Serenity Now!

Oh man, what a week this has been. I have been multi-tasking like a madwoman at Job #1. I've got 3 different grants I'm working on, 2 different budget revisions, vendors in New Hampshire to work with on my kiosk project, higher-ups that I'm trying to keep happy with all of the above, and then the cherry on top was that our slave I mean administrative assistant for the High-spanic Health coalition up and QUIT on us yesterday!!! So guess who gets to take up her slack re: our upcoming meeting next week and the RSVP's and all the little bullshit emails that were coming her way??? Yeah, the Secretary of the HHC!........ me!

Last week was just so blissful with the sleeping in and eating and not having any heavy duty responsibility. The cakewalk is officially over. Literally. I am trying to, if not totally get off of bread and cupcakes, to significantly limit my intake of them. S and I ate with Mudflap on Wednesday night at Cafe Express. I had my beloved chicken salad sandwich on fabulous ciabatta bread and I forced myself to tear off the corners and not eat 100% of the bread. As always, S got the soup and salad and offered me his garlic bread which in the past I was always happy to devour. This time I choked down a sob and refused it, passing it onto Mudflap who of course, was happy to take it. Sniff!

This weekend should be a good one, though. I have given myself the whole weekend off and we don't have the baby with us so it's going to be all about me on Saturday. I will begin by sleeping in, then I have a birthday brunch to go to that should be a lot of fun. After that I want to go see the Max Ernst exhibit at the Menil collection b/c my mom and brother keep raving about it. Tomorrow night I may or may not go to a memorial service for one of my favorite Majors, whose father just passed away. I had to meet my Lt. last night on the Beltway in a gas station parking lot so he could re-administer my oath of office--since we now have a new Sheriff, we all must do this and apparently we must do it this week. My Lt. kept me and S, who was nice enough to come with me, waiting for almost an hour b/c he was visiting the aforementioned Major. I told S that the Lt. owes me big-time for that and consequently, I don't want to hear anymore bitching about anything for awhile. (Not that he ever bitches me out, just once he asked why I only worked one shift one particular month and it was b/c I was so busy doing all those damn health fairs on the weekend for Job #1. I resented the question b/c there are so many of our Reserve deputies who NEVER work their shifts and NEVER bother to attend our monthly meetings and I was just like, WTF?!? [Then again--I can't blame them for having high standards for me! After all, I'm me!])

Friday night, come quickly!