Outdoors

My husband is so hot <3


Pretty flowers:


Pretty scenery:


Getting cooled off during the fountain show:


It's about time for a new camera. In the last week it's been giving me problems. The display screen is messed up, so increasingly often I can't see what I'm taking a picture of. Looking through the viewfinder instead of at the display can be okay, but then I don't know what the camera is focusing on and sometimes it doesn't focus the way I'd like. And sometimes the picture is messed up :(

Messed up pictures:


I may see what it would take to fix it, but the 4 year warranty expired a year ago, so I'm sure it'll be better to just get a new one. We're wanting a better one anyway :)

It Happened

I finished reading a book -- Pride and Prejudice. I know, you are super amazed right now. I even thought it was good! I usually don't read books very much -- they can make me feel both tired and restless and like my brain is fried. I don't know why they do that. And they don't always. As you know I like Mitch Albom's books. I guess I'm just not one to read book after book after book. I require a two year recovery period.

Anyway, I signed up for Pride and Prejudice at DailyLit the last of December, so it took a while but I made it. They send me a bit a day and I read it at work during lunch. I'm considering signing up for another, after all I still eat lunch, but I may have to give myself a break for a bit first. If you have any suggestions on what I should read let me know, but if it's not offered for free from DailyLit I'm less likely to read it.

Typical

At work, in addition to my own responsibilities, I assist four people, each to a different extent - I only have one boss.

Last Thursday a co-worker asked me to do something for him by next Monday. He was going to be out of town the following Wednesday through Friday, so to have it ready when he got back. I said sure. Well the rest that week and Monday and Tuesday he kept pestering me about it! He always does this. He’ll ask me to have something done in a week or whatever and then he asks about it at least three times a day until I have it done. He’ll come to my desk and if I’m not working on it he’ll ask to see where I have it written down. So annoying and condescending.

This time I was saving his little assignment for when he wouldn’t be here on purpose, he asked me to do it but if he were here he would have taken over anyway. When he lets me do something he always seems pleased. But he seldom actually lets me do it. Then after he's taken over and done it himself he'll tell me I did a good job. I’m not an idiot. Don't compliment me on something you did.

You may be thinking that I must have earned this distrust or something, and that I am unable to function effectively at work. But I don't believe that's true.

Another thing - our desks are in view of each others when his office door is open and he’s always yelling at me. I know he doesn’t mean anything by it, and he probably even thinks he’s being cute (or whatever it is that nearly 40 year old men are going for when they are being rude), but it makes me … unhappy.

... I'm pretty certain no one at work knows about this blog. But just in case I will say that I do like my job and my co-workers.