I have been trying to cook more — and by “cook,” I mean more interesting foods than cereal or mac ‘n cheese. Tonight I made chicken cacciatore. Oh. My. God. I ate my entire plateful — and I have five more servings to enjoy over the next few days. It’s just chicken, mushrooms, onions, green and red peppers, tomatoes, some seasonings and wine. Holy hell, it’s good. I am a happy girl.

They hired a replacement for me today; she starts in a little over 2 weeks. Sadly, I see no end in sight to my double workload, although I do have a lot (for me) of business travel coming up. I’ll be out two days next week to go to Atlanta; two days after that for software training; then the entire week after Thanksgiving to go to Vegas. I’m a kinda, sorta, maybe former perfectionist and I want everything to get done and get done right. But I can’t, not like this. Thank God by boss even recognizes that. But it will probably be the end of the year before everything is transitioned over to the new person. I have some qualms about her, personality-wise, but I’ll wait to judge her (too much) until I get to know her. Ha ha ha, who I am kidding?!?!?!

∗ Posted by Monique on 10.25.2006
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