Three minutes.....3 minutes before the absolute final deadline, the document was printed and handed over to the proper authorities. Rejoicing and full of thankfulness, I skipped out the door.
Unfortunately, the next day -- I woke up with a terrible "after-the-stress" migraine and stayed home in my jammies.
Day after the headache, I was handed another humdinger of a project from the same engineer. This time, I was informed I had a week. Delusionally for like 4 minutes, I forgot that I don't work on the weekends so a simple math combination 7 minus 2 told me I had 5 days to compile, correct, and perfect a 300+ page document. Because I was... A) still in my right mind; B) upset about having a migraine over a project that was passed off to me with not adequate time...I managed to talk to the proper authority figure and it was determined that the statement, "Your lack of preparation is NOT my emergency" could be typed-up, printed-out, and framed and placed on the corner of my desk...a nice reminder for the engineer in charge of these two projects. It was brought to my attention that an absurd amount of time was not LONG enough to get one's act in gear and work on things in a timely manner thus creating havoc in my (the secretary's) life. I believe my reply at the close of our conversation was, "I will gladly give 100% to this endeavor. I will work my best...but I will not have a repeat of last week this week. Where I formerly worked was MY choice to allow that stress to transfer over from work to home and I will not be doing that ever again."
Yesterday -- do you ever have days when you feel like....well, you feel like the picture below???
This picture was me yesterday. For some reason unbeknownst to me at the time, the Word document was not allowing me to "CLEAR ALL FORMATTING" and reformat. The numbers transformed into letters. Obnoxious letters... In one section, the "3" turned into "RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"! No joke. I mean, I like to roll my r's...don't get me wrong. But in this document that was just not cool...not cool at all. Ironically the "4" in that same section turned into "SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS." Guess what the "5" turned into? Did you guess "TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT"? If you did - congrats! Kudos to you!
Sooo I left yesterday with about 87% of the document ready to go. Actually, you know what -- it was more like 93% done and not a thread of sanity in-tact. Infact somewhere around 3, I had a lousy attitude...so I stopped what I was doing...I moved my chair away from my computer (lest I damage the company property!) and I opened my Bible to the Gospel of John and I began reading...and I read and I read and I read...and then I prayed. I believe it began, "Father, I have an absolute lousy attitude about a document that in the whole scheme of my life is not going to matter a hill of beans. Please help me!!!!" I knitted for a bit and then just turned off my computer and waited for the last 2 minutes of the day to come to a close so I could leave. As I walked out to Rosie, I knew that the only cure for this dull-drum, bad attitude was to be a blessing to someone else. A quick text to my partner in crime :) and we developed our plan.
Ten pink tulips (5 of each shade) were purchased. A mason jar was found. Ribbon was cut and tied securely around the lip of said jar. And we were off to the hospital to be a blessing...the true cure for the pity parties of life.
Our half hour visit was absolutely wonderful. Partner in crime and I left encouraged and laughing about our delightful chat with the patient. We are blessed!!!!!!
After being a blessing, I went and walked through the Hallmark store searching for a perfect VD card to send all the way to Seattle. I read several cards...and then I found THE ONE. I must confess, the card I selected is sooo not right -- which is what makes it absolutely perfect for this dear friend. Picture this...two dogs on the front. I believe they were those cute wiener dogs (my partner in crime knows about this one time that I was searching the RRStar and mispronounced their breed). One of the two dogs on the card has a cone on his head. (Are you already laughing because I am?) The front said, "If we were two dogs and I had to wear one of those cones on my head, I know you would tell me that I look good." Open up the card: "That's the kind of friends that we are."
Another card that I thought about getting was a women in a full body cast and on the inside, it read, "I'm so glad that you are good at picking our scarves!" I was cracking up...I mean, LAUGHING OUTLOUD in the Hallmark store. Those cards are hysterical!!!! Also -- being in the Hallmark store helped me waste 15 minutes waiting for Rhonda to get to the gym. 2 birds ----> 1 stone.
This morning I went in to work armed with my Bible, prayer, and a much better attitude. :) The three go together, by the way!!!! Somewhere around 10 a.m. I figured out the Microsoft conundrum that had been vexing my soul....the documents that I was given to edit were not just plain Jane ".DOC" documents...their file name was ".DOCX" --- that one little letter made all the difference and was the reason I could not format and UN-format the issues. Praise the Lord! Glory be! I'm not losing my mind. It wasn't me after all...
And that my friends was all that I needed to know. I'm not going crazy. :) How absolutely delightful.
Tootles!
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