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My Life Thus Far
2009-05-08 06:37:45 (UTC)

That Small Solace

I knew something was wrong! It wasn't just my imagination!
The house WAS cold. This morning maintenance came to do
the yearly upkeep on our furnace (basically taking it
apart, vacuuming inside it and changing out the filters).
Mike (the housing guy that almost always happens to come
when we have a problem) came up a few minutes later and
said that something was wrong with the furnace and he
needed to call for reinforcements. Three hours later, heat
was finally coming out the vents, instead of just cold
air. I'm sorry environmentalists, but my thermostat is set
at a balmy 75 degrees :) At least until I get over the
pleasure of not being freezing cold for once.

Because it took them so long to fix the furnace, my gym
time got seriously cut into, but I still managed to put in
a decent workout. Of course, I would have been willing to
miss my workout all together just to be warm again. There
really is nothing I hate more than being cold.

Work was great, as usual. Even after almost three years of
working at Victoria's Secret, I'm still just as happy
working there as I was the day I started. Tamara and I had
a discussion about me maybe moving up in the company.
She's been grooming me for it for years, but I've always
turned it down. Now I'm starting to think I want to.
Especially when I look at the possibilities of who could
be running the store. Semi-annual is coming up next month
and there will probably be an opening for Store
Supervisor. It might be my time to shine :) I know I could
be a good leader and now that I've got my personal life,
my healthy and my mental well-being under control I'm in a
better place to give it a shot. We'll see. Nothing is set
in stone at this point. It would be nice to know if we're
even staying in Washington. If Snookums ends up getting
orders for somewhere else and there's a Victoria's Secret
there, it would be a lot easier to transfer as a regular
associate than as a member of management. I'd probably
have to take a lesser position and a pay cut, but I'd do
it if it meant I'd be staying in the company.

I'm so tired. I looked at my schedule today and I'm booked
solid for the next week. I close again tomorrow, then
Saturday I've got a ton of laundry and cleaning to do.
Annie needs to finish her science project (which is more
NOT done than done). Sunday the kids and I are going out
with a couple other Stennis wives for Mother's Day. Then
it's more work on the science project. Monday is Girl
Scout night and then Tuesday-Thursday I work 4-10pm
shifts. I'm not getting a day off until next Saturday,
which will be laundry and cleaning again. A woman's work
is never done. It's okay, though. Being busy makes the
time fly.

I've got a countdown clock on my myspace page, counting
down until Snookums comes home (as best I can with the
date constantly changing). There's only 2 months and 7
days to go! This deployment really has gone by quickly.
I'm exceedingly grateful for that small solace. I'm
missing Snookums a lot more these days. Especially at
night. Sleeping on the couch helps, as sad as that sounds.
But nothing makes it totally better. I look at all the
pictures of him around the house and it's heart-wrenching.
I wish I could reach into the picture and touch him, kiss
him, smell his smell and feel his warmth. The feeling is
especially intense tonight, because when I checked my
email I still hadn't gotten anything from him today.
Emails are our primary link and I forget how important
they are to me until I haven't gotten any. It's unlike him
to not write (unless communications are down, which I know
they're not because all the emails I sent him haven't been
returned). I'll just keep counting down the days until
he's finally home. In a couple of months, we won't need
emails anymore :) Ciao.




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