Thank you Thursday #6

Hello hello…sorry for the lack of posts lately. It’s a bit of a long story to come later but in the mean time this is a special ASS edition of Thank You Thursday. As in I am an ASS for not writing for so long and for not thanking Sherri and Joe in the week before last’s Thank you Thursday and Bridget and Mike in last week’s Thank You Thursday! So off we go this is a big week because as you’ll see there are some pretty amazing people…

Sherri and Joe McLaughlin: Sherri and Joe are two great friends of mine, although at this point I have to say I would like to hear from them and see them a little bit more! Sherri and I worked together for 6.5 years at “the Pro” until about two months ago when she left for the world of New Balance. (I keep checking the mail every day for my new kicks but they must have gotten lost somewhere.) Sherri was the marketing analyst at HCPro the person that told me that all of my hair-brained schemes were nothing but hair-brained schemes because just about everything I said, the data said the opposite. When we moved to the new office in Danvers Sherri and I were, for a short time anyway, office neighbors. Then one day, just like the Jeffersons, Sherri came in to my office to tell me that she was “moving on up”. My reaction may have been a bit dramatic, all I did was start jumping up and down saying “No you can’t leave me” and then put my sunglasses on, in my office without any windows, and put my head down on my desk. Sherri kept me sane on the days that I thought that my head was going to blow up, made me laugh when I couldn’t find anything to laugh about, and could develop reports faster than I could explain what information I was looking for. Joe is a fantastic guy who I also have a lot in common with, Joe loves a good beer and Irish bar, loves March Maddness, and unlike me he is a fantastic runner. Sherri and her wonderful husband Joe unfortunately lost Joe’s mom, Beverly McLaughlin to cancer, a few years ago. She will be a big part of what gets me across that finish line on April 18th. I know that Beverly is up there keeping an eye on Sherri and Joe and are so proud of all the success that they have had both personally and professionally.  Thank you guys so much for your donation.

Bridget Moynihan: Everyone has people in their life that come in at exactly the right time and make you a better person just by being them. Bridget Moynihan is one of those people to me. I keep saying it over and over again in every one of these posts but this week it is particularly true, HCPro is responsible for bringing some of the most important people in my life. One could say that the last  little over a year has been, well it has been a lot of things, but let’s call it interesting. Bridget and I met at “the Pro” and I was actually fortunate enough to share an office with Bridget for maybe about 2 of those years?? (my memory on length of time is not all that it used to be) Anyway, I have to say that the time that I spent sharing an office with Bridget and our friend Matty Paul was maybe some of the most fun I have had at “the Pro” ever! We would take the opportunity to break out into random dance or maybe sing songs like, “Dreamweaver” or my personal favorite “Star of the day who will it be?”. At the same time that we had so much fun we also worked incredibly hard, looking back on it now, I’m not sure how we got as many jobs done as we actually did. Anyway, unfortunately Bridget moved away for a little while and we kept in touch here and there. Bridget went off to dazzle two other companies with her incredible online marketing prowess. Then suddenly, back home she came, right where she belongs and she was just what the Dr. ordered. Someone to start calling me on my BS excuses, start holding me accountable to doing the things that I actually said I would do, and someone to slap me when I was just being completely lame and going out of my mind. In all honesty I am not sure that I would be doing as well as I am today if it were not for Bridget. Not to mention that she always knows when the best concerts are coming to town, can make me laugh like few people are able to, and is always down to hit the 24-hour diner at 2 in the morning. Not only did I get a friend back when Bridget came home, but I also was adopted as an honorary member of the Moynihan clan. Bridget’s family has been absolutely amazing to me just like Bridget has been, so it’s true the apple definitely does not fall far from the tree. Now Bridget is off impressing them all at the New England Journal of Medicine managing different contractors by the truckload and launching new and innovative e-campaigns that are bringing new subscribers in hand over fist. So thank you Bridget for your donation, your friendship, and for keeping me sane.

Mike Briddon: Oh man…what’s a girl to say about her ex-work-husband? This is a tough one. Again this is a perfect example of the incredible people that HCPro has brought into my life, three in a row. Despite Mike’s terrible sense of humor (This a real Mike joke: “Did you pay less for those pants because they are so short?”  EVERY TIME  someone is wearing Capri pants) and terrible Facebook updates, he is one of my closest friends.  Mike and I worked really closely together for the past 3 years and at one time during that period even worked on the exact same team, for most of the time Mike was the Executive Editor for the markets for which I am the Product Marketing Director. Although Mike and I very rarely, if ever, agreed on anything work related and would spend much of our time debating one another, I absolutely loved working with Mike. It is because of our constant bickering that I actually refer to Mike as my work husband. Work brought Mike and I to some of the most country’s most incredible destinations like Kansas City Missouri, Grapevine Texas, and anywhere else that there is a giant conference center but nothing else interesting to do. I have to honestly say that there really isn’t anyone else that I would rather travel to these incredibly boring places with. Mike can make just about any time and any where really fun. Aside from work though Mike really is just a great person and friend. He was one of the first people that I went to tell about my chipped ankle because I knew that he would tell me it would be okay.(Full disclosure: As soon as I left his office Mike then went to Emily what had happened and that he didn’t think I’d ever be able to walk again.) Yeah, worrying and anxiety are something Mike and I have in common. He always knows just what to say and he’s the guy friend that every girl wants to have, you can tell him absolutely anything and he’ll always have both something kind of smart and kind of funny to say.  Mike, if you ever try to bring up any of these nice things I said about you in conversation I will deny them all. However, one of the best things about Mike is that he is now living with Bridget, whom he met at my birthday party last year. I love them together, because it’s awesome to visit two friends at once, but really because they are two of the best people I know, so when they combine their powers of greatness it really turned into something special. Thanks Mikey!

This thank you Thursday is to be continued…Julie Manninen, Margo Padios, and Alanna Moynihan are still to come