promotion!!!

Last Friday I received word that I got promoted at Trader Joes. I knew it was going to happen - I foreshadowed when too, and if I had been wrong, c'est la vie - it would have happened eventually. But my captain didn't know where I was going yet, so I kept the news quiet until then. Yesterday I found out I was being shipped off to the North Scottsdale store - just as easy of a drive as my current commute. I'm excited, I even got to talk to my new boss briefly while all my current managers were in a meeting and I got to be the next in command to hold the fort down at the store. Today, I went to visit my new store. The captain, Paul, wasn't in, but I got to meet my first mate, Bobi, and found out I would be working with a guy that I worked with in Sun City, so now I have a couple comrades when I start out. I report Monday MORNING at 4AM. NUTS!!! And even more nuttier - I have to be in at 3AM the next morning. Paul likes to open the store at 8am instead of 9am and close at 10pm instead of 9pm. Oh boy, am I in for a ride...but hey, I gotta take it in stride and stand back and breathe...more than once in awhile.
Dudley is back from L.A. He came in the store this morning but only said "Hi" to me and half-hugged me. I was surprised to see that he had dropped by but kind of mad because...I knew he'd find Alisa too. Then I saw Alisa went on break and ran across the street - she HAD to have been going out to lunch with him, which bothered me so much I was distracted for an hour and cried a little. This is one of the main reasons I'm GLAD I'm getting out of that store - I can't handle that tension and underlying hostility I have for the both of them.
After work I stopped by his place real quickly. I ended up having ANOTHER spazz attack, crying that I wouldn't get to see him again after that moment because I had to get back to my mother that was waiting for me at my apartment, and Friday I was busy, so I only had Thursday but he might be hanging out with his Dad or Grant tomorrow. Fuck man! I made him promise me we'd hang out tomorrow, I even hurt both his arms to assure his promise, which still didn't mean a damn thing to me anyway - he's a wishy washy person when it comes to making promises.
After having an afternoon of visiting my store, having dinner with my mom, and playing a card game, I sent him a message asking him to call me, then figured, I'll just drive over there and just ask for a minute of his time. That minute turned into more than a few, and I told him how I wear my heart on my sleeve and that I had missed him and I was sorry for acting uber melodramatic earlier on. I told him that I went and saw the store, but now I was getting more nervous and a little scared about what I'm stepping into. We talked a little and things are okay. I'm going over there tomorrow after work and we'll do something, not sure. It'll be the last time I'll see him in a long time, could be forever, who knows? I know I'll cry. It'll suck, but it'll be alright. Everything turns out alright in the end.