Tamssmat

So you know your work life is getting increasingly hectic when you spend the hours of 10a to 4:30p on Saturday napping on your couch. I woke up a few times but never once got up. I’d like to say I enjoyed it but I really just felt incredibly lazy since my plans for the day had been to go have coffee with Katie then spend a good chunk of time at the office trying to get caught up. I cannot complain, I do love me some nap time and I also thrive on the craziness of my job. I honestly feel that if I were to get completely caught up and ahead of the game, I wouldn’t know what to do with myself. But I can complain that the gnome in my garden failed to clean my house while I was asleep. I’m going to have to talk to him about that.

I went to my dear friend Rebecca’s birthday party last night. It was held at a bar in Northtowne called the Oak Tree and I’ve been there a few times before and enjoyed myself drunkenly I suppose. Last night however, I was just plain in a funk. Probably because of how my day had gone and the fact that though I love her and feel fortunate to call her my friend, I cannot say this about the other people that were there. I felt sleepy still even though I’d only been up really for about 4 hours and had gone in to the office but only for a couple of hours so I can’t claim that I was spent. I could have stuck around for the arrival of her husband Brian or her best friend Genese and that would have made it worth it as they are the two quality people in her life, myself excluded of course. But it just didn’t feel worth it. I’ve never been one that was able to force myself to stick around when bored or uncomfortable no matter how much I want to support the person that brought me there. So I stayed for an hour and a half then bailed on her. It sure felt good to be home though. I want to say that I have no guilt about last night but I actually do. This is rare my friends, Tams doesn’t tend to care enough to feel bad about her actions. I haven’t spent time with Rebecca in I can’t tell you how long and I do very much miss that friendship. Sure, we talk occasionally and yes, our friendship has always been one that we can go for months without speaking but still be as close as ever. Oh well…

I am also extremely excited about the direction my career is going. I don’t intend to bore you, but you should know that this is probably what I’ll be talking about for a while. Changes are happening and for me, they’re very exciting. I’ve been the AP/AR Clerk at Gragg Advertising for over 2 years now. I’ve long felt that I’ve stepped up where asked and sometimes when not, and that I’ve been overlooked time and again while others had new positions created for them. Since I completed the PHR exam however, things seem to be improving around the office for me. I don’t yet know what my role is and that is extremely frustrating but I am finally being pulled in the direction I’ve wanted to go for quite some time now.

I am going to go back to my coffee and my book now. Soon, I will have to break the news to all of the 20 something books in my “to read” pile that they will have to wait even longer for me to get to them. Greg is having me put together a program for new managers so I hope to be spending my free time reading those books instead. Wish me luck!!