KateP's musings

  Today was the Performance review meeting.   I was getting a little nervous when I was home.   It usually goes well but sometimes especially this past year some things will reflect badly on it.   I was wrong.   It went exceedingly well.   I had the opportunity to express my concern that Gargoyle was once again overstepping boundaries.   He said he would speak to her and ask her if she came across any documents on the desk (not accusing her).   He did reassure me that no one thinks I am difficult to work with.   I reminded him that I am on vacation next week.   I reassured him that I will work on TD about the new procedures of sorting and the scanning part.    We will do that Thursday for a little while.   I believe she is going to be out on PTO for a few days next week too.   The rest of the day I worked on the scanning but still have some left for tomorrow plus what every PBC leaves me which shouldn’t be a lot...

   I have a bit of a confession.  Ever since Tiger crossed the rainbow Bridge last February; I have been watching Sky a little closer. He seemed okay when she passed.  He Never went looking for her.  He has adjusted to being the only cat in the house.  Sometimes I would find him in the places Tiger would sleep or curl up on.  A few times he has been under my bed. He would curl up at the end of the sofa/couch.  When I open the office up he curls up behind the bookcase.   Just recently I have noticed  a few times that he is about to climb up onto the Cat Tree. He looks at it and then jumps up and then settles in and lies down.  I can’t help wondering if he is finding it difficult to get up from the floor.  He does also jump from the arm of the sofa with a little more ease. I check his body too.To see if he is losing weight (and thankfully I don’t think he is).  He has been scarfing down the soulistic cat food and the ki...

  There is a group on Wordpress “we like cats” I think part of it is on Instagram.  I have been a member for a while now.  The owners and members share stories, and pictures of their furbabies.   Quote Often they will ask what breed they have in their possession and want people to answer them.  Time and time again they have been asked to stop asking the question.  I wish they would stop asking.   Quite often I have seen posts that say “this one or that walked into my life and from outside my door”..what should I do?  These are getting more and more frequent and if they just keep the animal without looking for their owner that to me is stealing someone’s pets.  

  When I started this I was sitting working on mailing claim forms from work and have another hour of it.  There seemed to be a lot for a Friday . Work has been going well lately.   I am keeping up with the mail flow a little better.  Some days the volume is light and some days not so much. More departments are returning to the building in hybrid mode.  THe communications dept for the university moved into the second floor this past spring/winter.  We barely see them but we have been getting their mail a little more. The Union across the campus has just voted a large amount of money (I am not against it) to support Local 33 in their continuing bid to be recognized as a union.  My area team (the people I update on activities) didn’t show up to the meeting (it was via zoom).  I am frustrated and disappointed.  THese were not the only things we focus on the larger scale.  There are a few fights brewing but I don’t have all the info to unde...

  Got to work and found out there was a major network upgrade going for the building.   It is not affecting remote work but for those who work in the office and the equipment and internet it does.     I have plenty of work for myself.   I will have to share with others until they get the okay to go home.   It was to last until 2 pm.   It had others annoyed because it’s wasting time for them.   They were told they would have used their time even if after they learned they have permission to go home. I could use my phone for emails and texting.   Get to a few places on the internet but it was not easy.   I had VT help open mail until we got word to go home which came around 11.   I did some of the claim forms to mail and then began working on the rest of the mail from before the recess. When the call came I turned it down until I realized I couldn’t print anything or scan anything.   I decided to come home. On the way home ...

  I left here just around 6:30 Tuesday night to go and get Tiger’s prescription but just as I was leaving I had run into Neighbor Bonnie (unit 5) and we got to chatting up a storm.   I shared the story of how got to the condo.   I learned she is widowed and has been here for 11 years and knew the Family who owned this condo. The rest of the night was quiet and I went to bed fairly early It must have rained at some point during the night because when I got up the ground was wet and there were some puddles.   However, that’s all it did all day.   It was in the 70’s and cloudy all day until dinner time. Work went well.    I did some daily scanning (the eobs) and the CD upload sent the ones that had issues the day before to the library and another one today.   I was thrilled that there were two that worked.   Kim was very helpful.   Did the refund backlog and have another one to start today. I was pleased to hear from DK.   We h...

