Ok, so I've not written anything in about a month, and while I was thinking about this earlier I realised that May has pretty much been one massive blur so far. The truth of the matter is that this is pretty much the situation every May, I get a couple of good days at the beginning of the month, then my birthday arrives and it's pretty much downhill from there.
In typical style I got ridiculously drunk on my birthday night out, I drank far too many drinks, I mixed it up between cider, wine, vodka and a whole load of shots, and I hadn't had any kind of dinner or food before going out. Eating's cheating and all that. Then despite spending the rest of the bank holiday weekend sleeping, eating junk food, and generally doing very little my hangover more or less lasted for the following week. Joy. I had already set myself up for a very blurry month.
May is also the time that a lot of our international partners at work come to visit to plan for the season ahead. So planning packs and presentations need to be made, 3 hour meetings occur, we show them round stores, and of course we have to go for the odd drink here and there to network/entertain/socialise with them (such a good excuse to drink, it's perfectly acceptable if it's for your career...). And on top of all that I've been promoted to Assistant Merchandiser (BIG WHOOP!) for 4 months and so have been getting to grips with taking on the extra responsibilities involved with that, whilst still doing my old job while I'm in the transition period. It's very exciting and I'm loving it (despite the odd panic moment here and there...), but it's still all a bit mental and I've not really noticed the last two weeks fly by.
So I've got one more week of the transition where I'll be handing over my old markets so it's likely to be another mental week ahead, but the lovely, bright shining light at the end of the tunnel is that once I've made it to the end of the week I'm flying off to Portugal to say goodbye to the UK and goodbye to May. When I get back it will be June and all normality can resume.
Moral of the story? I'm taking the whole of May off work next year and running away to a remote island to sunbathe and eat crisps.
That is all.
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