Some Mixed Emotions

Well this day has pulled me from one end to the other. I have happy feelings, a sense of accomplishment, aggravation, sorrow and heartbreak. Talk about a mixed bag–ever have days like that?

Well I go on a little vacation after today for a week and a half. Got all my work done, and it was a push, but got everything entered, dealt with an insurance audit, got checks made out and ready to send to vendors, filed everything and now my coworker can easily close for the year end! Yaaaaay! Happy about that and happy about not coming in until the 16th. 😀

Then there is the aggravation with EDD–we’re on a work share program where they pay us for the days that the employer furloughs us. Well there is a question that asks if the employee was absent other than the work share days ie holidays, vacation, sick leave and if so was the absense approved by the employer. Well I had some vacation time last month and put that. Well they paid me for one week but not for the week I had my vacation. My coworker thinks that they are thinking that they shouldn’t pay me because of the vacation time. I haven’t received a claim rejection letter, which I should if that is the case, and may have to call them 🙄 [I hate calling the EDD] 😡 this Friday if I don’t hear anything. Big time aggravation–I want nothing but fun on my vacation!! 👿

I come home and there is a message from my neighbor–she doesn’t call for nothing and I had a feeling it was not so good news. Well her youngest daughter lost her baby. She was 3 months along and started spotting. When she went to the doctor well, the baby was dead. So sad to hear that. She was pregnant once before and lost it so this poor gal is a high risk pregnancy! She and her husband want a baby soooooo bad. I know she has some health issues and I hope they can try again and bring a baby to term. So I’m bummed about that right now. 🙁

Also today I get a Griffin Candlelamp I got off ebay. Well it came damaged 😥 –ears broke off, nothing more. One thing the seller didn’t double box but she did insure. I have already contacted her and she responded within 30 minutes. I can’t send her pictures but I can send the item back and let her refund me. I do have good feelings about the seller and she was dismayed because she never had a problem before. But it broke my heart because I like the item and it is retired.

So all this in a day==happiness being eroded by aggravation–sorrow overshadows the aggravation and heartbreak sits next to them both! Thought I’d share some craziness going on in my life! 😉

And–let’s end on a positive note–just noticed this–I’m now a Chatty Windstonian! 😆

Thanks for the positive thoughts, Cat. In regards to the candlelamp–the damage isn’t horrible–the ears broke off in pieces, but I do have the large piece that Kyrin would fill in and you’d never know the difference. It wasn’t like the whole thing broke in bits and pieces. As I ‘speak’ the seller and I are working out a resolution. Her feelings exactly–rather not deal with USPS and if I really like the item, which I do, she’ll give me a discount. Works for me–that way we’re not shipping this thing back and forth. I don’t have my digital camera yet and so can’t send her pictures–I did promise her that I would just to see the damage and that I’m telling her the truth–I like to be on the up and up dealing with people myself.