Weekend Update

So it's been a while...

This Week...

• The work weight loss challenge went down in flames because my coworker thinks that it's "inaccurate." 
• I wanted to quit my job 3 out of the 5 days this week. 
• Portland passed law raising minimum wage to $15 an hour (Start date - ???) 
• Laura got me up to Seattle for a girl's weekend. 

Inaccurate?! Laughable. Upon prodding, she gave more details about her interpretation... that it's inaccurate to weigh in on different days and at different times during the day. I suppose that would be true if we were all weighing in on different days like... Girl 1 on Monday, Girl 2 on Tuesday and Girl 3 on Wednesday. But the fact that we are all weighing in on the same scale in front of each other means that we are all experiencing the same advantages and disadvantages. Let's also talk for just a moment about how on the road to losing 20lbs weighing in on a Thursday at noon instead of Thursday at 9am or even Wednesday at 9am... it doesn't make much difference. And if you didn't get to pee beforehand, the weigh in will be amazing next week. I mean, seriously these things even themselves out.

So, Inaccurate? Pssshhhh... yeah, right. I think this has more to do with her being dead last by more than a 5lb margin than inaccuracies. But to each their own, good accountability buddies are hard to find. The other woman in the office and I are going to keep weighing in on Wednesdays to try and beat down the holiday pounds.

I think I'm getting better at my job... but I also think I'm still so untrained and I still haven't fully gotten the rhythm of what I'm doing... and on top of that, I thought I was doing the daily deposit correctly for the past month and I was wrong. I've been checking balances with the wrong account ledger (but funnily enough, the imbalance was not my fault, a correction I asked for was miscorrected)... though still, I was not doing the check correctly so therefore I am to blame for everything. So I endured the wrath of office manager and office manager in training.

Wrath = silent treatment and red angry faces. Then the whole jargon-spouting correction. Then me looking back blank faced because really I don't know what was just said.... Repetition of the jargon. Then my request for a demonstration along with jargon so I can interpret. I seriously feel like I'm trying to understand a foreign language. I haven't felt this dumb for such a long time (form and analysis anyone?) So I'm thinking this may not be the career path for me. Of course I'm going to see it out and make sure it's not just me backing out of a challenge.

All that in contrast made it extra delightful to spend time with Laura and get out of the city for a bit. The train ride was wonderful. So much beauty out here with the undergrowth and the moss growing on naked trees... the whole countryside was still so very green. She and I went to dinner at Market Street and did the girl chat thing until 3am... the next day we brunched, went to the Snoqualmie waterfall and the Snoqualmie Casino (first time I've ever played the slots, and most definitely the last) and had dinner in downtown Kirkland. We watched The Fault In Our Stars - the movie adaptation of my favorite author's most recent publication. All in all a fun, action packed weekend.

Back to the grind though... Let's do another week... let's see if I can't turn this around... As that ever-damp camp counselor from BYU Young Ambassadors said... "One more time, without the suck!"

XO,
N