Good plan. Dogs are less helpful than you would think when it comes to packing.

Ooo, have a good drive, Laura.

Safe drive~ma, Laura.

I am going nuts at work. I have only on week left at this job and I have had to spend the entire week manning the front desk while one of my staff is on vacation. It's very hard to get stuff done when you're answering the phone every 15 minutes and troubleshooting some students inability to enroll in the course they want. One phone call can last 5 minutes easily, sometimes longer. So now I've got lists out the wazoo to keep me on task. I could have left two weeks ago, but I gave a very long notice just because I didn't want to leave the office in the lurch with them being one person down. Why do I do this to myself??

If they short staffed the office during your transition, the onus is on them not you, Sail.

Oh, no. This employee put in for her vacation before I even interviewed for the new position. If it had been the other way, I probably would have said too bad, so sad. I'm also pretty sure my boss wouldn't have approved it just because of that.

eta: As an admissions office, we are very picky about when we let employees take vacation; office coverage is vital, especially at the start of the semester when everyone wants to enroll.

Heh. One of my friends has a four-year-old son, and she read somewhere that a good game for them for learning phonics is to spell words on the fridge with alphabet magnets, and then have them see if they can replace one letter with a new letter to make a new word. After she'd given him a few words, he decided to try it with his name. His name is Tucker.

Whoops.

Hee!

One iron infusion down, four to go.

The contractor started work on our bathroom today. Months ago, when the floor tile started cracking, I told DH I thought the toilet was leaking. I said we could re-seat the toilet and maybe a couple of floor tiles. He was certain it was the floor joists and would cost too much to fix so we had to live with it. Cut to last month, when the floor had shifted so much that tiles were beginning to crumble and we could only get the door open about 10 inches and had to slide in sideways.

We decided to redo the whole thing, which is going to cost about $12,000.00. They demo-ed the floor tile today discovered that the leak was... yup, coming from the toilet. AS I SAID.

The bright side is that I never liked the beige bathroom tile, and it's going to be gorgeous when it's done. We'll be paying for it for a couple of years, but what the hell, we only have one bathroom.

Scrappy, I would not have said "I told you so" but I would have expressioned it loudly. I'm a bad person.