So, most of you don't know me. At all. Figured I'd give a little insight into what a day in my life looks like.
Woke up (at my girlfriend's house, lately my apartment has been essentially a $600/m storage unit with central air) and shuffled off to work in a moderately caffinated state somewhere between awake and embalmed. Being Monday, and since I'd covered the load of our team lead while he was on vacation last week, I was instantly greeted by my backlog.
As I trudge through the mess, figuring out which bugs are bugs and which ones are admins/DBAs with their heads up their ass, I also got to juggle the hell of someone putting in a competitive offer on the house we want.
We found it last weekend, hustled all last week to get approved on a loan/etc, and just as we were putting in our offer a wave of other people did as well. What pisses me off about this is that our realtor INSISTED that we should shop other houses in our budget... despite the fact we loved this one... wasting 3 days of the process. 3 days in which our offer could have been in and accepted before these other ones were even in first draft. Ugh. We upped ours, and are now waiting with fingers crossed. Should hear something today on if it was accepted or not... Ugh.
Anyway, while that was all going on (which involved a lot of reassuring my gf that things would work out) I managed to get 5 years of back tax paperwork sorted out (yay foreign spouse complications) so that I hopefully don't end up owning a bucket of money to the IRS, cooked a dinner of crab legs and stir fry, had a few drinks, pruned the roses and managed most of a full night's sleep.
And now... Tuesday.
We leave for the Bahamas in 4 days... A vacation I am in desperate need of.