Today I had a pleasant surprise in the mail; it was a refund check from school for overpayment of SallieMae, my student loan account. Ironically, I was joking around with a co-worker that life would be easier if $xxxx.xx amount showed up somehow to help me out financially. Wouldn’t you know it, the check was for a little bit more than the number I said. I hope this is good karma or something coming to fruition.  The little surprise was the amount that we still needed to save for the closing costs of our house. Ah, I can let my shoulders down a bit, everything will be fine.

Yesterday at work, things seemed to have calmed down and I was able to finish cleaning my new office out. I am finally organized and feel really prepared to be awesome at my new opportunity at work. I get to be a part of an important meeting for the software implementation and get up to speed on that which is a project that I have been in the dark about at work. First thing Friday morning, there was a crisis with our current accounting system, and I had it back up in five minutes. That was a great feeling that I could remedy that simple problem. I also got two software upgrades done on Friday. I also have a much better understanding of the mail server system writing in Linux. I impressed the owner on Friday with setting his blackberry up for his travels. I also was successful of solving a problem that I had with other users blackberries’. I had quite a few vacation messages to write too.  The owner was also impressed with how I had organized I my new office, my recently departed supervisor was a pack rat and had over one hundred Mountain Dew bottles stashed everywhere.

Today, my husband and I did a favor for a friend and helped them out with some custom blinds for their house that they are remodeling. We also did a few extra things like screwing in ceiling air vents and shortening a few existing blinds. We also added a crown molding header to the existing units, what a difference that made to their house.