Mini Getaway

Thanks for all of your great comments about the pull-up! Since my last post, I've been practicing on the monkey bars on our swingset in the backyard and I've proven to myself that it's not a fluke since I can still do one! Scot says that pull-ups are not about physical strength, but that they're all in the mind, but I like to think it's because I've gotten stronger too :)

We just got back last night from a few days away in Kitchener. Scot was giving a presentation for work and he has lots of relatives out there, so we decided to make it a family road trip and mini getaway. I didn't know how the kids would do with such a long car drive (6 hours) but they did great. We stayed with one of Scot's aunts who has a swimming pool so we got lots of use out of that since the temperature was in the 30 degrees Celsius range or higher everyday. The first thing the kids wanted to do when they woke up in the mornings was swim! My mother in law and I also went to a baby shower for one of Scot's cousins. We left to drive home right after the shower and we finally got back at around 11:00pm.

This should be an interesting week at work. Our whole office is moving down the street so I've got to pack up all of my things and get ready for that. I'm also going to be doing my first (and hopefully last) round of on-call from Friday night to Tuesday morning. That means I have to take the agency's on-call phone home with me and answer calls all weekend. From what I hear, it can be real hell and I'm dreading it. It used to be that part-timers didn't do on-call, but our former executive director asked me if I would do half a week instead of the regular full week that full-timers do. I agreed since I thought everyone was in the same boat, but I've since found out that another part timer is being exempted from on-call, so when the supervisor in charge of it gets back from holidays, I'm going to have a chat with him about this. Either all of the part-timers should do it, or none of us should as far as I'm concerned. Plus, the days that I have to pick up and drop off the phone are days I'm not normally at work, so I just don't think it's fair.

OK, rant over for now. I'm sure I'll have alot more to say about this on Friday when the real fun begins!!