Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Well...

It's official...my favorite co-worker really is leaving.  I knew he was going but today it was official - I ordered the farewell Mike pizzas.  Tomorrow I will pick up cups and pop.  Tomorrow night I will bake a Texas Sheet Cake. 

Friday is the big day.  The sappy speech - which I imagine he has wrote and rewrote fourteen gazillion times.  {Do you know that I love that gazillion is an actual word?  Go to www.dictionary.com.}

I had better pick up a box of Kleenex tomorrow...just in case his speech is sentimental AND sappy.

Several of us are having a tough time even talking about him leaving...and I finally figured out why.  Because this co-worker of mine is an all-around go-to sort of guy.  He listens and will offer advice.  He will even listen and just listen - so long as you preface your mini-crisis with, "I just need you to listen and not fix this."

I am happy for him and for his family...but I am oh-so sad that they are leaving.

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