It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar

I know Ive been slacking on blogging, and I apologize! Summer is here and my life has been non stop lately. Let me catch you up to speed of what happened last week.

The day after my last post, the security alarm decided to go off. For no good reason. In fact, no one knew how to turn it off. It only happened in the lobby, so apparently the only person it was bothering was me. How fun!
And it wasn't just a tiny little beep, it was a beep that lasted about 2 seconds, and went off after every 6 seconds for 5 HOURS. Yes, you read that correctly, I listened to the most annoying sound known to man for 5 hours.
Now, if I was the CEO of the company, or if this sound was going off in the office where a lot of people heard it, you know that they would have been ALL over this to get the sound to stop. Who cares about the receptionist, right? Grrr........

On Tuesday the part time receptionist was sick. While normally I would cringe at this, because then we have to scramble to change every one's schedule around to find coverage for the phone, yesterday I was jumping with joy. Now, I don't want anyone to feel sick...but this meant I couldn't go back to "help" Kathy. I literally was stuck at my desk all day long, doing only receptionist duties. My sister couldn't even believe it when I told her how happy was to just be answering the phone, and only that. I was also surprised at my reaction, but you don't know how good it feels to not have to do someone else's job and just do your own. I *almost!!!* caught up reception related jobs that I have been putting off (you know, things like updating the phone system, adding and deleting extensions, things like that), but I decided against it. It's not very often I get to not be busy with work, and you better believe I took full advantage of it!

On Wednesday, someone called to speak to someone in HR about the Full Time Receptionist position at the corporate office. Um...a what what?! That's MY job! Am I getting fired?? And if I am, can they please do it soon?? I need to get working on my tan, while collecting unemployment asap!!! Unfortunately not, the posting is for the afternoon receptionist, and they say full time because it's going to be a position for 30 hours a week. Oh joy, this means they can cover my lunch break, and I can get off the board to assist Kathy whenever she effing needs helps. Damn. I really wanted to collect unemployment all summer...

On Friday the security alarm went off AGAIN. I walked in Friday morning - after a night out meeting up with my girls, to the same beeping that happened days earlier. Luckily Bill read my mind and brought me an iced coffee when he got to work. The solution for fixing it? Putting duct tape over the system to mute the noise. I suggested just ripping it out of the wall, or taking a bat to it. While the sound was "muted", it was still a very persistent annoying sound that EVERYONE heard when they walked into the lobby. This time it took 4 hours to fix. I'm such a lucky girl.

I'm sorry I didn't have any fun stories to report, but I will try to be much better about my blogging. I noticed I'm up another follower, and I couldn't be happier!

Hope you all had a great 4th - and hooray! It's a short week! :)