Review

I had my review today.

It took two and half hours.

Why ?

He likes to talk.

For those of you who know me.... he can OUT-TALK me.

Now THAT is saying something.

Before we got to my actual review, we talked about his trip, his undergrad work and his MBA work, my being a poor test taker, the credits towards my PMP that I have, his not wanting to be a snowbird in Florida ( he's 59), air travel pre-9/11.

Then we got to my review. Which was wonderful. Seriously. I got the max raise allowed. My director even threw some nice comments in since we are working together again.

Before I could throw it out there, he brought up the micro managing. He has some work to do on that and we, as a team, will try to deal with it. He's going to try the timed out updates so he's not riding us the entire time.

It's not optimal, but if it actually works out, it would be an improvement.

I don't have high hopes though.

We did this remotely. Me in my pajamas and coffee and him with his car back with freshly rotated tires.

Working remote is onoe of my favorite things. I love this. I haven't seen my office since the fall. I've been in other offices in the country more often than my own. I hate my office, but I do NOT want to commute - so this is the happy medium. My CMS is wonderful - forwards my phone anywhere I need to and announces the callers. I love this. I was able to spend my days home watching my kittens grow up.

I took another nap today. I was arely up 2 hours when I went down for the 2 hour nap. I was wondering why this is the third day this week this has happened. I think I have nailed down the answer.

I am not sleeping at night as well as I could. No that's not it, I am not Falling asleep easily - but once there I don't wake up. I think its the eczema. Given the temperatures and lack of humidty in the atmosphere, I am suffering a bit. enough that I am taking the oral meds exactly when I should be and the topical meds twice a day and moisturizing four times a day. It's slowly improving but sleep is not coming so easily to me. I am trying not to nap in the middle of the day as that makes it that much harder.

Tomorrow I see my coach. I will be bearing sad news too. A colleague of his and my dads passed away last night after a long fight with cancer. He was the orchestra director in the HS here until this past December. It was very sad.

I also had a neighbor pass today and I met her husband, whom I know better, in the elevator on his way to the funeral home to make arrangements. I had only met his wife once as she was always in the hospital or nursing home. I felt so sorry for him. He took such good care of her, but he felt this was for the best as she was suffering and in pain. Very sad news.

So given all of this, I am going to have my lesson tomorrow. It feels sort of anti-climactic. Not that I am anywhere near ready to stop. I have so much more to learn. I just feel like I have nothing to work towards. It was 2 years of my life prepping for that recital. I also have the issue of the situation with my coach. I am hoping that he will be mature enough to say "Hey we had a fight, we talked about it and we're moving on" as I have. I don't have high hopes though.

Stay tuned.

Life is queer.