Some truths I've learned about myself:
~In those tests that you take, determining your personality and which profession would suit you best, they always ask the question, "do you work better alone or in groups?" I can tell you now that I have been in the work force for awhile that the answer to that question for me is WORK ALONE!! These new summer hours that I have set for myself are working out PERFECT. I drop Lauren off to school and I head to work at 7:30. The boys don't get to the office until 9:30. That gives me two whole glorious hours that I work completely uninterrupted. The phone normally doesn't start ringing until after 8:30. I have no one throwing things at me. Now that I have been at the office about 5 months, I know most of our cases and I know the routine. Richard leaves things in the OUT box for me, and I complete the task and put it back in his IN box. Now that I know most of the cases and what needs to be done, I can actually do the work without needing to ask. Which means, I can do my job without Richard being there. Learning a new job sucks. The first couple of weeks are the worst. You don't know anything about anything, and every time you turn around you are having to ask for help and direction. I hate that part. I like routine. This is how my day goes. Get to the office. Turn on space heater (it is colder than the Artic in that office), turn on radio. Turn on computer. Shred anything left from the day before. Take messages off the machine and handle those. Check email (Canyon mainly emails me, or other attorneys that need stuff from me) and handle the emails. Do timekeeping and billling for the day (that can take a little while). Open mail from the day before and handle mail. Then its go to the outbox time. Normally I just take the entire stack. Richard puts an S or a T for whether he wants me to do it or Sonja. I sort through what is mine and put it on my desk and I take Sonja's and put it on her desk. Then I start cracking out the stack. Lately I have been doing discovery, petitions, medical releases, a brand new probate case which took me almost an hour to do. I had about 8 pages to type up and 4 ongoing workman's comp cases. That was just what I did this morning. When I am done cracking out the stack, I put it all back in Richard's IN box. And by the time I get that done, the guys are normally in the office. When they are around I get no peace. They are constantly throwing stuff at me. That is one truth I've learned.
~Brannon and I are adjusting to each other. As much as we love each other, change is always challenging. I would be lying if I said it was perfect. It's not. But we are working through the adjusting stage. We are having fun doing it. I learned alot this weekend from his mom. It gives me perspective.
~I can listen to a new cd about 300 times before I'm sick of it. It only takes the kids, Jody, and Brannon about 1 go around before they are screaming at me to PLEASE LISTEN TO SOMETHING ELSE!! I have recently discovered Carrie Underwood's song Wasted.
~No matter how extensive my Walmart list is, I always forget SOMETHING I need there. I can't seem to get everything written down. ~In the process of unpacking boxes, it seems that for every box I empty I have 3 times more stuff than was actually in that box. Does the stuff multiply in my sleep? I might pull 1 cubic foot of stuff out of the box, but by the time I lay it out, it's really 3 cubic feet.
~As much as I want to have a baby with Brannon (yes, I realize I cannot, but if wishes came true...) I am OVER the baby bug. I was at the store the other day trying on clothes, and in the next stall over was a young mother and her 1 year old. The entire time that mother was trying on clothes, the baby was screaming, crying, whining, and fussing. I tried clothes on in peace, without being rushed, without baby bags and binkies, without strollers to kill my shin on. I wasn't begging anyone for just one more minute. It was wonderful. As I was leaving I was thinking, oh thank the lord that's not me.
~I've had enough rain. Seriously. Please.Stop.Raining. I have garage doors that need to be painted.
~Lauren's bed is going to be arriving Thursday or Friday. Her room is going to be SO great when we are done decorating.
~Jacob wants a red bedroom. I was thinking a medium blue. We are going round and round. Needless to say, no paint has been purchased yet. So his room stays purple for awhile. If he came around to my way of thinking...
~It's almost vacation bible school time at our church. You know what that means. Busy busy.
I guess that's what I've learned this week. I'm sure I'll be learning more later.