Sheep Guarding Llama

Once again, I am way behind on my SGL posts.  Argh.  My busy schedule continues and I am still struggling to keep up with everything.

Today I am in the office but still have a few more papers that need to be written today.  It was a very busy day and I was pretty worn out when I got home.

My evening, my entire evening, was spent working on the remaining papers for my class.  This went all night.  I just wrote and wrote and wrote.  I was completely exhausted but I decided to push through and, at around two or three in the morning, I finally finished by eightieth paper and was able to turn it in and call the class “done”.

What a huge relief that is.  I am definitely taking a little time this week to relax.  I have a major project for Previsor that has to be done before this coming weekend is over but for now I need to catch up on sleep and get some family time in.  This has been the busiest semester yet.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there.

We all slept in as much as we could this morning.  But sleeping in late when you have a Liesl is not very late.  We probably made it to about eight thirty before she had gotten us up and out of bed.  I got to start off the day dealing with a massive poopslosion caused by a large dinner of yoghurt and pudding last night.  Figures that this would happen when I am on diaper duty.

I did some work this morning before we left the house.  I am working today so I wanted to be as caught up as possible before going to brunch.  I did not get to do any writing this morning before we left.

We had reservations at La Cima for brunch at eleven this morning.  So we spent much of the morning getting ready to go.  We wanted to be all dressed up since it was Mother’s Day.  Dominica and Liesl had similar spring dresses on and I wore my new olive green suit that I got a month or so ago.

Brunch was fantastic.  This is our first time doing a brunch at La Cima.  It was certainly special.  We had the earliest seating.  Seating was in the main dining room or in the lounge.  The buffet was set up in the lake view dining room and into the foyer.  We even had a table with our name on it.  A nice touch.

We had omelets from the omelet bar, smoked salmon, cured tuna, pepper smoked halibut, cheese blintzes and more.  It was quite the spread and tons of food that was perfect for us.  Lots of food that Liesl really liked too.  Liesl ate an entire cheese blintz and tons of broccoli too.  She did great.

Liesl is getting used to eating at the club and is getting better and better at doing it.   She is getting exposed to a lot healthier food there too, I think.

After brunch it was back to the house and I had to spend the rest of the day working and writing my papers.  Not a lot of fun.

Dominica spent the day playing Dragon Age Awakening – the “sequel” to Dragon Age Origin.  She just got the game last weekend and has made incredible progress on it.  She is almost at the end.

I did not manage to finish my papers today but did make decent progress.  I was still writing at two in the morning but have just five papers left to carry over until tomorrow!

Thus my weekend begins.  The goal for this weekend, for me, is to complete my class at RIT.  I have about thirty papers that I have to write before class is completed and I really, really want to have them done before the week begins.

I slept in some this morning.  Wow was that ever nice.  I really needed some time to sleep.  I’ve been getting more and more run down recently.

I got right to work this morning writing my papers for RIT.  Almost thirty papers to write this weekend.  What a long weekend it is going to be.

Really very little to report today.  The weather was nice but I was hold up in the bedroom office working the entire day.  Very boring.  Good progress, though.

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day.  In the morning Liesl and I are taking Dominica out for a Mother’s Day Brunch.  So off to bed at a reasonable time so that we can get up and get moving tomorrow.

It has been a very long week.  Between being crazily busy at work and trying to get caught up on my coursework for RIT I’m just worn out.

I was feeling awful when the alarm went off this morning and I had to stagger into work.  At least the weather is awesome.  Cool and breezy and overcast.

It was another crazy morning.  No chance to write any papers.  Then I walked home for lunch and spent some time with Dominica and Liesl.

This afternoon was still crazy too.  After yesterday’s market issues we are dealing with a lot of residual problems today.  So again, no time to write at all which is really tough because I am past due on some stuff and have a ton of more papers to get done and out of the way.

Because so much work was cancelled for this weekend I was able to go home at not too bad of a time.  Not early but not all that late. I decided that I was so tired that I really needed to relax tonight and get to bed early rather than writing more papers.  I do not have to get up super early tomorrow as the early morning work has been cancelled.  I still need to work tomorrow but the schedule is loose.

My entire weekend is going to be spent writing papers.  My window to get this class completed is closing quickly and I want to get things done sooner than later.  I am very worried that if I go past this weekend that I will not have a chance to finish them in time.

It was a big day around here.  It started innocently enough very early in the morning.  Got up and got out to work around seven thirty or so.  Work was very busy this morning.

For lunch today Dominica made sandwiches and had them all packed up when I got home.  Then we went down to the pool with Liesl and took her out for her very first time swimming!   She had a really good time.  The water was pretty cold, but we had the entire pool to ourselves for about an hour.

There is a lot of really shallow areas in the pool where Liesl could splash and play without us needing to hold her.  She thought that it was great fun.  She played for a long time even though the water was pretty cold.

After swimming for a while I showered and changed into more “going out to La Cima” appropriate clothes and ran down to the front office and picked up a shipment of computers that had arrived while we were in Houston and I had not had a chance to pick up yet.  It was a very heavy box so I needed to take the X3 down to the front so that I could put the box straight in.

Then it was back to work for the afternoon.  It was a rather busy afternoon too.  We had a major market event today.  Due to a massive accident with an autotrading platform we accidentally plunged the market (the Dow Jones Industrial) by nearly one thousand points – the largest intraday drop in the history of the market!  What a day.  So it was a bit of an “all hands on deck” afternoon.

When five thirty rolled around I was most definitely ready to escape the office.  I was well dressed this evening with sport coat and everything.  I ran out the door at five thirty and headed straight over to La Cima for the “firsh Thursday” Happy Hour.  Since yesterday was Cinco de Mayo today was a delayed party to celebrate it.  We had melon margaritas and free appetizers.  It was nice.  A good turnout of about seventy five people.  There were a few people from the office too so we got to hang out there.  People from another division that I only know through La Cima that I have never met at work.

Dominica ate dinner while I was at happy hour so I got fish and chips and hung out with Brian and Mahesh.  I got take away salad for Dominica and came home around eight thirty.  I got to hang out with Liesl for a little while then she went to bed just after nine.

I had a ton of work that is late for my class at RIT so I ended up staying up until two in the morning working on papers.  I was so tired when I finally got the chance to go to bed.  Tomorrow is going to be a really long day.