LolaGeek

My five-year anniversary at work is coming up this week. I know in the past people heard from the company a couple months in advance about choosing a service reward type gift. Since I hadn’t heard anything yet, I e-mailed my boss earlier this week to see if the new company was still doing this. Next thing I know, they’ve sent out an appointment to the whole department inviting them for cake to celebrate my anniversary! I felt kind of bad about it, actually. We never have parties to celebrate anyone else’s anniversary. And five years isn’t even that long. I think my boss just wanted an excuse to take a cake break while she was in town this week. (And the cake was delicious – it was chocolate with buttercream frosting, from Wegman’s.)

I talked to the roofer last night about installing that membrane he told me about to prevent the drips into our house. It’s not really that simple. He’ll have to first see how many layers of roof there are on our house, because at this age, there’s probably like five roofs on top of each other. (A conservative estimate would be three, but he’s seen up to ten!) Then they have to remove all the old roofing, and put on a new roof – with the water-tight membrane under it. It’s a big job and will cost thousands of dollars. Sigh. But it’s something that needs to get done, because we’ve already had a leaking problem for a while now (just not as major as when we also had ice dams this winter), and I’d rather do it right. He really made a big point of explaining how big a job this could be, but that he wants to do it properly. He’s like the Mike Holmes of roofs!

So, starting next week, I’m traveling like once a week for two months! Weird, for a homebody like me :o) The planning and stuff is kind of stressing me out – well, not the planning really, but the “how do I get there?” part of it – because of my dyscalculia. Maybe I’ll write about that sometime soon.