The Whole Wide World

Gawsh. What a day. I’ll start by letting you know what I didn’t do that I’d planned to do…all the things that didn’t get crossed off the to-do list for the day. Gym. Shower. Start moving to my new dorm. Yoga with Adriene. Those all remain on the list, uncrossed. And that’s okay, sometimes that is just how it goes.

I did get my short morning yoga routine in before I left my room. With flights starting next week, it was a double bev pull this morning, so I wasn’t about to skip stretching before the heavy lifting and snow shoveling. Two weeks worth of beverages were delivered to the store and to Gallagher’s, that’s a lot. After that, I got final counts in on inventory. There were a few loose ends I needed to double check my numbers on…things I thought of while in bed last night. Then I went and picked up lunch from the galley, which I ate at my desk in the store office. I also grabbed my friend Michael, who is an Excel guru, and had him work his magic on some formatting of the Excel file before I got stuck in.

I spent the rest of the day entering numbers into the biggest Excel sheet I’ve ever had to work on. It was a mess. Not a mess due to anything on my part, but a mess nonetheless. The summer team didn’t get a chance to do inventory, and by the looks of it there were lots of things that hadn’t been updated in Quickbooks in a long time. It’s complicated, and I am not going to bore you or myself with the ins and outs of it all.

As the day went on and I entered number after number and saw that all the counts were off, I could feel the tension building in my neck and shoulders. After a couple hours of silently freaking out over the large variances, I picked up the phone and called Courtney. She is on the supply team this season, but she wintered in the store a couple of years ago. When she picked up the phone, I told her I needed her to calm me down. I asked her if it was normal for the numbers to be all over the place and she reassured me that it was. It was reassuring to hear that, but I am still concerned of what lays ahead. When I saw the counts all askew, I felt like it was my fault and that I would have explaining to do, but she assured me that it was a combination of things not being received correctly and Quickbooks updates not being run as they should have.

Katie reached out and asked if I wanted to have dinner with her and Jess in the evening, which although I wasn’t hungry, I said absolutely. We had a nice dinner and I stress ate too much food. Part of me wanted to skip dinner for the sake of time, but I am glad I went because by the end of dinner I could feel the tension in my shoulders had subsided.

After dinner, I went back to the store and I finally finished everything up at ten o’clock this evening and hit send on the email to my boss, Mike, in Denver. I can only imagine the stress he will be under when he opens that file. I have no idea what I will wake up to tomorrow, but I am doing my best not to think about it so that I can get to sleep tonight. Tomorrow I will have to fulfill whatever requests he has sent to me overnight. Lawd, I don’t know if I can take another day of counting and looking at that Excel file. Yuck.

I came up to my room and spent about an hour packing things up and taking down my decorations. Pepper has some free time in the afternoon tomorrow and has offered to help me make the move to my new dorm, so I didn’t want to miss out on the extra help. I am hopeful that I will be able to fully move into my new room tomorrow, but it is all going to depend on how quickly Mike reviews that Excel file and what his requests are. Pray for me ya’ll.