Busy Horizon

So I have quite an interesting month ahead of me. First, the Office Manager will be gone next week, so the rest of us will be doing a little bit of double duty to hold down the fort.

Oh, and I probably shouldn't forget my birthday, but that's hardly an exciting occasion. The one good thing that will mostly likely come of it will be some of Mom's home-made cream-of-potato soup. Mmmmmm We all get to choose our birthday dinner, and that has been my consistent choice for forever. :)

Jury Duty

Amway, the week after the Office Manager's vacation, and the week before my birthday, I have possible jury duty. I have a pretty low juror number, so there’s a good chance I may be called, if there’s a case. I’ve been summoned for jury duty twice before in my life. The first time, I actually made it to the jury selection process, and was dismissed because I knew the defense attorney (I’d worked across the hall from him when I was working in another attorney’s office). But that was good because I felt very strongly at the time against being being forced to pass judgment on somebody else.

The second time I was summoned would have been smack in the middle of my trip to Australia for the 2000 Olympics… fortunately, they let me out of that one.

And here’s my third… and now, I’m kinda finding it a little interesting. I almost hope I do get chosen just to see what it’s like. Maybe it's part of that maturing business... who knows. Amway, I’ve been a part of a trial before (as an Exhibit… very long story), but never a juror. I’m not as hung up on all that “passing judgment” bit as I used to… though, I still don’t think I could do a murder trial or anything like that. That’s just a bit too much “the fate of somebody’s life in my hands” for my comfort.

Another Parental Trip

Somewhere in the mix, the folks will be taking another trip this month (albeit much shorter) to Iowa to look into some possible consulting work for Mom. It’s just supposed to be a couple of days, so I won’t have as much cat/house sitting as last time. But still… I think they’re planning the trip for the week I have jury duty, so that should prove interesting.

A Visit With Coffeehead!

And last but not least, my friend Coffeehead will be coming to visit at the end of the month! I’m very excited. She’s the one I visited in Iowa last year… August, I think. She’s going to be traveling to the Ukraine for a couple of weeks starting tomorrow, for her research work at school. When she asked if I wanted anything, I told her a keychain, and then a visit so she could deliver it in person. And so she is! Just a weekend, but it will be awesome to have a visitor. Especially since I’m cutting myself off from traveling anywhere this year… trying to be good and not spend money.

And it will be a perfect time ot have a visitor, since I just finished up my re-organization project at home, and it is thoroughly presentable. All I have left is to find some thermal blinds for my west-facing windows and sliding glass door, since that part of my home gets so hot during the warm season after they tore out all my trees back there. Mom has agreed to help me shop for those... we're planning on this weekend.

So that’s pretty much it that I can think of at the moment. Lunch is drawing to a close, so I need to dive back into these contracts. My boss just recently discovered how backed up I am (at one of the Admin finalist interviews, no less), and has finally authorized me overtime until I get caught up. Which is nice… I’ve already logged in several hours of overtime this week, though I’m not really sure how caught up I am. I really do enjoy helping folks, and having the most experience and knowledge in the office to be the go-to girl… however, it just doesn’t seem to be very conducive to catching up on the most time-intensive and complicated work in the admin staff’s repertoire.

But that’s what getting this new person in will be good for. At least I’m sincerely hoping so.