WyzWmn's World©

just sit and watch
as yer life slowly
careens
outta control?

so
because one of my colleagues at work
announcing that she was pregnant
and leaving on Mat leave in June
and my eye surgery in June
we hired a new lady for the interim
and then because of the way the chips fell
over the summer
we didn’t really get much down time
before our big ramp up
this fall

and then part of the ramp up
became a 10 mth contract
that caused us to hire a contract person
and while the growth is amazing
and exciting
there’s now 2 new people in the office
that don’t know where things are
or how we do stuff…

one hugely smart and detail oriented
one that can stuff envelopes like a machine

today one of them called me
“the keeper of the knowledge”
and told me “without you
we’d be screwed”

so I’m trying to get
all the summer work done
that didn’t get done in the summer
still….

I have to run labels
for a 6000 calendar mail out
address and return
and of course
before you can run labels
you have to compile lists
to make the labels out of

I have to run content labels
for all our 270+ courses
I have to book the marquee for every course
a mth at a time
and of course
before you can run labels
you have to compile lists
to make the labels out of

I have to enter every course at least once
in the staff news letter
if not more than once

each one of these jobs require
inputting each item separately
in more than one place

and in the case of the labels
in requires some serious
finger action in addition
to the files or envelopes eh?

and the new calendar is so popular
that the phone is ringing off the hook
so there’s never one job
that you get to do
from start to finish
without interruption

there’s simply more paperwork to do
than hours in the day

and just to add insult to injury
I’ve just been picked
for jury duty
on a 10 day criminal trial
starting on the 27th

so I have to set up the rooms
for all courses
happening between now
and the middle of Nov
in advance
and because of some changes
being made to the rooms
I have to rearrange
all of the scheduled rooms
between now and the middle of Nov
before I go

yup….
all of this must be done
prior to my leaving for court
the morning of the 27th

I was in court for the jury picking
yesterday…so this is a 4 day week

this coming weekend is Thanksgiving
here in Canada
so next week
will also be a 4 day week

and today the boss announced
that I had to move my Dr’s appt
on the 26th
cos she’s hiring a temp
for me to train that day
to answer the phone while I’m gone!

at this rate
I’ll be in the office nightly till midnight

and then comes our busy season

Gak!

I don’t know whether to laugh
or cry….

even if you are only moving a blog

I’ve had my blog a long time
and the reason
I’m trying to move
is cos the changes that Blogger made
that cause the first couple of years
of my blog to disappear

so I decided to go to word press
and to have my own url
and like the other blogs to this one
using it as my home page

lord tundering
this has been a lesson in patience for me

first I have to find a theme
that’s “what it looks like”
I have a vision
sadly
none of the theme builders
have the same one
so
you get it as close as you can
and then you start
futzin with code

in the case of Word Press
it’s ccs code
which while close to html
ain’t
if ya get my drift

then you have to move over
or import your posts from blogger
very easy
they both have import and export tools

however
the new one doesn’t have some things
that the old one did
and vice versa

so I’m improvising

somehow in the import
I ended up with 2
sometimes 3 of each post
so I got the brilliant idea
of deleting them all
and re-importing
and I did
but it wouldn’t
re-import
so I had to go rescue the posts
by the page
from the trash
and in doing so
ended up with 3
sometimes 4
of the same posts

then there’s the whole font thing
I want to be able to change my font
from post to post
with the default being tempus sans itc

I want to change the size of the font
and the color

you can in blogger
you can’t in WP
and as a result when I imported the posts
the came in several different sizes and colors

and I’ve just discovered that there’s no way
to manage the spacing in posts
in WP
and in order to get this post in here
I had to paste it into notepad…
sheesh

I wonder if it’s my theme?
part of my theme problem
is the way I write
most WP themes cause
my syntax to change to paragraphs
and that’s a pain in the ass…
cos it makes all my posts
one long freakin sentence

and then there’s the links
I have to move them manually
I’m of the slow n steady persuasion
but I’ll get it done…
I’m feeling better about the move all the time
but it’s slow work
and in the meantime
I’m running 2 copies of 3 of my blogs
and the fourth is only in WP

yup…moving is hell
no matter if it’s physically
or virtually.