saffronhare | Work suckage level = not so sucky.

First, I got to spend a little time this morning with the little ones, playing and cuddling. Then, I got to see my naked

agrnmn getting into and out of the shower. Plus, I got to say more than three words to

zylch. None of that has really happened much lately.

Right away, my boss surprised me with a dozen roses (sort of a honey-blush color -- they're lovely) and a nifty little e-card to thank me for staying late yesterday when she left to go play golf while we finished a proposal.

I feel like I'm getting thanked all out of proportion with my actions. See, Tammy routinely puts in 70-hour weeks and is nearly always here later than me (even if I usually beat her in). This golf thing on Tuesday evenings is practically an order from her doctor, so none of us resented it at all when she needed to go. Still, I'll take the flowers and the ego-stroking.

Part of me wonders if I'm being buttered up for something, but that's a worry for another time.

A bit later, a colleague came to me this morning in tears, wanting reassurance that everything would be okay. Dawn is not a tearful kind of woman -- she's a statistician, for Chrissakes -- but uncertainty weighs on her. We're in a gigantically no fun business cycle and...well, you know. Dawn and I are both perfectionists and it's killing us to see old-timers leaving...leaving us with more to do...etc. I told her that evolution is seldom a pretty thing -- but that I thought we'd come out of it okay. And as I was saying that, I realized I believed it.

Not a bad start to the day, considering.

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You should be appreciated. You spend plenty of time in the office, more than you should just because you leave later than Tammy doesn't mean you are sloughing off. Frankly you are likely more organized and productive and therefore need to spend less time. Don't even start to think you aren't doing enough, four people's jobs for the pay of one, not even the highest paid of the four. You are not getting thanked in proportion. I know Tammy likely did that on her own and it means a great deal because of that more than anything else.

Love you.

What he said.

Hope your day continues to go well. Maybe we can even manage another 4 or 5 words after I get home and before one or the other of us collapses :-)

That would be cool. I'm going to get home early enough to enjoy some lovey time with Princess !Kaboom! and Princess Sticky before their bedtime.

Then I'll have time to do

agrnmn and other fun things by 9:00 (give or take). I also want to get in a little bit of painting. You know, so I can better justify needing to spend that money at Home Depot on Sunday before the next pay period.

You've got longer than til 9 before I get back (unless tonight is one of his 9.30 nights). I have to be at the store til 10, remember? Alternatively, you could do like we did back in college and hang a weasel on the doorknob to let me know it's not safe.

Thanks for being my Chief Propagandist, and for switching cars with me today. My ass will express gratitude later...

it's nice to be appreciated. i am sure you deserve it and more. although understanding how a perfectionist is, (being one myself) i understand why you are worried about the intent. i often do that, but in the end i just worry myself sick over nothing.

Work suckage level = not so sucky.

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Duly seconded.

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You're so sexy when you get all stern and scolding like that.

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