You may or may not have noticed, but David decided he wanted to get in on my blogging fun, and decided to write a post of his very own.  Interestingly enough, that was the day before a friend of a friend(Michelle’s “real” blog is private, so this is her book review blog) was featured in a blogging segment on Fox 9.

As he mentioned, I was transferred to a new store effective last weekend.

Kristen’s response to this was, “Oh, poor Sarah!”

(In reference to the fact that the holiday season will soon be upon us and those of us who have the pleasure of being able to frequent the MOA whenever we feel like it avoid it like the plague from November through January.

Fun fact:  did you know it takes 30 minutes to find a parking spot on a Saturday?  Two weeks before Thanksgiving?  And that’s only because I followed someone to their car?  I can’t wait until the day after Thanksgiving.

And I’m just noticing that this is a very long parenthetical, so I’m going to stop now.)

That response was actually very similar to a comment I made a few days after finding out:  “Wait…it’s almost holiday!  Does [our DM] hate me?  ‘I’m going to send Sarah to MOA two weeks before Green Friday [the term AE uses for Black Friday]…muahahaha!’”

Obviously I know that is not the case (in our conversations leading up to this, she expressed her confidence in my ability to step up to this new challenge), but the thought of battling holiday traffic for a few long weeks is rather intimidating.

After working there for about a week, I’m getting used to the new environment; it’s a lot different coming into a pre-existing store with pre-existing employees after having opened a store and hiring all of the girls who worked there, with the only exceptions being the few girls who transferred over from AE when we opened.

It’ll still take a while to get away from referring to MOA as “them” and Rosedale as “us,” though.