Ups & downs

It's now less than 4 days until I will be in the air on my way to Texas. So far, the week has already been full of the good, the bad, and the ugly - mostly the bad and the ugly, unfortunately.

(1) The good.
There have been a couple of pluses thrown in here and there this week, sprinkled into my days. Probably the best part of the week though was opening my mail yesterday to find a little check for $74 - as it turns out I overpaid on my taxes this year and after an adjustment, that is what I got back. Whoddathinkit, really. The money went to my lovely new hair cut (aw, Lisa is so awesome), an early dinner with my cousin and Heather, and the rest is being put away to be saved for Disneyland in September!!

(2) The bad.
Work this week has been terribly frustrating. I repeat: work has been sooooo frustrating!! It doesn't help that I haven't been able to sleep very well the past few nights, or that I put so much pressure on myself at work that it backfires in my face a lot. Tuesday was really the pits, though. I was absolutely up to my ears in my tasks for the morning, and trying to delegate what needed to be done first and what could be put off until the end because I can't do everything at once - especially not by myself - and someone has to act like it's the end of the world that what she seems necessary to be done the second she says it is at the tail end of my priority list (because in the scheme of things, it was). I know I can't stop her from fretting about getting everything done, but I was working my butt off that whole morning trying to make everything go as smoothly as possible and making sure all of her work is up to her standards and nothing is ever good enough. Never. I'm not kidding when I say I had to step outside for a few minutes to just cry.

(3). The ugly.
A picture is worth a thousand words.

My first official accident. How joyous. The good news? I'm not at fault. I was in a parking lot, coming to a stop sign next to a parking space where the other person was starting to back out. The bad news? The estimate on repairs is about $1200. And only $150 of that is for the actual parts. We're still waiting to hear if their insurance company is going to accept liability so we can get it fixed. If not, well, it will probably be left as is since it doesn't hinder the performance of my car. So now it's just a waiting game. All of this insurance stuff is really annoying.