Trying to do the right thing

Over the last few weeks I've been auditing an account at work. Huge amounts of money and I'm off from the 'official" number by less than .2% but still have to figure it out. In the course of my audit I have found that the university is not charging me enough for a certain type of position. In fact, they aren't really charging me at all.

Now I could be greedy and say too bad for the university, but instead I'm trying to do the right thing. I want to be charged more money because otherwise all of my accounting is wrong. I want to pay my fairshare of costs.

So what happens? I get the run around. And I'm not talking a little run around. I'm talking dog chashing its tail in circles run around. I may have found a solution for part of the problem. But I shouldn't have to do this much work to do the right thing.

I can see why people give up.

4 day weekends

Ever wonder why we work more than we play? After having a four day weekend, I've definitely decided I like the work three days, off four days schedule. Too bad that you can't get paid that way. I would go for one of those jobs.

Birthdays

My birthday was yesterday and while I was thinking of my age, I realize I still hopefully have at least half my life still left to enjoy. And now I'm to the good part where I can do stuff without worrying about schedules. Hot diggety dog!

The start of the school year

This year marks the last year of public education I will be sending my child to school. Hard to believe that she is a senior. I still have the cute little picture of her with her lunchbox and backpack in front of CCS for her first day of kindergarten. But now we are way past the first day of school photos. She drives herself there and it certainly would not be cool of a mom to be there.

Sometimes you wonder did I do the right thing by having her go to public school. She went to private school of kindergarten. I think for elementary school it didn't matter. But public school definitely offers an wider range of classes for her to choose from. This year she has European History and is in her fifth year of Spanish. Pretty good stuff for high school.

It also gave her the opportunity to show her dancing/school spirit as a pom. I think this may have been the most important part of high school for her. It has been a way to use her talents and show others what she can do.

The color blue

I admit it. I can't tell some blues apart. This has become an issue because I wanted to paint part of my bathroom blue. A dark rich blue that had jeweltones to it. I probably went through 50 little color samples and finally settled on one. We primed the wall and put the first coat on. Both Dan and Whitney say it reminds them of kindergarten blue and want to know when I'll be adding the yellow and red. I said it just needs a second coat and the blind reinstalled. Well the blind is back up and I think they are right. It isn't as rich as I hoped for. So now we have to pick out a new color and paint over all this blue. Maybe I shouldn't be involved in color choice.

Is anybody out there?

I realize that no one is reading the blogs anymore. With the advent of Facebook and all of the instant postings, how many people need a blog anymore? I believe that it allows for creative freedom however because length is not limited. You can just ramble on and on and you don't get any error messages.

Send me a note if you read this.

Dog Days of Summer

Ever wonder why it is called the dog days of summer? I think it is because it is too darn hot to do anything and dogs seem to know where to go to lie in the shade and try to keep cool.