Weird Thursdays

Ken Spivey asked me out on a date.

I was quite flustered:

He wants to fly into Seattle and have some dates with him while he does the tourist thing...

It was all very flattering....and my boyfriend and I have a Con = Vegas rule. (What happens at cons, stays at cons...though I tell him everything anyways)... How do I explain that to Ken?

I called my boyfriend (who is currently out of town for the next 2 weeks) and let him know the situation. He was understanding and supportive, reminded me that he didn't own me and would probably want to give me a high five.

Too much weird to process....

Getting sass from a client over the phone

Answering the phone at work is part of all of our jobs. Sometimes its just that someone else is busy and you have to take a message, they were transferred to the wrong person or they called the main line of the office and you answered first.

When clients call in, they want a specific person. We have designated clients that we work with personally. A certain said client didn't know who I was (I only started 2 months ago), didn't recognize who I was and proceeded to be snippy with me and interrogate me on my purpose at the company.

He was greeted with some snark in return. The kicker was when I told my coworkers about it when they returned from lunch, they weren't mad. They were amused that he got a taste of his own medicine. Because he is a "difficult client".

And he dialed into "I don't have time for your BS" at Sass Central.

Tom Hiddleston Appreciation

"You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain." - Tom Hiddleston

Back in Seattle: It's October!

I want to thank everyone for the warm thoughts and wishes about my family during the tragedy last month. You can read about it here, here, and here.

In other news, october is here!

For most places there is the leaves changing colors:

But there aren't many deciduous trees here in the emerald city, though we get more rain:

Its also sweater and tights weather again, finally!:

There will be tea:

And disney style halloween movies (because I don't do horror):

Cancer News

My grandmother just got back from the doctor's and the cancer is non invasive. It didn't spread anywhere else!

Nocturnal Torture

Today is the funeral for my cousin, Kenneth Proctor, and I arrived last night from a day of travel. I'm trying to stay in PST (West Coast) so that I can still function when I return home next week. Unfortunately, the dog (Benji) and cat (Mystique) of the house have found a new play toy: my sanity.

1am EST (10pm PST): It begins

3:15 EST: No rest for the wicked...or the cuddles

I assumed that Benji (the dog) needed to go to the bathroom, so I let him out. While attempting to let him back in, Mystique (the cat) ran outside too. The chase was on...

Once I finally tricked them back into getting inside, I tried to go back to sleep. It was a futile effort.

4am: Mystique and Benji took turns taking over my spot on the couch

5am: Benji was at it again

6am: Morning came and my alarm was persistent

It's going to be a long day.....

Faith in Humanity Restored

So, as some of you may have heard, 13 people died this week in the Navy Yard Shooting. This is located in my hometown of Washington, DC and one of my cousins, Kenneth Proctor, was shot and killed. As I am currently residing in the other Washington (Seattle), I was unable to make plans to visit for the funeral due to the expediency of the tragedy and having already booked a flight for the October.

 My job allowed me a bereavement day on Tuesday, which I spent calling my family and offering to help in any way possible though I knew that there was little I could do. I set up SKYPE chats for the weekend so that I could at least have my face seen by the family.

On top of this, my grandmother was going into surgery on Thursday to remove the breast cancer from her mammary duct. My mother was taking off work to go with her to the surgery since she was understands whats ahead. My mother has have multiple surgeries for breast cancer removal and I had a similar surgery not long after I turned 18 for a removal of a lump the size of a tangerine that was found. Needless to say, when it rains, it pours. However, on Friday, in a strange turn of event, my company became my personal BAMF.

I was pulled out of a meeting and walked down to HR. I panicked because I thought that I had done something wrong, though I was assured that it was not the case, but they wouldn't tell me what was going on. I had resigned to myself that I was getting fired.....

As I waited for the other shoe to drop, I was informed that one of the core values at my job was family, and that they were saddened by the turn of events in my life.

I assumed I was going to get another bereavement day, or they were going to offer to send flowers to my family since I couldn't be there. And then the other shoe dropped. They understood that financially I couldn't reschedule my ticket but they wanted to pay for the change.

So I'm leaving Tuesday morning to fly home for the funeral. It includes 4 days of PTO (instead of the 2 days I was going to originally take when I went home in October), a paid flight (they didn't end of changing my tickets, so I have to figure out what to do with that) and they did this all without any request from me.

Apparently, good people still exist in the world.