So...time to vent a little bit. My job has been SO stressful for the past couple of months. Not only is this a super busy time of year (I've been working 2-4 nights/week the past few weeks) but it's also really frustrating.
We're going through a transition...the merger is complete. Now there are all of these loose ends that are getting tied up...meanwhile those of us who work directly with customers are left to answer unanswerable questions while things are getting tied up. Instead of just having ideas and then implementing them...we have to present the idea to our supervisor who then submits to to someone for approval...and so on and so on. It feels like it's taking about ten times as long to get anything done!
Anyhow, this on top of my dad having some medical problems and planning a wedding is a lot to handle! Needless to say I've got a little stress!
Parry and I are getting in gear on wedding planning. Yesterday was really productive. Mom and I went veil shopping, then we visited the inside of the reception hall (mom & dad hadn't seen it yet), then Parry and I met with a potential photographer. Check. Check. Check. Awesome!
Parry picked up our invitations today...I was hoping that we could get started addressing them tonight but I ended up being at work until 8:45. So...maybe Friday?
We booked most of the hotel rooms for our honeymoon. We're staying in St. Louis for the majority of the time. We found this awesome hotel using a cool website: Http://www.hotwire.com/. The website doesn't let you know the name of the hotel until you book and pay for the room...which is why it can be so cheap!
We found a hotel for $60/night...the sight would only tell us that it was a 3.5 star hotel in downtown St. Louis. We hemmed and hawed about pushing the "buy" button (I did most of the hemming and hawing). Check out the hotel we are going to stay in!
http://stlouishotels.explorestlouis.com/1034_hotel-photos_h21084.html
Isn't it amazing? We're so close to the arch it's ridiculous! I'm so excited for the wedding and for our trip. It will be the first time that I've taken a whole week off of work...with weekends before and after. And the first time that Parry and I take a trip where we don't try to find as many free things as possible and stay in the least expensive resting place (we're talking KOA folks...). This is going to be spectacular (and expensive)!
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1 comment:
I grew up on road trips and KOA. I used to LOOOOVE the KOA!
I understand about work; I worked 110 hours last pay period. It was my choice though so maybe that is the difference. When I worked at a large local bank, I worked during our merger with 5/3 Bank (It's a big bank here in the Great Lakes region). It sucked, to put it mildly. I had no answers for anyone and I had to just take peoples abuse and frustration over the fact that I had no answers. And THEN management would tell us to say one thing, and then retract it and feed us the opposite a few hours later. I'm so glad I'm in health care. The human body is complex and sometimes gross but the work is pretty straightforward, you know?
I'm sorry to hear about your dad. I hope all is well.
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