Friday, Feb 13th
I was working again on Friday the 13th, from 1:45 until 10pm. I saw my roommate Dianne while I was waiting for the bus before work, and later that night while I was on a break. That was a fun treat to make my day a little more fun.
I met a girl from Australia while we were waiting on the bus after work. She had a friend from Warrensburg, which is very close to Kansas City so that was fun. She was very nice.
I was starting to feel better from my head cold, but I started having serious stomach pains this afternoon, so that wasn't great. It kept me up part of the night and I slept really badly.
Saturday, February 14th
Happy Valentine's Day
My cold was all gone, but my stomach was still really mad at me.
I woke up to a sweet email from Alan that made me wish I was back in Lawrence, cuddled up watching tv with him and Daisy in my oh-so-comfy bed. I felt super pukey which didn't help, but I worked from 12 to 7:15 which was at least distracting. I got to do strollers at the end of day and that's my favorite.
A handful of drunk people came to talk to us as the night wound down. There was a couple with their friend who asked us if we knew any good single guys for her to date. They were pretty funny. The guy of the group said he could tell I was in a committed relationship because I had that responsible, committed glow. I'm not even sure what he meant by that, but he was right so I couldn't argue.
I went home and did some around the house stuff. I called Alan and we video chatted for a while which was really, really nice.
Also, according to my notes, it was really cold. Cold for Florida anyway.
Sunday, Feb 15
By Sunday I was feeling a lot better physically, but the homesick was seriously getting to me. I was feeling that I might have made a horrible mistake and wondering what the point of this whole thing was. I thought I might have made another Pippin choice and considered calling my therapist to chat a bit.
Instead I decided to do what I could to make myself better and did all the things I mentioned in this post. I also discovered a frozen dinner I actually liked (the truffle mac and cheese by evol at Target) which was fantastic.
At work I did a lot of tasking and got to do strollers for a long time. Captain Phoebus from Hunchback of Notre Dame was outside my store meeting guests and I had a good time watching him from the distance. I was hoping he was out meeting when I had my breaks so I could meet him, but it didn't work out.
When I was on my second break I got the very bad news that my fascinating Great Aunt had passed away and couldn't stop from falling apart a little bit. A very sweet leader passed by me and sat down to talk about what was wrong. When my break was over she had me tell a manager who was equally sweet and gave me a hug which really just made me cry harder. They let me take my time to get it together and offered to let me go home if I needed to. But being at work kept me busy and distracted so I stayed. Everyone was very understanding about the whole situation and offered to let me have time off if I needed. I really do have some really great leaders and I love some of them bunches.
I was starving when I got home and decided to make myself an egg and cheese Boboli pizza, but I kept forgetting to hit 'start' on the oven so it took me forever to get it cooked. Silly me. I ate my late dinner and chatted with Adriana until bedtime.
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