Another couple of months in paradise

Things have been hopping around here. Our new boss has had me working like nobody's business. At his old post, he had three people available to help him out...I'm now those three people: office administrator/marketing assistant, executive assistant, and receptionist. I've been rather busy. In fact, last Friday, I was at work until 7. At four o'clock, I made the mistake of asking him if he needed anything else before I left for training. And he asked, "Where?" I said, "Training on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Remember, in Orlando?" He said, "Oh. I forgot. Um, yeah, I need the brochures for the (Tenant's name) space. Oh, and I'm sure that since this is small office and you know when everyone is out, but I can't keep track. Would you put together a calendar for me?"

Suffice to say, I want a receptionist. If nothing else, just to reduce the number of interruption when I'm trying to do legal documents or work on graphics.

I survived the Orlando trip. The airplane ride was uneventful (always a good thing), and I was even able to catch an earlier flight home (6:30 instead of 8). The only bad part was when DD burst into tears because I couldn't take her with me, and then she told me she hated me. I started tearing up then, too. DH, in his attempt to lighten things up, told me there's no crying in baseball. OK, coach. Several times, I called home, but the only rugrat who would talk to me was younger-DS. Apparently, Arthur (on PBS) ranks higher on the social scale than me.

Of course, everyone who saw my pics of them on my phone said how utterly adorable they are. Not that I am biased, but I think they are the cutest and smartest and most huggable children in all the world.

DH did a wonderful time keeping the kids (yes, there were still three when I got home), even though it rained the whole time, and he had to stay indoors with them. Poor guy, I know it wasn't easy to remain sane.

Grandma and Grandpa arrived yesterday evening. They will be watching the rugrats while DH and I go to my co-worker's wedding. It will be a nice break to have an evening with adults (and no kids to keep entertained). We haven't had one of those since the Christmas dinner for work. I was hoping to be able to take some vacation time off while they were here, but it looks like the only day will be Friday. Rats!

Our property manager will be out for budget training from Tuesday through Thursday, and our customer service coordinator (who takes the tenant's calls when things break) will be out on her honeymoon all week. I have been designated to handle all of that as well. Not that I don't already have a full plate on my hands. For some reason, although our CSC had decided that our tech should call the vendors when needed since he knows who to call, our property manager has decided that she does not want our tech calling, so now I get to do that as well. And our property manager decided to set up painting at some of the buildings and air quality testing that week, too, and I'm now the point of contact for any questions or concerns per her emails to the tenants. I need a significant raise.

Enough venting.

The kids are playing/fighting over the Coca Cola chess set and I need to finish making my necklace for the wedding tonight. I wasn't happy with the way it turned out, so I'm going to make a couple of small additions to it. Should only take an hour or so to fix it up. I'm done with the earrings. I'll have to post pics of them later, along with the two bracelets that I beaded, as soon as I put the clasps on them. Oh yeah, and I made another necklace that I received a bunch of ooohs and aaahs over, even though it was a really simple design with some left over findings, chain, and light green Swarovski crystals.