Good morning!!! Staycation is off to a good start – work week leading up to it was bonkers, but I front loaded everything to the start of the week and left ON TIME yesterday!

And to celebrate, there were patio margaritas, chips & queso, and carne adovada enchiladas, followed by an EPIC nap.

Work was just something this week. Super long Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday for the feature and client issues.

My dev found the problem in our pain in the ass app – still kicking myself that I didn’t see the pattern in the client data that triggered it, and that we didn’t have that pattern in our testing. Granted, I wasn’t the only tester and I begged for as many eyes on it as possible and was turned down – but I’m still mad at myself over it.

My dev was awesome about it – “Hey, we have a new test scenario! We learned something! Don’t take it personally, it’s just work.” Even my VP was good about it – he flat out acknowledged that we’re “severely” understaffed and this is what happens.

That did help with my brain going, “You’re the most visible QC on this shitshow and you’re absolutely gonna get shitcanned, probably in the middle of your PTO.” He assured me that wasn’t happening. I usually don’t have a lot of love for upper management, but he’s a good dude. He’s trying to slow things down on the “new stuff” front and get us more bodies – whether he’ll have any success remains to be seen, but he’s at least trying.

Of course, Friday, not 20 minutes after I updated the tracking sheet saying I was done with the feature test, I have someone trying to give me a 2 day task and nope, I had 4 hours left in the day, other work to do, and I’m not working while on PTO. Can’t do it. Go me.

And I still managed to fill the rest of my day with work without that new task. Ton of prep work done for when I’m back next week. Future me will be happy. 🥰

And now I’m sitting at the salon with a head full of tinfoil, getting all blonde again. I don’t usually have morning appointments, and I feel like I should have brought donuts for everyone or something like that.

I made the early appointment cause it’s also the weekend if the Mount Vernon market fair, but I think I’ll do that tomorrow so I can really take my time with it, and this afternoon I can sit down and finally paint my nails like I’ve been talking about doing for like, six months and every time they hit a nice length, I’d break one before I got to painting them.

I also have an exciting trip to Walmart for some new pump bottles for my shampoo and conditioner after the salon. The original bottles they come in are stupidly stiff and hard to squeeze, and no one has time or balance for a wrestling match with a shampoo bottle in the shower.

Ooh, and if I’m doing Mount Vernon tomorrow, I should pickup some lunch on my way home – we have Wendy’s, Jersey Mike’s, and a nice deli in the two adjacent shopping centers where the salon and Walmart are. Decisions, decisions!

You have a great day while I go look at lunch menus!