Sigh of relief

How was everyone's weekend?!

Well mine kicked off to a great start on Friday morning. I got to work and one of the manager's called me into his office to tell me that I'm going back to my old position as the Quality Assurance Manager!

For those of you that I've paid even the least bit of attention to my blog, then you know that I've been DE-pressed about my job since November. Ok...let me clarify. Technically, I've been miserable at my job for much longer than that, but to be honest, we all have. It's been an emotional roller coaster and no one really knew what to do, think, or feel. However, it got about 100 times worse in November when they moved me to a new position as the Compliance Manager.

Basically, I was now doing the job that we previously had a lawyer, accountant, and regulatory specialist doing. Not to mention the fact that we had someone in the office acting as the liaison between all 3 companies. I was now expected to take on all 4 rolls with absolutely NO experience, NO training, and NO desire. It was awful. And I cried about once a week...or day.

The worst part about it, someone else was doing Quality Assurance, so it wasn't like the position no longer existed. They just wanted someone "they could trust" and chose me. I felt so trapped because I knew they needed me in the position, but I also knew I would never, ever, ever like it.

Well, I had a long talk with one of my managers last Monday. I told him how I felt, and he actually went to the VP of the company and told him that I was really unhappy...which I was totally not expecting. He told him that his fear was that I would suppress all my unhappiness until I reached the point of no return, walking into the office and handing in my 2 week notice. And honestly, he wasn't far off. As much as I hated to walk away, I was really getting to a point where I didn't think I could take much more.

So, needless to say, I all but did cartwheels up and down the halls when he told me the good news! Today was the first day in about 6 months where I didn't wake up and dread going to work. Sigh.

I remained on cloud 9 all day, until I had a minor heart attack about 3 o'clock. Not sure how many of you have heard about the two prisoners who escaped from Louisiana, but my mom called me on Friday in a complete panic because they were spotted at a store DIRECTLY NEXT DOOR to Presley's preschool! I immediately went into panic mode, called them to check on everything, and they proceeded to inform me that they were on lockdown and had been for an hour and a half...and that everything was now "clear". As comforting as that should make me feel, I immediately started crying and felt like I was on the verge of puking. I finally pulled myself together about 30 minutes later, and called my mom and told her to go pick her up. I just needed to know she was safe.

Well we eventually learned that it was a "false sighting," but now I'm beginning to wonder...they were captured in Memphis this afternoon. Which now makes me wonder just how false it was. Well at least everyone can sleep better tonight knowing they're locked up.

Well, on that depressing note...check out this picture of my sweet P.

I went to get a pedicure on Saturday and the lady asked Presley if she wanted to paint her nails. Presley couldn't say yes quick enough, and told her she wanted blue nails. So how did we end up with gold?? Thats right, gold. Apparently that looked a lot more fun than blue. And despite the intense urge to tell her "NO...NO GOLD," I sat back and just let her enjoy it. And boy did she ever. She really thought she was something else. And that was priceless.