It's Live!

I don't blog about work too much.... who wants to hear about Microsoft CRM and Microsoft SharePoint and Business Development Information Systems and Help Desks and metrics and business development councils? :-) (Sounds like an IT job, right? Yeah.... wrong! I manage my company's business development applications in a functional capacity with some sort of IT/technical knowledge thrown into the mix when needed. But I like it so that's what counts!)

Point being with the news to share is that I have been working on a major project to upgrade/enhance one of our applications (BOTS, yes those who know me well know BOTS!!) for about the last year or so (Nate -- if you're reading this, can you believe I upgraded BOTS AGAIN?? And yes, we still use the BOTS dog.... your everlasting legacy!!). The last 4 months have been pretty intense with the work to be accomplished (and working from home for the last 3 months) but I was bound and determined to finish this project before the baby came. Well, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!! What an incredible relief (for me and my team probably!!). The new system went live last week and minus the initial (minor and expected) technical glitches, questions, suggestions, issues, etc. all went off pretty much without a hitch. It was sort of a running joke that the project go-live date was two days before when Jake was born (34 weeks 1 day) and I am pretty sure there was an unofficial bet going on as to if I would make it or not.

While the last week has been a little stressful at times (mainly because I get a little too personally/emotionally invested in the projects I manage sometimes), this week has been better and today I finally felt like I could *almost* take a huge deep breath and relax for a minute. So now I find myself sitting here thinking, oh my gosh, the baby could come at any minute now and it would actually be okay! I am going to enjoy dreaming about the baby for the next couple of weeks instead of work! But hopefully won't let myself think too long and hard about how nervous I am about being able to take care of two kids ;-)

I need to post some new pictures soon..... more to come. Will have to try and grab a candid of Jakers and his new "baby brother", Sam! (Contrary to Paul's wishes, I bought Jake a doll so he would have his own little baby to take care of... at least it is a BOY doll!)