End of Birthday Week - End of Marketing

There has been so much going on lately! The lady I've been temping for returned to work last Monday - what an emotional roller coaster that was. I felt like I was losing my job, being demoted, turning into an outcast. For three months I had been praised and complimented on my work. I was even told that I did a better job than the actual employee. And for three months I was told the department was trying to employ me permanently, that they'd make a place for me because I was valuable to them. I hoped and prayed that the woman would decide to stay home full time - that she would quit. I knew I was setting myself up for disappointment, but I hoped it anyway.

Well, she came back and it's been a bit of culture shock. All of a sudden I was being left out of conversations, excluded from meetings, and generally being treated like a temp whose time was up. It was depressing. The good news is that they worked out a deal so that I will stay there but work in the Communications department. Communications is part of Marketing, but a tiny part. There is only the director and her one employee who is an Asst VP. And I'm going to remain a temp - one guess who will get all the bitch work. I'm grateful to remain there, but it's been difficult for me to show my gratitude this past week. Tomorrow is my first official day in Communications.

This past week was my birthday. The day itself was pretty much a normal day except my work friends took me to lunch and my hubby took me to dinner. Other than that, I was waiting for my birthday cookout this weekend. I'd invited my mom and stepdad, brother, sister and her new boyfriend to our house for a cookout. I made Z wait until then to give me his presents.

The cookout was yesterday and it was great. Z cooked a boston butt and everybody else brought food too. I got to show everyone all the hard work we'd done in the yard - plus my sister hadn't even seen my house since the day she helped me paint, before we moved in.

I got lots of great gifts too - right now I'm downloading music onto my new iPod from Z!

I'm kind of dreading tomorrow - just a little.