Good Morning World!

It's been five days! I've been very busy, very tired, and have had an awful cold.

Monday I toughed work out hardcore. I was getting sicker by the moment, but I pushed on. I don't like failing where I work at all. Just after 10pm, I had our last few customers checking out and was waiting by the door to let them out.(The doors were turned off and locked at this point.) One woman leaving asked if I was sick because she could hear my sniffles. I said yes and boy was she an angry bitch. She literally turned evil - horns and fire - and demanded SICK PEOPLE SHOULD NOT COME TO WORK! YOU TOUCHED MY GROCERIES! I just said very clear, I did NOT touch your groceries. She had maybe two bags and I did actually remember walking by and putting her two, already filled bags, into her cart to be nice just a little while before. Then she nastily stated, YOU TOUCHED MY BAGS!!!! DO YOU HAVE HAND SANITIZER SOMEWHERE?? As a matter of fact, I did right behind me have a container of alcohol wipes on the wall. I grabbed the container and held it out before her. She stared at me shocked that I had touched the container. I'LL GET MY OWN! PUT IT BACK ON THE WALL. I just though geese, this old bitch must have aids or something to be that concerned...if she used the wipes, she didn't even have to touch the container whether I was holding it or not. STUPID DUMB IDIOT - that's what she was. She went back inside and got new fresh grocery bags as I had obviously heavily contaminated them. Meanwhile, a man drove by and asked if we were open from inside his truck NO! I said across the way...CAN I JUST COME IN A BUY A PACK OF CIGARETTES!? I just can't let anyone in after hours I told him. BUT I SEE SOME PEOPLE IN THERE? I CAN JUST GIVE YOU THE MONEY AND YOU CAN GO BUY THEM FOR ME AND BRING THEM BACK HERE. Once again, i simply said I can't do that. He flicked me off and drove away. Are you that desperate that you have to pester a grocery store girl and be mean to her? I guess he was, he needed them so bad, I hope he drove next door and got them at the gas station. It would take him all of 10 seconds to get there. What a dumbass. I get really sick of nasty folk being mean to me at work somedays I can't stand it. It honestly will make me cry. I don't always take it personally, but when there's just an abundance of it going on in one day, it makes me sick to my stomach. Assholes. This world is a buncha assholes. I just wanted to go home and get better.

Tuesday, I was extremely sick and flat out called out of work. It was a horrible feeling making that phone call, but I had to do it to recover or I was just going to get worse. I don't like shorting my grocery store with workers, but it happens often so I felt assured they'd get by whether I was there or not. The show goes on - even if you fall asleep watching it. I spent most of the day laying on the couch, bundled up, coughing my brains out. No fun at all.

Wednesday, I was a bit better and wasn't scheduled to work anyways. Jer and I had decided to go to the School and help his mom with a few things to get some community service hours to pay off my speeding ticket. Unfortunately, something came up and both of our horrible colds impeded us from going. I went by myself to get a new fish for my tank - a little algae eater. He is so cute! We got some coffee and lunch and just chatted for a while. We felt pretty good as long as we weren't doing "work" for some reason, so we went over to Ayla's apartment - shes's one of my best friends and is in our November wedding as a bridesmaid :) Over there, we watched "Food Inc." and "Supersize Me" to remind us of the damages our foods and food choices are causing us. We decided we'd go on a 21 day fruit and vegetable fast that she is participating in with her Church up in Jacksonville. Actually, I think many Churches do this every January to cleanse and begin fresh and of course concentrate on our prayers to God to get us through the fasting and life in general. Ayla has begun already, but Jer and I aren't starting until the 10th. I'm very excited and pumped about it. We had a lot of fun at Ayla's talking about it and she has really inspired me. I told her i might be calling her every 5 seconds when I am craving bread, meat, and cheese. haha! When we got home around 10:30 or so, Jer and i wiped out our pantry and fridge of the 5 things that Dr. Oz said you should never eat. Well, we threw out the cold ones and just hid the dry items. These items include:

Saturated Fats
Sugar
Enriched/White grains
Trans fats/hydrogenated oils
High-fructose corn syrup

It was very invigorating to get rid of these things!

Thursday, when i woke up - I found my new fish dead. It was very sad - so I made Jeremy flush him. Poor little guy, I think he froze to death but i'm not sure. My other little fishling is doing quite well. I want him to have a friend, but i need to take my water to the pet store to get tested. I really don't want another one to die on me. I went to work and it kind of sucked in general. We didn't get the store completely leveled so I felt like i was a failure and it was my fault. I think my error was that I didn't monitor the levelers enough to make sure they were doing their best. I don't think a lot of them cared enough to do their best on this particular night. Oh well, other days will come that are far more sucessful.

Friday was alright. I worked 10-7 and it was JAM PACKED with people almost all day. I was the coordinator and i was on register pretty much 7.5 of the 8 hours. It went by fairly quickly though. I think people were freaking out because this weekend is supposed to be extremely cold. Well, cold for a middle west coast Florida region. Some news stations even stated SNOW, but that is impossible. I've lived here for 24 years - my whole life and have never seen snow. It's not going to happen. It's 36 degress outside right now and I know that's cold, but it just won't snow. After work, I took another step toward my fruit and veggie fast. I bought a WHOLE lot of them and a couple of spices. I'm so challenged! After that, I rushed home and jer and I went to Applebees with Jeff and Amy. It was fun to chat for a bit and eat that nasty unhealthy food one last time. Well, for a three weeks anwyways.

Today, I just got up right before writing this so who knows what the day holds! For sure - a lot of cold...and coffee for now since I am making some. Jer just scooped the litter box in the freezing cold and he came in laughing because he loves it so much. Hopefully, someday we move up north and have a big home with some land, and some fireplaces of course. :)