I survived yet another year! They are starting to pile up on me a bit. Better than the alternative tho so not going to whine about it. This has been a boring/interesting day! My first big struggle was my impulse to wear jeans to work. That's a privilege that is supposed to be reserved for Fridays but I felt my birthday was special enough to warrant it. I got over myself and dressed nicely. Slacks, blouse, sweater. Blah!
Got to work and discovered an apparent break-in! Talked to the 2 co-workers who were here and we discovered that they robbers succeeded! Called the police. Several laptops were stolen. An ipod and deck are gone. They broke into a safe. I didn't even know we had a safe! Shows how much I pay attention! The safe didn't have anything in it. I wonder how much time they wasted doing that? What did they think they'd find that would be worthwhile? CASH?? HAHAHAHAHA! We don't put cash in safes and store them in the conference room! I think they were classic idiots.
Told Ken about it and he was calming me down from being scared. Except I wasn't scared. Can't even say I was mildly annoyed. They left my office alone. And it gave a little excitement to my typical boring day at work.
Next, underwear guy from across the way did a little tai chi/yoga thing in the window. I call him underwear guy because one morning I came in, glanced out my office window and there he was, in his unders, wandering around in his apartment across the street! I was a little surprised to see that his body looked as good as it did since he is recovering from a bout of cancer. He's done that routine one time since and now I find it boring. But the tai chi/yoga thing was new. Lots of turning around and arms extended stuff. Posing essentially. Lasted all of 2 minutes. I wonder if it helped?
So today has been marginally more interesting than usual! YAY!! I'll take what I can get. It was marginally more depressing too. I stepped on the scale today and my diet is going backwards. Not good! Today is my first day trying Sensa. We'll see how that goes. I'm supposed to sprinkle it on everything I eat. So if it won't adhere to my candy bar I've decided I will lick it first so it will stick. That's called commitment!! That bad attitude is also why my diet is going backwards.
I'm supposed to go for a caramel apple drink thingy tonight with Kim but haven't heard from her so thinking that won't happen. I'll be sad not to see her because she's fun! But I'll also be glad to have more time to deal with my stinky dog (he is foul again) and bake some banana bread. Tomorrow I'm volunteering from 5:30 - 8 so won't have a lot of free time until Wed. There's always a silver lining!
Kim has surgery on her foot tomorrow and she had a funeral today so I won't be surprised if she gets detoured! I'm a little surprised she thought she could pull it off! But she is a pressure junkie! She tends to have every minute of every day scheduled for herself and her kids and if one thing goes wrong she hits crisis mode! Kind of an uber Mom...a tired uber Mom. I was more of a lazy Mom type than an uber Mom :) I'm extremely good at managing stress unless it decides to avalanche on me.
Yesterday I started my birthday celebrations despite Jesus being sick. Turns out he has bronchitis and a sinus infection. Luckily he also has drugs now so should begin feeling better soon! I was bummed. I think I said that in my entry yesterday. Then I got over it! Lacey & I decided to go to the Como Zoo, despite it being 13 degrees out, and visit the critters. Then we would pick up Chris from work and go to the Mall of America (MOA) to go to Underwater World which has now been renamed Sea Life. Ended up having a great day up until Penelope decided she had had enough and had a little meltdown. Her somber faced parents marched her and her little red wagon to the car, with me chasing behind with their crepes from our semi-aborted dessert. Considering that we took Penelope out of her normal routine, made her sit mostly for 5 hrs and wouldn't let her do back flips or crawl around I think she was pretty patient with us! What is a little kid to do when the grown-ups just don't know when to knock it off? Well, they throw a fit and cry and create a little general chaos!!
I'm having a good birthday!
