CW week 15 - Madison

 Hey everyone!

These past two weeks have been crazy. My one parks project and the Inn project, both of which I've been on since I started, are pretty much over. The parks are moving to a different design phase so there's been a lull because of contract things that I don't fully understand and the Inn is under construction! They've been laying pavers this past week and get plants in next week so my PM is talking about us going up there to supervise end of next week. Since those were my main two projects, I've been thrown around the office a bit on all kinds of things. One of our major lifters is going out of town for 2.5 weeks so everyone is kind of freaking out and I'm getting put as support on two of her projects that have deadlines over the time she's gone so I'm sure these next two weeks are about to be crazy busy. On top of that I've been working on edits to a planting plan for a residential complex down in New York. There are over 300 trees and 9000 shrubs and I have had to run calculations on them all so many times my brain is starting to hurt. I'm not meant to do this whole staring at numbers all day thing. There's been nothing but problems with it for a while since it was hastily done in 2018 and now that the project has picked back up, the team has to find all the mistakes are correct them which has become my job. This has been the first week where I really didn't enjoy the work I did, but I also understand that it has to be done so it's fine. Thankfully my sister is coming to visit in 2 weeks and my parents are coming in 3 and I've got a couple summer trips planned so I've got so many things to look forward to. The weather is also getting soooo much more lovely and manageable :)


Madison 

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