putting back the pieces...
I've been back for 4 or 5 days now... still adjusting to the time but I don't think it's really jet lag, I think it's trying to figure out what my time schedule is now that I'm back. I don't want to adjust to "normal time" because I usually have to be at work around 4/5am which fits right into the sleeping schedule I have right now... but since I'm not scheduled this week (more on that in a second) I've got free time and want to stay up later which is normally not possible during a working week.
I went to pick up my schedule on Sunday from work and saw that I was unscheduled for this entire work but penciled across were the words "tons for you next week"... I questioned my manager (new head of store manager, that is) on what that meant and she asked if I had a few minutes to spare to talk. I freaked slightly but of course wasn't in any rush so I took a seat to listen to what she had to say... apparently there was talk about me among the management team regarding a sort of position/spot that needed to be filled and they chose me. I will be focused a little more on visuals and marketing, meaning I will be helping a LOT more than I have been on dressing the mannequins, setting up the walls and shelving and figuring out where to place the product in our store. To me, that's exciting... that's what I've been wanting to do for a while now and every time they put me on a project like that I got excited. Now, I'm super excited. It's not really a promotion but more of a different responsibility. So I think part of having this week unscheduled was to let me rest up a bit from my trip and basically throw me right into the thick of it starting next week since I'm going to be doing a lot lot LOT more work than just shipment.
Since I've got a free week to spend I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do since I didn't get accepted for the fall to UW. I've been looking at alternative options for school (art school maybe?) but I've also been thinking a tremendous amount about whether or not I even want to stay in Seattle? I suppose I really don't have a choice because right now we have too much on our plates to even think about trying to sell this house, although if I moved back home I know we could use the money to invest in our house in Hawaii...
Other than thinking too hard and stressing about work I've been taking it easy. Went to watch Dark Knight for the second time but this time it was in IMAX... fantastic. Went grocery shopping, which REALLY needed to happen since the fridge was BARE. And now, I just finished making guacamole... not my usual from scratch but the quick and easy one... still good, though. Good enough that I finished almost half of it already. And then, most of my time has been spent going through my pictures to upload them. I haven't even unpacked yet!
Yes, there are photos to come... it's just taking a process (I took over 1300 photos this trip!!!!!!) and it'll be a little bit before I'm done and they're all ready. But I'll post some teasers of some of my favourites in the next update...
I went to pick up my schedule on Sunday from work and saw that I was unscheduled for this entire work but penciled across were the words "tons for you next week"... I questioned my manager (new head of store manager, that is) on what that meant and she asked if I had a few minutes to spare to talk. I freaked slightly but of course wasn't in any rush so I took a seat to listen to what she had to say... apparently there was talk about me among the management team regarding a sort of position/spot that needed to be filled and they chose me. I will be focused a little more on visuals and marketing, meaning I will be helping a LOT more than I have been on dressing the mannequins, setting up the walls and shelving and figuring out where to place the product in our store. To me, that's exciting... that's what I've been wanting to do for a while now and every time they put me on a project like that I got excited. Now, I'm super excited. It's not really a promotion but more of a different responsibility. So I think part of having this week unscheduled was to let me rest up a bit from my trip and basically throw me right into the thick of it starting next week since I'm going to be doing a lot lot LOT more work than just shipment.
Since I've got a free week to spend I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do since I didn't get accepted for the fall to UW. I've been looking at alternative options for school (art school maybe?) but I've also been thinking a tremendous amount about whether or not I even want to stay in Seattle? I suppose I really don't have a choice because right now we have too much on our plates to even think about trying to sell this house, although if I moved back home I know we could use the money to invest in our house in Hawaii...
Other than thinking too hard and stressing about work I've been taking it easy. Went to watch Dark Knight for the second time but this time it was in IMAX... fantastic. Went grocery shopping, which REALLY needed to happen since the fridge was BARE. And now, I just finished making guacamole... not my usual from scratch but the quick and easy one... still good, though. Good enough that I finished almost half of it already. And then, most of my time has been spent going through my pictures to upload them. I haven't even unpacked yet!
Yes, there are photos to come... it's just taking a process (I took over 1300 photos this trip!!!!!!) and it'll be a little bit before I'm done and they're all ready. But I'll post some teasers of some of my favourites in the next update...