  Today would have been my Dad’s 95th birthdays.   I always wonder what he would be doing or we would be doing if he hadn’t died early.   Not sure it would have been any better or worse than it was with Mom.   He had some serious health issues back then. Today was my regular Saturday activities. I did the dusting and window washing but decided to do the vacuuming and the bathroom tomorrow before I go to bingo..     Early in the morning I put the stew in the slow cooker and let it cook until 2.   I got about three small containers of it to put in the freezer and had a bowl late in the day.   I didn’t do too much cooking except a brunch (grilled cheese) and a late dinner of beef patties. I am still eating crazily despite the fact I gained weight recently. In the afternoon the association President called to remind me to be careful about pulling into our newly painted parking spots.   As there was evidence that some of our neighbors messed...

  I was so pleased with myself for getting Tiger to take her meds but this morning and late last night she didn’t take it at all and when I left this morning I gave her some wet food to hide (she eats around it now in the kibble) and I had to prevent Sky from eating it.  It was suggested to me to crush the pills up and put it in her food.  I am going to have to do that.  I am not sure how successful that will be.  I may have to separate them again as well. It was 71 degrees when I left the house and was going to be in the 80’s but not as humid.  Overcast for the day but no rain is expected.  I think the rest of the week will be nice. The office is a little quiet and not the full compliment that I have become accustomed to.  The scanning is light for the daily batches but I can do the refund batches if need be.  I am hoping to have some CDs come in too. I got an email from the Patient access Manager asking me what the images were for one of th...

  The titans have no concept of time.   They must have been awake by 4 because they were running around and vocalizing for nearly an hour it seemed.    I was barely awake and it was after 5 in the morning.   I know understand when a parent telling their kids “just a few more minutes” or a kid saying the same thing to a parent.   They were fed water, and burped.   They are now quiet.   Sky is at the foot of the bed and tiger the last I looked was at her water bowl looking at me from around the corner of the cabinet.   Its quiet.   Let’s see how long that will last. I did order food for them from Petco bright and early this morning.   As soon as I get the alert I will go pick it up.   I ordered the regular bag of kibble but instead of two boxes of the wet food I got three.   I feel like I go through the two boxes (that hold like 24 each) quickly.   I hope I won’t be sorry. I have to say I may have to cut back on the...

I don’t know what it is but I am feeling better today than I have in a few days.   The sun is shining and I think its well into the 70s at this point.   Partial clouds but no rain expected. Yesterday turned out great.    There was a power failure on the campus that made connecting through VPN hard and for the others to use epic and I thought I would miss the Embracing change class.      I didn’t.   The power outage seemed to be resolved by the end of the business day. So the class was very good.   I had to sign into the zoom with my email and password and connect through Facebook.   It used my profile picture and I later found I could undo it to be live.   I was afraid I messed up on the zoom log on for future zoom activities.   We will just have to see. I learned a lot from this class it has a lot of good tips and information on dealing with change.   I just have to remember to do the work for these classes prior. ...

Good Morning.   It’s almost 7:30 in the morning and the sun is shining and it is 69 degrees.   I really thought I would be waking up to rain but no it’s coming after 1 this afternoon.   It’s supposedly going to last until 10 tonight.   I am glad because this will allow me to go to the grocery store right after my exercise class and I can be home before it starts. I forgot to mention I got my other coffee order that was late and never delivered.   My hope is that this will keep me going for the time being.   I still have the two boxes left of Dunkin pods (I opened the second one yesterday).   Both deliveries had a total of 96 k-pods.    I thought I was going to be getting one of my amazon deliveries (the wipes) yesterday because they wrote me and said it was coming and I am just so tired of the BS from them.   I will have to check the supplies in the cellar before going out this morning. I was able to cancel Paige’s class when an op...

i can’t believe its Friday again.   This entire week flew by and I don’t know if I got a lot done or not. I remember sometihng Mom told me many years ago that I can’t just exist in the world I have to be doing something.   I guess that’s why every other day I get to feeling guilty that all I did is sit and didn’t do much. My plan to go to sleep early last night never saw the light of night.   I did try but I wanted to finish ysterday’s babble of an entry. A part of me focused on committing to the gym.   That met with mixed results.   I knew I would fall back into the old ways.   Skip classes, eat things I wasn’t really supposed and make up for it some other way.   I did get some walking in as well. i set the alarm for 4 this time so I would be getting up in time to feed the cats and leave for the 6 am class. I slept through the alarms but managed to get up and go and even the cats got fed. I am thinking i did a lot of writing WHETHER IT was i...