Have you ever noticed that when you have everything planned perfectly is when things suddenly start to get away from you? I am leaving to go to Atlanta on Saturday and I made a list of everything that I needed to do and parceled some of it out for each night in the week. I figured a bit at a time would be a great way to make a dent in my list and not feel overwhelmed. Great plan, right?
FNG (F-ing New Girl/Guy) at my office does volunteer work with an organization called Safe Space which does work with inner city and at risk youth in New York and they are having a fund raiser on Wednesday that she asked us all to go to. I figured I could move some of my plan around and told her I’d love to go. After all, it is a great cause and a chance to meet some new people and support my co-worker. So I call up Crazy and see if she wants to go with me and thus my Wednesday night is set.
About 20 minutes later, my boss throws a post-it note pad at me with a note that says “Leave Thursday Night Open”. When your boss tells you to leave an evening open, I tend to feel like it is a good idea to do so (especially if you are REALLY hoping for a raise)… Good bye Thursday.
So here is what I have to get done between yesterday night and tonight (besides the fact that I am working 12 hour days):
Monday night: Got home at 8:30 after trying unsuccessfully to puck up my down coat from the dry cleaners (they swear to me they will have it tonight); I had to pick up, break down, bind up and take out all the cardboard boxes and packaging from the new bed, dressers and TV table; take out all the garbage in the house; organize the clothes in the drawers of the new dresser before putting away the laundry that I picked up earlier in the week; separate the laundry I can drop and that must be done by hand so I can take care of that at a later time; hang 3M hooks in the bathroom for the new hanging baskets I got at IKEA (and hang the baskets).
What is left for Tuesday: Finishing the last minute wrapping of all gifts; putting together the baked goods for my office; hand wash laundry; drop of dry cleaning and laundry that can be dropped; pick up cat food and key rings for the new sets of keys I had made today; pack (or pack what can be packed at this point); put together clothes to take for Thursday night (staying in the city); take shower (and everything that goes with that); put together a 30 minute meeting about my keys to success in my job; and finally (please, God!) get to sleep before midnight, preferably by 10:00pm.
The up side is that I feel very accomplished this week because I do seem to be getting it all done and really the only side effect has been a slight dopiness from lack of sleep. Tonight will be the test.
The ‘Keys to Success’ meeting I have to give tomorrow (we are each required to give one and we are going in the order that we started working at the company Cool Breeze first, LeClare second, me third (they call me Herronater if you are curious), The Kid is fourth, Krolleosis will be last). FNG will not be participating because Cool Breeze does not feel as if she has been here long enough to really have her ‘Keys’ yet. It should be interesting and at least I get mine out of the way quickly. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Have you seen my free time?
I'm not dead!!!!
So, obviously I’m not so great at keeping up with the blog. I’m going to do my best to change that, and I apologize for going MIA for almost a year. I thought about spending time catching everyone up on all the fantastic and exciting things that have happened since last I typed, however I realize you all have better things to do and if you are really curious (or something is very confusing), please feel free to let me know and I will clarify as we go along. Just to give a brief overview:
- I did not in fact get fired, although I did quit and start a new job at a start up IT recruiting firm. I like to think of myself as a pimp or a trafficker of people – it sounds much more dangerous.
- The theatre company is on hiatus. Our lives have all changed so much from when we started and with me working 12+ hour days pretty regularly we are trying to figure out how to keep things going with QED and keep us all friendly and happy in our own lives. So far that has meant QED on the back burner, but no one has completely written it off yet.
- The roommate is moving out and the BF is half moving in. He can’t totally move in because his daughter lives in another state and he really wants to be there for her, but he’s moving stuff into the apartment and we’re fixing it up a bit (although he really wants to just move to another apartment, I’m just tired of moving).
So, I am going to try and update this a bit more regularly. Happy holidays and hopefully you’ll hear from me soon!
So...I think I'm getting fired....
I think they are going to fire me before I get a chance to quit. That actually works in my favor because then I can file for unemployment if the job search takes longer than I can handle, but I've never been fired before.
I found an org chart in my boss' office today that had my name crossed out and in the revised org chart I found later, my name was there, but with a 'T' underneath it.
She asked me if I was going to be in on Monday and I said yes and asked her why and she said, "No reason." If they have me come in on Monday just to fire me, I am going to be supremely unhappy.
Wow. I've never been fired before. This feeling sort of sucks. Not because I'm not ready to leave, but because I know it's totally ridiculous and there's not a lot I can do about it. Did I mention that I've never been fired before?
January (dear lord, how can it possibly be the end of January already?!?) Update
More than a month since I’ve blogged? How can that be? Where on earth did January go? How can February be only a day or so away? If you can’t tell, things have been sort of getting away from me lately. In an effort to get back on top of that and figure out what the hell is going on with my life (in so much as anyone ever figures out what is going on with their lives), I am taking some drastic steps.
1. I am quitting my job and I will probably be doing it without the safety net of another job. I have been unhappy for a while and things are not getting better (although after a series of rather pointless meetings, things seem to have reached plateau). There is no reason for me to stay unhappy at a company where I so obviously have no future when I could go be happy or at least have a shot at something bigger than an admin position at another company. I keep almost chickening out and changing my mind, but I keep telling a few key people who I know will give me shit about it if I chicken out. This is the right choice and it is the best decision for me…right?
2. At this point I am not going to stage manage Scenes from an Execution. Zander’s thoughtless remarks concerning his ability to do without me and not wanting to adjust the rehearsal schedule by a half an hour to indulge my need to have a day job that makes it so I can eat has really pissed me off. I’m not going to say that I definitely won’t (because I said that with Mad Forest and look how that turned out), but at this exact moment, I find it highly unlikely.
I guess that is about all when it comes to drastic steps.
In other news, I am stage managing Mad Forest. I didn’t want to and I fought having to do it, but in the end I’m doing it and I’m actually very happy that I am. It is an amazing group of people and they have a wonderful vibe. Julia (the director) actually values my opinion and wants me to be an active member of the team she has created as opposed to sitting in a corner reading a book until someone needs something. It is wonderful and amazing and I am enjoying it a lot. I am just VERY tired. My BF hates it because he’s lost me to another show, but he’s tolerating it amazingly well considering.
On the whole, especially since I made the decision to make those drastic choices (they may not be drastic to you, but they are to me, I’m Miss Responsible, remember?), life has been pretty good. Hopefully it will keep going that way. To close, I want to post an e-mail that my friend Veronica sent me. I hope all these things for all of you:
My Wish for You in 2007 May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and may happiness slap you across the face. May your tears be that of joy and may your problems forget your home address! In simple words............May 2007 be the best year of your life!!!
