What day is it?

Wow, what a week!!

Sunday, The Vet and I went north and visited my mom.   We had a nice visit, although I always feel badly because The Vet is not one to sit around and visit, so we never stay more than 1.5 – 2 hours.  But Mom says she understands as my dad was never one to stay and visit either.  In any case, Mom made her standard scalloped potatoes from scratch.  I usually love this, but I just can’t eat it anymore – the fat from the butter and all just makes my stomach turn.  I was sick all the way through into Monday.

Monday, I woke up and thought I was going to see my lunch from the previous day.  I tried to keep it together, as I was meeting Munchesmom and her 4 munchkins for swimming.  We’d already had to cancel several times due to weather and one of her munchkins’ injuries.  So, I was bound and determined to push my stomach ails out of my mind.  I did pretty well.    The munchkins are really well-behaved and we had a great time.

Tuesday, I interviewed with a government agency.  It was a 3-person panel, as per usual.  They were very impressed when I gave them all copies of my portfolio.  It has a sample of a class I created, a sample of a job aid I created, a sample of the training tips I used to send out, a sample of an e-learning class I created, and a sample of a needs assessment survey I created.  The interview lasted 1.5 hours and about 2 hours later, they asked for my information so that they could begin the background check.  They called yesterday and want to see me again on Tuesday.

Wednesday, I had to be at the airport by 8 in order to fly out to Chicago for my interview with the publishing company. I will detail out the reasons behind why American Airlines can suck it in another post, but I was 40 minutes behind schedule by the time I was in that limo from the previous post.  However, I interviewed with my possible future boss, then her boss took us to lunch, then her boss interviewed me.  I found out that I am the only one they have flown out to meet them and that I’m still their top candidate – at least I was, but my presentation sucked!!  I screwed up and did a demo instead of a training.  I think I’m okay though, but I’m not putting all of my eggs in one basket.  I did not get home until about 8:30 pm that night.

Thursday, I had to get up and go get my niece, O, and take her to the airport for her flight.  After that I went grocery shopping.  By the time I was done with all of that, it was time to go to my WeightWatchers meeting.  I was really tired all day.

Today, a friend of mine from college and I went up to the Cleveland area to attend Shawn’s dad’s funeral.  It was a beautiful yet haunting service.  Missy and I had a great time catching up, though, and it was great to see Shawn (despite the circumstances) after 15 years.   I was gone from about 7 am to 4 pm.  But it was totally worth it.  Then when I got home, The Vet was very happy to see me ( heh heh) and then he made me dinner.

Tonight, my mom informed me that my aunt passed away last night.  I can’t do the funeral on Tuesday because of my interview, so I am going to run up and back on Monday for the visitation.

Tomorrow? I’m going to the pool and vegging to my heart’s content.