Ramblings of a Receptionist

Well last week was pretty much a write off. I was home sick from Tuesday afternoon to Thursday with stomach pains.  It started up on Saturday and every time I ate something, didn't matter what it was, it would upset my stomach. Sunday I ended up throwing up and then afterwards I felt so much better. At first I thought it was this drink I was making for myself. In my last post I wrote about trying to get myself healthy and so I decided I was going to take Metamucil to help clean my body out. So I had been taking it for a week and by Saturday I felt ill. But nope it wasn't the drink making me sick it was a stomach virus. I did not like that feeling at all. I felt very tired and I could barely eat because every time I did it made my stomach knot up. So I went to my fancy new doctor and he prescribed me lovely pills to stop the nausea. He also mentioned it can take 7-10 days for a stomach virus to leave your body and there is not much I can other then let it run its course. This is BALLS I say.

One of my favourite things to do when I’m sick is to watch Sound of Music. Julie Andrews always makes things better but not this time. Julie Andrews did not work her magic, not even singing my favourite things worked. L So on Friday I went back to work because, even though it’s only the end of January, I have already used up all my sick days for the year. DOUBLE BALLS. Hehe that makes me giggle.

Thankfully it wasn't a busy day at work and I got to take it pretty easy. That’s one of the bonuses, if the only bonus to being a Receptionist, it’s usually pretty quiet at the front desk unless a bill comes in that I have to enter into a spreadsheet. Don’t get me wrong I like my job. Its pretty standard, the pay is good, I like the people I work with, but man can days drag on like a sonofabitch. 

The weekend was pretty good though. On Saturday we headed out to our friend Heather’s house. She made us a yummy dinner and introduced us to two new shows. Well new to us. I really enjoyed both of them and I will have to get the first one on DVD if I can find it. It’s called Wonderfalls and is only one season as it was cancelled after only 13 episodes. I think a lot of that had to do with the theme song opening. It was really corny.  

But the best thing of all, was Heather gave me her old Kobo touch e-reader. I've been planning on getting one for a while and she had one that she never used so she gave it to me. I've already restored it to its factory settings loaded it up with all the new updates, read all the manuals. Now I’m just ready to put books on it.

I’m not the biggest book reader ever. I tend to read the same books over and over again. But I just really like the idea that if I wanted to read a book I've got a number of them on me at all times.

So for right now I will probably just be adding books that I already own onto the Kobo. But I can already see how this is going to be beneficial for me. There is a series I read that has 12 books in it. Crazy right?!?  The next book in the series comes out in March but only in hardcover. Here’s where my crazy OCD comes into play. I own the series in softcover and don’t want to buy it in hardcover because it won’t match the rest of the series. Weird huh? Hopefully I’m not the only one who thinks this way. Please if you’re reading this don’t judge me. Anyway now with the e-reader I can just buy it digitally, and then when the book comes out in softcover I will add it to the collection. But that won’t be for another year or so.

Moving on, so on Sunday I went to see Les Miserable for the second time with my cousin Mike. He liked the movie a lot and said it was better then he was expecting. Clearly I liked it a lot too since I saw it twice. I think what made it great for me was that I knew the actors where actually singing. It wasn't lip synced or dubbed. It was all live which you could tell while watching it. I will admit the first time I went to go see it I was excited but also super worried that it wasn't going to be as good as they were making it out to be. You know when the build up a movie and you go and see it and you walk out thinking WTF.

Example: Prometheus. You go in to the movie thinking it’s gonna be awesome. How could you not? The trailer was amazing and it’s a prequel to Aliens for crying out loud. The tag line was even “all questions will be answered” UMMM huh no they weren't  If anything if gave me more questions. But let’s not get into that. I’m pretty sure that movie has gotten enough bad review on it.

So after the movie Richard and I went to Mike’s house for some dinner with my Aunt and Uncle which was delicious. I love their cooking so much. All in all it was a pretty good weekend to end off a crappy week.

And now it’s Monday and it’s snowing a lot outside. Not the greatest for driving but its Canada and its January so it’s to be expected. This winter has not been bad at all so I’m not even going to complain. And from what I heard it’s all going to be gone by tomorrow. We are getting into the double digits again and its suppose to be sunny.

Well if you made it this far through my ramblings I’m impressed. I’m working on a couple of crafty projects right now so the next couple posts will be all about that.

Bye for now.