Lili's Diary

I'm afraid there will be no red hot monkey love over here. ha ha ha Since my hysterectomy, I'd sooner go travelling. A friend phoned me today to say she met a guy who's taking her to France & Greece. Why can't I meet men like that??

Well, I did a bit of comfort eating after work. Had a wee upsetting thing when I overheard a co-worker gossiping about me over the phone. He said he never liked me and it's been five years of love with sarcasm. Wow, what an asshole. I do most of his workload. Luckily he's retiring soon. Everyone knows he's a dud and doesn't perform, but I've always been very nice to him and patient with him, so I was taken aback when I heard him talk that way. My son picked me up from work and my dog licked me in the face as usual and I had a tear or two...OH the unconditional love of a puppy!!! God I love my dog. My son was kind and listened to me and told me to never be nice to this man again. I believe I shall heed this advice.

So 4 small chocolate chip cookies and a Sweet n' Salty bar (170 calories) later... SCHEIZE! I'm up to 1400 calories and haven't had supper yet!

Well, here's the nice part of my life..I've got tomorrow and Friday off. Yay, yahoo, yay, yaY, YAY!!! My son has his surgery tomorrow. His surgeon phoned to say he was not late, that the guy before my son took way longer than anticipated. I thanked him for taking the time to phone, can you imagine a surgeon taking that time...impressive. Then I took Friday ... just because. I am going to the gym starting tomorrow night. I think I'm at 154 pounds and one thing I'm really repeating to myself over and over again, is that at age 45, weight does not come off the same as when we're in our 30s or 20s. Our bodies change each decade. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to be healthy as ever, just not get down about the time it takes.

Oh my god, I just saw Teemu Selanne interviewed on t.v. with two of his blonde blonde little kids....god I love that man. They were asking if he'd retire...he said maybe if he wins the Stanley Cup.

K, I'm so damn chatty. No one has to read this...it's my diary and I'll write what I want to, write what I want to, you would write too, if it happened to you-ouuuu.
 
Sounds like someone heard about your great evaluation. What a sad pathetic man. I just feel sorry for whoever has to deal with him after he retires. You're fantastic, and I hope everything goes well with your son's surgery tomorrow. It's great that you have such supportive boys :)
 
I'm so sorry you had to hear that crap from that guy. I agree with your son, don't be overtly nice to him. You said you pick up a lot of his workload, don't! Let him do his own work and if he complains to you about it, tell him not to talk about people and saying the things he said.

I hope your son's surgery goes well! I hope that nothing goes wrong involving the timing of it and/or the iv part, lol.
 
Peace, Love and Red Hot Monkey Sex

I'm too tired to gloat, I'm not sure how I stayed awake during that game :sleeping:

Best of luck tomorrow.
 
Sometimes you just have to face that you're working with an asshole. I hope your son's surgery goes well.
 

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lukewarm said:
What a sad pathetic man. I just feel sorry for whoever has to deal with him after he retires. You're fantastic, and I hope everything goes well with your son's surgery tomorrow. It's great that you have such supportive boys :)
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Thanks Luke, I am so grateful for my sons. This pathetic guy has a huge sailboat and will have a charmed retirement with his lady friend in the Bahamas. As one of my co-workers often says, he's been on professional welfare for his whole career, collecting federal government salary for doing nothing. Now he'll reap the benefit of a federal government pension.
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I'm so sorry you had to hear that crap from that guy. I agree with your son, don't be overtly nice to him. You said you pick up a lot of his workload, don't! Let him do his own work and if he complains to you about it, tell him not to talk about people and saying the things he said.
I hope your son's surgery goes well! I hope that nothing goes wrong involving the timing of it and/or the iv part, lol.
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My boss tells me to do this goof's work, I don't offer, yet I do it out of integrity and conscience for the communities it benefits, as well as my interest in the area. Thanks, I hope all goes well with the surgery for my son's sake also :)
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I'm too tired to gloat, I'm not sure how I stayed awake during that game :sleeping:
Best of luck tomorrow.
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You're not much of a hockey fan if you could sleep through a game like THAT! lol And you can't gloat ... I didn't see you out there on that ice :rolleyes: It was a moment in history to hear the California fans cheer as they did at the end of the game...to hear americans in such a hot climate cheer about hockey like that...really was fantastic.
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Sometimes you just have to face that you're working with an asshole. I hope your son's surgery goes well.
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LOL True that. A-holes around every corner. lol Thanks ... I'll be glad when surgery's over...hope my son doesn't get too nervous.

Well, I'm off to the hospital...thanks for your support everyone (Luke, Risty, T2, Cannon). I'm sure things are going to go well this time. :)
 
2Skinny said:
Thanks Mish, I had a great day. My mom used warm milk too :) I'll think about giving that a try. Or chammomile tea...

