How Did I Make It Through The Day?

So, yesterday I left the office right after my last painful meeting because I had a fever, sore throat, and headache. I came home and found out the UPS hadn't delivered my books (see previous post). I did, however, go ahead and go into my "class" and complete the orientation and then headed off to bed. 

This morning I woke up, no more fever, although I did still have a little bit of a headache, but I opted to go ahead and go in to the office because I knew that my boss was going to be working from home and one of us needed to be there to represent some form of intelligent life form in our department. When I get in to the office I get an email from the boss lady asking me to do her daily dashboard. Anyway, blah, blah, blah... I got through a bunch of other stuff today and dealt face to face with a number of different people. 

I get home this afternoon and go to change out of my work clothes and reach up to take off my earrings. I realize at that time (12 hours after I put them on) that I had two different earrings on. 

So, my question, did nobody else even notice? Did I just not rate eye contact and therefore ear contact? Understand, I have short hair. Short hair cut above the ears short hair. I was wearing long dangly earrings. Were people just being nice and not wanting to point out such a mistake? Was it the fact that I only dealt with boys today? If you had noticed this, would you have told me, or just thought I was making some sort of wacky fashion statement (sorta punk thing to go along with my khaki pants and black cardigan)? 

Rant Against UPS

I do not understand UPS and their delivery folks....

I have signed up for a paid for a continuing education course in order to get my Six Sigma Greenbelt Certification. The course is all on-line and I had to order my books and have been anxiously awaiting their arrival so that I could begin studying. Well, they are being delivered by UPS.

Wednesday, I get home from work and there is one of the UPS sticky notes on my door saying that they tried to deliver a package, but I wasn't home. However, I could sign the sticky note and leave it at the same place and they will leave my package. So, Thursday morning before I leave, I sign the notice and I stick it on my door.

All day Thursday I'm all giddy because I know I'm going to come home and have my books so that I can start my class.... As I walk out of my garage Thursday afternoon, I glance over at the wall of mailboxes, and lo-and-behold, there is a UPS sticky note saying they tried again to deliver my package, but it I wanted to sign the notice and leave it in the same place, then they will leave it there the next day. I get to thinking, well, maybe this is for a different package, so hopefully my books will be left by my apartment door, where I left the first sticky note signature.

Nope, I get off the elevator and look down the hall and do not see a package there and the sticky note that I signed in the morning is still on my door.

So, Wednesday's driver made the effort to actually go up the elevator and leave a note for my on my door. Thursday's driver was too friggin' lazy to do that and therefore did not see that I had ALREADY SIGNED FOR THE PACKAGE. Instead, they are going to have to make ANOTHER trip to my building to leave me my books.

I now have a signed sticky note on my apartment door and one on my mailbox. Do we think I will actually have my books when I get home this evening?

Why can't they all be consistent? Grrrr

Trying to Break The Cycle

I'm once again trying to break the cycle of caffeine. I made the mistake recently and started ordering soda when I've been out at restaurants. Then I bought a some Dr. Pepper to have at home. I also bought some of the bottled Starbucks frappucinos.

I'd been so good in cutting caffeine out of my life and had been feeling much better. I was saving money on not buying the $5ish coffees and sleeping better. But that all went to hell in a hand basket the past couple of weeks.

Yesterday, I had not one but two big Dr. Peppers, finishing the last one up around 8:30 while watching Biggest Loser and listening to Will and The Hot Chics, with "Polly", Queen B, and "Natassia". I then was wired enough to stay up and watch the end of Dancing with the Stars.

I headed off to bed around 11:15ish, which is REALLY late for me. I then couldn't figure out why I felt so strange. I couldn't relax. My legs were all jumpy. I couldn't find a comfortable spot. I just wasn't happy. Then it dawned on me....caffeine.

Eventually, I did fall asleep and it was really hard getting up this morning, but I managed to drag myself out of bed. I had a huge struggle this morning on my way into the office... stop at Starbucks/don't stop at Starbucks...

I ended up passing on stopping and now I can't stop yawning. If I can make it through the day, hopefully I'll be able to sleep this evening and not have to deal to much with the caffeine detox...

Family Horn Tooting!!!

This past weekend my Mom, niece, and nephew all entered quilts into the Trinity Valley Quilt Guild's annual quilt show.

My Mom, who is a prolific art quilter, entered 3 or 4 quilts, I'm not quite sure. Every time that I would hear from her she was putting on ANOTHER quilt sleeve or binding another quilt in preparation for the show. Part of this was probably due to the fact that she was also in charge of the miniature quilt auction as well as participating in a group quilt with her Creative Crones quilting group.

My niece and nephew both entered quilts as well. The show has a "Young Quilters" category that they could have entered, but that category is not judged and coming from a somewhat competitive family they wanted to have their work judged. So, they both ended up in the "Small Pieced Machine Quilted" category. Mom's, I'm sure were in the "Art Quilt" category.

Anyway, Mom won an Honorable Mention and a Third place for two of her quilts. She also won part of the shared prize for her small 9"x12" Alzheimer's Quilt which will be auctioned off to help fund Alzheimer research. Check out the Alzheimer Quilt Project, if you are interested in learning more. I don't have pictures of my Mom's quilts to display, at least not the finished quilts.

Now to the big news, my nephew, Colin, who is 11 won Second Place in his category!! This is his first quilt ever, and I'm very happy for him!! He did all the work himself on this quilt, except for some of the quilting that my mom did. I don't know if this is going to be something that he will pursue, but I'm very proud of our boy. He won and won big against a bunch of ladies that have probably been making quilts for years!! Here is his quilt before the quilting was done while it is up on Mom's design wall:




Colin - I'm SOO proud of you!!