn't get that I do own a motorcycle and ride until we were coming home from Boston yesterday.

She's really strict about little things that in my mind aren't worth picking fights about. Things like sitting up straight in the back seat on the way to Boston, how he eats, how much he eats. MK made a nervous wreck out of Josh's sister when she dropped a mixing beater on the floor that hit the cabinets and her dress on the way down. MK hasn't learned to pick her battles yet.

She'a not an easy person to warm up to, either. I've been wracking my brain to find topics to talk about. There's just not much there to work with. If I met her in a 'normal' context, she's not someone I'd choose to be friends with. Yet here we are, being cordial and tolerating each other for the sake of our niece and nephew.

Like I told T'Sh on Friday, I'm trying to do for her and the other five the things none of my family did for me. I'm here to listen, to haul her butt out to MA to meet the boy she loves (and has fallen even harder for). I'm also here to pass on what I've learned the hard way, explain the pain of being cheated on, the bio-chemical side of what happens when you have sex and how that effects your feelings and life.

The kids are down on the beach at the moment. T'Sh wanted to build another sand castle and lay out (even though it's windy and cold). I'll wander down in a while with the camera and get some pix of them so I can post them on Facebook for both of them (and post in my cube).

Later we'll head back to MK's for supper. It will need to be an early night, as we need to be on the road by 3 am. It's a 90 minute drive back to Logan and we need to drop off the car before we actually get to the airport and through security.

When we get home, I need to go to the office for a meeting. Show her a bit of cube life, introduce her to my boy. Then we need to head out and meet her mom half way so I can get stuff pulled together for Tuesday.

Other interesting things have happened, but I'll save those for later. Not so much for the kids, but the Universe trying to get some things through to me.