Does that actually work - I use to use the sleepy time tea when I had problems sleeping - I but I bet it has chammomile in it , maybe ? LOL

Got my performance evaluation at work and it was far more glowing than warranted. What was really nice was my boss' boss, our Director, signs off on it and he wrote, "keep up the good work, I look forward to your participation in 07/08 activities when our regional structure will change due to retirements". This made me feel really respected because it's true we have a ton of folks in the mid 50s retiring in the next year to 3 years. I may be up for a promotion. If I eat healthy and exercise, I feel more confident.
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This is great to hear - you must be great at your job!!!

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I'm afraid there will be no red hot monkey love over here. ha ha ha Since my hysterectomy, I'd sooner go travelling. A friend phoned me today to say she met a guy who's taking her to France & Greece. Why can't I meet men like that??

Well, I did a bit of comfort eating after work. Had a wee upsetting thing when I overheard a co-worker gossiping about me over the phone. He said he never liked me and it's been five years of love with sarcasm. Wow, what an asshole. I do most of his workload. Luckily he's retiring soon. Everyone knows he's a dud and doesn't perform, but I've always been very nice to him and patient with him, so I was taken aback when I heard him talk that way. My son picked me up from work and my dog licked me in the face as usual and I had a tear or two...OH the unconditional love of a puppy!!! God I love my dog. My son was kind and listened to me and told me to never be nice to this man again. I believe I shall heed this advice.

So 4 small chocolate chip cookies and a Sweet n' Salty bar (170 calories) later... SCHEIZE! I'm up to 1400 calories and haven't had supper yet!

Well, here's the nice part of my life..I've got tomorrow and Friday off. Yay, yahoo, yay, yaY, YAY!!! My son has his surgery tomorrow. His surgeon phoned to say he was not late, that the guy before my son took way longer than anticipated. I thanked him for taking the time to phone, can you imagine a surgeon taking that time...impressive. Then I took Friday ... just because. I am going to the gym starting tomorrow night. I think I'm at 154 pounds and one thing I'm really repeating to myself over and over again, is that at age 45, weight does not come off the same as when we're in our 30s or 20s. Our bodies change each decade. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to be healthy as ever, just not get down about the time it takes.
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I wish I could meet a guy like that also :eek2: :rotflmao: - as for the asshole - he is just that - probually unhappy and miserable with himself and has nothign better to do than gossip abt nice ppl...he is probually jealous as well - what a jerk:mad:

2Skinny;265598[B said:
My boss tells me to do this goof's work, I don't offer, yet I do it out of integrity and conscience for the communities it benefits, as well as my interest in the area. Thanks, I hope all goes well with the surgery for my son's sake also :)[/B]

Well this just proves my theory of jealousy - also I think slackers know they are slackers...if you are getting his work load he must obviously know maybe it is intentional - LOL

Well, I'm off to the hospital...thanks for your support everyone (Luke, Risty, T2, Cannon). I'm sure things are going to go well this time. :)
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I hope all goes well in surgery and how compassionate of the doc to call and let you knwo what is going on - is he single - heh heh heh - ha ha ha...update us as soon as you can
 
Morning Anna!!! I hope for a speedy recovery for your son!! I read about that Ahole at work, we all have at least ONE of them in every building, In my years I have just learned to turn the other cheek, they are who they are and nobody out there is going to fix their sorry butts so why try. They have nothing exciting in their lives to talk about or distract them, so talking about others makes them feel better or worthy, so be it, who cares right??? We know here how awesome you are, and what a wonderful mother and friend you are. Oh and on the losing weight at certain ages, well I'm in my 30's and I'm still wondering why it's taking so damn long and I work so hard. "life" we all have to live it, so be it fat or thin on the outside, we are still all SEXY on the inside my friend and who can beat that!!! Enjoy your time off! :rotflmao:
Kim
 
Good morning Anna! I am sure your son will do great during his surgery. It is such a nervous process though!!! That guys sail boat in the bahamas is going to sink! or he will stumble on this unknown island with 28 Days later people and be torn down.. god I love horror movies;) seriously just brush it off. He has some sort of chip on his shoulder... most likely becuase you bested him at something and he found out. I truely believe that hard work pays for itself and he will get what's coming to him... even if you don't see it. I hope you and your son are doing well:hug2:
 
Anna, best wishes for a speedy recovery for your son. You'll have to let us all know how you both of you are doing.

As for the "Co-worker", well nothing can be added beyond what's been said. My daughter has a bumper sticker that says "MEAN PEOPLE SUCK" and there is nothing to do but agree. What a mean, petty, little, human being! We can add in incompetent and be done!

Enjoy your Friday!
 
