It’s Thursday. Since having put in my notice and then being gone for over a week on vacation to Austin nothing really feels like normal work anymore. My days are very different than they were before, which should go without saying, I suppose. Mostly everyone, both work and at home, we are into a just sit and wait mode. Our hope is that everything gets cleared easily and we just have a few final weeks to work through.
October 1, 2014: Just Us at Home Again
Wednesday. Was running a little on the late side this morning. I got to see the girls before leaving the house, though, which was nice.
Work was better today, less stressful and I am not freaking out as much as I was yesterday. Had a good day overall. Not very eventful.
Joe left yesterday so today is our first time back together at home as a family since before SpiceWorld.
September 30, 2014: Joe Heads Home
Tuesday. I went into the office this morning thinking that I was running quite late and was, in fact, rather early. I have no idea how I got my internal time so far off but I did a very good job of getting in at a good time.
Dominica and the girls helped Joe to get onto the 11:01am Amtrak heading north out of Croton-Harmon so he was able to get up to Rochester late in the day. He is looking forward to getting back out to Michigan (weird, I know.)
Work was stressful for me today. Probably just me having a stressful day on my own. There is so much going on and so many things up in the air and those are not situations that I handle all that well. I am pretty good at handling any outcome but I am not very good at waiting around for things to be decided or worked out and that is what causes me the worst and most stress.
Got home on the late side and had to be on the phone for about an hour. Luciana was already hanging out in her room in bed when I was finally done on the phone. But I managed to spend a little time with her before she fell asleep.
Liesl stayed up for a little bit with us. Dominica and I watched a few episodes of “How I Met Your Mother” which we are extremely excited to be watching the final season of. We love that show and have been anxiously awaiting the final season to be released on Netflix. Liesl watched a few with us and then went to bed and watched Season Six of the “Blues Clues” which just became available on Amazon VOD yesterday. She is a little old for that show but always really liked it and is so excited to have new episodes to watch now.
Bed for us around eleven.
September 29, 2014: Back to Work
I have been on vacation for more than a week now. Today is Monday and I am back in the office. Joe is staying with us today and is leaving tomorrow. Joe rode up from Austin with us, Dominica has been back for a few days already.
Today was my first day at the office since getting the official, in writing, offer from Barclays and today was my chance to submit my non-compete paperwork. There should be no issues with that but we are, of course, nervous as there is so much riding on this.
September 13, 2014: Red Lobster Day
I slept in until seven thirty and then got up to work for a few hours. I had office work to day so that took from the time that I got up until nearly eleven but then I was done. So not too bad. I did some work with Chef 12 as well this morning.
After I was done with work, the girls, who had been hanging out in the living room with dad all morning, begged me to play The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker for a while. So I put in at least an hour doing that. I am on the Earth Temple portion right now. Making good progress. Hopefully not too much of this game left. Dominica went to the salon while we were gaming.
At one we loaded up the Acadia and headed out to go on a family outing to Red Lobster at Liesl’s request. Liesl had decided two days ago that she missed Red Lobster’s cheesy biscuits and asked if we could go there. Knowing that dad loves Red Lobster I figured that that would work well for this weekend. We drove down to Scarsdale and went to the Red Lobster there.
The girls were incredibly well behaved today. Absolute angels. We were at lunch for a really long time and both girls stayed calm and quiet the whole time. Unprecedented. We were quite impressed.
After Red Lobster we went next door to Cold Stone Creamery. The girls loved that. They really liked watching their ice cream get mixed up for them.
Scarsdale is far enough away that that was rather a long outing. We were gone for probably four hours.
Once we were back home we bought Disney’s Planes from Amazon VOD and started watching that. We made it most of the way through but they had technical issues so we switched to watching Ghostbusters instead which Liesl had requested last night but we did not have enough time to watch.
There has been a lot of traffic on MangoLassi this week. That has been great. And very little of it has been me, I have been way too busy to be on very much.