Is it just me that feels like I fell off the face of the earth??
I'm blogging at work, between my super early morning tasks and my early morning tasks. HA. I'm sure my dad won't care. Probably. Right?? Hi dad!! Just kidding, I don't think he reads this.
It went down like this: My dad got tapped for this great, rare high profile steel contruction job (thats been his business for his whole life) so of course, its super exciting! The catch is that they need a job done that would normally take a month or two or 3 done in under a month. So he gets the blueprints, and gets totally organized (thanks to my bro) and since I'd been thinking it was time to get serious about getting out of the (small to moderate) debt we have and getting a real consistent income, I volunteer to be the office manager for this ginormous 3 week production. About an hour before this discussion I realize my sister is in labor, so it was actually a couple days before I got started. My job is basically to be here before work starts, get things situated, get the time logged in, keep track of all the steel that gets delivered and figure out what we are missing, and be my dads personal assistant all day. Its not hectic usually, but now we are getting to the end and trying to just finish already!! I went to an APS construction bidding meeting/forum and I was sort of surprised that I understood pretty much everything they were talking about! I have really learned a lot. Its getting a little more stressful now that we are down to the end and missing a handful of pieces of steel to complete the job, and I have the owners of other companies that we are working with relying on my numbers to be right in order to chew out some butts to get it done. PRESSURE! I'm glad they can cross check on their drawings, but still!
Here is what the building is looking like, my dads company is putting up all these beams
Heres my brother Jason and my cousin Austin, doing.....something. Bolting up??
My office, with cute retro pictures of my dad back in the day. Pretty exciting! At least it has AC!
The big downside of working, is just the being gone. My hours right now are 5 am to 1 pm, but its an hour to get here so I have a 3:15 am alarm, leave the house by 3:45 and get here a little before 5. I usually end up staying till 1:30 sometimes 2, depending, so I still have to have my mom or Bri get the kids from school, and Bri gets them up and takes them everyday. I know, amazing, right? I definetly would not be doing this if she wasn't there, because even Mark has been on days and gone before 6am, and is now out of town for 2 weeks. One of the other biggest challenges is just staying chipper and busy after work. All the kids have stuff to tell me and its hard to be so...listeney. Especially toward the end of the night. I still have lots to do, I'm still doing hair, I have a popcorn order that I MUST finish and we have homework, scouts, piano, football, I still have to have something for dinner, whether my mom makes it or I do, and she and Bri have been picking up all my slack on chores. I did get up on Sunday morning and got some dusting and mopping and vacuuming done, its been so bad! The kids have been stepping up too. All I want to do is come home and crash but I can't. Mondays are the hardest because I also have my housecleaning job after work, so that adds another 2 hours at least. Tuesdays are also the hardest because I'm extra tired from monday, and we have 2 for scouts, and 2 for football, and 3 for mutual and its all back to back to back until 9 p.m. Can you see why I'm hoping this job gets done soon? IDK how much work I'll have after its done, hopefully some but not too much. Ideally he'll get a good job like this every couple months and work tons and then have breaks. That would be amazing for all of us!
And in our classic perfect timing (insert sarcasm) Mark gets to go to a sweet training to learn crime scene photography in GA at the biggest law enforcement/gov't training facility in the country. I hear he is bringing home a real camera, with lenses! I am very excited! I'll let you kno w if he starts a photography biz. You KNOW he'd be telling me to if it was me getting the camera. He probably will tell me to anyway, right? He will miss my birthday and our anniversary! We went out for an early b-day dinner before he left and I'm hoping we can do something fun for our late 16th annversary, but who knows.
WHEW! So that is my life in the past month, I'm sure soon I'll be back to my regular stuff, like decorating and refinishing some furniture that is in my garage that I'm dying to get my hands on, getting back into shape, all the things I'm neglecting right now. I've been eating my tiredness, can you say fatty Patty?? I'm guzzling energy drinks like a lunatic! I'm just coping, right?? Hey I brought an apple today, so I'm doing good! LOL
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