In a nutshell.
This morning I woke up with one window slightly open. I looked outside and decided that I wanted to wear my cute summer dress.
Not even ten minutes after I pulled out of the driveway, while sitting in traffic, I noticed that these white flakes were falling from the sky and melting as soon as they touched my windshield. Surly it couldn't be snowflakes! No, no, no. Not today. Not on the day that I was wearing a completely inappropriate outfit that would leave my legs permanently purple.
Instead I thought really, really hard and convinced myself that there was an accident that involved a truck that was carrying tons of shredded paper. I wasn't sure how they got the paper to melt whenever it touched any kind of surface, but I figured that it came in really handy and made clean up a breeze.
As soon as I arrived at work it was straight upstairs for me so I could get trained. Properly trained.
Oh, why you ask?
Because I'm going to be helping the Help Desk every other day starting Monday.
That is correct. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I'll be in the Help Desk area doing...things. Gosh, I hate being so vague sometimes. Don't worry about it though. Just know that I'm excited, it'll be fun and I'm sure that I'll kick this new job's ass.
Since I'll have Tuesdays and Thursdays available I'll still be doing my regular admin duties. I decided to start off part time with the Help Desk that way SuperAdmin isn't left all by her lonesome. Oh, what about Jackie? We already know how I feel about her. Besides, there are a lot of things that I was planning on doing, admin wise, once I moved upstairs, so this will be a good time to do it.
After I went to training, I ordered lunch and when it finally arrived I only had fifteen minutes to eat it until it was time for me to run again and get briefed for...a thing. Trust me, you don't want to know.
When I was finally finished running around (mind you, in four inch heels) and catching up on emails, I sat down and took a deep breath.
It has been a wild and crazy day. This week has been pretty busy actually, and I haven't even taken any real notice to the fact that this is my last full week downstairs, sitting at this desk, doing this every day. Is it kind of sad? I haven't decided yet. I'm sure it probably will be on Friday once I've cleaned off my desk and see it all empty. That's when it'll hit me.
There are a lot of things that I'll be glad that I won't have to deal with anymore. Things like checking in with Le Bitch every single fucking time I have to leave my desk. I'll be glad when I don't have to worry about keeping the entire third floor space clean. Damn, that got so annoying, so quickly. I never could figure out why people are so messy. How hard is it to wipe something up when you spill it? I definitely won't miss J's daily visits (I've never mentioned him for a reason). He'll have to bug the new girl now for conversation. I'll be happy when I don't have to listen to Art (the guy who took M's place) snap his fingers randomly throughout the day, or whenever he makes farm animal noises. He's a strange character. I'll be happy to not be the main person that people go to for stupid conversations too. I don't mind it for the most part but it's really irritating when you're actually in the middle of doing something and they interrupt your train of thought.
Uncle Ric and J stopped by earlier for a piece of gum and they asked me how I was doing. I told them about my new Help Desk gig and how excited I was about staying busy. They told me that I was going Corporate and that they were losing me to the Other Side. Pretty soon I'll start asking people to call me by my full name and won't have any time to go out for lunch.
Uncle Ric: "You're wearing a dress now aren't you?"
Me: "Well, um, yes."
Uncle Ric: "I knew it! With high heels right?"
I took one of my shoes off and showed him the high heels that substantially elevated me to be slightly taller than him.
Me: "I am ashamed."
Uncle Ric: "And you should be! We expected more from you, Sam. Oh, I'm sorry - Samantha."
Me: "I'm still me! I'm just...busier these days. We can go out to lunch. Let's do a happy hour or something. C'mon!"
Lose me to the Other Side? Haha. I don't think so. They should know that I don't do anything as a favor these days. The Help Desk gig will not only give me something steady to do throughout the day, but I'll be getting some extra moolah to go with it. Damn straight. Sammi Jo is getting a pay raise.
These are changes that I'm handling extremely well and I'm so, so very happy.
Yes. Happy. You heard it here first.