YEYs & BOOs

In an effort to NOT really work today…

Things that ROCK!

• Friends, family & loved ones
• This time of the year.
• 3-day weekends

Things that SUCK:

• My thankless job
• Holiday weight gain. Boo.
• Finding out that my Bible-thumping boss STOLE my Christmas presents from my vendors. (I have witnesses.)

So, anyone hiring out there?

a sassy moment.

forgot to mention...

so, thought i'd get some xmas shopping in with my newfound free time.

cruising around, wearing sunglasses (why? please see the post below. don't want to? picture my face - bright speckled red all over, so bruised around my eyes, eyes completely bloodshot from broken capillaries, no white around my irises AT ALL) pretty much not wanting to send any kids screaming from me, claiming they've seen the devil.

so, roll into Target for my last stop. i realize that it is beginning to get dark outside, but i don't care, i'm almost done with xmas! standing at the register, a girl gets behind me, swinging her pseudo-louis vuitton, smacking me in the back and says very loudly to the guy she's with...

Girl: "Oh GOD! I hate it when people wear their sunglasses indoors. It's so pretentious and they think they're such hot shit."

Me: (turns around, lifts sunglasses and places them on my head) "Ohmigosh! ME TOO! I can't stand that either!"

Girl: (horrified look on her face) "Uh uh uh..."
Guy: (hand over mouth) "Oh my god."

Me: "Yeah, you don't have to stare. I know what I look like. I have my glasses on to avoid stares from people like you."

Cashier laughs, smiles at me and wishes me a great holiday.

things to ponder. (warning: it's kinda gross.)

i've been sick since tuesday. yes, i know again. and on the advice of my mom, "please keep away from the kids, you're contagious. and your face, it should clear up by xmas." lol. fantastic.

the upside? got all my xmas stuff done. sent out resumes. finally relaxing after a hellish november. laughing at work because if my idiot boss just let me stay home sick orignally for the days i needed to, i would already be better. but since she wouldn't let up with the stupid phone calls everyday, i went back into the office last week. then bam! back home again sick this week...

the downside? apparently, my mom was alarmed that she sent me to another doc to make it official on my records that i was sick, to get my chest/lungs x-rayed and to get tested for pneumonia (tb was ruled out). sunday, i was coughing so hard that i blew out the capillaries in my face and my eyes (so it basically looked like i got beaten to a swollen pulp). my throat was so raw that i was throwing up blood. i was running a 103 fever. (dang, i just thought the weather was beginning to warm up.)

so now, i make a little drug cocktail in the a.m. A fun mix of antibiotics, congestion meds, ibuprofen for the fever and a swig from my double-dosage inhaler. then i continue throughout the day with congestion meds and ibuprofen. and then a swig of inhaler before bed.

c & i concluded i would never make it as a bulimic. my face would give it away. damnit.

you know what's cute?

we decorated c's house for xmas this year.

he loves to sit in the room, with all the lights off, and just stares at the twinkling tree.

his favorite part of the day is when we're both home from work, sitting on the couch with blankets, just staring at the tree.

for a 39-year old man who wears nothing but black, loves skulls and his harley... i got him to sit down and watch miracle on 34th street (the new version) . he teared up at the scene where the deaf girl is with Santa and said, "man. all it takes is for one scene to make it great."

it is the season to believe.

it's official.

i am sick.

i've been battling a fun combo of asthma-phlegm/cough-earaches for over a month now. didn't take time off because i had a pre-training week, training week, pre-convention week, and then a convention week to get through. so i've been partially deaf in my left ear due to the earache's fun medicine, coughing up a storm, and sometimes... throwing up, purely phelgm. (I know, like you really wanted to know that.)

Then I was exposed to bronchitis (thanks, nicole!) AND got food poisoning from undercooked chicken or quite possibly just my body rejecting that EVERY meal at convention was either a chicken or a chicken by-product, 3 times a day, for 6 days. (way to go, hyatt!). So not only has my throat gone to crap but so has my stomach, lungs and ears...

i've been out sick from work for the past two days... due to mom/dad's orders... but my stupid boss has been calling and emailing me like it was nothing and asking that I get back to work (nevermind that she took 2 days off after convention to relax - from what, I have no idea). it finally took 2 senior vice presidents (both out sick due to yours truly), two other staffers and a note to both my boss and human resources from my parents stressing that I was contagious and that I was not going to get better until I actually get some rest. Voila! They FINALLY sent me home.

gotta love that job of mine!

i'm back

hoorah!
i'm back. been working on my company's annual convention-training week-quarterly sales meetings. nothing like pulling 60-70 work weeks for an entire month.

now, i can finally breathe. nothing like getting food poisoning on your last day of convention.