Catching up!

So, as you can tell by my lack of posting, my computer at home is still on the outs. I'm patiently waiting for my "tech guy" to see what he can figure out. Gotta give him a break, since they just had their 4th child 2 weeks ago today. He's been home on paternity leave helping out since then. Anyway, I'm at the office this evening. I had few things I wanted to catch up on for work and also wanted to check me email and do a few computer things that I've been too busy to do during the week (such as write a post here and send a few emails).

Things at the office are very busy. Just before I left on vacation the results of a preliminary audit done by an outside source indicated that our scanning process was a little lacking. Mostly not human error, but the scanner taking more than one page at once and therefore we are missing whole pages - and this happened more frequently than we can tolerate for an error rate. So when I returned we began our own audit process where we are now going back through every box we had entered to that point, file by file, page by page to make sure that they got in the system and scan in any that didn't. We are also fixing any mis-indexed documents during this audit. The guy that works with me (under me) is doing this one week and I'm doing it the next and we will continue trading off until we're finished. In the meantime, the person not auditing is keeping up with all of the new things that are created daily by the operations/sales team and the accounting/credit team. We also have changed the way we do the initial process to include an audit procedure up front so we will not have to go back through any boxes done since my return from vacation. However, to give you an idea of this audit... we began scanning in documents initially a year ago, so you can imagine how many boxes we have and how long it will take us to do this!!

OK, enough about the office. I had an enjoyable weekend last weekend... Mom called me on Friday night, the first and only time we've been able to talk since we parted in Australia (again the computer situation). It was great to talk to her and catch up. I really miss being able to catch them a couple times a week, but am doing OK. Anyhow, then Saturday and Sunday I really just played hermit! I finished a couple books, did some Bible study, watched some TV and took several naps. It was the first weekend I'd spent at home with no agenda since some time in March!

This weekend is a bit busier. Last night I went and had dinner with a friend who was recently married and got to catch up with her and keep her company while her new husband was on his way home from a conference. I wasn't necessarily planning to stay late, but we ended up talking till almost 1:00a.m. before we both realized that we were then getting tired. It was really nice to relax and chat. Then today I met two friends at 10:00a.m. and we visited 4 scrapbook stores in our area - none of which I'd been to before. I got several things that I had been needing (new blades, some brads and some ribbon), plus quite a few things that I know what I will use them for. I didn't really do any random buying and felt really good about my control over my spending. At them same time, doing very well with what I got for the money I spent. Can't wait to put them to good use! I'm actually going to a crop at a shop for the first time this coming Friday night. It's free and I'm going with my friend Sarah (her house is where I usually go to crop)!

So, on the books for tomorrow is doing some laundry and either doing some scrapbooking or reading. I'll probably also watch one movie, since I have two sitting at home waiting to be watched. I'd like to finish the quilt I'm working on while watching something. The plan is to get to bed early because Monday morning I start my new routine of "up early for exercise and quiet time BEFORE work". Those of you who know me well can be praying for me about this. It's something I really want to do and have the best intentions of doing, but I have a really hard time rolling out of bed early! I'm hoping that if I force my self to do it until it is routine, it will actually get easier!

Well, since it is now 9:15p.m. I probably should wrap this up and get home to bed. It's church and Sunday school in the morning. I'm looking forward to it! Hope you are all having a great weekend. My God bless you richly!