Wish In One Hand

My Dear Fellows & Dear Princess,

I was effed today. Wiped. Knackered. Exhausted.

I do not know why. True, it has been a busy week, but not in the doing pull-ups or running around a track or digging the garden sense. The fact is, I've wore myself out just by sitting on me bum.

I think it's the listening to chat about old-person ailments, and also the trying to keep the peace. Honestly, I don't know how Feefs can do this with a whole houseful of people. At the moment, she not only has Shetland Dad but also her old boyfriend, his wife and their daughter staying in their house. For six weeks before they emigrate to Ireland.

I mean, it's a decent sized house. But that would drive me BONKERS. "I spend a lot of time reading in my bedroom," admitted Feefs.

But anyway. I woke up today wishing for a nice quiet day at work. "I shall listen to podcasts and write some documents and that'll get me through to 4.30," I thought.

However, one of American Mom's favourite sayings is this:

"Wish in one hand and sh*t in the other and see which fills up first."

It was certainly the case for today. On the one hand, all my wishes came to nought, and on the other, it felt like I had a skittery toddler sitting on my palm. 

This is because the 3rd party who have written our software have had a few eff-ups lately, so I had to spend all day proving that what they have done doesn't work. And what they have fixed has broken something else, somewhere else. Sigh. 

To complicate things, their project manager seems to think that - well, hey just because technically something "isn't working" is no reason not to progress into system testing, right? And anyway, I mean, who's to say if something "isn't working", right?

Me. I am. I get to say. 

I've been a lovely fluffy BA up to now. No really, I have been so helpful and lovely and encouraging, I am just adorable. But today I started to use words like "repeated requests" and "unacceptable" and "as stated in requirements". 

But Third Party PM doesn't care. He just wants to tick his box that they Did The Thing On Time. He wants to be able to complete his weekly status report with the status still "green", he told me.

"Wish in one hand..." I wanted to say. But I didn't.

S.