Oh, Monday!

I got up, ready to take on Monday and the week and was immediately annoyed with the first email, from work, I read, LOL. We have this vendor we purchase from fairly regularly - for years. They email me the monthly statement, and for some reason also always email it to our dept head that purchases from them. Our dept head, while I love her to pieces, always has to forward it to me and half the time is questioning me, if we are past due. I have told her repeatedly over the years, that I also get this same statement email.

This morning I wake up to this email from her: 

Making sure you had seen this from XXX. Since it's unlike us to be overdue on payment to XXX (Invoice 9172....), I'm hoping it's not a case of a check being lost or anything. As such, I wanted to bring it to your attention.

First off, if by chance, I missed getting an invoice from them, then I will see it on the statement and get it taken care of right away. You don't need to remind me. Here is my reply to this one:

It's all good - 9172.... is a Credit Memo, not an invoice, that was on last months statement and it will get applied to the current invoice on the statement, that is not due until next month. 

Give me a break - I've been doing this job for 20 years (40 years of experience). I think I know how to do my job. I'm just annoyed because she does this all the time and all the time nothing is wrong. From now on, I'm not even going to explain myself anymore, I'm just going to reply "ok, got it".

Then I go to do a process where I sync our 3rd party expense reporting system with our accounting system and now suddenly that doesn't want to work.

But, then I got a nice surprise. My boss emailed the report with all the bonus's listed, for me to enter for a payroll batch, and turns out I'm not getting half of what I would have gotten, if we had met our goal, I'm getting more than that, LOL. As usual, there are a few getting extra and I am one of them. I will put my annoyances aside (once I figure out what the heck is wrong with our expense report system!) and count my blessings.

I made the pork chops meal last night and it was a total hit. The added packet of Lipton onion soup mix, in addition to the cream of mushroom soup, made the rice taste really good. My only complaint was it needed more water, there wasn't enough of the soup/gravy for the rice. Or maybe I just needed to cook it about 10 minutes less. The recipe said an hour, but these weren't very thick pork chops. I'll work on tweaking it next time I make it. Plus it looks easy to make a homemade copy cat recipes of the onion soup mix and cream of mushroom soup, with no additives. It looks like pork chops are a great source of protein. I only bought a 4 pack this first time, because I wanted to make sure we'd like them. Now we have to wait almost 3 weeks before we shop again LOL.