The holidays may be over everywhere else in the world but not at my house. This is depite being off for the entire week between Christmas and New Year’s, because I have enver taken my lights down before New Year’s Day. And this year I had a champagne hangover on New Year’s Day so quite frankly, it was a victory to even put on pants, much less put away decorations. And then I got back to work and it was all “OMG INSANEPANTS CRAZYBUSYWOOOOOO” and then I ahd to go to Palm Springs for this management retreat we had and then I got sick and laid on the couch for two days with fever driven hot flashes.
So yeah, this may very well be the year when Kevin and I become “those people”, the ones who leave their Christmas lights up all year round. Hell, the tree is a tiny pink one that will be easy enough to redecorate with each passing season. Hearts for Valentine’s Day! Shamrocks! Easter Eggs! Etc and so forth!
Oh god, just the thought of that is making me itch. That shit is coming down this week if it kills me.
In other news, I am supposed to be writing my performance review right now, instead of writing this entry. It was actually due last Friday so I guess I’m already going to be dinged 5 points or something for that but hey, you pull me out of the office to sit and take notes for you for 4 days, you get my review from me late. On the good side, they (I) actually revamped the evaluation form this year so it’s not a worthless piece of crap. Our old version basically made employees justify themselves and their jobs and encouraged supervisors to be hypercritical of their employees. Oh, and there was absolutely no measurement of goal completion or even a MENTION of goals. Basically, it was the exact opposite of everything my Compensation professor said a good review form looked like.
I am supposedly being put up for a promotion since my current title doesn’t really convey my current position as well as it could. And also, Office Manager/IT/Facilities/Project Coordinator/Contracts Administrator/Webmaster doesn’t fit on my business cards AT ALL. We’ll see how that goes.
