My Last Day of Work

As I mentioned previously, today was my last day of work before maternity leave. I walked in this morning to the typical "you're still here!'s" that I've been getting for over a week now. Of course I got a number of questions that I've answered a million times about what the next step is, if any thing's happening, etc.

Being that I won't be in the office for the next 8 weeks I needed to filter any of my pending work out to others in the office. In the beginning part of the day I pretty much wrapped up anything I could. I had to hound our vendors for answers, beg for credits and fill in the guys in the field with any updates. I was already getting anxious to leave, so by lunch time I had no interest in working! I trucked on through though, took my typically early lunch and was back at my desk for the afternoon. At that point anything that was still sitting on my desk needed to be distributed for good. I made my rounds passing out assignments, giving people updates and just making sure everything would be handled.

I already had my "out of office" on for my Outlook explorer, so the e-mails were starting to slow down quite a bit - with the exception of well-wishes from the people I frequently deal with. After getting everything off my desk I thought I'd be sitting around twiddling my thumbs for a couple of hours until it was time to leave (or until they graciously let me leave early) but I was wrong. I was still getting phone calls from vendors and employees asking me to finish some last minute favors for them. I did the best that I could and pretty much worked right up until 4:30 when it was time to leave.

I thought for sure that leaving today would be like this huge weight lifted off my shoulders - that I'd blast the radio all the way home and want to dance and celebrate the next eight weeks of freedom, but it really just felt like any other Friday. I think it's going to take waking up Monday morning with nowhere to be for me to realize that I don't have work for the next two months!

In the event that I don't go into labor this weekend on my own Monday will be "my" day to sit around the house, cuddle with the puppies, read a book or run some small errands before our big day on Tuesday!