Of Course The Toilet Won't Flush

Worst nightmare, right?  On day 12, I had a serious um....situation after lunch during an all day leadership retreat.  And one of my new co-workers walked in as I was leaving. I think I'll just leave it at that.

What Will I Screw Up Tomorrow?

I was prepared for some of the stress of starting a new job.  Everyone always talks about how it is one of the most stressful things that happens in life.  I assumed I would have a fairly large learning curve and it would take a while for it to feel familiar.  I was not prepared for how stupid I would become due to the stress.  In my effort to learn 458,596 new things associated with the job, I have completely forgotten how to do normal things that I would have been competent enough to navigate before starting this job.  In the past 2+ weeks I have done screwed something up just about every single day I have worked.

Day 1
Killed It.  Showed up for orientation and managed to take a decent ID picture (I did forget one form that at the time felt like an enormous failure-- but that was before I realized exactly how much more stupid I could become).

Day 2
Missed several turns driving in, making my commute 25 minutes longer than it needed to be.  Sort of to be expected.

Day 3
My car got towed and I was too afraid of a giant opossum I saw on the road I had to walk down to get it so I got an Uber to drive me a 1/2 mile.

Day 5
After the huge success of not screwing things up on Day 4, I thought the dumb phase was behind me, until I got on the wrong train home and ended up having to call another Uber (my 6th that day alone) to get me to dinner that night.

Day 8
Drove the wrong way down a one way street.

Day 9
Wore my workout clothes to work in hopes of hitting the gym and realized I had left my suit to change into at home....had to metro home and back all by 9 am.

Day 10
Forgot to put any makeup on....which is hardly a mistake compared to half of the other things I did.

We'll see how Day 11 goes tomorrow. Pray for me.

I'm Back!!

Not sure if anyone still follows this or not, but I desperately need an outlet and I figured blogging helped me so much before, I might as well give it another shot.  I just started a new job after 10 years at the same place and...it is stressing.me.out!  So, for now I need to get these feelings out and document the lunacy I've already committed so one day I can (hopefully) look back and see how far I've come.  At that point it might also serve to help someone else, who knows.  So.....no time to write more now since my 14 mile commute in the rain just took 60 minutes, but I will write more tonight.

Oh, and by the way-- still cancer free, yay!!