Tuesday, April 03, 2007

The good thing about my frustration when working at home? I’m much more productive and focused when I’m at the office. I got a lot done today, including my nemesis - timekeeping. As a result, I’ve made the decision, after a conversation with my mother, that I’ll work from the office on Wednesday mornings. She had long planned to take Jesse to MOPS at church when they meet (she’s a mentor to the younger moms and she thought it would be fun to take her grandson since the other moms have their kids with them); now she’ll take care of him every week even though MOPS doesn’t meet weekly. Thanks, Marmie!

The bad thing about working from home will always be my remote network connection. Our IT person said that even with using the cable modem I’ll have problems with it since it’s a problem at the remote server. She said that the folks who use DSL still have problems. What a mess. Funny thing she told me was that where I had relative success yesterday keeping my connection, regular dial up users had a terrible time apparently. Their frustration made my day easier.

As for the craziness of holy week - tomorrow I have choir practice. And then we practice with the band on Thursday night. And then we have to be at the church at 2pm on Saturday to practice again before the two services that night. And then we were told we would have to be there at 6:45am on Sunday for the three services that morning. I emailed our worship leader and choir director to let them know that it would be pretty much impossible to be there that early on Sunday with Jesse’s nursing schedule. As it is, getting there for the 8am service will be a challenge. Beau is working the parking lot that morning, too. Fortunately, Marmie and Pop are babysitting Jesse that whole morning and then we’ll all meet at their house for Easter lunch-dinner after we’re done at church. (Btw, Marmie, no luck finding the lamb-shaped butter - I searched all over that store with no success.) Five church services, people. Five. Should be fun. I’m just hoping to actually be able to enjoy and worship one of the services in its entirety.