Finally Friday

The budget is 'done' - meaning it's in the system, balanced.  Multi-year projections are documented.  Met with my boss on Thursday to go over things and politely said 'um, no - we're not going to make those changes now'.  I did agree to make a quick, easy change - but making massive budget reductions in advance of presenting our status?  No.  Not going to do that.  We've known we'd need to make some reductions and we will - that process will be my next huge project.  Yay.  It's never ending.

I took yesterday 'off' though I did head in early to be there for a breakfast birthday celebration - for me!  Fresh bagels, fresh fruit and cupcakes!  Great way to start the day and I headed out about an hour later full!  Stopped for iced tea and the bank and then headed out for a day of casino hopping.

I had a fun filled day and played long and hard all day.  Didn't come home with much but...it was a birthday celebration and so I played my heart out.

I returned to Jackson Rancheria - haven't played there in over a year...and I have to say that going back, it felt like home.  Thunder Valley assaults your senses when you enter - it's jammed full of noise and lights and loudness.  Jackson feels welcoming.  It's quieter, more serene and the staff is super kind and friendly.  I headed to my favorite machines to find them full and people waiting for a chance to get on them.  So I wandered and played other things...couldn't find Lock It Link anywhere so tried a new row of machines - pretty fun and hit a lot of small minis and minors that kept me playing.  I finally found a casino person and asked 'do you have Lock it Link anywhere?' and she looked it up - sure enough!  They were right behind where I played the other 'new' machines - dang it!  I'd rather have put more money into Lock it Link - but oh well.  I played and did OK and should have left mid-way through - but it was really fun to just play.

I also started at Black Oak and while it is a pretty drive, it's not my favorite place to play.  The staff is grumpy.  But the drive between Black Oak (in Tuloumne) and Jackson is super pretty - windy, country back roads.

It was a lovely day - and I needed it.

I'm hoping to get to brunch with H. today - he's been working hard on cleaning the entire family room tile floor grout - R. returns from Arizona tomorrow and he's missed her.  I hope to be able to just chat with him - there's hardly any opportunities for that lately.  It's a hard transition for a mom - he's with her and the 'big' things in his life are shared with her.  Though it's complicated because he lives with us...(and technically, so does she until her apartment is ready on June 10th) so he's still here and I still want to know things -

I'm going to work a bit this afternoon just to keep plowing through.  We have Admin Retreat scheduled for three mornings this coming week and though my boss has assured me I 'only need to attend for part of it' (based on topic), it will still put a crimp in the time I have available to keep working through budget.  There's tons of supplemental forms yet to do and I need to work on a Power Point presentation as well.

Hoping (maybe) to be off tomorrow to celebrate my 57th!  On the downhill side towards 60. Geez...time goes so fast....