BACK AT WORK............TEMPORARILY!

Back in November maybe?, I did something really dumb.  I know you all find that hard to believe, right? :) I agreed to work for my "old" Boss for a week! What in the world was I thinking?????

Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of really good friends at that office and I love getting together with as many of them as I can from time to time.  Usually it is a lunch for someone's birthday or a dinner just to catch up.  But, at the last birthday lunch, my Boss' new administrative assistant asked me if I would work in her spot for a week. 

If you remember, I worked in education.  Every now and then the school districts in H-town will have different spring breaks.  There are probably at least 15 districts in the city limits and immediately outside the city limits.  When this happens, about half of the districts will have one certain week in March as spring break and the other half will have the following week in March as spring break.  This is one of those years.  So, J's (Boss' admin. asst.) children go to a school district that has the earlier week off for spring break and they had planned a trip for that week.  Since the district that she (and I use to) works for isn't off for spring break until the later week, Boss would be in the office with no administrative assistant.  That is never a good thing.  Come on, admit it.  We all know who really runs the office and it isn't the boss!  They can never be left alone!

Anyway, I said yes.  I'm thinking, "This will be great! I'll get to see my friends and we can catch up.  I'll be using my office skills.  I'll be interacting with more people than just Mr. W.  I'll get to wear REAL clothes and shoes for a few days."  You get the idea.  Well guess what?  I forgot that you have to get up at 5:00 a.m. and immediately get your shower and get dressed and put on make-up and do your hair and get your lunch and do stop and go in HORRIBLE traffic for an hour.  You can't get up leisurely and sit around and drink coffee and then shower and dress when you feel like it.  Also, there have been MANY changes.  Responsibilities have changed so figuring out who someone needs to contact is a crap shoot.  Softwear has been updated several times and most things don't work the same or look the same.  And, people want you to do stuff when THEY want it done! Like on a time schedule! Can you imagine?  :)

To top this off, 2 of the Executive Directors that worked for Boss when I was there have lost their admin asst.  She took another job.  So, they called me about 2 weeks ago and asked if I would come in this week and work for them.  Now we are talking 2 weeks in a row in the office.  Oh boy! Right?  Remember all those things I forgot about doing that go along with work?  I'm getting to experience those things for 2 weeks. See what I mean.  What was I thinking????  I just had one of the directors ask me if I would be available to sub after spring break.  He did look a little funny when I said, "Get thee behind me Satan!"

All of this blog has pretty much been tongue-n-cheek but this just reminded me that I am glad that I am retired.  It is nice to visit, but I'm glad it's not permanent.  Gotta go.  Someone wants me to do something. Geez!