I don’t have any related photos and this is really long so I am going to pepper in some cat pics from the week!
- I don’t wear corrective lenses, but I feel like I’m getting closer to needing readers or something because I can’t read super tiny font on my phone very well anymore. HOWEVER! A coworker asked me to read teeny tiny font (food prep instructions on an actual package) for her the other day because she didn’t have her readers, and I could, no problem. Yay!
- So many people didn’t understand why we got a generator a few years ago, but folks, it’s saved us so many times (most notably, by keeping our sump pumps running so our basement doesn’t flood). When we got home Sunday morning our power had been out for an hour and was out for three more, but it didn’t affect us as much because the generator was running. I’m so glad we made that investment.
- We went to Rachel’s Saturday night to celebrate her birthday! We went out to dinner at a restaurant on a lake, then went bowling. It was late when we were done bowling, so we spent the night. We had a fun time and I’m glad I got to see her on her birthday two years in a row!
- Remember when I blogged about every weekend last year? I kind of miss that. But I haven’t done much worth blogging about this year. Oops?
- I started wearing gloves when I wash dishes and clean to see if it will help my manicures last longer, and it seems to be. Yay!
- When I don’t want to do something, I dread the f**k out of it and build it up to take way longer than it actually will in my head. For example – wrapping gifts. We had some presents to wrap Tuesday night and I was so grateful to get home from work and see Steven had wrapped most of them!
- To continue on my theme of the week (introspection!), I signed up for a 360 Degree feedback evaluation at work. You select twenty people to evaluate you, and then you get the results to review, and coaching tips (if you want them). I made sure to send the evaluation to some people I know don’t like me.
- Is it possible for people to eat communal sweets without saying “Oh! I shouldn’t be eating this” or talk about how “bad this is for me”? Just wondering… I heard that so many times this week. I am all for talking to people about what interests them, but gosh, how I despise talking about “healthy eating.”
Honestly, if you live anywhere remotely, uh, remote (ha), I think you really need a generator. We didn’t have one growing up, and it was SUCH a headache when the power would go out. There were times we didn’t have power for days (that was pretty rare, but it happened), and even in more minor storms, our power was always out longer than, say, my grandparents’s power. They lived in a much more populated area, so they always got theirs restored quickly, but if you live out in the boonies, you’re always the last priority. And that can be a real problem, especially with a sump pump! Or if you have well water, for that matter – because when you have a well, you have no water when the power goes out. Makes sense to me!
I’ve wondered what 360 Degree feedback is! A system we use at work has the ability to support those (we don’t use them, but the system could if we wanted to), and I’ve been curious about what they are (though not enough to look it up, haha). I don’t think I even have 20 people at work who know me enough to give me any sort of feedback – though maybe that’s why we don’t use them!
Yes, you get it! And yeah, we have well water here. And everyone else does get their power back before us (but I also see their whining on FB about the power being out while I am watching whatever we are streaming, ha ha ha 😉 ). Do you parents have one now?
I wonder if there is a mini system that asks less people! How big is your company? I think we have 400 people in my region.
They don’t. The power doesn’t go out as regularly as it did when I was little (it stopped going out so regularly when I was in high school or so), so maybe that’s why? Or they figure they can just crash at Grandma’s if things get really bad, ha.
We have about 500 total employees, so we’re not super big. But most of the company works on the making-money side, and I work on the support-the-people-who-make-money side, so I don’t interact with the majority of the company most of the time, which is why I think I’d have a limited pool to draw from. But maybe I’m underselling myself 😛
That is good that it isn’t as crucial as it used to be and that they do have the option to go elsewhere if it does!
Ahh interesting! I bet over time you will start to make connections with the making-money side, especially as you support them. Do some of them work in the same office? Are you assigned to support certain groups or people?
OMG, that feedback suggestion sounds like my worst nightmare. Kudos for putting it out there AND asking people you know don’t like you. I’d be tempted only to ask the people I get along well with, haha. Also, WHO doesn’t like you?!?! Monsters!!
We have “cake day” once a month at my work and it’s amazing how many people are like “I went for a long run today so I could earn this!” EVERY month! Why do we need to “earn” sweets? Just eat the sweets! There’s nothing inherently good or bad about them. ARGH.
Loved all the kitty pictures!
LOL, I m featuring several of your worst nightmares this week!!!! There’s a few people who dislike everyone, and one who particularly told me I can’t do my job, so I put them on there 😉 I am sure it will be insightful!
I AGREE. Or if a run makes YOU feel better, why do you need to share it? People are so insecure about food and eating sweets or indulgent things in front of others!
Thanks 🙂
At one of my previous places, everyone did 360 feedback, so I’m surprised to hear that it’s optional. How do they keep it so one person doesn’t have to fill out, like, 40 evaluations of people?
You dread wrapping gifts?! What about it? I love it! (Okay, only boxes and things with straight lines. I hate wrapping things that are round.)
At our office it’s only offered for team leads and upper management, and it’s elective. I don’t think many people are requesting them, so I bet the most eval requests anyone is getting is around 3-5. Did you find it useful?
I think I hate being precise with it. I’m not a perfectionist, so it always looks like crap, but doesn’t annoy me enough to get better. And I hate getting all the paper and tape and blah blah blah out even though it’s all organized. I hate crafts, and wrapping presents feels that way to me. I appreciate well wrapped gifts (or any gift!) and the time people put in to it, for sure.
You are very brave to ask people you know don’t like you to evaluate you! But you just might learn something very interesting, so it might be worth it…
Hopefully I do! I know there’s lots of things I can improve on!