Day 18: Down .2 and .4

Jami: 150.8
Justin: 192.3 (I think)

Gick, down .2 after up .8? To be expected, I added in some light weight lifting and refuse to not eat the green chili stew. I am confident I will break the 150 barrier by tomorrow. :) Justin is also working out still, to get ready for his snowboarding trip in a week.

Work is insane, I am putting together a Management Plan for my office mate. His antics are beyond ridiculous and I no longer have time to accept them. I'll post more later.

The more later I promised is this. It felt really good to do the light lifting yesterday. And I do mean light, we can't find the weight pin to add additional weight, so I am confined to 10 pounds of resistance. Lol, not a lot and I can feel it today. That is a little shameful, but I gotta start somewhere. Also, even though my loss was minimal, I can really see the difference!!! My abs are back, I thought they had left forever.

Back to the work thing; so ironic that I started working on a Management Plan this morning. Why ironic? Because my VP sent me an email today telling me to put together a list of things that needed improvement in my department, specifically all the things that office mate needs to improve. It felt so good to write her back and say I had an improvement plan drafted already and would be more than pleased to share it with the CPA on Thursday (as she suggested in her email). Basically, everyone is getting frustrated that they can't get anything from him, and can't ask me for more stuff because I am managing so much of his work. I am going to revise my resume to reflect the management aspect too, since my annual review is next month. Already a year, I can hardly believe it!!! And I still love the actual work itself. It's going to be a great career year for sure. :) Lots of restructuring I am sure. And I might still be green and inexperienced, but I am dancing circles around office mate's learning curve and production ratio. The only person who seems to not notice is the CPA who keeps saying "he needs a chance to learn." HOW LONG??!!? It's already been 2.5 years and he still can't do payroll correctly, let alone understand the concept of payroll. Today I snapped at him; I was on the phone and he started asking me questions. On The Phone, Dude! He was asking me the same question he always asks about part time people. Then our boss called...to tell me that office mate needs more help and I am fully in charge of making sure payroll gets done correctly. I already make all timesheet corrections needed, fix all errors, and prime everything for him! So I handed him my payroll to do list, which I keep for each payroll. Have to, it's impossible to remember who all sent in new forms or had some other informational change, so I list it. I printed that out, along with the issues to watch for when previewing payroll, and gave it to office mate. He got pissy with me!!! "What is this? I do this all the time, I don't need a list." Ugh, egotistical prick. So I took it back. Low and behold, he messed up payroll and had to do it over again. Oh well, just one more thing for him to fix tomorrow. I wonder if he knows he spends more time fixing what little work he does do than he does actually doing the work.

So, Lauren is back with us. After the long weekend she is back on track and ready to go! She's so close to her ending weight of last week, probably will be there tomorrow. Go Lauren!!!

Pounds to go:

Jami: 16.0