August 25, 2006

• Good greif.  This has been a crazy week...here is the breakdown since the last post...

  Tuesday - spent the day with my friend Geri - she TiVo's 'Stargate:
  SG-1' for me, and then when I have a bajillion to catch up on I go over
  and we veg on the couch for hours and catch up while we eat take
  out.  So fun and relaxing.  This day had an extra bit of fun
  in that I got to help her with a 'project' - I smashed a porcelain
  toilet to smithereens with a hammer...it was awesome to smash something
  up like that and NOT get in trouble!  
  A word to the wise, however - wear gloves, do NOT wear flip flops, and
  make sure you wear safety glasses before attempting to demolish a large
  glass item...I had safety glasses on, but lets just say I also have a
  couple of cuts from flying glass and exposed skin.

  Wednesday I went back to work - this is what the day looked like:
  9:00am - drop my stuff in the office - go sign paperwork and check in with the morning CSM/front end.
  9:30am - store meeting
  10:00am - management meeting
  10:30am - my boss tells me that I need to attend a diversity event still this year - to sign up asap for an event.
  10:45am - In looking for an event, I quickly realize that there are NO
  events left for the year closer than a 7 or 8 hour drive with the
  exception of a 'Minorities in Leadership' seminar THE NEXT DAY in
  Bentonville at the home office.
  11:00am - talk to Sabrina and Dayna [two other female members of
  management who also needed to fulfill their requirements for the year]
  and we all decide that if we are allowed, we are willing to make the
  spur of the moment trip to AR.
  11:15am - our boss gives the thumbs up on us leaving for AR.
  11:30am - I call and register us for aforementioned seminar.
  12pm to 4pm - the three of us travel home, pack, and gather back
  together at work to wrap up  loose ends there before leaving....
  4:30pm - we hit the road for AR.
  7ish pm - I make a gajillion calls in the Bentonville area for a hotel
  room - finally find one at the Econo Lodge [aka - the 'hooker hotel'
  shudder]
  11pm - check into the hotel.

  Thursday we didn't have to be at the seminar until 1pm, so I took
  advantage of the morning, and saw my friend Kelly S for a brief
  time...then she brought me back to the hotel just in time for KK and
  Rex to pick me up for an early lunch.  I have some great pictures
  on my camera - but they are going to have to wait...anyway - Aundrea
  met us about half an hour before I had to go - then we took a group
  shot [of course - it HAS to be documented for posterity], and KK took
  me to the seminar [A BIG thank you to KK for being the 'drive around'
  girl ].  About 15 minutes after she
  dropped me off, I realized that I had left ALL of my crap in her
  backseat.  What the heck was I thinking?  [the answer to that
  is that I obviously wasn't]  Good thing that I am going back next week and that I didn't have a ton of stuff with me!

  Anyway - the seminar was okay [read YAWN blah, blah, blah] - we hit the
  road again at 4:15pm, and got back to the store at 10:30pm.  Ugh -
  I had to run in and get a couple of things since all of my crap was in
  KK's car [I still say 'CRAP' in my head everytime I think of it]...and
  made it home around 11:30 pm.

  Which brings me to today...and that is a whole other post, so I will leave you with this for now.

  Whew...

  • 10:19 pm
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