![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
File under Seriously Crazy-Making: Figuring out my grandfather's payroll thing. Aunt handed me one sheet of paper with a list of all aides and the hours they worked, the wages they were paid per week and by the hour. All useful information! Except some of it mustn't be correct because for a couple of the people, the per hour rate x hours worked = something different from weekly salary noted.
Crazy-making!
Have thusly had to write long-ass involved letter to all of them about this and the new way I'm going to be distributing the checks (am going to try that newfangled "mail" thing they're all talking about, instead of driving down to the house five times a week the way my aunt had).
Goodness. Just wrote and deleted a paragraph more about payroll stuff but it was so mind-numbingly boring that I couldn't subject myself to typing it all out. Suffice it to say: Annoyed!
Just got back from quick three-day jaunt to New Hampshire. Hadn't seen the state before! Trip was v. nice, involving golf, tennis, lost of yummy food and three books consumed by yours truly. Books consumed were:
Last Chance Salloon by Marian Keyes, which was okay. I always am annoyed by her books at first and then can't put them down after reading a hundred pages or so. After reading three of her books, I have to say that the thing that annoys me most of all? The way she treats weight problems. Because!!! In two of her books she's had characters who put on significant poundage (one for a baby, one for emotional reasons), and then just magically lose it! Because they're emotionally distraught and not eating! IF ONLY IT WERE SO EASY. Or is it that easy for some people? I want to meet these people and learn from them! I mean, I have been emotionally distraught to the point of not eating, but even then I only dropped fifteen pounds, tops, and I'm not sure they even stayed off.
It's especially annoying because she does get parts of it -- the irrational overeating, the horrible bad feeling of tight clothes -- and then just totally misses it on the other end. Although I think this has more to do with my personal issues than hers. And so I'll just shut up now!
Next book!
Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale, which was very good. Am pretty sure I totally misspelled his name there, but am too lazy to walk down the hall to the actual book. Fun read, fascinating stories of how he conned people and made various daring escapes. Dangerous book for those around you, though -- every time I finished a chapter, I was so impressed by his new con/escape that I just HAD to tell someone. Drove my family crazy with a chapter-by-chapter retelling of the book while I read.
Last Book!
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien, which was excellent. I loved The Things They Carried and this one was more disturbing but just as involving and cool. I don't know. I wish I had Smart Things To Say, but I don't! It freaked me out in the best way.
Have also seen, like, seven movies in the last week and a half. I've been meaning to talk about all/some of them and maybe will later but now must away to bed!
Crazy-making!
Have thusly had to write long-ass involved letter to all of them about this and the new way I'm going to be distributing the checks (am going to try that newfangled "mail" thing they're all talking about, instead of driving down to the house five times a week the way my aunt had).
Goodness. Just wrote and deleted a paragraph more about payroll stuff but it was so mind-numbingly boring that I couldn't subject myself to typing it all out. Suffice it to say: Annoyed!
Just got back from quick three-day jaunt to New Hampshire. Hadn't seen the state before! Trip was v. nice, involving golf, tennis, lost of yummy food and three books consumed by yours truly. Books consumed were:
Last Chance Salloon by Marian Keyes, which was okay. I always am annoyed by her books at first and then can't put them down after reading a hundred pages or so. After reading three of her books, I have to say that the thing that annoys me most of all? The way she treats weight problems. Because!!! In two of her books she's had characters who put on significant poundage (one for a baby, one for emotional reasons), and then just magically lose it! Because they're emotionally distraught and not eating! IF ONLY IT WERE SO EASY. Or is it that easy for some people? I want to meet these people and learn from them! I mean, I have been emotionally distraught to the point of not eating, but even then I only dropped fifteen pounds, tops, and I'm not sure they even stayed off.
It's especially annoying because she does get parts of it -- the irrational overeating, the horrible bad feeling of tight clothes -- and then just totally misses it on the other end. Although I think this has more to do with my personal issues than hers. And so I'll just shut up now!
Next book!
Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale, which was very good. Am pretty sure I totally misspelled his name there, but am too lazy to walk down the hall to the actual book. Fun read, fascinating stories of how he conned people and made various daring escapes. Dangerous book for those around you, though -- every time I finished a chapter, I was so impressed by his new con/escape that I just HAD to tell someone. Drove my family crazy with a chapter-by-chapter retelling of the book while I read.
Last Book!
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien, which was excellent. I loved The Things They Carried and this one was more disturbing but just as involving and cool. I don't know. I wish I had Smart Things To Say, but I don't! It freaked me out in the best way.
Have also seen, like, seven movies in the last week and a half. I've been meaning to talk about all/some of them and maybe will later but now must away to bed!
