Here's what my month has looked like:
On February 1st my parents went to Hawaii with my Grandparents for a little over a week. This was wonderful for them, and I'm really glad they got to go. But guess who got to be in charge at home while they were gone? Let's just say that I am not yet ready to be a single working mother with 6 children. The only reason that I survived was because I knew it was temporary. And because Victoria is amazing.
Pretty much as soon as they got back I started an internship at the YMCA. This is on top of my regular job. So every day I'm working 8 hours at CSC, and then heading straight to the YMCA afterward to put in another 3 hours. I'm loving it, but it's not leaving a whole lot of time for doing anything else. Forget a social life. I'm working in a couple of different programs. I'm helping to mentor in the Youth in Government program that they offer. It's really interesting because I have never been very political. I know that it's important, but it's not something that I've ever been passionate about. These High School kids are PASSIONATE about the stuff they are discussing, and they really know what they are talking about. But they are all pretty Liberal (it's Delaware) so I find myself trying not to laugh sometimes. They are creating "bills" that they are going to present and debate in April when they get to spend a day in Dover actually sitting in the Legislature. Some of them have really good ideas. Other ones are pretty silly. And some are just dumb. One girl decided she wanted to outlaw Home School because it makes kids anti-social and weird. (I had a few things to say about that.) Another kid has decided that he's going to start taxing the consumption of anything with High Fructose Corn Syrup in it, so that we'll be healthier. Another kid has decided to outlaw any fast food meal that is more than 750 calories. You can see what they are trying to do, but I don't want the government telling me what I'm allowed to eat or not.Anyway...
On top of that work has been a LOT more stressful. I keep meaning to explain exactly what I do on this blog sometime, so I guess I'll do that now.
Corporation Service Company does a lot of different things for people and their companies. I am specifically on the Annual Report team. Every company has to qualify with the Secretary of State in each place that they are doing business. Then every year they are required to file some kind of registration to stay in good standing. Each state has different requirements and different due dates and it's a huge mess to try and keep track of it. So that what we do for people. We keep track of where they are doing business and we file all their Annual Reports for them. When I first started I was just assisting with someone else's filings. It was a little monotonous, but the people were great, so I liked it. Well, about 3 months ago they started to give me my own clients. So now I'm the point person for some pretty major companies. And they keep giving me more. So I'm pretty overwhelmed by the customer service side of my job now, and hardly have time to do any of the filings. And Delaware is due tomorrow. EVERY Delaware entity (and there are a LOT of them, because everyone incorporates in Delaware) has an annual report due by midnight tomorrow. Our entire team is going crazy trying to get everything done on time.
Oh, yeah. I'm the Relief Society President. Is it bad that that is the least stressful thing in my life right now? (Has everyone done their Visiting Teaching?)
And I turned 26.
I haven't been able to read a whole lot recently, but we are going to start a book club in Relief Society. I'll let you all know how that goes.
The End.
