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Glee: S5, E1: Love, Love, Love So ok, my favorite part was the music. And seeing Ioan Gruffudd and Peter Facinelli - that was awesome. I love the Blaine and Kurt stuff, they are adorable together.
The outfits in the diner were fantastic, and seriously no one wears matching uniforms like that anymore unless you are in Disney or Universal. And I admit to liking Sue, I do, but her storylines are always ridiculous after season one. And this one is no exception, kicking out Figgins? Why? Just, let the character fade away, seriously, it will be fine.
My favorite number was probably "I wanna hold your hand", it was adorable, made me smile and sounded good.
Once Upon A Time: S3, E1: The Heart of the Truest Believer I am very optimistic about this season with this kind of start. My biggest problem with last year were the two people trying to stop magic, I felt the storyline was forced. And now they are gone, woo. Sadly Emma is still there and I wish I liked her more but I don't.
I like that Hook is on the good side right now and that Peter Pan is on the bad. It's a nice twist. The whole reveal of Pan was well done too, while I picked it out when he pushed back the hood, it didn't matter as there was always a sliver of doubt. I'm not sure why he needs the truest believer, one friend thought at perhaps it was so that Pan could grow up. I then thought that perhaps Neverland exists because Pan is there and believes in his role. If Pan leaves, perhaps that will end Neverland.
Not surprised that Neil is alive but I appreciate that he met up with some allies so quickly and that he is finding magic and clues.
Work
Tension, tension, tension *sigh* So, due to inconsistencies in her performance I decided to shift some responsibilities away from her. She has seen this as a demotion, which it is not, however her main job was seen as more responsibility when compared to straight processing. I feel as though I did all I could, and maybe more, to get her to change and pay attention. It's been over a year that the errors happened and I had several meetings with her trying to understand how she spends her day, why she is so stressed etc.
Her yearend review wasn't great, she was not surprised, her midyear was fair and I talked to her there about consistency. But she was out of the office and I had to complete some things and found out she was not following certain procedures and there were just more mistakes. Since I told her, which is almost two weeks, she has barely spoken to anyone in the office. Approaching her is stressful because you don't know what you're going to get. I even sent her an email on Thursday giving her a different perspective, that she should see that I need her to see the processing we are taking for granted, as a way to hone her processing (something she said before she was afraid of losing that). I told her that this was how I was explaining to everyone what we were switching the responsibilities around. No one but her knows why, I'm really stressing crosstraining etc.
But her interaction at work is horrible. I don't want to "talk" to her about it, I'm trying to see if she can come out of this funk herself. But let me tell you something, her desk has never been more organized, she's at her desk more often and things are getting done. Now... why did I have to make such a drastic change to get her to be more responsible. It's ridiculous. And what's worse is that we were friends, she's been with the company for 6 years and when she started I was a Supervisor. And we were close and I have accepted that is no longer the case. That she just can't separate the fact that i'm her Manager and her friend. I worked with her longer than anyone else because of it, and that was wrong on my part, but ... I did. The whole situation just sucks.
It was a very busy weekend. Two soccer games, LM#2 didn't play at all, refused to get his picture done. I'm not attending next week, I'm hoping that might be helpful, although I don't know. I was against signing him up for this year because he's not even four yet and it seemed excessive to me. Week one I had to force him into the shin pads and cleats and hold him down in the seat to go. Seriously? Again, excessive.
Saturday Mr. KA and I had a date and we went to the movies and dinner. We saw "Don Jon" and it was good, very interesting take on porn, rom-coms, advertising. And on Sunday was Church then I planted six mums, with LM#2's help (and he was helpful, it was lovely and nice). Had a small break and then gardened for another three hours as I pulled up weeds and planted pachysandra in the hopes of making the side of the house look nicer and easier to upkeep. But it's been really hard and tiring and my muscles ache. Ugh.
I also had a project for the kids, we painted Fall themed shapes with sun catcher paint. The kids seems to like it and we hung them in the windows. I'm not sure we did it correct, the boys used way too much as it was a little clumpy and I tried to use less and it was weird to see the brush marks, but things turned out alright. I have a lot more to paint and hopefully they will be excited to do it again.
I signed up to "work" the Pumpkin Festival for LM#1's school. I got an email late today to inform me that there is a meeting at school at 7:30 tomorrow. Weh??? Tomorrow I needed to finish planting the pachysandra before it dies because my Dad gave it to me from his yard so I need to get it in the ground. It's as though everyone but a small handful have no plans and just goes through their daily routine with no structure. How do they do that? This kind of thing totally throws me off. :(
Glee: S5, E1: Love, Love, Love So ok, my favorite part was the music. And seeing Ioan Gruffudd and Peter Facinelli - that was awesome. I love the Blaine and Kurt stuff, they are adorable together.
