Back in the Saddle
Work went really well today - no fatigue, just a normal day. Lots of people stopped by to welcome me back. I was very adept at saying I felt great, good to be back . . . and turning the conversation back to them: "How was your Christmas and New Year's? Did (insert kids' names here) have a good time?"
Oh! Check this out. Here's what I found on my desk this morning, in terms of Christmas gifts: a giant holiday 3 pound bag of red & green M & Ms, a box of Russell Stover chocolates, a bag of chocolate truffles and a dark chocolate Santa on a stick. Do these people know me or what?? I'm sharing the M & Ms and the Russell Stover chocolates but the truffles and Santa will be coming home with me. I'll be savoring those in the not too distant future!
In our office, sent to us by one of the financial vendors we deal with, was a 15" x 15" box of dark and light chocolates shaped like computers and mice - the majority of those have been eaten though. There were a few cookies and there had been another gift basket that was consumed last week. That was mostly cheese and crackers and cookies. More stuff a newly gall bladder free person shouldn't eat!
Out by the coffee machine is one of those big tins of 3 kinds of popcorn. I live for Christmas because typically one or more of our vendors sends our company those tins. It's the kind of thing I would never buy myself because I'd eat it all - but it's nice to dig into those things for a little snack at work. I'm not sure I'll try any of that this year though. Hopefully it will all be gone soon, making my decision easier.
I opened my desk drawer today and saw the partial bag of dark chocolate covered pretzels I'd left there. I actually ate two today with no ill effects. I ate some of my Chex Mix too, cashews included, with no ill effects.
And I took in breakfast as I mentioned in a previous post and everyone liked that. I had my nice poppy seed bagel with jam on it. Delish!
See how we are about food around there?? That second week, leading up to my surgery, I was feeling the best I'd felt and felt kinda guilty about not working. I know it was best I stayed home, but part of the reason I didn't want to be there was because of all this fat-laden food that I knew would be around.
I'm getting pretty annoyed at the blogger.com support people. It's been four days with no response, other than their immediate auto-response. Not very good customer service, I'm afraid. I fired off another email tonight, upping the nasty quotient just a tad. I thought I would have at least gotten a please-be-patient acknowledgement of one of my emails. My friend Ann looked at the code of another Blogger blog and it seems I'm missing the header info. I copied and pasted code from another blog into my template, changing the blod ID and blog title - but that didn't fix it. (Ann, I'll send you a screenshot of my template because it looks different than what you see on the screen. Maybe you'll be able to see something I missed.)
It felt so good to sleep in my own bed last night. The animals seemed happy that we were all back in our routine. By the time I left this morning, they were all in their usual sleep-the-day-away spots.
I mentioned buying some fabric yesterday but I'll hold off telling you about it until what I'm making is done so I can show you. It's nothing fancy by any means - it's the fabric that's cool. Two words: Quilters Batik.
I finally, yes finally, put away all that cardstock I ordered - that arrived about a month ago. I put it away yesterday because I was not going back to work without having done that. I had told Jen I would bring in one piece of each color and she could decide what she wanted and I'd sell it to her at cost. But! As I was putting the paper away I decided to go one better. I gave her 5 sheets of each color. That stack had to be 3" thick. I was so excited to give it to her - it made me so happy! Sometimes when I give her my old magazines or something, I'll just leave it on her desk but this time I wanted to see her face light up when she saw all that colorful cardstock. It lit up, alright! She loved it, needless to say. That was fun.
Oh! Check this out. Here's what I found on my desk this morning, in terms of Christmas gifts: a giant holiday 3 pound bag of red & green M & Ms, a box of Russell Stover chocolates, a bag of chocolate truffles and a dark chocolate Santa on a stick. Do these people know me or what?? I'm sharing the M & Ms and the Russell Stover chocolates but the truffles and Santa will be coming home with me. I'll be savoring those in the not too distant future!
In our office, sent to us by one of the financial vendors we deal with, was a 15" x 15" box of dark and light chocolates shaped like computers and mice - the majority of those have been eaten though. There were a few cookies and there had been another gift basket that was consumed last week. That was mostly cheese and crackers and cookies. More stuff a newly gall bladder free person shouldn't eat!
Out by the coffee machine is one of those big tins of 3 kinds of popcorn. I live for Christmas because typically one or more of our vendors sends our company those tins. It's the kind of thing I would never buy myself because I'd eat it all - but it's nice to dig into those things for a little snack at work. I'm not sure I'll try any of that this year though. Hopefully it will all be gone soon, making my decision easier.
I opened my desk drawer today and saw the partial bag of dark chocolate covered pretzels I'd left there. I actually ate two today with no ill effects. I ate some of my Chex Mix too, cashews included, with no ill effects.
And I took in breakfast as I mentioned in a previous post and everyone liked that. I had my nice poppy seed bagel with jam on it. Delish!
See how we are about food around there?? That second week, leading up to my surgery, I was feeling the best I'd felt and felt kinda guilty about not working. I know it was best I stayed home, but part of the reason I didn't want to be there was because of all this fat-laden food that I knew would be around.
I'm getting pretty annoyed at the blogger.com support people. It's been four days with no response, other than their immediate auto-response. Not very good customer service, I'm afraid. I fired off another email tonight, upping the nasty quotient just a tad. I thought I would have at least gotten a please-be-patient acknowledgement of one of my emails. My friend Ann looked at the code of another Blogger blog and it seems I'm missing the header info. I copied and pasted code from another blog into my template, changing the blod ID and blog title - but that didn't fix it. (Ann, I'll send you a screenshot of my template because it looks different than what you see on the screen. Maybe you'll be able to see something I missed.)
It felt so good to sleep in my own bed last night. The animals seemed happy that we were all back in our routine. By the time I left this morning, they were all in their usual sleep-the-day-away spots.
I mentioned buying some fabric yesterday but I'll hold off telling you about it until what I'm making is done so I can show you. It's nothing fancy by any means - it's the fabric that's cool. Two words: Quilters Batik.
I finally, yes finally, put away all that cardstock I ordered - that arrived about a month ago. I put it away yesterday because I was not going back to work without having done that. I had told Jen I would bring in one piece of each color and she could decide what she wanted and I'd sell it to her at cost. But! As I was putting the paper away I decided to go one better. I gave her 5 sheets of each color. That stack had to be 3" thick. I was so excited to give it to her - it made me so happy! Sometimes when I give her my old magazines or something, I'll just leave it on her desk but this time I wanted to see her face light up when she saw all that colorful cardstock. It lit up, alright! She loved it, needless to say. That was fun.
posted by Stefani at 8:10 PM
1 Comments:
So, looks like you're feeling much better now. That's a very good thing! It must be really hard to be around all those snacks at work! I'd have to have my jaws wired shut!
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