Can you say busy?

Okay…considering technically today is my Monday (because I took yesterday off from work to take my mom in for her hand surgery…which went well by the way and she is home resting and doing fine) today has been extremely hectic!!  You’d think that I just got back from a weeks vacation instead of a 3 day weekend.

Anyway, I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend!!  I spent mine cleaning up the house and doing about 15 loads of laundry!  However, at least I got something accomplished right?  That’s more than I can claim for the past few weekends considering I’ve been sick.  I’m feeling much better now…but am trying not to completely overdue it or I’ll just get sick again ya know?

So…any big plans for the upcoming 4th of July weekend??

Now remember…my birthday is this Friday…so y’all better hurry up & get my gifts wrapped!!

Lack of memory…

So we’re sitting at the dinner table last night when my Mom says, “You did remember to take Monday off for my hand surgery right?”.   Umm…no, I didn’t because she told me NOT too because it’s her left hand and that there was no need for me to take time off.  I thought it odd at the time because I’d wondered how she was going to get home from the hospital…but hey, I just thought that she’d made arrangements with a friend or something.  Ya know?

Then she got upset with me because I’d originally said that I was going to take that week off…but she’d told me that it wasn’t necessary for me to do that…so I didn’t.  However, she doesn’t remember that conversation at ALL mind you…so therefore I’m a bad child.     Well, I put in today for a vacation day on Monday so that I can take her in.  It’s not a big deal…but you would’ve sworn it was by listening to her last night…yikes!   It’s amazing how the mind doesn’t recall things well when we get older…and sad at the same time.

Anyway…she’ll be gracing us with her presence for 6 weeks while she’s off of work on leave for her hand.  So Jason and I have been strategically planning our periodic getaways!!   Hey…we need to retain our sanity during all of this!  LOL

Other than that…not much going on.  I’m glad it’s Friday though…I’m tired and I need some rest.  I think it’s from being sick so much and being on antibiotics.  Oh well…hopefully I’ll get some sleep tonight.

Have a great weekend!!

You’re good friends…not like some

Thanks SO much for all of the well wishes!!

Y’all are too much!!  Very sweet.

I’m feeling much better today than I’ve felt in the past week…so keep those good thoughts comin’ okay?  I think y’all are helping me a great deal!

Not too much going on with me outside of just trying to get better.  Jason has been sick lately as well…but seems to be doing much better than he was last week.  He’d missed a couple days of school and wasn’t real happy about that…but he’s back now and trying to get caught up.

OH…I do have something to share!!!  I received an email from my best friend Eric (the one I stayed with when we went to WDW last month)…his girlfriend is pregnant!!!!   Yup…he’s going to be a daddy!!!   I’m not sure if the world is ready for a little Eric running around…but ready or not, there’s a little one coming!!

He’s very excited…in fact, I’m the first one he’s told because he wanted to get the official word from the doctor before he spilled the beans about to anyone!! So…I don’t know how far along she is yet or anything like that…but TRUST me…I’ll find out!   I’m very happy for them…and I’m excited to have another little one in the family (so to speak…we’re not really related, but we look it …hehe).

Work is going well I guess…still no word on the so-called “raise” that I’m supposed to be receiving… …but I’m definitely not surprised by that.

My birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks (July 2nd) and I’ll be 29.  My last year of the 20′s…hmm…it’s gone by a bit too quickly for me, but I guess that just can’t be helped any.  Jason didn’t like turning 29…he said that it was the last birthday that he’d celebrate again!   He’s silly!

Well…have a great Thursday and thanks again for all of your wonderful comments and concerns!!

Oh Well…

That’s pretty much how I feel at the moment.  I went back to the doctor yesterday because the pain in my head was so bad that I couldn’t take it anymore.   He said that I have the worst case of sinusitus that he’s ever seen and that if I’m not feeling 100% better in 2 weeks that he wants me to come back in for a CT of my sinuses.  The theory here is that because I have chronic sinusitus and have for a few years now that I’ve developed a great deal of scar tissue in my sinuses and that is making it very difficult to get the swelling down when there is an infection.  Also, the inner sinus cavity can harbor fungus when someone has chronic sinusitis and will trigger a common cold into a severe infection. 

In other words…I’m a mess!!

We’ll see how it goes…but for now, at least the major aching pain that was radiating throughout my sinuses and jaw has subsided a bit.  I spent yesterday in bed for the most part…and I think that helped as well.  I’m back at work today, but to be honest…I’d rather be at home in bed still.

