Man, I love Kaiser. I finally got into the system again (I signed up on December 1st, but it took 7 weeks to get my information sent over from the exchange and pay my premium) and booked the first available mammogram slot. Which is in half an hour, so I'm off to get my boobs squeezed.

(I know not everyone has had good experiences with Kaiser, but they've been great for my family.)

I love paying bills at work, not work bills, my bills. Taking care of necessary life stuff and not taking my home time to do it? awesome. perhaps my boss would not feel the same, but it is much less of a timesuck than say, looking on pinterest for pretty things.

ION, I am winning the battle against the papers this week. Yesterday I processed and filed shipping statements from last Thurs- Sat, and then paid and filed 15 or so invoices. Today I am dealing with yesterday's shipping statements and then tackling some more problematic stuff that just keeps getting put off (and buried). I have a week old request to find some statements from 2012. I thought I had them, but I had statement type A box pulled from 2012 and I need statement type B box. These old docs are stored in boxes in a shipping container on our dirty yard that we use as a storage shed. I avoid going out to them, but I think I will have to today.

No snow here, in fact it's already over 70 out.

psst ND, not the way to make friends with your midwest and NE b.orgers.

Wait, I'm supposed to be making friends?

We haven't had decent snow in Utah for nearly a month. They're already calling it drought.

6 inches of snow and it feels like -6F. Chicago is nothing but layers of dirty snow and ice at this point.

I managed to get to work in time to eat breakfast and go to the meditation session despite horrible morning traffic, so I am patting myself on the back right now.

For Good Stuff? ‘Cat Cuddle Booths’ set up to cure loneliness on Valentine’s Day [link]

Would you send that link as a submission via tumblr? I'm not going to have a chance to add it from here and will probably forget. Thanks!

My new person finally showed up, after transit shenanigans. I'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt, but do think she should have had 20 minutes of give in her first-day planning.

They're already calling it drought.

The CA Governor officially declared a drought before the weekend. The past three years have been the lowest rainfall the state has experienced since they started keeping records.

I'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt, but do think she should have had 20 minutes of give in her first-day planning.

Uh, yeah, especially if you're taking mass transit.

The new person on our team was too late to her first meeting at our client's last week to get signed in on time. And she didn't have any of our numbers to text to let us know she was there so she sat in the lobby for 90 minutes. Now, we should have told her that you need to get there at least 20 minutes early to get signed in but I still was a little judgey about it. But she'd been to this client's (big fed agency) before in her old job so she should have known the sign-in rigamarole. Anyway, it's not like her input was needed at the meeting but it didn't make the best first impression.