I have been horrible about writing lately but perhaps it has been the whirlwind of activity in the last few days.. or it could be the more obvious just waiting for wordpress to put spell check back. Regardless of the stalling , here I am armed with a week and a half of events. For those of you who have been reading you know that the last few weeks at work may or may not have been traumatizing. The arrival of my long awaited hope was short lived. Flashback to last Monday if you will. Starting a brand new week, fresh and ready for work, all of last week’s drama behind me, I arrived at work. As the day progressively began to look much like the previous miserable week, it took on a whole new misery of its own. As quickly as my hope came to me, my hope was leaving. As she broke the news to me that just one month later that she realized she needed to leave, I was happy that she wouldfind somewhere that better fit her. Perhaps I took the news better than the fearless leader with whom I have had my own not -so-fun encounters. This was worse, I could see him physically shaking as he heard the news. Ok well it was an hour later – but he was still shaking! And with that she was escorted from the building.
As the morning’s activity died down and we all got back to our daily routine. It occurred to me there was a bigger and more anxiety ridden departure that needed my preparation , my husband was going home for a week (actually 10 days.) So I went and got my cute remember me things together to send with him to his hometown in Norway so as not to forget his wife loves him and misses him. So armed with 4 greeting cards carefully marked with days of the week on which they should be opened, I headed home.
Two days later, our department had all settled back down from our latest loss, well all but me. My workload which had thinned upon the arrival of the new cutie and tripled upon her departure. Not only did I get a supplemented version of my actual work, i got her work which had also been augmented to justify two people’s attention. Mother F^&*^r. And more importantly I have to take my man to the airport and leave him for ten days. This was not going well. But, after a teary see you in a week, I arrived back at the office(well a teary goodbye and 2 hours of traffic) to make my load more manageable. And all had settled down.
The weekend was fun. Many hours of entertainment, not to mention sangria and empanadas, with the little blonde midget and the Sheppardess. New hair, new clothes and many long distance minutes later it was Monday again. Did get some bad news about my grandmom, who has been in the hospital for the last few days- she’ll be ok. She’s a tough little lady- plus the evil keeps her young.
Monday morning. Again I promised myself new week, better days right? Well right indeed, the doubling workload is obviously only one of the many issues I have been having here in the land of the paychecks. Repeated run-ins, which I am not even entirely sure by what they are being caused, with a particular individual had taken its toll on this fun girl. Leaving a rather bitter, extra bitchy, non-princess like shell. Well Yippee-Kay- Yay Mother F&(*&r, no more wicked witch! And as an added bonus both Bones and Gossip Girl were on last night!
Now if we could do something about the boy being gone still… sigh six more days..
Oh and on a very sad note, this earth day marks the 19th anniversary of a family friend’s death .. as well as the 19th anniversary of the first (and only) time I saw someone die.. creepy huh? We miss you Ben.
