Things I Never Thought I Would Hear This Week

As I wind down for work over the next two weeks to start my maternity leave, I am working to spin up my temporary replacement. It has been a bit of a challenge since he knows nothing about my program. I have had three hour meetings every day so far this week and it will continue until I leave (Only 10 more working days. Can I freak out now?). Needless to say I am a little tired but at least work can still entertain me!

So I have this picture on my desktop:



I love this picture. It is the first professional picture that I have purchased and was even more surprised when it came from the photographer at day care. Day care usually has three or four photo opportunities during the year to make a killing on working parents who don't usually have a lot of time to take their kids for professional pictures in the hope that they picked a good day at least a month in advance. Every year they have one black and white photographer, one color one and then usually a class photo. The class photo this year was cute but my kid was the ONLY ONE not smiling. One of the color photos from either this year or last had her hair in her face. Who wouldn't take two seconds to fix that? Last year the black and white photo came back with my child looking like she may have been diagnosed with a severe mental issue. So needless to say, we haven't purchased a photo. This year, I LOVED the photo. I just love looking at that face and especially on my computer every day.

The person I am training to work my program sat down with me today, I bring up my desktop on my computer and he says "What a cute little Chinese boy!" ::Music comes to a screeching halt:: I immediately say "What part of HER looks Chinese?" Now I know that some people who have no Chinese ancestry (or other) often hear that they or their child looks like they are either adopted or must have "fill in the blank" blood in them. I know this is something that my friend over at Sprite's Keeper hears with some of the pictures of her daughter. But this is a first for me so the shock value alone is just blowing my mind. Now I did address the other issue that he called her a boy but I will give him some (very little) slack because Abigail has short hair and you can't quite tell that she is wearing a flower shirt. But if anyone would ever have a doubt as to a child's gender, most people don't just make a guess. Just say something benign like "Oh how cute!" and wait for some confirmation response. Ugh...

The other thing I heard today was from the bank teller. I bank with my work's credit union and I am very lucky that they have a branch at work so I don't have to worry about doing all of my banking activities by taking off of work to go to the bank. We recently refinanced our house to get a much lower interest rate (SCORE!) on our mortgage. I was very pleased and we paid out some money and they paid us some money. Still haven't figured that one out but the check that left my hands was smaller than the one that they gave us so I didn't care. I went down to the credit union to deposit this not so small check. The teller looked at the numbers and then stated that she wants to make sure she inputs the correct figure. Um, yes, thank you for making sure that the number is right. She then tells me how she transposes numbers all the time. My eyes sort of bugged out of my head and I asked her "Are you sure you are in the right line of business then?" I got an uncomfortable laugh back but now I am going to double and triple check all of my bank transactions from now on with this teller. That is like seeing your doctor for major surgery and him saying "I have been having trouble with my glasses lately. I really need to go to the eye doctor to check my eyes."

And it is only Tuesday!