So yesterday was the first day back at work for The Raccoon, as there were still no buses running by her on Tuesday.

Man, that phone never stopped ringing all day. People really really want to get paid and we just aren't doing it. I managed to save the day in terms of the coffee equipment in our Cypress office, though, by jumping through several flaming hoops while juggling chainsaws and walking on a tightrope over a pool of circling sharks.

The auditors, the evil auditors, are leaving Friday and so we can cut some desperately needed checks on Friday. I am doing a lot of Friday promises involving faxing copies of checks and providing tracking numbers and promising my first born son to Rumpelstiltskin if he could spin straw into gold and so on.

This audit has gone on so long. I feel as though I was much younger at the beginning of the new year.

I was supposed to go out with Omar last night, and had been looking forward to it all day, but he called all in a twist and canceled. We were supposed to go out tonight as well, but he canceled that at the same time. He was really upset about something, he told me part of it but not all, and his modus operandi when he is depressed or upset is to go to ground, he is like an animal who hides until he is either better or dead.

We talked for forty minutes or so, and by the end of the conversation he was sounding much better. Really better, not the fake better that he does sometimes--he has this very specific laugh that he uses when he is trying to hide his feelings. It made me very happy that talking to me made a difference.

I wanted to see him so much, but it was funny to be able to go home right after work. Rather a treat, actually.

Today's horoscope:
You were always the one that knew what to do, but the situation has changed. Let your partner do the shopping or ordering. Minor setbacks look very different from the passenger's seat.

One year ago today:
I do miss my little Milo so much.

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