Getting Current

Excessive obscurity. The thought process dissipates.

Work Work

Last time I wrote about work, I wrote about the crappy assistants I was going through and the company website.

Well, I’ve hired a wonderful guy who has been my assistant for just about a year and a half now. He has the skills, is very creative, has a wonderful personality and is a great friend. I had to fight tooth and nail to get this guy because the company didn’t want to pay for an experienced person. History proved we needed to hire a pro versus someone right out of school or the temp agency.

The only qualm I have about it is that he makes only $1.60 less than me. I’ve been with the company 6 years, I built the graphics department from scratch and I continue to run it/improve it and evolve it. Needless to say, I am pretty disgruntled.

The industry my company serves has been taking a beating… and they have had a freeze on all pay raises for a year. I am very upset about the various duties I must perform vs. the pay I receive… and I am seriously on the verge of saying ‘Bite me, I’m outta here.’ But… I gotta weigh the pros & cons.

I’ve just requested a new computer to support graphic design. The cost of the machine is just about $2500 (which is actually pretty cheap). I’ve also requested an additional design program which is $800. I’ve requested two of each to be exact, because my assistant needs to have exactly what I have since we interchange projects. If they approve the purchase orders and we get new equipment/software, this will tide me over for another year.

Eh not really, I’ll probably continue to be disgruntled, just on a better workstation. But… we’ll see.

The website was switched from regional to national… and all I ended up doing was handing over all the work I did for Texas to our National IT department. That was actually a huge relief. I still make miscellaneous web pages for the company- but on a much smaller level. Right now I do all of the advertising and marketing materials for Dallas/Fort Worth & Houston. We just started adding Austin- which will completely merge with us over the next year.

Ultimately, I run on burnout 75% of the time and have to be Wonder Woman- but work for peanuts.

Dear Goddess… I soOo need to win the Texas Lotto.

I guess my chances of winning would be better if I actually had a fucking dollar to spend on the Texas Lotto… WOE IS ME.

Family

Bleh. I won’t go too much into family. I have to tune them out most of the time to stay sane.

I will say that my Mom’s health isn’t so good right now and I’m so stressed out over it. She has 78% blockage of the left artery in her neck. She started having these massive headaches and went to the neurologist to have her brain checked out. Well the test results indicated that my mom had evidence of several small strokes, so she was sent to the cardiologist.

Anyhoo… she is having surgery this Friday to have the blockage cleared out. High risk of stroke or heart attack…

She also has to have another surgery to fix a hernia she’s already had surgery on- twice. This last time they put some mesh-like thing in there… and well it’s too large. It causes her severe pain, makes her sick and unable to eat much. My Mom weighs a whopping 99 lbs. She’s a mess right now.

I am a mess as well. I don’t think I could handle losing my Mom less than a year from losing my Dad… and my George. No matter how much a fruit-loop I think she is.