My Goodness...

Holy Crap, I need to breathe.
I've neglected my blog something horrible. I've equally neglected my band and my health. Something needs to change quickly.

To say lots has been going on would be an extreme understatement.

To Recap:

My dad's kidney transplant was last Friday. All went amazingly well!  He's out of the hospital as of yesterday and is feeling pretty good!!  Words don't describe this whole experience and the gratitude we all felt for the support and prayers that we received all weekend long. And his donor, Emily, no words. She truly has a special place in heaven, that girl...  

I had hoped to get together with some of my MI Blog friends but there just wasn't the time to do so, so I apologize.

I got home late on Sunday and had to mentally prepare myself for what was to come this week at work. As I had mentioned, my company was purchased by another Pharma company these last few months.  Friday was the shareholders meeting to ok the purchase and yesterday was the close date. I have to say, I've been through layoffs before, I've been through losing a business and realizing you have nothing to show for it, but yesterday was the absolute worst day of my professional career.  Yesterday, 80%, yes, take it in, 80% of my company was told that their last day was this Friday, less than two weeks before Christmas. This new company is NO JOKE. Those of us that survived have jobs, but we are not considered lucky.  We had over 500 people at our HQ building and around 440 got their walking papers yesterday.  Who knows what's going to happen to the sales force as they find out early in 2013..   If I were still working for the company I was working for last week, my new job would be considered a really big promotion. But since I'm at the newco, I'm going to be working for an additional exec, making considerably less money and working double what I am used to. I'm not really that lucky, except for the fact that I have a job.  People are not taking it well and it's very uncomfortable to be here right now. I keep saying, "just make it to Monday, just make it to Monday". I totally understand that people are pissed but some of the reactions are completely unbelievable and I guess you really see people's true colors when things like this happen.

So, tomorrow is my cookie party and I'm so looking forward to it.  I'm excited to laugh and have a few drinks. AND, I'm meeting up with some AZ bloggers on Sunday so that should be fun.

I'm sorry for the downer post. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have a few minutes to post some pics of the past couple of weeks and some happier thoughts!!

I'm hoping to catch up on all the blogs I've neglected as well and start writing down my goals for the upcoming year which include getting myself back on the band wagon!!!

xo,js