Thank you all for your get well wishes…I appreciate it very much!!

Well…Happy Hump Day!!   and I hope that you are having a good week!!

Mondays make me blue…

…especially after this weekend.  It’s been raining here a great deal as of late…which I don’t mind considering we need the rain badly, BUT…it also makes the mold percentage high and that makes my life a bit miserable.   I have chronic sinusitis and even though I’m on medication for it, my sinuses are killing me!   Not to mention the fact that when I get it this bad…I tend to spike fevers which just makes me extremely tired whenever I try to do anything that exerts energy.

I had planned on taking my incredible hubby to dinner yesterday for Father’s Day…BUT, because I was feeling so yucky, he decided that we should stay home instead.   I feel SO bad!!  I had this nice evening all planned out for us and then because of this stupid sickness I couldn’t follow through with it.   He wasn’t upset with me at all…he just said that we would just order pizza from our favorite New York style pizzeria and watch a movie.  He’s so wonderful …and he deserves so much more than that.

I’ve promised him that I will make it up to him…and I WILL!   I know that life happens when you make plans…but damn, why does it always do it at the most inopportune times eh?

Anyway…I didn’t sleep well last night.  Between not being able to breath worth a damn and my dog waking me up every half an hour to go out (she didn’t feel well).  So here I am at work…feeling like crap and exhausted.  Yup…I’m SO glad to be here!!  

So…did you have a good weekend?? I need to hear happy stuff…so please tell me!!

Happy Father’s Day Daddy

Mario Savastano

Aug. 29,1927 -  Jun. 5,1998

Happy Father’s Day to my wonderful husband as well

and to all of you fathers here in Xangaland!

Windows…Dealerships…& Doctor Visits

So yesterday morning I get into my car and roll the windows down to get the dew off so that I can see…and I hear this thud!  My window on my driver’s side rear door has fallen into the door…completely off it’s track!!

Not good in any case, but especially since it’s been raining here everyday this week and was going to rain more in the afternoon!   So, I try to push the window up manually to see if it would at least stay shut…but then, THUD.  DAMN IT!!  It was a bit cold out and now I had to drive to work with a sore throat and the cold wind blowing on me!! Shit!

So…I get to work and now that the window has dried a bit, I attempt once again to put it up.  It stayed!  Well hell…yeah, NOW the fricken’ thing stays up!!   So I go inside and call the Ford dealership nearest to my office.  My car is just barely a year old and is still under warranty…so I should be able to take it to any Ford dealership to have this fixed…except, the people at this particular dealership won’t answer the fricken’ phone!!   GRRRR!!!

Okay, so I call the dealership that I bought it from that is 20 some miles away from my work…and they answer.  Thank GAWD!!  So I explain to them what happened and ask if that’s covered by my warranty…they say “it sure is”  YAY!!!  They also tell me that they can get it done for me as soon as I can get it there…right on!   So I cruise on up there…talk to the service advisor…ask them to do my oil change, filter & lube while they’re at it  (hey…I figure if I was there…)…no problem they say!  YES!! This is GOOOODD!!!

Okay…so then I call my Mom…ask her to please give me a ride back to work…and then I call Jason and tell him to pick me up from work and take me back to the dealership to pick up my car…all is well right?  No…’cuz my throat (despite the fact that I now have a voice again) is fricken’ killing me!!!   BUT…I don’t have a car …so I can’t go to the doctor….shit!

Oh well (as my favorite donkey would say) not much I can do about that…but I can call and get an appointment for tomorrow…right? NO! Because no one would answer the fricken’ phone at the doctor’s office!!  Am I the only person who actually answers the phone? 

*sigh* So I give up on that after attempting to call about 6 times.  I figure that I’ll call this morning when they open.  Well…I got swamped at work so my Mom called for me (thanks Mom) and they told her “well, how about Monday?”…she said, “no..today”…they said, “well…we’re really booked today”…she said, “I don’t care, my daughter’s throat is swollen shut, it hurts and she hasn’t had a voice for several days now and she tried to call yesterday and no one would answer the phone…today is good”…they said, “okay…well is 1:30pm okay?”…she said, “she’ll be there”. 

LOL…that is funny!!!  I’m glad that she called and not me because at this point…I probably would’ve had a very…well…let’s say…colorful conversation with them.

OY!!! It IS Friday right?