Hi Anna! Just wanted to wish your son the best. It is really distressing when we hear others talking about us. He sounds like a chauvenist and a rather pathetic person. And not very bright if he's talking about long-term co-workers where they can overhear. I mean really..what an idiot!
 
Ahhhh, so you don't really have a choice to not do it even if you didn't want to. That's not right. Kinda reminds me of my mom. She used to work for the government and they got rid of this one position and so she had to do her job PLUS that whole other job. They didn't bump up her status either, she said she was working as a clerk 4 or something along those lines, but the work she was doing was this higher other administrative position and they wouldn't give that to her. They also wouldn't give her an increase in pay. She did that for 2 years and then finally quit (because she had 2 kids and a third was on the way and wanted to spend time with us.) See, she was working 7 days a week to keep up with the work and they wouldn't even pay her overtime. They said they would give it to her in holiday pay or something like that but she couldn't afford to take a day off with all the work she had to do. PLUS, everyone else who had just that ONE position they gave away and dumped on her, they got an assistant, she didn't get one. So when she quit NO ONE would take that job and so they finally moved it up to the higher status it should have been and then someone took it.

I just wanted to mention that just because your story just reminded me of what my mom had to work through. I'm glad she doesn't have to deal with that anymore, she said she never regretted quiting that job and I'm glad :)

Good luck with your job, I know you'll do fine and hopefully you won't have to be around that guy for too much longer!
 
Oh my dear friends. Where do I begin? I was in the hospital for 12 hours today. First, a HUGE thank you for all your support on my son's surgery.

No problem inserting the I.V. but the surgeon came out to tell me the surgery was "challenging", that Al was a bleeder, therefore his nose required packing and his blood pressure shot up dangerously high so he had to stop and although he removed all the polyps in the nasal cavity, he was not able to get at any in the sinus cavities since the blood was too profuse.

Al's 44 year old dad is on medication for high blood pressure. His dad had a stroke at the age of 57 and died at the age of 67. High blood pressure runs crazy in his family. It's 95% genetic. I called my brother long distance to have a cry and then my sister came to the hospital to stay with me for the rest of the day.

Al comes out of post-op and back into the recovery room...with a flood of nurses. Al gives me the look of "you aren't going to believe this". The nurses scatter and Al tells me he was NOT put under general anaesthetic, instead he was given local anesthetic with sedation. He said the sedation didn't work because he could feel everything and was fully alert. In prior consults the surgeon told us the drug he would administer during surgery would make him fly so high, some patients actually sing to him.

Alex said the pain was excruciating. With two instruments (camera and cutter) way up in his nose, and blood gurgling in his throat, he could barely talk. He asked if it was supposed to hurt this much, and he asked them to take a break, but they ignored him. When you have pain to the point of passing out...that's pain. His fists were clenched and he thought he might pass out. He was in shock in post-op.

To top it all off, they strapped his forehead to the table and Al said it was digging into his forehead and super tight. Al said the surgeon and nurses were all saying to him (DURING surgery, if you can imagine - nothing like scaring an 18 year old under the knife) that he needs medication for his high bp and should follow up with a specialist.

Al had no pain after the surgery which surprised us, but it's likely because only the nose polyps were removed...it's the sinus cavities that kill and the surgeon couldn't get that far.

The surgeon gave orders to the nurses we couldn't leave until 8 pm to ensure bleeding was under control and blood pressure normalized. He asked a specialist to visit us re: blood pressure and he said anyone who's in severe pain will have their bp go up. He took Al's bp with different instrumentation and it was normal...he said the hospitals fancy bp machines are not accurate and that even with a family history of high bp, there is no way in hell an 18 year old should be concerned with high bp..that this can be monitored later in his adult life. That's exactly what my GP told me last summer when Al & J had high bp. I'll follow up with my GP after this, even if the specialist said I don't have to.

I did not see the surgeon again but will see him tomorrow at 7 am to have the packing removed. I will ask why Al couldn't have been put completely under, to save him from that trauma. It seems barbaric to me.

By the end of the 12 hours, my sister, Al and I were laughing cuz Al has such a good sense of humor. There's so much love in my family and we had a lot of good nurses today.

I managed to keep my calories at 1500 today, but didn't take much trying...I was literally sick all day from stress. I'm incredibly tired and going to bed.
 
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What a story! I'm speechless.
I'm glad to hear about the bp turning out to be normal after the op. I have a hard time understanding why they would do an op like this with merely a sedation, but I guess we'll find that out when you meet the surgeon.
I'm sending happy and peaceful thoughts your way and hope your son can handle the trauma well. :eek:
Julie
 
sorry to hear of the trauma your son went through. pray he recovers soon.
u hv a good rest too. keep the love going! :hug2:
 
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