It started out as Jeff suggesting Megan come spend Mother’s Day with us. Megan made the plans to come down that weekend. She then called me to tell me she was asked to work the Saturday before Mother’s Day. I told her I understood and that it was good opportunity for her to get in some additional hours towards her internship. We changed the plans to Memorial Day weekend. She would be able to come down Friday and not have to leave until Monday. So it was all set, or so we thought.
Megan calls me up, rather upset, and tells me that D2 called telling her she would have to pick her up from the airport Friday evening – the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. Megan explained that D2 was coming in and that they were all going down to Georgia to see D1. As I tried to calm Megan down, I reminded her that she had seen D1 in almost 2 years and that she had barely spoken to her either. Megan was still a bit upset that others had made plans for her without even asking her if she had plans. I told her this would be a good opportunity to mend relationships. We had our usual conversation about being about to make her own decisions when she is on her own.
So we tried to figure out a good time for Megan to come down to visit and finally decided on the weekend before Memorial Day weekend. Megan would drive down Friday morning and leave Sunday. She calls me back later on to tell me she forgot she had her class on that Friday. She talked about skipping it, but I reminder her that wasn’t a good idea. She thought she might be able to leave early that day, so we kept the plans.
Megan did make it down last weekend, she didn’t get out of class as early as she wanted to. She made it here around 7:30PM. We watched a movie and then called it a night. We had plans to take Megan Geocaching on Saturday. First we had to stop off at Holiday Treasures, so I could set a couple computer. Megan got to spend time visiting with the owner. Pete hadn’t seen Megan in years and had tons of questions for her. Took me about 2 hours to get everything finished up and then we were off traipsing around looking for “buried treasure”.
We went all around the place, found a nice nature trail where we were able to show Megan what one type of cache looked like. We had problems not being able to find another, but she tried really hard to help find it. We pretty much wore ourselves out by 4PM.
Unfortunately, Megan needed to leave first thing Sunday morning, she had school work she still needed to do. I wasn’t able to resolve the problem with her laptop – she needed to update to a newer OS plus she really needed more RAM – she only has 256MB on her 800MHz machine. I felt bad that she didn’t get to stay longer.
As time went on this past week, the plans for the trip to Georgia started coming together. Both her aunt and her boyfriend were going to be able go too. I reminded her this will be a good opportunity to mend fences. Each day she started getting a little more excited. I was happy for her, she really needs this time with her sisters. Her relationship with me has put an unnecessary barrier between Megan and her sisters. I hope she has a great weekend.
As for us here, it’s been a crazy couple of weeks. Jeff had a string of minor mishaps and would come home a cut up from work. Then the hedge trimmer tried to take his finger off – lesson there, it’s better to let the thing cut the power cord than to let it chop off a finger. No, he didn’t lose a finger but it did bleed for quite a while. Then the windshield got popped by a rock. Maybe we should wrap him in bubblewrap.
We got out and did more Geocaching. Jeff needs to show me where the code is to link my Geocaching page to my blog. I really like the caches where the hider uses some imagination.
I’ve had to ramp up my manager mode since I manage a team of tele-commuters. I’m trying to put into place daily end of day reports in addition to assigning daily tasks every morning via email. It’s fun and frustrating at the same time. My day starts at 6AM Central time, but I have team members who are on the west coast so by the time they roll in I’ve been at work for 5 hours. In the grand scheme of things I am much happier in this job. I’m working from home working with the ecommerce platform that I have spent the past ten years using and even helping to develop. I was hired for this position because of the reputation I built in the application’s community.
So to answer that lingering question of “what for?” when I said I wanted to learn to build websites, I can proudly say, “this is why!”. I could not have done this without the support of my husband Jeff.
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