high maintenance Wednesday

I work in HR so my days can be pretty emotional and high maintenance and my boss is like Denny Crane from Boston Legal - but today was pretty tops.
1) talked one manager out of an unwritten warning that was not exactly ethical - more of a personality conflict between manager and the other person. Mgr pouted and dobbed on me to MD, but MD supported me.
2) one of my favourite line managers came to me upset cause one of the team members had called in sick because she was having a 2nd trimester miscarriage and he wanted to know the right way to handle it and organise flowers etc...(what a sweetheart and how he could be really empathetic to the situation. Wish manager 1 could be more like him.
3)Sales staff and egos....say no more.
4) counselling session with one employee whos partner has dumped them for another party.
5) counselling sesison with another whose partner had gone off to find themselves...

and this was on my early day too...

then I get home and my beautiful brother who has MS - has been classified as legally blind (he can see a little peripheral stuff) and he is just terrified of being completely blind. The good news is he can claim a disability pension thingy temporarily (yipee my taxes go to good). He is seeing another eye specialist to see if something can be done surgically tomorrow, but he sooooo scared and I feel so useless not being able to fix it...YES - news flash - I do not control the universe....

then I get an email from my 20 yo (yes still a baby) nephew who is in the army and he is going to Iraq next month...he hasn't ever been outside Aust and he is off to Iraq. Time to ramp up my antiwar protests again and restart the letter writing campaign (now its personal it does mean more). He is very pragmatic about it and I am sure he views it as a career move, but i feel so grown up and worried for him, so I must ring my exsisterinlaw (his mum) and give her my love big time. The good news is he has emailed his dad (my eldest non MS brother - from whom both him and his sister have been estranged from for the last 10 years or so - long story short ? By brother was/is an emotional retard and never invested the time / effort into his kids after the marriage breakup)

So that is kinda pleasing...yes it was all highmaintenance and possibly sucky, but I feel really good. I managed to get a run in and clean the house and eat a healthy dinner. I contributed well today and I feel good - if not a little concerned, but still positive..:0)