Whew, What a Week

Wow. This week has been extremely taxing. I couldn't believe how long the days were and now that it's finally Friday I can't believe how fast it went. At work I felt all week that I was just not getting anything accomplished. Well, I really wasn't I guess. I had one project that was high priority; to write a Crystal Report, part of my new job. I have only written 2 reports and this one through me for a loop. It seemed that I was moving along smoothly and then BAM, ran right into a wall of, "what the hell do I do now and why can't I talk this damn computer language, I know what I want you to do, so just do it?" I kept trying to plug away at it and then continued to come up with the wrong results. My co-worker, who also writes reports was out of the office at training and he was checking in with me each day, but I really wanted to accomplish the task on my own if I could. I thought on Thursday morning I had finally figured my solution out and had completed my project (after spending 2 hours Wed. night scouring the Internet for answers that might help me), but nope. Friday morning I got an email that after some more verification the report was dropping data, damn it. So, Friday I left work with an incomplete assignment to haunt me for the weekend and all I can think is: I went to school to be a Travel Agent not a Computer Geek, what the hell am I doing?
Throughout the week I also kept wondering and thinking about the balance of being an employee, a wife, and a mom. How do I balance this? I told my husband thank you numerous times and how appreciative I am right now that he has settled into the routine of picking up the kids from daycare because I find myself struggling to leave work on time and then struggling at work to get home and be with the family. Again the husband has been left to the duties of cooking supper as well because I am spent when I get home and the kids are hungry by 6pm; he says he doesn't mind, but I do. I want to be able to be the good wife and have the clean house and supper in the oven and the well behaved children, will this ever happen?! At these times I really long for my cleaning lady to come back every 2 weeks and at least take care of my house, too bad I wanted another kiddo and a new car huh, bye-bye cleaning lady.
On a good note for the week, Katelynn had her second dentist appointment and passed with flying colors, no cavities! It actually worked out pretty cool for her because this week at preschool they were studying teeth and now she has really been into brushing, flossing and rinsing.
Ahh - I feel better getting this all down and off my chest for the night at 10:30pm. Now it's back to the laundry and damn it I'm enjoying a cold beer while I do it, what a way to spend a Friday night.