A whirlwind of a day...

I should have woken up between 6:30 and 6:45 this morning. Thursdays seem to be the hardest morning to wake up on time. I haven't quite figured out why this is. Maybe because I think I have some lead way in time...when really, I do not. Either way, I woke up at 6:51am. I did my normal routine of checking e mail and facebook status updates via my phone. (Yes, I'm addicted...this I know. Actually, honestly...I think it's more my nature to be completely consistent - and, it gives me just a little extra time in bed mentally preparing to get out of bed) Finally get out of bed and take a shower. Liliana has been up since 7 talking to herself in her crib. Now I'm out of the shower and Liliana is much more vocal and unhappy being left alone. So, I sit her in the doorway of her room so she can see me getting ready and I can watch her. Then I pack everything up and out the door we go. We probably should have left at 7:45, but we left maybe 7:55.

Get to my sister's and we are good on time. THEN, I proceed to talk to my sister and get all involved and I walk out to the car and realize it is 8:44am. I am never going to make it to the Downers Grove office by 9. But, I start my valiant effort. It's 8:51am and I am about a minute and a half away from the Oakbrook office (where I work every day except Thursday mornings) and still about 10-13 minutes (or more) from Downers. My phone rings. It's my co-worker asking if we wanted to switch offices...her go to Downers from Oakbrook right this minute and I'll just go to Oakbrook. GREAT!!! So she says she'll ask our boss and call me back. Now I'm really close to the Oakbrook office and just waiting for her call back. I need to know if I'm turning right or left, slowing down or picking up the pace. She calls just in time and says she's going to Downers. YAY. So, not only did I get to work in Oakbrook today, all day - I was on time to work.

THEN, I get an e mail from the OSHA trainer that she schedule me for OSHA in April. I e mail her back and tell her I cannot make that training. She calls me at like 10:41 and tells me she is having a training today in Naperville at 11:30, or the next one is a few weeks away. I ask my boss and off I am to Naperville to make it there by 11:30 - which I did with no problem!

I was then back to Oakbrook for the afternoon shift. Nothing too eventful, just a bogus phone call from another office, someone asking me to write bigger. Big surprise there. If only I wrote sloppy, no one would ask me to write neater. Apparently, people think when you write small you are doing it purposefully or that it's not actually how you write - I don't know what the thought process is behind all that. And here's the dumbest part - I write a date, time and office location on these orders - same order, same place every time. AND...drum roll - it's just the information that comes from the computer system that they also have access to. Amazing.

Tonight was pretty uneventful - tonight was night 2 of crying it out. I put her down at 7:30 and she started to cry and I walked out and closed the door and was waiting for 7:40 to go and check on her, but she fell asleep before that! So, either she was exhausted from being at Auntie Sandy's house - or it's working!!! :)

Then I watched some TV and I actually came in here to check e mail and go to bed, but found myself blogging. Imagine that - a routine has begun for me.....check e mail, check facebook, blog, go to bed. That's where I am now - checked the e mail, checked facebook....ending the blog and going to bed. (Just have to find a picture to post!)

OH - almost forgot. You can play pacman at the bottom of my blog! You can just use the arrow keys and when the game starts, you can press M for mute, if you so choose.

Liliana - 7 months