Today was my first day of work after a 2 week vacation. It has also been the first realy vacation since I started working for my current company. When I got to work I expected to find my desk had been decalered an disaster area. Well, it didn't look like that at first glance. My desk looked quite in order actually...and I found that highly supicous. And my feeling was right. I started with the cash register and it worked out quite fine.
Then I started to look through all stacks and it turns out the the entire disaster was actually hidden. There were things packed togehter that didn't even have to remotest thing to do with each other. And I'm not even talking about the timeframe. Things were in the pack of the piles that should have been in the front. And the things that had been most urgent were somewhere in the middle. Of course my co-worker hadn't touched the things that should have been dealt right away. So I had a couple of rather unfriendly emails waiting for me. And had to deal with a couple of people on the phone asking me the subject hadn't been dealt with. If my co-worker really had looked into the subject he could have solved it by himself. Guess that was a little to much to expect. And quite honestly I really didn't expect that. And then there were a couple of subjects regard year-end tax paperwork that he could have figured out himself, but apparently didn't feel like using his head and digging into the subject himself. That he couldn't figure out certain issues for the tax guys, I can undestand that...since it took me about 2 hours to think the issue through and figure out why I solved a couple of items a certain way.
So all in all it wasn't horrible, but it took me almost 5 hours to sort through all the paperwork and bring them in the necessary order. Now comes then fun part of working through them in a timly manner. By the time my work day was over I was actually still quite relaxed. That was a little suprising to me, since usually the recreational value of a vaction doesn't last longer than being 2 hours at work again.
When I got back home I was quite eager to figure out how Daisy had been. Wasn't entirely sure how she would react to of me having to go back to work after the move from the 12th to the 5th district. Since this was the first time that she had been all day by herself in the new apartment I let my camcorder record the entire thing. For the first 1 1/2 hours she walked up to the door and was waiting every time she heard some noise in the hallway. After that she just jumped onto the couch at slept for most of the time. Made here and there a round through the apartemnt and changed occasionlly her sleeping position. But she wasn't whining or complaining at all. So I guess all the complaing she did when we moved first to Vienna had to do with the change from the countryside to the big city and the suddenly she had to stay all by herself, after having had my family around for almost 1 year. So I'm very happy about that.
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