Man, what a week....the Blues beat up the Red Wings Monday night; Biebs was arrested; Polar Vortex 2 unsurprisingly made me grumpy after my walk home Thursday night (negative degree wind chills, yay!); my boss informed me that I am headed to New Orleans Monday morning for a meeting at our export terminal and oh yeah, starting in February, I'm now responsible for twice as much work going forward.
Come to find out the reason for my trip to terminal is that I will be handling more than just our export sales, I'll now be handling all sales and all terminal paperwork in order to send to the new group taking over the Financial Accounting and I must meet with both the old and new group to figure out everything I should be doing going forward. I CAN NOT WAIT! (Can you hear that excitement in my voice? Yeah, me neither.)
I already feel like I'm pushed to the limits with export sales every day and my boss, who when in a closed door meeting with me, told me "I know I'm giving you a lot more and I know you already have a full load, but I know you will find a way to handle it all." Suuuuuure....or I'll just go certifiably insane soon after my 31st birthday.....we shall see.
I've never been to New Orleans before and while its going to be a short trip (leaving at 7 am Monday morning, back to the St. Louis office at lunch time Tuesday), I hope to see enough to warrant a return visit for something other than work. Of course, that is if I ever get time to take a vacation with all this new responsibility....
As for today, I'm trying to figure out what I need to wear for both a coal terminal tour and meeting and then pack my "nice clothes" for coming back to the office on Tuesday, then we're headed to my Mom and Michael's for an early birthday dinner. Can you believe it, 3 short days until I'm 31? I surely can't, OMG.
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