Moon Dance

Michael Buble - Moondance.

Howdy Everyone
Things in my little world have been INSANE.

I’ve worked 23 days in a row now. I am completely mentally exhausted. The only plus is that I got another raise and I am making double time for all the overtime I am putting in. That money is being spent faster than I can make it *lol*

Lance and I have done a lot around the house so to add to the mental exhaustion we can add physically exhausted too *lol*. We’ve decorated, landscaped, painted, bought appliances, changed the lighting in most of the rooms, found “accessories” (I love IKEA!!!! *lol*) and have completely made our house our HOME. I am also still organizing our junk for a Garage sale. Lance is annoyed because he wants his garage back *lol*

We’ve spent the nights in front of the fire in our back yard surrounded by friends and family. We had one amazing night outside *weg* and that’s all the detail I’m gonna share, but the video above should give you a better idea *grinz*

I’ve recently found a new addiction too. Facebook. Good gawd…I’m a total Facebook addict. I’ve connected with people I forgot I even knew courtesy of that website. We had a BBQ/Fire Pit last Friday night and invited some of my “Facebook Friends” over and we had a BLAST!!! Everyone brought their photo albums and we sat around getting wasted and laughing our butts off at the old memories…we even did our LypSync version of “Walk Like an Egyptian”, much to the neighbors amusement *lol*…My best friend from PLAYSCHOOL showed up. The water works weren’t far behind.

After I lost My Boyz, I shut out the remaining friends we had all shared. I REFUSED to get close to anyone remaining to me. I am learning how truly stupid that was. I am grateful to my friends for their patience and for their ability to understand that I am a moody bitch and love me dearly anyway *lol*

I am gearing up for July 7th. The Tour de France starts on the 7th and continues until July 23rd. anyone that knows me knows that I LOVE that bike race. I worship at the throne of Lance Armstrong and I am heartbroken at the plague of doping scandals that have rocked the sport. I’ve even managed to become “friends” with some of the bigger names in the sport through Facebook. I’ve been in conversations with Jan Ulrich, Ivan Basso, Yaroslav Popovich & Christophe Moreau now for almost a month. I am getting to know the men behind the bikes on a more personal level and it is really quite intriguing. My biggest dream is to spend the month of July in France and follow every stage of the Tour. One day…I wonder how Lance would feel about that as a honey moon. *lol*

My health is still status quo. I am taking 2 oxycontin a day now to enable me to work the 12+ hours a day that is required of me at the moment. I can’t drive a car, walk a straight line, or remember with any clarity things that happened last week, but HEY! I can sit up straight for more than an hour at a time *lol* Lance and I are still in separate bedrooms *sighs* I still can’t sleep lying down flat so I have to be in the spare bedroom because it has a headboard that I can prop pillows up against so I can lean at a 45 degree angle. It REALLY sucks. The animals have drawn sides. Pandora sleeps with me, Ringo sleeps with Lance. On the bright side, I had an X-ray and it shows that the clots are clearing somewhat and that they aren’t moving. My INR level has somewhat stabilized at a whopping 2.2 so I only have to go get my blood tested every 5 days now. The Warfarin is working and the oxycontin keeps me functioning. I cannot wait for this to be over.

I started swimming again too. I missed it, alot more than I thought I would. I am swimming 3 nights a week again and my body feels happier. I cant go flat out like I used to before these stupid blood clots, but it still feels great to MOVE and just float along.

I am reconnecting with my life and while at times I miss being online a lot, I am ultimately happy with the choices I am making. I hope you are all doing well. I miss you guys.
*hugs*

Overtime Insanity

It's been awhile since I blogged much of anything.
Ever since I got promoted I've been working SO freekin much I dont have time to do anything but work and take care of the house.

Since Friday I've managed to put in 39 hours of Over Time. The powers that be decided on FRIDAY that they wanted a complete restructure for June 17th. Well. The powers that be are bloomin braindead if they think that a re-org of 300+ people can happen in 5 business days. Needless to say, I am over half way there. Everyone has been re-org'd and a new financial forecast has been presented, along with my time statment of 39 double time hours *smiles sweetly*

In a way its a good thing working this much. I was able to replace my shreiking banshee of a dryer with a new washer/dryer front load set. The double time paid for them. They get delivered tommorrow and I CANNOT WAIT!!!!

*sighs* ya know you are officially an adult when you get excited about appliances *lmao*

We are hosting our first "multi" family dinner on thursday night. Lance's local sister and boyfriend are going to meet my mom & step dad for the first time. It should be interesting.

Otherwise, it's situation normal around here. I am still neurotically checking my flower beds for ANY sign of blooms...and so far they are ALL doing well!!! *looks all proud and quite shocked*

I hope ya'll are doin well.

Back To Work

well, my first day back at work and I survived.

It really wasnt as bad as I thought it was going to be. I got there at 8:50 am, my shift started at 9 am.

I logged onto my computer and opened my email...there was my first mistake of the day...3,762 emails all pending my attention *ughhhhhhh* so after I mass deleted all of them I felt a little better *lol* I felt amazing after my old boss came over and said "Um...Christine, why did I just get about 600 'not read' email notifications from you??"...*howls with laughter*

I then tried to log onto my systems...my second mistake of the day...I cannot remember ANY of my passwords *lmao* I spent the next 4 hours on the phone with Internal Software Support trying to get all my access back...I still dont have access to half of my systems...but tommorrow is another day.

Then I decided it was time for coffee, so I logged on my Internal Corporate Messenger to see who I could message into goin for a break with me and my computer screen was COVERED in messages from every person on my list going "OMG! is it really you?!?!" *lol* My first coffee break of the day was spent with 75 friends from work...made me feel alot better and pretty cared about *smiles*

I came back to my desk and started going through my "mail" slot and holy crap I had alot of junk...after File 13'ing all of it I felt imensely better *lmao* I really hope there wasnt anything vital in there *lolol*

I finally met my new boss when she asked me if I had time for a meeting...Im thinkin..."well yea...I have no system access, Ive played solitare, talked to 120 people on messenger, and wandered the office floor gossiping with everyone....Im due for lunch soon, but I've got time..."*lol*

We go into a meeting room and she actually tries to strong arm me into signing an agreement that states I will NOT attend support group on friday's and that any and all medical appointments I have will be UNpaid...and this was my third mistake of the day...I looked at her, burst out laughing and said "Ok, I've got long term disability approval until 2010. Which means I will be paid 90% of my fulltime wage for the next 3 1/2 years. I'll see you 2011." and I got up and walked out of the room. *smirks*

She came barrelling out of the room behind me going "wait, wait...Christine, wait...I dont think I came across right" ~~noooooooooo shit!!~~ so we go back into the room and this time I grabbed a union rep to sit in on the meeting and that makes her go sheet white. Suddenly she's changed her entire tune, made a big production about ripping up the letter she had just tried to make me sign and said "we will do whatever we can as a corporation to support you and ensure you have the tools you need to do your job" *smiles sweetly*

So, all in all, it was a day. Day one of 364. ohhh happy thought...I've got 25 days of vacation this year and I've got 22 days still banked...which means I've only got 317 days left!!!! *snoooooooopy dance!!