The outfits in the diner were fantastic, and seriously no one wears matching uniforms like that anymore unless you are in Disney or Universal. And I admit to liking Sue, I do, but her storylines are always ridiculous after season one. And this one is no exception, kicking out Figgins? Why? Just, let the character fade away, seriously, it will be fine.
My favorite number was probably "I wanna hold your hand", it was adorable, made me smile and sounded good.
Once Upon A Time: S3, E1: The Heart of the Truest Believer I am very optimistic about this season with this kind of start. My biggest problem with last year were the two people trying to stop magic, I felt the storyline was forced. And now they are gone, woo. Sadly Emma is still there and I wish I liked her more but I don't.
I like that Hook is on the good side right now and that Peter Pan is on the bad. It's a nice twist. The whole reveal of Pan was well done too, while I picked it out when he pushed back the hood, it didn't matter as there was always a sliver of doubt. I'm not sure why he needs the truest believer, one friend thought at perhaps it was so that Pan could grow up. I then thought that perhaps Neverland exists because Pan is there and believes in his role. If Pan leaves, perhaps that will end Neverland.
Not surprised that Neil is alive but I appreciate that he met up with some allies so quickly and that he is finding magic and clues.
Work
Tension, tension, tension *sigh* So, due to inconsistencies in her performance I decided to shift some responsibilities away from her. She has seen this as a demotion, which it is not, however her main job was seen as more responsibility when compared to straight processing. I feel as though I did all I could, and maybe more, to get her to change and pay attention. It's been over a year that the errors happened and I had several meetings with her trying to understand how she spends her day, why she is so stressed etc.
Her yearend review wasn't great, she was not surprised, her midyear was fair and I talked to her there about consistency. But she was out of the office and I had to complete some things and found out she was not following certain procedures and there were just more mistakes. Since I told her, which is almost two weeks, she has barely spoken to anyone in the office. Approaching her is stressful because you don't know what you're going to get. I even sent her an email on Thursday giving her a different perspective, that she should see that I need her to see the processing we are taking for granted, as a way to hone her processing (something she said before she was afraid of losing that). I told her that this was how I was explaining to everyone what we were switching the responsibilities around. No one but her knows why, I'm really stressing crosstraining etc.
But her interaction at work is horrible. I don't want to "talk" to her about it, I'm trying to see if she can come out of this funk herself. But let me tell you something, her desk has never been more organized, she's at her desk more often and things are getting done. Now... why did I have to make such a drastic change to get her to be more responsible. It's ridiculous. And what's worse is that we were friends, she's been with the company for 6 years and when she started I was a Supervisor. And we were close and I have accepted that is no longer the case. That she just can't separate the fact that i'm her Manager and her friend. I worked with her longer than anyone else because of it, and that was wrong on my part, but ... I did. The whole situation just sucks.
It was a very busy weekend. Two soccer games, LM#2 didn't play at all, refused to get his picture done. I'm not attending next week, I'm hoping that might be helpful, although I don't know. I was against signing him up for this year because he's not even four yet and it seemed excessive to me. Week one I had to force him into the shin pads and cleats and hold him down in the seat to go. Seriously? Again, excessive.
Saturday Mr. KA and I had a date and we went to the movies and dinner. We saw "Don Jon" and it was good, very interesting take on porn, rom-coms, advertising. And on Sunday was Church then I planted six mums, with LM#2's help (and he was helpful, it was lovely and nice). Had a small break and then gardened for another three hours as I pulled up weeds and planted pachysandra in the hopes of making the side of the house look nicer and easier to upkeep. But it's been really hard and tiring and my muscles ache. Ugh.
I also had a project for the kids, we painted Fall themed shapes with sun catcher paint. The kids seems to like it and we hung them in the windows. I'm not sure we did it correct, the boys used way too much as it was a little clumpy and I tried to use less and it was weird to see the brush marks, but things turned out alright. I have a lot more to paint and hopefully they will be excited to do it again.
I signed up to "work" the Pumpkin Festival for LM#1's school. I got an email late today to inform me that there is a meeting at school at 7:30 tomorrow. Weh??? Tomorrow I needed to finish planting the pachysandra before it dies because my Dad gave it to me from his yard so I need to get it in the ground. It's as though everyone but a small handful have no plans and just goes through their daily routine with no structure. How do they do that? This kind of thing totally throws me off. :(
