It Feels Like A Saturday
I got some GREAT sleep last night. It didn’t start out that way as from midnight to about 2am I tossed and turned and then…slept until 11am this morning. I awoke up feeling tons better than yesterday. I’m no longer hacking up green stuff though I am coughing quite a bit. I also awoke with a headache that I knew could be a force of nature if I didn’t take it easy all day. I think it came on because of the 1/2 percocet I took last night in order to get some sleep. The headache only went away about an hour ago. I’ve been trying to nap all day today but to no avail so I’ve been reading, about 60% into The Queens’s Fool.
Did I tell you about my cousin’s wedding at the beginning of this month? There was a huge problem with the bridesmaid dresses. First off the Monday prior to the Saturday wedding the bridge got a call from the dress shop that said she needed an additional $50 per dress so they could be expedited from the states to get to them on time for alterations. Needless to say my cousin was freakin’ out.
The $250 was paid and on Wednesday she called to find out where her bridesmaid dresses were as they all needed to be altered. The dress shop stated they were in Toronto and was looking for more money in order to get them from Toronto to Grimsby. My aunt got involved and asked to speak to the owner as this was no way to deal with a jasminlive customer and it being only 4 days before the wedding.
The store owner ended up driving to Toronto herself to pick up the bridesmaid dresses and claimed she had no clue what was going on and then offered as well to pay for the alterations herself because of the stress caused. You’d think that would be the end of the story right? Wrong. The maid of honour’s dress was wrong it was the same as that of the other girls. The maid of honour was not comfortable in the bridesmaid dresses and so it was agreed and a different dress was ordered. There was a rush around in order to try and make the MOH comfortable in the dress. In the end she looked great - but man…the stress levels my cousin went through the week of her wedding? I think I’d rather elope :)
Locked Out
I was going to go into work this weekend and see about putting in 8 hours over the two days in order to not use a sick day, but then realized I cannot find either office’s passcard and hence, cannot get into either location without. Both systems are different, and I cannot recall who we are with, though I do know that it isn’t an ADT alarm system.
I’ve never lived in a home that used a home security system like ADT home security but Jeff does. I am privy to the passcode and it is nice to know that he trusts me. I think it is a good investment for a house. For a condo though, I don’t seen the need for an ADT home security system. I mean most condos nowadays have cameras all over the place, a 24 concierge and extensive use of passcards to get through the building. Why then should I need a security system inside my condo? If someone wanted to break in, they would have to get pass the concierge twice (in and out) and need a passcard to get into the building and try to bypass all the cameras. Just seems like a waste of money to me.
Another waste of money? Having a great security system and forgetting to turn it on and getting burglarized, which was a story I heard from my co-worker’s husband while we were sitting out on her backyard deck prior to the CD release party we were heading too. I mean, if you have the system and live in a multi-million dollar home…I’d be using it even when I was home.
Back to my Chaturbaterooms.com passcard…I figure that is someone’s way of telling me to relax. To keep taking my 1,500mg of amoxicillan and rest. I think I will listen…though I am running out of books!
Who Needs Sleep?
Although I wasn’t told I have strep (no swab was taken), I have a ‘raw and angry’ throat and I am now on a daily dose of 1,500mg of amoxicillin for 10 days. I text’d Jeff this morning to tell him I had strep throat and he called tonight to see how I was doing. He made me laugh a few times which hurt like hell but it was great to be able to talk to him no matter if I to repeat myself a few times as my voice would go in and out during a sentence.
I have not been able to sleep…it is like my body is resisting the sand man. I’m tired and a few times while reading or watching the boobtube I can feel my lids get heavy but when I put the book down or close my eyes the ZZZZs just don’t come.
I was emailing a friend today and we were talking about our jobs. If you don’t know it by now, I love mine. I’ve been there for little over a year and believe it is where I am meant to be. They treat their employees well feeling that if they do, we will give them the best of ourselves, which we of course do. My friend’s employer has their employees enrolled in an Employee Program. She was telling me about the rewards she can earn and some of the gifts available to her dependent on her yearly review and her seniority.
Come to think of it Jason (ex boytoy), who worked for a large Canadian Bank was also a participant in an Employee Program. His last reward for 5 years was a beautiful gift.
My employer offers profit sharing and I love it. Each December and January I get a lovely cheque, I love me money :) This year I hope to be able to put it away to buy my new home (mid 2009). I cannot wait, I’m hoping that my next home purchase is indeed ‘new’ - I’d love to be able to customize my own space and have it all done to my preferences prior to moving in.
On a different note…I’m currently on my 3rd of 4 Philippa Gregory books. I finished The Boleyn Inheritance today and I am now reading The Queen’s Fool. Great books and I’m glad I am reading again, ‘cept I’d currently rather be sleeping. I mean…I have to sleep sometime, right?
Confetti Everywhere
As most of you know I work for a strategic branding and design firm and therefore work with a lot of creative people from www.jasminelive.online. People who do not let birthdays, showers, weddings, anniversaries, etc pass them by. I swear head office employees must keep the local store that sells birthday party supplies, et all in business.
I have seen offices where streamers have been hung floor to ceiling at every 1″ of ceiling space, a tropical paradise themed office, a disco theme with disco music which came on as the recipient entered his office, etc. My coworkers have a lot of fun. They have even more fun when management is involved (usually the /wedding showers) and there are creative presentations, power point presentations and even bursts of song from account teams to their victim lucky recipient.
There is a party supply place just around the corner from work but do not have 1/2 (1/4?) the supplies that PartyPro.com has. Their birthday party supplies themes just make me dizzy! Last year when I helped do a quick surprise for my boss with my finance department it took me forever to figure out what confetti I wanted…too much to choose from! He’s still pulling confetti out of folders today…his birthday was last summer - yes we hid it everywhere :)
What have your co-workers done?
Strep
I am pretty much sure that is what I got. I barely slept last night and for that fact, didn’t sleep yesterday when I left early from work. It is hard to sleep when you cannot swallow without it killing you and when you are coughing every 5min or so.
It is 728am, I’ve been ‘up’ physically since 630am when I decided I was going to a walkin clinic this morning. They don’t open until 9am…so I’m just biding my time. I plan to be there right at 9am so I can get in and out quickly with a prescription to kill this bugger.
I am so freakin’ tired but cannot sleep. Last night or should I say this morning, I rummaged through my medicine cabinet to find some Tylenol3 that I had left over from Lasik and took my last two. I also gargled with salt water, then vinegar and the combination really took the edge off and I slept from 430am to 630am. I am now hacking up pieces of lovely green things and oh my gosh that hurts.
Bruiser is laying here beside, more little guy is getting as much sleep as me because of my constant coughing and getting up to go take some Buckleys.
Well I’m going to lay down for an hour…then get ready to head to a walkin - never been to one before, wish I wasn’t so far away from my family doc.
Brrrr…
We are almost into June and I’m still waiting for true spring and summer weather to arrive. Currently all I can do is wish I were either in Florida (where my boss currently is vacationing) or the Outer Banks. I love the Carolina’s. I visited The Isle of Palms and Charleston back in 1999 and if I could…I’d move there in a heartbeat. LOVED the area, it soothed my soul.
But for now…I lay on my couch covered in a blanket, tempted to turn on the heat and I will snuggle underneathe my duvet once I head to bed, which will be soon - pray that I get to sleep! It doesn’t help that I’m sick I guess that even 23 (mid 70s) felt cold today, lol.