Sheep Guarding Llama

This morning I worked from home.  Very important as Liesl and I have gotten so little time together this week.  Today was also the day that I got a little bit of extra time to sleep in.  The phone has been going off pretty early in the morning all week and keeping me from ever getting any real sleep.

I worked from home all morning which was great.  For lunch we went to Einstein Brothers Bagels even though we were there yesterday.  We have discovered that we really like their food which is awesome so now we have another place that it is easy to get to and not too expensive to add to our rotation.

Liesl has started recently taking her pull-along puppy with her everywhere.  She has had that puppy for a very long time but hasn’t shown it any real interest in quite some time.  Suddenly she just loves it.  She really “gets it” now which makes it more entertaining.

The amazing discovery this morning at breakfast was that Liesl likes smoked salmon!  We had gotten her her own food but she stole my smoked salmon bagel and really loved it.  Who would have guessed that a twenty-one month old would like smoked salmon?

After lunch I went home and tried to stay until Liesl took her nap but Liesl ended up never taking a nap which was not good.  So once it was obvious that that was never going to happen, I ran into the office to work for the rest of the afternoon.

After work I came home and we went out to meet up with our new real estate agent.  We ended up just meeting at La Madeleine which is really easy and we talked about some specific houses and options in the area.  It looks like we have some really good options in the area.  We are excited to get out and see them in person rather than just online.  We’ve been seeing so many on Trulia that we are pretty confident that we will find something that we like.

We are scheduled to get out first thing on Sunday morning to go look at houses.  We already have nine houses of interest before even really getting started.  Fingers are crossed.

Another really busy day at work.  I’m going to be ready to collapse by the time that this week is over.  It’s not bad at all, just really busy.  Actually I would say that the stress is lower just from the change of pace.  Very hard to keep up with my blogging though!

For lunch today Dominica and Liesl picked me up at work and we went to Einstein Brothers.  None of us had ever been to an Einstein Brothers before although I have their bagels at work fairly regularly.  We were really happy with our lunch.  It was very good.  It worked out really well that I got some time to just sit and spend real time with Liesl and Dominica since I was gone all day yesterday and will be gone tonight as well.

After work I raced home again, changed and was out the door.  Liesl and I are barely seeing each other this week.  That is not fun.

I was much later than planned getting up to La Cima for the Young Execs group.  They were already in full swing when I got there.  I only got about half an hour to hang out before the group broke with several people going home and the eight of us remaining going into the dinning room for pasta night.

We stayed pretty late tonight.  I would guess that it was almost eleven by the time that I got home.  Although I heard stories that the group went much, much later just two months ago.

It was a good evening.  But tiring.  Tomorrow is my “day off” from as much as possible.

Today turned into a La Cima day for me.  Like yesterday, today was extremely busy at the office stemming from my doing training while trying to cover my usual workload while several people were out as well.  Wow was it busy.  By lunch I was seriously burned out.  I was just running from one thing to another all morning.

For lunch, we took our new trainees along with Nicki, Dan and I out to lunch at La Cima.  It was a late lunch for us today but a nice relaxing early afternoon at the club which is what was needed.

After lunch I went to the house for a little bit to see the family, walk Oreo, etc.  Then back to the office.

This evening, after I got out of work, I ran home to change and then was off to La Cima again, just a few hours after having left from lunch, for my second time attending Tech Execs which meets there every so often.

Brian and Maggie beat me to La Cima.  I got there and we had a drink while waiting for the party to heat up.

It took a while to get going but around seven or so the crowd picked up and it ended up being an interesting evening.  Not as many people attended this time.  Met some really cool people, though.

Six of us ended up sticking around for the happy hour to subside and then ordered dinner.  We had a nice time.  It was around ten thirty when I finally got back to the apartment.

This morning we have new staff at the office so I have a rather busy week ahead of me as I am doing much of the training this week.  That means that I am away from my desk much of the time which means that requests for me just back up more and more.  So while it is nice doing something different it means that I am just swamped with work too whenever I get a moment to attempt to catch up.

So, that being said, expect very little updating on SGL this week.  I’ll do what I can.

Tonight is my one night at home for the next several.  It is a busy week both at the office and socially.  I have both my Tech Execs group and my Young Execs groups this week which really eats up my free time.  So I will be out the next two nights.

I had to get up rather early this morning, for a Sunday, to work on a SAN migration project.  That meant that I was up around seven thirty and worked for several hours on that while my family still slept.

Once I was finally done with work for the day we all just hung out at the house relaxing.  There was some sporadic work throughout the day but nothing large.

I managed to play some Oblivion today.  Not a ton but some.  Far more than I have gotten to play in a while.  I am determined to get through the rest of this game and move on to something else.  I have been playing it for years now.  Basically two full years.  That might be too long for one game.

Once Liesl went to bed this evening, Dominica and I watched the three and a half hour long Hindi movie What’s Your Raashee which was pretty good.  A bit long but it didn’t really feel all that long.  I suppose in the era of chained television episodes without commercials having a three and a half hour movie isn’t really a very big deal.