Its Only 365 Days
45/365: VALENTINE'S DAY GRINCH!
14 FEB 14
Now this is love because the pain I was feeling this morning was intense, and the over the counters were having no effect, so I was trying to decide whether I wanted to make these several trips, but I'd spent a fair portion of last night baking my valentine's day cookies: an oatmeal, a chocolate chunk, and a Snickerdoodle, and so if I didn't actually deliver, I would have a crap load of cookies lying around the house, and yeah, no, that's a crap load too many.
So first stop on my random acts of love on Valentine's day trip was to my old job. The way I found out who was working without giving the game away was to email people and say, I have someone coming in, they need your services, do you work Friday. So of course, they were like, yes, or no. This instantly killed off 3 people from the list as I found out they were off on Friday (bummer) but I did tell them my original intentions just so they didn't you know actually think someone was coming to them in the future.
So found out a few of my peeps were still working. I mean, I haven't been there in two years, I didn't expect to see much of anyone I still knew, but holy cake balls Batman, the minute I walked in, the first person I saw was one of my favorite people in the world, and then out from the auditorium, my really old work buddy from nearly 7 years ago, and it was like that...one after another of people I knew came streaming in for hugs. I mean, if I had known that many still worked there I would have DEFINITELY made more cookies, but it really felt good to catch up. I finally got to see my old co-supervisor who is now the manager, who is now pregnant with twins. She looked so adorable with her little bump (she's only 3 months along, so it'll be big enough soon!). She was telling me of her morning sickness troubles and then she said, oh, you know first months awful but now its over, and as we were walking, she caught a wiff of something, and the next thing I know, she's off in the bathroom, poor thing. Then I met up with my other old co-supe who is now manager of another exhibit, and it was like old times getting to sit and talk about work, what else. Still glad not to be there, because its the same issues, different people now, so not much has changed from the headache while I was there, but...
...let's talk vindication. All the years I was a super, these two set of people on my staff complained...supervisors this, supervisors that, if I were a....and of course, sure, its easy to complain when you are on the outside looking in, but guess who is now a supervisor and HATES IT and by default is about to be out of her position, yes, one of the complainers. I said, so now that you're in it, do you owe us an apology and she was silent...yeah, buddy, that's what I thought. I heard from the staff, she hates scheduling, is always complaining, doesn't really like being there at the top...I'm just laughing in my head, like, yeah. Same goes for the other complainer who now manages at another company. He and I hung out and he went on and on about his staff and how hard he works and no one appreicates, and people give him sh--, and I'm like, again, now you know and you'll think twice about saying I could do it better and they don't do anything, and on and on. Feels good!
Anyway, it was off to jobby number two in corporate America downtown. I was not even allowed passed the lobby on the first floor as it is a national bank headquarters, so I had to sit and wait to surprise this one here, who came down in her Valentine's outfit, LOL, pink on pink. I told her, I know already you're probably having a crappy day, and she nodded solemly, so here you go, surprise, and I whipped out my little bag. Immediately she lit up, and I know her quite well...crappy bear and cards, what the heck was she going to do with that, no, food is the way to hearts and minds. It was like the best gift ever, and we ended up sitting in the lounge area and having a 45 minute conversation while she nibbled on the cookies. At one point some guy came up who did not have ANY tact what so ever. We're in the middle of a conversation and he's like, have either of you tried this Odwalla juice. My friend nods. He then starts talking about how he's never tried it blah, blah, what do we recommend. And it wasn't flirting...those guys don't linger...this guy wanted to have a full fledged conversation and was hell bent on not letting us continue ours. So, he said, which flavor, after we'd already started up our conversation again. And oh, he said, is it like a meal replacement with all these calories in it after we'd started our conversation again. And oh...so finally my friend just paused like are you done...are you done...are you done, and then after all that, doesn't buy the juice, goes off and buys a full lunch, and then, see the one only other guy in this lounge at 2pm...see all the empty chairs...out of every single table he could have sat at, he goes and asks if he could sit next to that guy and then literally sits down and starts in on him, a full fledged conversation. Did this guy need a friend? Sheesh.
I know, I know, its love day, stop being so negative, but it was to a point where the guy was just way to intrusive for it to be like, oh, hey nice talk---but besides the point, it was a great day full of surprised people, and my grinchy dark heart grew 2 sizes bigger spreading the love. It really felt good to do something nice for someone. I try to do a random act of kindess everyday I'm out in a public realm, but some times you have to step it up a notch and go full fledged angel wings!
Happy Valentine's Day Everybody.
