The Misadventures of a Working Girl
My Getaway Day
July 10, 2002


The last day has arrived. Friday. Beautiful, sweet Friday. My getaway day. And the good news is that the temp agency came up with a replacement for this office. Whew, I'm off the hook.

It's Dress Down Day. I wore my vibrant orange/yellow/pink tie-dyed blouse and Creamsicle orange-colored slacks. Boy, they'll remember me after that one!

I was so preoccupied with getting the week over that I got my daughter's birthday mixed up. I called her when I got home and wished her a Happy Belated Birthday. She said, "Huh? What the? What's this about a belated birthday? It IS my birthday, Mom." Boy, did I feel flambobbityboozled. I kept thinking that the 9th of July was her birthday. I knew the 9th had some significance to me. And then it hit me. That was the OLD anniversary date of my first wipe-out of a marriage. A date I was trying to forget. Evidently, I had forgotten it fairly well finally but not subconsciously. Yep, the old brain played tricks on me.

Friday's work was actually more interesting and busy. Figures, don't it? But I knew with a certainty that this focus of work was not my line of focus. I'm free again and that kinda scares me because I know myself too well. It's much too easy to drift back into that drifting way of mine. Please, Universe, let this jolt I took keep ahold of me. There's a niche out there somewhere for me. I just want to savor this sweet feeling of freedom for a few days and then dive back in to something. I don't have a single twinge of guilt in my body now.

It is good to be alive today.

(The End, well, except for a little afterword)
An Ever Sweet Weekend
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