More Snow

Well, it snowed again on Thursday.  I met Janice for our weekly hill workout at running club, but it was just the two of us so we opted for an easy run among the gigantic, heavily falling snowflakes.  I also picked up the hydration pack I had ordered for Hayde that had arrived.  I'm so excited for this.  It'll be great to add some extra weight for her early morning walks before work to get some extra energy out of her.  Plus, she can help carry water on some of our longer runs or if we go on any hikes, etc.  It came with two plastic water bottles that fit into the pouches.  I should also mention I've been able to make it up to the gym on Monday evenings (right after work - since I'm going in earlier now) for the track/speed workout with running club.  I really dislike/disagree with running inside especially around a track, but this is my weakness in running and it's another chance to be involved with running club so I'm trying it(bit of a bonus to avoid running outside in the cold too I guess).

We had an easy weekend.  More reading.  We had a date night(Jeremy wouldn't admit to it I'm sure) Saturday and went out to The Nook Creperie again (we kept missing the dinner menu so we wanted to catch it this time) and then went to a movie up on base.  This morning Hayde and I did another ~8.5 mile run.  It was a bit cool (maybe 5F), but it was a good run.  Tomorrow's supposed to be about 7C!!!  Whoa - above freezing!  But of course, there's rain/freezing rain in the forecast - go figure.

Here are some more snowy pictures of the backyard.  Poor Hayde's up to her belly each time she ventures out to pee.  The deck had been cleared of snow prior to Tuesday's snowfall so what you see on it is all from this past week.

Oh, I went and talked to my previous manager Friday afternoon since I had a bit of a break from everyone.  It was a really good talk and we cleared up a lot of things and discussed many of the problematic dynamics of the division.  I'm finding work is really draining me from all the negativity, but I'm trying really, really hard to kept my positiveness.  I've realized, the people who are in charge/leading all the work really have no idea what they're doing and have very little sense of what they want/expect as any end results/products that it's making my job extremely difficult on top of having to deal with so many unbalance/negative/insecure people!  I just can't figure out what I'm supposed to do and being the lowest body in the pyramind/hierarchy I'm supposed to try to do what they're asking for.  But, of course since they don't know, they can't give me any clear direction and they think I'm incompetent and refuse to even give me a chance to give any input.  Each time I've given input, I've been scoulded and told it was all wrong.  So, I'm trying to figure out which battles are worth fighting for and which are so insignificant, I'll let them try to show me what they want.  It's such a mess - I've found myself almost bursting out laughing as soon as I get out  the door at the end of the day since we waste so much time redoing work that at the end doesn't sum up to anything.  That's the only way I think I can stand to come in each day!  So, the weekends are a much needed time to rejuvenate myself and try to come up with better/positive ways of showing them they're wrong and coming up with better solutions.  An another odd note, the guy that's originally given me so many problems has had to leave work because his work permit expired and it's illegal for him to be at work.  He may even get kicked out of the country if the correct paper work doesn't come thru soon enough.  How funny the way things work....