Feeling Good Friday-Keeping it Together Edition

My insomnia this week at least has an identifiable root case. You may recall my story about our IT department deciding not to renew the contract of my project manager, and only giving a two business day notice? Well, a major problem happened with the fiscal year change over, and surprise, no one remaining has any knowledge, or enough knowledge to pinpoint where in the system the trouble  is stemming from. Therefore, no one can begin to resolve. right now so $1.5 million dollars in payments are floating somewhere in command sphere between our software for the program and the system that makes payments happen. If not resolved by Monday, add another million to that total. It's a situation that ultimately I can't resolve, but it is my stakeholder base impacted. 

On a slightly positive work note, the system didn't crash for my team with new payroll codes, always dicey with the change of fiscal year. A poor colleague though had nearly eight hours off and on with HR and Accounts Payable trying to get her teams time sheets to go through the system without error. Technically my card and one other staff should have erred as well because I learned after they processed, a wrong code was in the default set up by AP. D, my colleague, had a very rude message from the supervisor in that area stating if she didn't have them corrected by 12:00 Wednesday, no one in the division would get paid. Sorry? You're the part of the division  who screwed up the set up which originated the problem and you threaten no one will be paid-unacceptable. She didn't sleep well either that night. Now we wait and see if everyone gets paid next Friday. 

There must be something good going on, while trying to keep it together. Let's look for that, shall we? Just a note before you read, there is nothing on the health front this week. I know I need to make it  priority, but it wasn't. I'm up and typing this post, so that says something though. 

•  It stormed last night for about an hour hard and we lost power about 8:15.  I could work from the lap top as the battery was fully charged and spent two hours on my book. I did some reworking of the order of the story and added more narrative. How long does a book, really a loosely connected collection of short stories, with one central character, need to be? 
• DD2 got her AP exam tests back on Monday. I'm so proud of her as she got a 4 on the English Comp and Literature, and a 5 on the American History. She thought she would do well enough for college credit or pass on the English side, but was ecstatic to learn her history score. Both her top schools right now accept these scores for college credit. She also received a notice form one of the two schools that she has priority consideration and will require no application fee, is fast tracked for scholarship consideration, and automatically is invited for a choir audition, no preview recording needed, because of her All State honors. We'll see how much they want her when the actual scholarships are awarded.
• Despite the IT stress at work, my immediate team is starting to gel. We had a six hour mini retreat yesterday, having lunch and a team building exercise, followed by deep dives into the transition between fiscal years, planning for next year, and starting to look at a 1-3 year plan. 
• We have arrangements for pup for the trip. We decided it would not work out for our friends to have him. he has more energy than both their dogs together. Apparently after their play date, their little guy was having  peeing accidents in their house. A woman I know from volleyball has a kennel/doggie day care and she ended up having an opening. Because it is more like doggie daycare and less like boarding, there is very limited space. It worked out well with the timing of her own families vacation. His care while we are gone is my one angst about the trip, but I feel relieved now.
• One smidge health related positive. I went to another Wellness Team talk-I think it was actually the same one as last years. If nothing else, it upped my commitment to get sugar, white flour, and, processed meats out of my diet. 

There, I came up with five. Hopefully next week the positive things related to health and well being will flow. I realize most of these were not specifically health and well being, but the counter definitely would have felt like unneeded weight on my shoulders. I hope you have a positive and wellness focused week.