Enough already

Ok, so this nasty weather can stop anytime! It has been raining with crazy wind all day, and I've had enough. I'm never going to get over this cold with the weather being so crappy. My whole store has the same cold. We have all been passing around the same virus it seems. Gross. I've still been going to the gym though and training for the Bay to Breakers race. Sydney has been going to the gym with me. Surprisingly, she is able to stick it out through my whole workout. She gets on the treadmill and listens to her iPod, singing along loudly. It is so funny because there is such an echo in the gym that is gets really loud. I don't ming though because usually it is just her and I in there.

The other day I went in for my first orthrodontic appointment and was less than thrilled to find out that it is going to take 22 months of braces for straighten my teeth. Even worse, they will have to pull 4 of my permanent back teeth to make room for all of my teeth to come back. Yikes. Just the thought of having braces makes me shudder. But I have to do it. The pain in my jaws has gotten worse lately, and if I don't do something about it I might end up locking my jaw again. Yikes again.

Next week I am going on vacation! Jim and I are leaving for Southern California Monday afternoon and I can't wait. I definitely need a break for work. Oh yes, I do.

Running and drinking

I am finally starting to feel better! I've still got the lingering side effects of that nasty cold, but I am actually feeling better. On Sunday, Jim and I registered for the Bay to Breakers race in SF. It is the first race ever for Jim and I'm really excited about it. He is not as excited. He is not a runner (or a walker for that matter). He has not ran such a distance since he was in the police academy. But he said he was going to do it, and I wasted no time registering him. So of course that means we have to start training. I haven't started yet because I want to be 100% well before I start running again. Jim is dreading the training. We went Fleet Feet in Stockton to get him a new pair of running shoes and he decided to count the running he did around the store as his first day of training. Yeah, right.

Yesterday was a draining day at work. I had to help my boss facilitate a 4 hour training session for the other store managers (so not my thing), then sit through a two hours of conference calls. My head was spinning after all of that. So of course we had to have post-training/conference call cocktails. Jim joined us after he got off work. This time it got a little crazy and we ended up moving our group down the street to a cigar lounge and stayed way too late. I drank way way too much. I had to leave my car downtown because there was no way I could drive. Thank god downtown Lodi is not ghetto like Stockton is. My car was actually there this morning, just as I left it.   :)

I'm still sick!

I can't believe I'm still sick! I definitely feel a lot better than I did on Tuesday, so that is at least something. I have been resting all week, and only leaving the house to take Sydney to and from school and to Starbucks. I did go to work yesterday so I could be there during peak on our busiest day, but after 30 minutes on the floor I was already out of breath and wheezing and exhausted. I worked about 3 hours on the floor, got caught up on email/orders/admin and went to P&Y to check on the store for Michelle. I went back to my store to wrap things up and found that I didn't really want to leave, despite that fact that I felt like total crap. My people are just great to be around. They work hard and they care about each other and the customers. I finally left, and several hours later one of shifts text me offering to cover my Saturday shift, so I let him. Like I said, my people are awesome. I just really hope that my new boss is not pissed that I've been out sick most of the week. Its bad enough I missed the district meeting. I also covered my serving shifts this week, so now I have until Monday to rest. Hopefully by then I'll be over this.

Being sick has meant I haven't been able to work out. In all honesty, I haven't been feeling well for the last couple of weeks, so I haven't worked out at all. I have lost a few pounds in the past month, which I'm sure is mostly attributed to Jim's low (no) carb diet. He started a low carb diet on January 1st and has lost about 15 pounds so far. He has been doing a really great job with it and is already looking thinner. I have not been doing the diet (it would be like setting myself up for failure), but I have been cooking no carb dinners for us at home. It has to be having a positive effect on my diet as well because I cook lean meat and huge portions of vegetables every night instead of the pasta or potatoes or rice like I would before. We always had some sort of vegetables before, but not as much. I'm really proud of him for really sticking to this diet.

Sicky and bitchy

Jim has been sick off and on for about 2 months, the kids have traded what seems to be the same cold back and forth and back again in the about the same amount of time. I thought I had gotten away without getting sick, but the inevitable started happening on Sunday: I felt it. Pain in my chest and back. I tried to tell myself I was just tired from the double shift that day. Then on Monday admin proved to be more torture than the norm as I felt my head pound and my eyes cross in front of the computer screen. Tuesday was to be a district meeting, and an important one as it as the first meeting with the realigned team. Even though I spent Monday night hacking and wheezing, I was actually looking forward to it, pink elephants and all. But then at 3am, I woke up having trouble breathing and a FEVER. I as like, really? A fever to top it all off? What the hell. At 5:45am, I came to finally came to terms with the fact that I am indeed sick and called up the boss to let him know I wasn't going to make it to the meeting. I went back to bed, pissed, burning up, miserable and worried that I had upset my new boss.

I missed post-district meeting cocktails. :(   I haven't felt any better today. I am super bitchy when I'm sick. My biggest issue is that I get really bored with laying around "resting". Yes, I know that is the point, but still. I have stuff to do. People to see, business to handle. I don't have time to be sick. I rearranged my schedule this week so I don't have to go back in until Friday. Hopefully I can shake this in the next 36 hours so I can be bright eyed and bushy tailed for when the boss shows up all like, what the fuck. Hopefully.