Bulletin: Harold and Hipster Andie

My fine cat Harold went missing this week…

For forty-five minutes.

In those forty-five minutes, I:

• Opened and searched every closet in my house.
• Prayed.
• Checked all my kitchen cabinets.
• Looked in the refrigerator (I was desperate).
• Walked my neighborhood calling “HAAAAROLD!”
• Walked my neighborhood calling “HAAAAROLD!” while holding a can of Friskies and clinking it with a spoon.
• Asked my neighbor if he’d seen Harold.
• Texted my husband and told him that Harold was missing.
• Sent a Facebook message to my neighborhood Facebook group asking if anyone had seen my big orange cat Harold.
• Tried to coax my dog into picking up Harold’s scent and leading me to Harold.
• Got teary-eyed thinking of life without Harold.

And then he came home.

Which means I am now in a mental state in which I can think about work.

Hipster Andie has a new role at the office. I do not know the title because I’m not important enough to warrant telling a title to, but I know that she is a bigger deal now than she was five months ago. Here are the facts:

• Andie now has a bigger cube. Bigger cube = Bigger deal.
• Hipster Andie created a giant paper chain representing all the loans she wants our Boss James to provide this year. You may choose to obtain a home loan at a certain time now to coincide with your favorite color on the paper chain. (That last part was my idea.)
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• I don’t think the new role called for the paper chain. She just did that on her own.
• Hipster Andie now takes meeting notes in magic markers.
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• I think she uses the markers because her new role is major important, and she needs to keep herself grounded.
• I have not confirmed the above bullet.
• But I did take a psychology class in college so I’d say I’m fairly qualified to make these assessments.
• I made a D in the psychology class.
• Andie made cake balls for Valentine’s Day and put them in heart boxes.
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• Andie still sits on a yoga ball while she works.
• I fear she is going to injure her back.
• I am not qualified to make this assessment.
• But don’t you think it might be bad?
• Everybody at our office loves Andie.
• Clients crazy-love Andie and send her flowers and candy.
• I ate some of the candy.

And that, my friends, is the scoop. If you would like to send Andie a valentine, please do so in the form of a mortgage application and subsequent link torn from the paper chain. If you would like to send Harold a valentine, please do so in the form of a leash and electric fence so that he doesn’t scare me and my entire neighborhood Facebook group like that again. Happy Friday, loves!