KABOOM!!

I am so glad to be done with today. I know everyone is busy these days, but let me just bitch about my schedule! I planned, shopped, set-up, and cleaned-up dinner for 100+ soccer coaches and their families. My husband and another soccer club board member/coach helped. I made some desserts (in addition to the cookies I bought), and three pounds of pasta salad. Just before the coaches appreciation dinner, there were deadlines at work that had to be met, a grandma passed away, a co-worker gave her notice (which meant a party needed to be planned), part of my job is being out-sourced, so I need to get records together to pass along, Thanksgiving holiday, b-day dinner w/family, a memorial service (more food), an employee Christmas party (the caterer I was going to use isn't in business anymore), a b-day for my favorite almost-10-year-old, decorate the house, family in during Christmas, shopping for gifts and food, blah, blah, blah.

So. Today. Co-worker (she was a temp, and had been there since May) gives her notice, today is her last day. I suggested to my boss two weeks ago that she make a pan of her yummy lasagna, buy bagged salad, get garlic bread, and I'd make a cake. I'd bring the lasagna and bread to my house to heat up and we'd have lunch just for the office staff (about 13 people). I get thru soccer dinner, am whoopped and e-mail my boss at home to tell her 'lets skip the big ta-do, I'll make a cake, we'll sign a card and say "see ya." Boss decides that we need to have a big shindig. Temp worker wasn't really known to the maintenance crew...about 15 guys. So boss goes shopping and gets frozen lasagna's (four of 'em), garlic bread (7 small loaves, already buttered and garlic'd), caesar salad makings (about 8 bags and all the stuff to make it without buying the 'salad kit'). The reason behind this is that there is some political bullshit going on (isn't that the case in any office?) and I'm guessing my boss was hoping to look like a star.

After lunch, we're toting everything back to the kitchen and she says, "you're going to get all the praise for this!" Mind you, she had said something similar more than once as we were setting up. I told more than one person that this was her idea...I would have just made a cake and not invited the guys. I said it jokingly and hoped that she would be acknowledged. Believe me, I didn't want the praise for this even though I started the oven at 8:30, got all of the lasagna's cooked, made two huge bowls of salad, toasted the bread, then hauled it all over to the office for a 12:00 noon lunch. We don't have a proper kitchen at work, so naturally, when my car is loaded and the guys are helping to bring things in they're gonna think I did it. I have made special dessert-y treats for them, so it's not unheard of for me to cook or bake (even though I really don't like to! Ironic, huh?). But her tone (we were sorta sarcastic bitchy to each other today...mostly in fun, but her tongue was pretty sharp and I just let it roll off...when she said I was going to get all the praise pissed me off! WHAT. THE. FUCK??? Yeah, her idea to make for all, and she went to the grocery store (with petty cash), but I'm the one that slaved in the kitchen getting it ready, ensuring there were serving utensils, blah, blah, blah.

Shit I hate it when people take praise that they don't deserve, and if they do, why get pissy because someone else deserves some praise too???

I'm just glad today is over. Tomorrow is an opportunity to bitch about something new!