How to Feng Shui Your Life!

I got to finally hang out with some people last weekend going fishing and just plain hanging out.  It was so nice to see everyone and finally have the time to get together and just do fun stuff, rather than sit around the house and catch up on grad school reading/work. 

I still want to have a house warming party, feels so anti-climatic since I've moved upstate.  Part of it has to do with the fact that I've been elevated to a new position at work and have basically been put into the position of making sense of the mess that the previous Administrative Coordinator left for me to pick up the pieces of.  Finding myself doing a lot more things that are 'new' to me, like doing a quarterly report and creating grants (all of which are still alien to me and I'm expected to have then done by the 15th of July... *cries*) ...I know that I can handle this stuff and dig out of the paper hole that the last A.C. left, but it just seems so overwhelming and I've only been in the position for a week now and have felt so close to crying every time that I've left the office to either go home or to the main office.  I've stayed an average of 2-3 hours overtime in order to have everything in order for when I come in on Monday, so I'm not scrambling through my papers like a maniac, to take care of checks, payroll, etc. ...and it just sucks that I don't get paid for those hours. 

I feel like such a sick individual because I enjoy stuff like this as much as I dislike it.  I enjoy going through the numbers and figuring out the statistics that are needed fro reports, I enjoying working in my new position and with the kids at the shelter... I don't mind the extra hour or two to figure things out... but god I can see how someone could get burned out really fast.  I'm sure that things will calm down to a lull within the next week or two and I'll have the work down to a science and be down in the kitchen baking for the kids because I want to keep myself busy with something and I'll still have 2 hours left to my work day.

The work day itself isn't that bad.  The staff at the main office is wonderfully sweet and understanding that I'm new and always willing to explain something to me.  The case works and other people at the house I'm at are great; they care about the kids and are always willing to explain things to me as well, no question is stupid and I'm not expected to get everything the first time it's told to me... I'm human.  Dress for work is hippie casual... I kid you not.  One of the staffers comes in at least once a week with a cloth bandanna, Beetles florescent t-sheet, and a pair of rolled-up gardening pants.  It's pretty damn cool.  I still opt for things that are appropriate and may tend on the side of business casual, but I'm getting more use to that I can wear jeans and a t-shirt and it's ok! 

I'll be getting my own car in the next few weeks... excited and not about it. 

I miss my friends and I miss my family ... I miss having a life.

*I've got Gambit comics to read at work tonight, joy!  Celebrated the 4th by watching Star Wars and BBQing with the housemates, fun times*