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sugar free treats
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I’m spending the evening recreating some of my favorite deserts to be sugar free. My dough is refrigerating for a while, so I thought I’d take a minute to post something. Baking is proving to be a nice diverserion from the long day. I’d really like to go out and do something out of the house, but my checking is in the red and payday isn’t until next friday.
Today, my boss came to the office frustrated and gave my co-worker and I an hour long talking too. Most of it was directed at my co-worker so I mostly just listened to what he had to say and let them argue it out. My co-worker takes a lot of heat and unfortunately takes it very personally. It made the rest of the afternoon very uncomfortable.
I’m glad to be home and can’t wait for the weekend to come. One more day.
Today, I hate my job.
1It’s pretty rare that I have days that I dislike my job. This week is apparently filled with these days. High on stress, low on time and too much crap to deal with.
It’s almost 6 p.m. and I’m still here and haven’t even started on my own workload that needed to be done today. I finally finished going through my emails and taking care of the small things… now I get to jump into some database work that will take… oh… about 6 more hours.
My CEO poked his head in earlier, looked at my disgruntled face, mustered up his best Elmer Fudd and said “I’m going to be veeeewry veeeewry qwuiet” and then slowly shut the door again.
Well I’ve wasted enough time being bitter on staying late…AGAIN… so back to work for me. Maybe I’ll get home in time to shower, walk back out the door, and drive back to work and start a whole new day.
Why the piggy should stay
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I felt like I had to defend the piggy this morning. Investors of some sort are coming Monday so we’re asked to clean up our offices and make them as professional as possible.
When I got back to my office, ScannerGirl took a look at the piggy bank and said the boss would probably want that put away for now. Along with the piggy candy dish, oh and the piggy/palm tree fan. Anything “voodoo” as my ceo said.
Reasons, piggy should stay:
1) we are both princesses
2) we are both piggies in some fashion.
3) we both love the monies
4) we both don’t mind getting felt up for money (ok i’m kidding on that one…i think…who’s got money?)
5) we both look faboo in a tutu
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i could continue, but i think you see my point. we belong together, we are a set. I don’t feel piggy is unprofessional.
And to top it off, i have to wear a suit on monday. Me. A suit. The guy who comes in everyday in shorts and a t-shirt. This is only happening once as a big big big big favor to my boss. No one better get the idea that it’s going to continue to happen.
My love has no bounds.
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I’ve been pretty clear on the fact that I love coffee, right?
I walked into the office this morning to find no coffee made. In a bout of hysteria I found the coffee grounds and filters and got the coffee brewing.
The nerve of some employees walking up to me with work and trivial matters during a time of crisis! I sent them on their merry way… they will have to wait.
As the coffee brewed and dripped into the carafe the tension slowly faded. Pouring my first cup of coffee I suddenly realized there was no creamer…. no creamer of any kind.
In shock, I slowly made my way to my desk and I’m about to send out a company-wide email for an emergency meeting. This needs to be fixed right away, I don’t know if I can continue working here if it is not.
I don’t ask much… I just want my morning cup of coffee and I want it with a little creamer.
OK!?
all nighter?
0Since when did I start caring about work? I was always that guy who just never cared about anything. Sure, I’d do my work, but it was always just good enough, never more than expected… half-assing everything was my motto. Yes sir, I was about as carefree as they come.
Now, I’m thinking about sleeping. Sure I’m tired but I don’t know if I’ll be able to sleep if I go lay down. I have this feeling my mind will be consumed with stresses of work and I won’t be able to sleep.  I have too much to do, I’ll just worry about it not getting done.
On the other hand, if I go to stay up I will not be awake enough to help anyone tomorrow when they need it.Â
I’m only one person… why do I feel like I have the workload of 3 most of the time?
*slams head on desk*
I’m ready to go home.
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I keep thinking to myself “I’m ready to go home..” and then I realize I am home. That’s the one thing that sucks about working at home… your always at work. For the most part I love it and I’m sure I’ll miss it if I ever have to work at the office again…which may be soon. My company is moving into a new building and I think I have an office being setup later this month.
They say “office” but I’m sure they mean “cube”. Hrmph!
It’s another late night at the office. I’ve spent days trying to get billions of database entries ported over to a different server and combined with another database. It’s almost done….yay!   …and then I get to do it again on another server. doh!
All this data is giving me a headache. I’m ready to go home…
was that a whip cracking?
2I know I haven’t written much lately. I’ve pretty much been working and sleeping. I’m sure you’ll agree that it is not very exciting to write about. I’ve always sneared at workaholics and lately I have been realizing I’m becoming one. Oy.
It seems like I keep getting yelled at lately. Not yelled as so much as hand slapped. I guess I’m not prioritizing my work properly at work and someone finally said something about it. Now there’s no blame, no anger, just a lack of communication in my work load. I’ve always believed I am the best person to prioritize my work and I still think that… I just don’t think they realize how much is being thrown at me sometimes.
Lately I can barely even get through the my day-to-day work let alone any projects or emails. I have a dozen people throwing work at me, being the only tech guy, and everyone’s stuff is top priority. Needless to say I’ve been working my butt off, stressing, and pulling some hair out. I’m only one person and I have to force myself not to stress over it.
This afternoon however my CEO asked me to come in tomorrow. This is probably nothing more than reviewing an upcoming project or getting status on existing work. A small voice in the back of my mind (Satan, is that you?) keeps whispering that I’ll get yelled at for something. I’ve been known in the past to duck my head into the office, ask if I’m about to get yelled at, and then run away if I am. I can’t stand confrontation… On the otherhand, I keep telling myself to push those thoughts away and hope that may it’s a job offer of some sort. I know I’m supposed to be hired next month.
Time will tell…. specifically 9 hours from now.
In other news, I’m on vacation this weekend. I’m meeting the family down in New Mexico. My parents are still thinking of moving there so they keep asking us all to meet them there for family vacations. I can’t wait for a few days off. I am still mulling over whether or not I’ll bring my laptop like I usually do so I can check in on work. I’ll get a general feel for what’s going on tomorrow and decide then.
caffeine, why hath thou forsaken me?
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No amount of caffeine will help today it seems. I was up late as usual working on projects for work…chugging energy drinks to try and keep moving. Had a restless sleep and woke up 4 or 5 hours later.
I surprisingly have SOME energy. I woke up pretty perky but the energy is slowly draining away. At lunch I almost fell asleep on the couch. I think there will be no late night working tonight!
its so nice
0“I sure appreciate your help Daniel. I know I tell you that all the time, but you have made a huge impact on our day to day running of the site and small projects. Thank you.” -Joe
“You da man!” -Steven
“Perfect!!” -Craig
“Like I said, you are the man.” -Steven
“Sweet!” – Joe
“Keep it up, pretty soon you’ll have an office.” -Craig
It’s so nice to be appreciated on a daily basis at work 
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