Don't cry over burned pulled pork!

Its been a week... Very busy at work, I had a meltdown with my boss on Wednesday, and seemed to be reduced to tears the entire day. I'm not usually like that, I can take most things in stride, but Wednesday was like the perfect storm, and I just lost it. Thursday was a better day, and Friday... I'm off - for the next 5 days. Friday night we were honoring my niece Sarah with a bridal shower. Not a big event, just getting the girls of our family together for some good food, good drink, and to pamper Sarah a few weeks before her wedding. The weather on Friday was absolutely beautiful. I leisurely spent my time getting ready, and started my day out with a pedicure. I then drove to Byron Center to the jewelery store to get my Pandora bracelet fixed as my clasp had broken. Instead of fixing it, they just gave me a new bracelet. I also treated myself to two new charms. The sun was shinning, my top was down, and I was loving the fact that I was not at work, and having the day to myself. I needed to stop at Meijers to finish up the last minute things I needed for the shower. Meijers was packed. I had to park out in the backy forty, and knew it was going to be very busy inside as well. I quickly picked up the items I needed, but every check-out was full. So I took my place in line and waited. While I was standing there waiting.. I start to get irritated. This Meijers is always busy, yet they never have very many lanes open. Its very rare you can just walk up to the cashier and pay for your purchases... you usually have to wait your turn. As I was standing there.... I remembered the pulled pork I had put in the roaster... several hours earlier. I had only meant to be away for a couple of hours... but that was now 4+ hours ago... and now I got this panicky feeling that I may have overcooked the pulled pork. I finally got through the check-out lane... and back to the parking lot, that was still very busy. Just trying to back up, and get out of the parking lot was a challenge. I drive onto Kalamazoo Ave, and the traffic there was bumper to bumper. My irritability has now been elevated to new levels. I just wanted to yell... get the **** out of my way! As I drove into my garage and opened the door to the kitchen... I knew... the pork was burned. The house smelled, I took the top of the roaster off, and the meat was black. I was SO MAD.... at myself for not thinking about meat while I was gone. I guess in my mind I was thinking I had put the pork in a crock pot, not the roaster, and the roaster definitely cooks alot hotter than the crock pot. $20.00... down the drain. Well, sort of ... that's another story. I picked up the roaster pan to pry the burned pork out of the pan and was feeding it down the garbage disposal. Not the smartest Idea, but I was upset and mad and not thinking. During this time too I called Gordie... he was busy at work and asked me to hold on just a minute. When he came back to the phone and started to tell him what had happened... I was upset, and all I wanted to hear him say was "I'm sorry" instead, he responded with... "Did you just call to yell at me?" Okay... now that really made me mad, so I hung on him. Now I am really ticked, and not proud to say every bad word that could come out of my mouth spewed all over the now disaster in my kitchen. Then to top things off... I had been cramming so much in the garbage disposal, it stopped working. Now I have standing water, burned pork, and a huge mess my hands. It's 3:30pm, and I have nothing for the shower to eat, so I head back to my car, and the packed grocery store to now buy stuff for sloppy joes.

Katie wanted to have Sarah's shower at her house, and because I was bringing the majority of the food, drinks, cake, etc... I had tons of stuff to pack and take over to Katie's. I was still upset with my husband, exhausted, hot, sweaty, and overall not a happy camper. Of course when you are in a hurry, everyone and their brother pulls out in front of you, or is just in your way.

I got to Katie's, we got everything up to her apartment, set up, and I finally sat down for a few minutes to just relax and cool down. The shower really went nice, Katie's apartment was very cute with all the decorations and things we had done, and it was great to get our family together for just a nice, fun evening. Sarah loved all of her gifts, and was thankful we took the time to have a bridal shower for her.

As the evening went on, and I had a couple of Sangrias in me, I finally mellowed out. The sloppy joes were fine, and we really did have a nice time. My husband was able to fix the garbage dispoal, and he cleaned up the huge mess I had left, so when I came home, the kitchen was all put back together. Sometimes life just hands you burned pulled pork... next time I will reach for the wine first, and then deal with mess. I know one thing... I won't do that again, and I am not going to let it ruin the rest of my weekend.

Work!

In today's economy... anyone with a job does not take their job for granted. I'm thankful every day I go to work that I have a great job. That being said though... its been an overwhelming year. Every day I think the next day won't be as busy... and before I know it, its 3:00 in the afternoon, I have not eaten lunch, and can't believe the day is almost over and I still have so many things to do. I really thought I would have all this time on my hands once my supervisor came back, but so far... its crazy busy. I have employee evaluations hanging over my head... these have to be done by September 15.... and I'm thinking... when in the world and I going to complete all of these. Even if I just do one a day... there are not enough days left. Guess I know how I am spending my Labor day weekend... laboring over employee evals! One thing is for sure... I'm never bored at work. Somehow I have to find a balance... take a break for lunch... or just take a break. Otherwise, I am going to drive myself crazy. So now we are going to open up another site... hopefully the beginning of October... which will take our total up to 6 sites! I needed more on my plate!!! You would think I would burn more calories all the running around I do! Okay... enough whinning. Thank you Lord for never giving me more than I can handle!!!