stephanie is: 
congested…
so i made it through the stomach part of the flu thing much better off than everyone else who has had it at work. i just had two days of a really sour stomach. i sipped on yogi tea’s raspberry-ginger digestive aid tea all day tuesday and work was completely bearable. the best test was having someone throw up across the room from me and i didn’t feel any worse. i highly recommend the tea if you have an upset stomach (probably not if you are feeling so bad you are already throwing up though). it tastes kinda bad thanks to all the ginger, black pepper, peppermint, licorice, etc.. but all those things combine to make my tummy happy.
i am now entering the head cold stage of the plague. i am hoping i get off as easy as i have been. i have felt so unproductive these past few days, though. i get home from work and have to nap for a couple hours. then i eat dinner and go to bed. oh well, clients are probably celebrating thanksgiving this week anyway.
today, while i was working my morning shift in the big playroom, one of the girls working front desk comes back and tells me my husband is here. i got all worried because he has never stopped by… i was worried it was something so bad he couldn’t even tell me on the phone. but i got out front and he had a bagel fixed my favorite way and a huge rice crispy treat (i had had a strange craving for one the night before when my appetite was coming back). sooo sweet. everyone was like, “awwww”. throughout the day we were supposed to have about 60 dogs get dropped off and checked in for boarding. we were worried it would be a mad-house out front, but the combination of having everything streamlined into a quick check-in system and people managing to space themselves out pretty well made everything work out. i was supposed to open up a lounge on second shift, but we didn’t have enough quiet lounge dogs yet so i just helped out front.
tomorrow and friday i work. i get time-and-a-half for tomorrow’s hours. it will be me and two other girls in the morning… with 70 dogs. fun times! making the breakfasts is going to take a while. we’ll have the same amount of dogs working on friday, but all but one employee will be working instead of just a few of us.
i left the whole thanksgiving dinner thing up to danny. he mentioned lots of yummy stuff he is going to make like: rice pilaf, mashed tatos, sweet potatoes, and cheesecake brownies. sounds like i’ll have a good lunch on friday! i think we might be eating dinner with my family on friday. i might get to meet the lady my daddy has been dating. strange but cool.
here are some things i say/do at work that you probably don’t (both the good and the bad):
- “leave it! pee is not a beverage!”
- resting on the futon in front of the tv with 3 – 5 bigdogs napping on me… and getting paid for it!
- cleaning up thrown-up poop.
- having some of the dogs love you so much they are nearly ripping their owner’s arm off trying to get to you when they arrive.
- “stop being a poop vulture…”
- “don’t let xxx kiss you – he’s a poo-eater.”
- mopping so much i have the ass-kicking arms i’ve always wanted.
- fabreezing myself on my way out in case i reek of dogs when i run errands.
- giving bathes to dogs of all ages and breeds – something i personally enjoy.
- sending dogs home happy and exhausted at the end of their stay.
here are paintings for our half-bath. i love van gogh… i already have had the small framed “starry night”, but i just got the big sidewalk cafe one. i got the frame on sale for $16 and the print and mats with a coupon for $7 total. jackpot! at some point in the future i would like this (or basically that print with light mats and whatever gold wood frame) for the third wall in there. i can’t really buy that right now. only got the other cause it was such and insane deal and i had been stalking that section of the store for months waiting for the right frame to go on sale. i can try to get it during an after-christmas sale or something. i want to paint that bathroom in a color that is light and buttery.
the sky looks so pretty on days when i run errands on the way home from work. i get out of work at 3pm-3:30pm if i am not working overtime. the sun sets before 5pm now. i drive to work during sunsets now, thanks to the time change. it looks very similar to that… just more pink and purple. i love cranking up led zeppelin and driving towards the sunset. traffic is never very bad that early.
here are some random photos/movies:
okay, i have been writing this way too long. i woke up from napping at 7ism pm. i heated up leftover garlic pasta for dinner and ate that and some animal crackers while writing this. now it is 9pm and i need to go upstairs, do a few braids (must finish 100 by the 12th!!), and get in bed. it is likely it will take me a while to get to sleep because of my nap, but there are millions of shows on tivo that i haven’t had time to see.
happy thanksgiving! and if you don’t celebrate thanksgiving (or are working through it like me), then happy thursday!