I'm writing this post in hopes that others out there can relate - please tell me I'm not the only one that does these things:
So Skyler and I had a whole week of no school - yay. We were so excited that we were trying to plan some sort of a mini vacation/getaway. We talked about camping in Moab - that kind of fell through due to several reasons. Then we talked about staying at an anniversary inn for a night. We could get a discount through my work, but I waited too long to say 'yay' or 'nay' and I suffer from severe buyers remorse. It's so bad that I feel remorse before I ever even buy anything - just the thought gets me going (yes, this means that probably 3/4 of my wardrobe consists of clothing from high school days....luckily I'm also a little OCD so the cloths are in really good condition LOL). Needless to say it is now Saturday morning; Skyler is at a priesthood service project with our stake until 10, then we are off to my G'ma and G'pa Muhlestein's to help them clean and plant in their yard, then we will come home to help my mom and step-dad finish in the yard here if they're not done - not exactly the weekend getaway we had in mind...
Anyway, I worked Mon, Tues, Wed this week and was SOOOO excited to at least have Thrs and Fri off whether we were going anywhere or not. I was so excited that I text my sis. and told her that I wanted to come clean her house and paint her toenails Thrs - she's prego w/twins with only a couple months left (if that) and she can't/isn't supposed to move around too much. So Thrs morning came around and I spent all day helping her get things done. It was a lot of fun. I don't know why cleaning someone else's' house is so much more fun than cleaning your own! At around 3 I saw a message from my boss and I thought she was probably calling to ask if I could come in to work for someone. Then I listened to her message. It said something like "Hi Lyndsey, this is Kay. I was just calling to see if you're okay - you didn't show up for your shift today and I didn't see anything on the calendar. I hope that everything is okay. Give me a call"....yep; I TOTALLY skipped out on my shift at work. I just plain didn't show up. Had nobody said anything to me I would have never realized either - this info was nowhere in my brain until I heard that message. The thing was that on Thursdays I was coming in from just 12:30-3:30 because the other girl I split my shift with had a class at 12:30 on Thrs so she couldn't work the complete shift. Well, school was out so why would she need me to come in for these hours, right?? I guess maybe I should have discussed that with her...I called my boss back and all I could do was apologize. Luckily this is the first time in 2 years that I've done anything like this - I've never even taken a sick day and have only taken time off a handful of times!
Needless to say I felt pretty darn: embarrassed, stupid, sorry, etc. I ended up making all my co-workers brownies that night that I was going to take in Fri. It was funny though. Fri came around and I ended up working 12-3:30 for this same girl - just on a different day :) I took the brownies in then. When I walked in one of my co-workers goes "Should we shoot you now or later?" I told her to just shoot me now and get it over with and then we laughed. Turns out nobody is mad at me, thank heaven!! That same lady said "If I had known it was you that was supposed to come in I wouldn't have made such a big deal about it to Kay - lucky me that they love me there.
So I am asking myself "Where did my brain go?" I just hope I never do anything like this again. I think I'll be checking my calendar daily instead of assuming I've got my schedule down LOL
