Slacking off

I'm enjoying the lull between service terms at work.  Most folks have been gone about a week.  Sigh of relief!  Immediately having a lot less going on has been awesome.  And at the same time, I feel like there's almost no point in going to work.  Transitioning from supporting/helping/putting out immediate fires to planning, etc is rough.  This term was incredibly challenging for many people (including me), and in ways that are mostly just frustrating as hell, not productive.  The challenges have escalated a bit and it may end up (I hope) with a staff member's departure.  I honestly don't think things can be salvaged at this point.  Working through all of that has been insanely stressful - lots of lost sleep, playing & replaying possible conversations with the big boss in my head, hearing a lot of the same negative feedback from many, many people... Ugh.  July is an ugly month.

And now it's over!

New folks arrive in 3 weeks. 

Other than that, planning to attend my big bro's wedding in mid-September.  I'm not used to wedding attendance that requires this much planning.  The event is in Cape Cod, at a country club with a strict dress code (no jeans, cargo shorts, men & boys must wear sport coats...).  Should be interesting.  We're sharing a big New England house with my parents (who are still separated), my siblings, spouses & kiddos.  Hopefully that all goes well.  We'll see! 

Planning to tear the hell out of our kitchen, for real this time, this fall.  Now that we've got a new window, we just need to finalize a cabinet plan & find affordable cabinets! 

S's been pretty great the last week or so.  Not so much pushing boundaries as he was, which has been nice.  Pleasant, chatty as ever.  Tonight at dinner, he asked D, "How was your day?"  I don't think he really expected an answer - he was just repeating familiar dialogue.  But it was cute & nice to hear.  He's been going to the sitter 3-days a week probably since May (instead of 2-days/week).  Today was the first time we've had a Monday together since April I guess.  Other than getting blood drawn first thing this morning (which sucks for any 2-yr old, I'm sure), the rest of the day was pretty great.  I did no work until this evening.  And even then, it was a brief hour of work. 

And now, to bed.