Whew! The last few days have been wild, W-I-L-D I tell you!

First, can I tell you that I’ve *heard* people say that Com.cast is ‘da debil’ and I am soooo inclined to believe them. I bundled services right before Christmas - phone, cable, inna-net. Requested that my existing phone number transfer since I’ve had it for 15 years. Simple enough, right? How come dude shows up and tells me I have a new phone number? Grrrrr! So, I ask if he can set up the inna-net and cable that day and come back when we work through the phone deal. Nope. GRRRRRR!!!!!! On top of that, they didn’t notify the previous carrier of the switch so…if you call my old number, the call goes directly to voicemail & never rings on my end. To actually speak to me, you have to call the new number…which nobody has. Ugh! Then there was an “outage” Sunday that no one could explain. Lasted from Sunday AM until Monday PM. No phone. No cable. No inna-net.

Anywho…it has been HOT here the last two days…over 70 degrees both days.

Ya’ll prolly thinking it’s something to do with glo.bal warm.ing. But I have another theory. Care to hear it?

It’s hot cause ya girl has reentered the land of the employed. Yep, I’m back on the CSS. “The Velvet Hammer” is back on the job. Can i tell you that my mother is oooooh sooooo happy about this change? She is wassssy more excited than I am. You’d think I owed her some money! Dang!

So, I spent a few days shopping for work clothes…and back-to-work pumps. LOL (Confession - I lost my mind. Several days in a row. Wiped out the plastic so much, when I opened my wallet, you could smell smoke. BUT…I felt comforted by the little note at the bottom of the DSW receipt that said, “YOUR SAVINGS 141.70. Funny. I spent more than that…even with the sales. Ha!)

I had all these plans for an uber-relaxing Sunday. Didn’t happen. Not that it WASN’T relaxing, I just had to let go of some plans, and realize that while somethings happened outside of the timeframe I had in mind, they still happened. So, it was all good.

Sunday night found me sitting on my bed, hair properly coiffed and covered, brows skillfully arched, fresh mani/pedicure. Ensemble pressed & ready for wear - Gray power suit, burgundy blouse, silver jewelry, 4-in burgundy “don’t-start-none-won’t-be-none” pumps. I FINALLY got to bed around 12:15am.

Ever have one of those nights where you wake up and you swear you’ve been sleep for HOURS? Yep. I woke up, glanced at the clock. I’d been sleep exactly ONE frigging hour! Couldn’t get back to sleep so I decided I’d check emails or watch TV. But alas, I STILL had no service. Ugh!! So I opted to write for a while instead. Fell asleep about an hour later.

When I tell you that Day 1 was beyond b-o-r-i-n-g, I kid you not. They definitely need the help but there’s so much going on, no one had time to really stop & get organized for the new person. So, I found ways to occupy myself. No inna-net access from work (which probably wll work in my favor in the long run).

On to Day 2. Slow morning. I was included in a 30-minute meeting where there was a moment of silence followed by glee when my manager introduced me and told the folks what part of my function would be. Then I had a hour-long planning session with him. How shall I describe what needs to be done, the direction I was given, the whole company? Murky. Nebulous. Messy. Started out as a small organization that has ballooned and not been able to really keep up with that growth. So in the next few days, I need to create a new tracking system, corral open issues (both under my purvey and outside of it), generate my first tracking report, review the existing processes and faciliate my first worksession. That’s just off the top. LOL

Bottom line? I think my first day on the job was my first and ONLY slow day.

Needless to say, this change (along with a few other things that may or may not hit the blog) has my posting schedule in a little bit of a tizzy right now. I’m trying to get the routine down. We’ll see how it shakes out.

Be easy!