45/365: VALENTINE'S DAY GRINCH!
14 FEB 14
Now this is love because the pain I was feeling this morning was intense, and the over the counters were having no effect, so I was trying to decide whether I wanted to make these several trips, but I'd spent a fair portion of last night baking my valentine's day cookies: an oatmeal, a chocolate chunk, and a Snickerdoodle, and so if I didn't actually deliver, I would have a crap load of cookies lying around the house, and yeah, no, that's a crap load too many.
So first stop on my random acts of love on Valentine's day trip was to my old job. The way I found out who was working without giving the game away was to email people and say, I have someone coming in, they need your services, do you work Friday. So of course, they were like, yes, or no. This instantly killed off 3 people from the list as I found out they were off on Friday (bummer) but I did tell them my original intentions just so they didn't you know actually think someone was coming to them in the future.
So found out a few of my peeps were still working. I mean, I haven't been there in two years, I didn't expect to see much of anyone I still knew, but holy cake balls Batman, the minute I walked in, the first person I saw was one of my favorite people in the world, and then out from the auditorium, my really old work buddy from nearly 7 years ago, and it was like that...one after another of people I knew came streaming in for hugs. I mean, if I had known that many still worked there I would have DEFINITELY made more cookies, but it really felt good to catch up. I finally got to see my old co-supervisor who is now the manager, who is now pregnant with twins. She looked so adorable with her little bump (she's only 3 months along, so it'll be big enough soon!). She was telling me of her morning sickness troubles and then she said, oh, you know first months awful but now its over, and as we were walking, she caught a wiff of something, and the next thing I know, she's off in the bathroom, poor thing. Then I met up with my other old co-supe who is now manager of another exhibit, and it was like old times getting to sit and talk about work, what else. Still glad not to be there, because its the same issues, different people now, so not much has changed from the headache while I was there, but...
...let's talk vindication. All the years I was a super, these two set of people on my staff complained...supervisors this, supervisors that, if I were a....and of course, sure, its easy to complain when you are on the outside looking in, but guess who is now a supervisor and HATES IT and by default is about to be out of her position, yes, one of the complainers. I said, so now that you're in it, do you owe us an apology and she was silent...yeah, buddy, that's what I thought. I heard from the staff, she hates scheduling, is always complaining, doesn't really like being there at the top...I'm just laughing in my head, like, yeah. Same goes for the other complainer who now manages at another company. He and I hung out and he went on and on about his staff and how hard he works and no one appreicates, and people give him sh--, and I'm like, again, now you know and you'll think twice about saying I could do it better and they don't do anything, and on and on. Feels good!
Anyway, it was off to jobby number two in corporate America downtown. I was not even allowed passed the lobby on the first floor as it is a national bank headquarters, so I had to sit and wait to surprise this one here, who came down in her Valentine's outfit, LOL, pink on pink. I told her, I know already you're probably having a crappy day, and she nodded solemly, so here you go, surprise, and I whipped out my little bag. Immediately she lit up, and I know her quite well...crappy bear and cards, what the heck was she going to do with that, no, food is the way to hearts and minds. It was like the best gift ever, and we ended up sitting in the lounge area and having a 45 minute conversation while she nibbled on the cookies. At one point some guy came up who did not have ANY tact what so ever. We're in the middle of a conversation and he's like, have either of you tried this Odwalla juice. My friend nods. He then starts talking about how he's never tried it blah, blah, what do we recommend. And it wasn't flirting...those guys don't linger...this guy wanted to have a full fledged conversation and was hell bent on not letting us continue ours. So, he said, which flavor, after we'd already started up our conversation again. And oh, he said, is it like a meal replacement with all these calories in it after we'd started our conversation again. And oh...so finally my friend just paused like are you done...are you done...are you done, and then after all that, doesn't buy the juice, goes off and buys a full lunch, and then, see the one only other guy in this lounge at 2pm...see all the empty chairs...out of every single table he could have sat at, he goes and asks if he could sit next to that guy and then literally sits down and starts in on him, a full fledged conversation. Did this guy need a friend? Sheesh.
I know, I know, its love day, stop being so negative, but it was to a point where the guy was just way to intrusive for it to be like, oh, hey nice talk---but besides the point, it was a great day full of surprised people, and my grinchy dark heart grew 2 sizes bigger spreading the love. It really felt good to do something nice for someone. I try to do a random act of kindess everyday I'm out in a public realm, but some times you have to step it up a notch and go full fledged angel wings!
Happy Valentine's Day Everybody.