No Voice To Speak Of

I woke up yesterday morning without a voice…and guess what?  I still have NO voice!! Oh yeah…my co-workers are loving this!!

Hmm…shouldn’t be too unfamiliar to them, they mostly ignore me anyway.

Anyway, my throat doesn’t hurt…just a froggy little voice comes out…instead of my normal sexy voice that is.

Jason is finally feeling a bit better…he’s at least out of bed (YAY).   However, he’s still not up to par yet.  Hopefully by this weekend he will be.

Well…my boss is now out of town and the president of the company is officially on vacation until the 1st of July…so it looks like the issue of my raise won’t be addressed anytime soon…not that I expected it to.  

Yesterday however, I just about lost it.  The company had ordered shirts for everyone and last week at the meetings we sorted them out for all of the field employees (well…three of us volunteered to do it considering the lady who was supposed to wasn’t and said she didn’t have time) and left the ones for the office employees for the president to hand out.   Blue for the men and green for the women.  I (of course) had to make comment since blue is my favorite color that I’d prefer that…full well knowing that I wasn’t going to get it…but was just joking around saying “well I don’t know…green isn’t really my color ya know”.  Well, apparently the lady that didn’t have time to sort the shirts couldn’t take a joke and she told the president that I’d complained and that I didn’t want a shirt because I didn’t think it was my color etc.  So he didn’t give me one.  I went in his office late yesterday afternoon and asked why I hadn’t gotten my shirts yet…and he said, “well I was told that you didn’t think it was your color and therefore didn’t want one”.  OUCH!!   So I explained how the “real” conversation took place and what was “really” said.  Then he told me “maybe next time you might want to make sure that what you’ve said isn’t being received incorrectly”…and my reply was “so in other words, keep my mouth shut eh?”.  He then told me that he didn’t know if there were any left in my size…so I said, “well…if not that’s fine…I can live without the shirt especially after what’s transpired concerning it”.  He said that he would take care of it and about a half an hour later he dropped the shirts on my desk.

I was livid though!   Not about the shirts mind you but the fact that someone had the audacity to lie about me…that pissed me off!

Anyway…so now the office is pretty much empty and I’m sitting here typing to you all complaining about well…everything at the moment I guess huh?   Sorry.

Hmm…

Time…

Not had much of it lately to speak of.  Sorry everyone.

Jason still isn’t feeling well, but went to the doctor today (in fact, he’s probably still there as I type this).  He’s been congested…both his sinuses and his lungs…and has been spiking fevers all weekend.  My poor baby.  I wish that he would just be well again.  Hopefully the doc will help him out with that.

The meetings at work went well and hopefully things will slow down a little bit for me now.  That may be wishful thinking…but hey, I can wish right?   Oh yeah…I my so-called-boss had an epiphany last Friday.  It seems that the company controller (the one I refer to as Napoleon) told my boss that with the new position that I’ve taken on that he needs to talk to the president of the company about compensating me ASAP.  He was also informed that I’m making less than a couple other gals that don’t do near as much as I do and have been here less than a year…and considering that I’ve been here six years…that he should do something about that!!   Ya think?!

Anyway, so he brings this up to me and says that he “had no idea” that these gals were making more than I …even though I’ve told him like a million times…but anyway, so he says that he’ll “talk to the president about this”…when I inform him of what it is that I’m asking for…minimum that is.  He then says, “well…I don’t know if you’ll get THAT…but, I’ll talk to him”.  So I then said, “well…that’s what I’m asking for minimum, and if I can’t get it then you’ll be getting my resignation because I’m sure that I can get that and much more somewhere else”.   What an idiot!

So, as of today…nothing has been said.  That figures though.

Other than that…it’s pretty much a typical Monday.  Well..I’m off to go read some of your sites (as many as I can for now)!!

Are you still here?

OMG…this week has been BEYOND crazy for me!!!   I think that I’d mentioned that my company was holding the annual meeting yesterday and today…and yesterday was just SO damn busy!! I barely had time to think!  I had to give a presentation on the apprenticeship training programs that I’ve instilled…but I tell you what, it made for a really looooonnnnggg day!

I woke up at 4:11am yesterday and didn’t get home until 10pm last night!

Then I had to be back here at the office by 7:30 this morning for company photos…oy.

Well…I hope to post more soon…sorry for my absense, but it can’t be helped.  I hope that you are all doing well and have a glorious weekend!!