The Only Nasty Thing I Like is a Nasty Groove

(name that song)

What a day. Do you ever have days where you wish you'd turned your alarm off and just rolled over instead of getting up? Yup, that was me today. DBF too, but that's a whole other story. I don't usually talk about work much on here, because really, who wants to hear about work stuff? But today I feel the need to vent. Not sure if I've mentioned it here before, but I work for a college. The day started off with a guy from another department telling me I'd done this project wrong and it needed to be redone. I have done it this way for two years, but whatever, I fixed it (humming a happy song as I worked of course). Then a woman from another department came down saying she had a list of students who weren't active in the system, but she thinks they should be. I looked them all up and found out they were all fine. They'd all changed their program at some point and we'd done the appropriate paperwork to notify her department. No idea how she missed the paperwork, since she'd personally signed off on most of them. Hmm, anyhoo, moving on...

This same woman also gave my department a list of students who needed to have some paperwork filled out. My coworker says to me - "Suzanne, you worked like crazy yesterday, I'll take care of those." Awesome, I thought. I've been working temporarily at this campus and trying to get the feel of how everything runs and how to effectively manage the department. I was impressed with her initiative...until I checked her work. There were about 10 students on the list, and 9 of those 10 had the appropriate paperwork done already. Again, not sure how the woman from the other department missed this. You would think my coworker might say to herself - "self, these are already done. I think the best step would be to notify this woman so she can look these up."

Nope. She REDID the paperwork. This means more work for four additional departments and it was totally unnecessary. And once you send in the paperwork, you can't take it back. For a couple, she even submitted contradictory information that I had to have her fix. And you might ask, what happened to the one lonely student that didn't have the paperwork in? She SKIPPED it! Ugh.

Then we had an exceptionally annoying meeting with all the department heads, full of tension and awkwardness. I'm truly amazed at some of the unprofessionalism that goes down at this campus. Come mid-September, I'm out of there to my permanent home at another campus and I can't wait. Then as I'm driving home, people were driving like lunatics. The kind of driving that makes you slow down without even realizing it, just to have the time to avoid any crashes that might be headed your way. Finally at CVS, a guy deliberately cut me off in line. He totally saw me. Cut me off anyway. I could have said something, but I let it go.

So as you can imagine, by the time I got home, I was thoroughly annoyed. But then I look at my little munchkins, eagerly waiting for me to put down my bags and shower them with affection. They wouldn't mind being fed either. :)
FEED ME!!! I am the Gigi and I am hunnnnnnnggggggggrrrrrrryyyyyy!

My handyman boyfriend crafted this cat toy last weekend. Its a wooden box with holes drilled on the top and sides, perfectly sized for kitty paws. We saw one in Petco a couple weeks back and rather than spending $40 on it, DBF whipped one up. He also made one for Bootz and Freckles too. The idea is that you put kibbles inside and the kitties have to work to fish them out. An added bonus with Mousse - it forces him to eat slower. I swear he INHALES his food.
Before deciding which hole to select, its very important to thoroughly sniff and examine the options. Then the cats make their move.

Sniff... And fish.
Just for fun, we threw a bunch of toy mice into the box as well. The kitties seem to enjoy yanking out the mice as much as the food.

Its definitely a hit!

Each day, this is the sight I come home to. A scattering of mice arranged around a nicely cleaned-out box, perfectly ready for its next helping of kibbles. Life is good. :)