The Surprise Birthday
I’ve been telling everybody and their dog that for my 50th birthday I want a surprise party. I’ve probably told you too (yes, I know, she wants a surprise party, rah rah, surprise!).
Yesterday when I was at lunch with “the girls”, I said, “since tomorrow’s my last day and I won’t be here for my birthday next week, I think you should throw me a little surprise party”. They, of course, broke out into gales of laughter, I, of course, was somewhat serious. Then I told them I was going to get my coffee and go back upstairs and leave them to “plan the party”.
Today at lunch time, as we were all sitting eating our lunches, didn’t one of the girls pull out this chocolate mousse cake, with 5 candles and give it to me. A birthday wish was written on the cake, it said, “Surprise”.
That was so damned sweet of her. I couldn’t believe it. They’ve known me all of two months (and about two months last year), and they took my sentiments to heart and surprised me with a cake. I still can’t get over how nice it was for them to do that. We carved up the cake and everyone had a piece – they even sang happy birthday to me, there, in the company cafeteria. I didn’t have any – just a little taste – cuz I was too full from the lunch I had to buy. The woman I’m working with had planned to take me to lunch today, but then she ended up staying home because she’s got bronchitis, so I had told my snookey not to make lunch.
Anyway, I was feeling a little nervous at lunch time because the HR person had left me a voicemail saying that she wanted to talk to me. “Oh no! Does that mean I didn’t get that contract I applied for?” was all I was thinking. “Maybe it’s good news – since I know the guy with the job has gone away until December 29th”. So everyone at lunch was waiting til I got back upstairs to hear whether the news was good or bad.
I finally ran into the HR person and it turns out that she just wanted to say that ‘she knew this was my last day, but she hadn’t yet heard about the job’. She said that the guy fairly regularly checked his messages, and so she was going to try to find out an answer this week, if possible, to let me know. So, of course, I’m on pins and needles again.
However, last night I was applying for a couple of jobs online and today I got an email that they’d like to set up an interview for Monday morning. That’s a good thing. I can remember last year when I was applying and applying and applying and lucky if I could manage to get one interview out of 40. Now I’ve got an interview the first week I’m out of work. Another good thing about it is that if I got the job, it’s only about 15 minutes away from where I live. That would be a real plus. I have no idea what the salary is, but if they tell me that I got the contract at the place I just left, I’ll still go to the other interview and feel like I have a little negotiating power.
Anyway, that was my day. Boring as dirt as far as work went. I didn’t have enough to keep me occupied for the entire day, and hardly anyone was around, so I left at 2:45 to go home.
Then I headed over to Costco because I was sure there was something we needed. Unfortunately, I have no idea what that was, so I got there and kept putting other things into my cart. Another good thing is that, as I walked around the store, I started putting things back, telling myself that I didn’t really need to buy “that”. By the time I got to the line-up at the cashier, I decided that the line-up was too long, and I didn’t even buy the one thing left in my cart. I’ve been a good girl.
Now there’s the rest of a chocolate mousse cake to eat. I don’t want it, it tasted horrible. I’m not that big on the chocolately-chocolate with chocolate taste. Maybe my honey will have it when he gets home. It was damned sweet of her, though. I’m feeling loved.
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Dave Barker
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Maria
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Female, taken, fire, Sagittarius, Monkey, Toronto, two kids, one grandson, IT.
55
is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
Soooo I’d better say happy birthday early then to be a big SURPRISE!
Happy Birthday for next week.
BFG