That's Hott (Tomorrow Is Another Day...)

What a couple of days it's been... and our air conditioning at work is broken again. And the Civil Engineers have told us to stop calling because they're already working on it. To which I respond, well fix the damn air conditioning and we'll stop calling.

Anyway, I almost went down to one out of two dogs remaining alive in my household. My sweet, loving, adorable Jack was possessed by the devil last night and took the liberty of chowing down on my ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLAR STEVE MADDEN HEELS. And I don't care, because I am totally still wearing those bitches. The toe is a bit mangled, but I took a brown Sharpie to it and it's just. Going. To. Work. I'm actually thinking of submitting this scenario to the Sharpie-Mini "powers that be" as the next commercial in their ad-campaign. Jack may be on death row, but I may as well get some resume material out of this.

Over the past month, I've spent most of my time at work (when I'm not surfing the web or taking naps underneath my desk) planning my boss's promotion party. Today I went with my immediate supervisor and secretary to Sam's and Garden Ridge to get supplies... and cute Thanksgiving decorations for my apartment, of course. And we were definitely gone from eleven o'clock until three in the afternoon. And we definitely had a freaking blast. Who loves the free samples at Sam's? I do!! I do!! But are you aware of the fact that they do not sell fruit trays there?? I don't really get that--meat, check; cheese, check; veggies, check; fruit... not so much. I did however get a pack of 600 tiny Dixie cups to make Jello shots in tonight and an adorable "Mini Bartender" complete with appletini mix, cosmo mix, margarita mix, and two kinds of sugar and salt, with a shaker and six shot glasses, all for ten bucks, so it wasn't a completely failed mission.

The point of that story: I've realized recently that I've basically become the "events planner" in my squadron, which is kind of cool, because it gets me out of doing my "real job" a lot of times and is also really, really fun. When I was still working in my old job, I took it into my head that we needed to have a luau for my boss's retirement party. So I worked my butt off selling tickets, getting a catered whole hot roast, buying decorations, recruiting set up and tear down crews, planning party games (limbo? Oh yes.) and coordinating with all of the on base vendors to get us the special permission and rules broken that we needed. When I came down to this office, I almost immediately planned my own promotion and the Major was so impressed by that and the luau he asked me to plan his promotion ceremony. Here's a hint: A Lieutenant Colonel promotion ceremony and reception requires a HELL OF A LOT more work than a First Lieutenant promotion party. Just in case you were wondering. He then asked me to take the point on his commander's calls and now I've apparently been recruited by my immediate boss as our "going away party" coordinator. Hee! I'm lovin' it!

Let's see... what else happened today?? Hmm... let me think for a minute... I know there's something... Oh yeah--nothing to get toooo excited about.... It just so happened that a computer printout with the following information on it was taped to my computer screen when I walked into the office this morning:

"PROJECTED RETIREMENT OR SEPARATION HAS PROCESSED OR CHANGED, CURRENT DATA:

PROJECTED RET, SEP, EFFECTIVE DATE: 02-MAR-07"

Underneath these words was a big smiley face and a note from one of my troops--"Are you happy now?"

Yeah, baby, that's right, it's official!! In 188 days I will be rejoining the civilian world, and it feels DAMN GOOD!! (And also a little bit like I may have eaten some bad ham...)

Comments

Congrats! Let the parties keep rolling along!

Posted by: sophie | August 25, 2006 at 11:26 PM

Congratulations! Definitely something to look forward to. And go you with your mad rad party planning skillz.

Posted by: maggie | August 26, 2006 at 12:59 AM

There is nothing that a sharpie can't fix. I have been coloring shoes with sharpies for years. :)

Congrats to you. What will you ever do with yourself?

Posted by: shpprgrl | August 26, 2006 at 03:04 AM

Yay!

Posted by: baggage | August 26, 2006 at 03:08 AM

CONGRATULATIONS!!! So. Start taking pictures of EVERYTHING you plan and put it in a portfolio. That's all I'm saying. And meet people in Seattle who need parties thrown :-)

I'm so happy for you!

Posted by: Airhead | August 26, 2006 at 03:09 AM