When I dropped of the dog at daycare this morning (she goes there two days a week when she doesn’t go to the office with me), I told the staff there that I’m so happy it’s Friday I could just pee myself. I wasn’t kidding! It’s been another doozy of a week, y’all, and it’s not over yet.
I last left off telling you that I had a meeting/presentation I needed to prep for that was going to take hours and hours, and in the end, it did take a long time, but it also got blown to pieces and I ended up not presenting 50% of what I was trying to pull together.
There are HUGE events looming, and I’m getting extra concerned with what’s going to happen with my job, and again, worry is not worth it - yet it truly is a warning sign. The transaction is happening now - the company is about to announce that we’ve been sold to another PE firm.
Additionally, my product categories are down even though as a company we are doing well. I’m working with some HUGE retailers who are basically taking the stuff that I design and create and sending them directly to factory to make cheaper (removing the middle man, so to speak).
Additionally, they are putting roadblocks in place to hinder the business even further (too complicated to write in an entry…). Anyway, it’s bad news for my biz.
I also had a run-in with someone at work who just caught me at the wrong moment and I got snippy. It was the end of the day on Wednesday and I was prepping for an 8am meeting and a 9am meeting that I had the next morning. It wasn’t her fault. Like I said, I was just crossed at the wrong moment and said something fairly bratty. I thought about it and went over to apologize for my tone at the very end of the day as I walked out the door and she totally brushed it off like it was NO biggie. I felt OK.
So yesterday I had a meeting with my boss after my two earlier meetings and he told me that he hates to have conversations like this, but that HER boss went to MY boss because I’d upset her sooooooo much. WTF? She said she was cool, but then tattled the next day?
And I was also grumpy with another team yesterday before the BIG meeting/presentation and I just don’t even know what to say anymore. I’d read something wrong in an email, and my tone was pretty bitchy. I had to apologize for that, too.
It’s not worth it, folks. It’s not worth it to be down, upset, frustrated, worried and freaked out all the time. Not to mention, it affects my reputation and ultimately could get me fired.
Sure, done is better than perfect, but happy is better than bitchy and upset, no?
I’m still trying to figure out my next move. I may be taking it sooner rather than later.
I hope that BIL has some good insight for me…or at least something inspiring to say!
Speaking of going out drinking, I had my lovely cocktails with Cindy on Wednesday night on the patio of a fancy-pants place. It was fairly uneventful and we had nice chats and it was a lovely evening out.
Then last night I went to a charity event with my friend Maria on the top of this beautiful hotel that has an amazing view of the city. It was nice of her to invite me, but she ended up having to leave halfway through the event and we didn’t get to talk that much. Still cocktails and pretty people. I ended up staying just to mingle and have a couple more glasses of bubbles. It was fun, but when it was over I wasn’t quite ready to go home.
I took myself to the lobby bar and had one more glass of bubbly and ended up talking smack with this wonderfully funny guy. We had lots of laughs and the conversation was going soooooo well and he ordered me another glass of champagne and then I needed to go to the bathroom so I excused myself and told him I’d be right back because I had some amazing thoughts I wanted to tell him.
When I got to the restroom and sat down I realized that I was super drunk! I needed to go home immediately! So I checked to make sure I had my credit card on me (yes), ordered a Lyft and left! I left that dude just sitting at the bar waiting for me to come back to tell him my brilliant idea.
I woke up this morning still a bit tipsy, but coffee is getting me back to normal. Geez. I can’t drink anymore. I can’t handle it.
Okay. Gotta roll. I have two BIG meetings today, one of which I’m teaching a class and I need to make sure I’m prepared. The second meeting is with a douchebag of a guy so I need to make sure I’m mentally prepared to not be a big bitch to him.
Wish me luck.
Enjoy your Friday!
xox,
GS
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