The last 4 weeks have been funny, weird, sad, depressing and annoying. Alot of different states of mind for one major reason. This woman at work that I considered a friend but got pissed off at me for wanting to talk about her being unhappy at work. Anyway, after her huge dissing of me she ended with “I don’t wanna talk to you anymore”. So for the past 4 weeks everytime she’s wanted computer help she’s called my collegues directly, not the helpdesk number since she knows it’s a good chance I’ll answer. And she’s kept check of when I work late so she doesn’t call at all. And she’s totally avoided this part of the building. And I’ve returned the favor by avoiding her part of the building, not taking on any cases that’s remotely close and for her last few days here I even made sure I wasn’t here by going to Gothenburg and working there for a few days. Had I been here and she’s come by handing in her laptop and to say goodbye I’m sure I’d said “sorry to see you go, good luck there and good luck with everything, have fun”, but that’d been a lie. I actually don’t… I really dislike her after all of this and if it wasn’t against my life philosophy, I might even go as far as hating her for it. But oh well, now she’s out of here and I can go back to normal work again. But atleast I managed not to talk to her for 4 weeks.
So that’s one problem eliminated. My second problem I solved with alot of overtimes and all my credit that I still had on some cards after my year of travelling and paying hotell bills for $2500 all the time, so the other day I paid $2000 to the IRS. I can’t really complain seeing as I spent over a year travelling the world on the taxpayers expense.
Last weekend I came down with the cold from hell. And it’s finally starting to go away. It was so bad I had to take prescription painkillers to make it down to Gothenburg since I was suppose to do some work down there, but when that was done I called in sick for the rest of the week. And now I’m back in Gothenburg again. Never been a big fan of this town but after beeing here a few days I guess it’s ok. The beer tastes just as good anyway. But it’s too grey for my liking!
As usual after donating a pint of blood I feel good. Not sure if it’s a mental feel good about doing something good or a physical thing, but I generally feel good afterwards. And the other day I was surprised at just how well I felt – I didn’t have an ache anywhere. No sore back, no headache, nothing. That was nice.
Unfortunately it didn’t last – yesterday I woke up and my throat felt like I’d swallowed fire. No problem with that, I just have to refrain from talking. But later in the afternoon the fever came and man what a fever. Eventually I had to resort to taking prescription painkiller to get over it and went to bed at 8! And today I feel a bit better but tomorrow morning at 5 I have to get up and go to gothenburg. Last time I felt “bad but not bad enough to go to the hospital” and had to get up early the next day to travel somewhere I ended up in an african hospital convinced I wasn’t gonna make it back.
SInce I’m working late this week I have time in the morning to do all the chores I usually don’t have time for. And today it was time for me to donate blood again. For the 9th time. Everytime I’ve donated blood (except the first ofc) they’ve always commented on the blood test from the previous one and they keep telling me what a good cell counts and stuff I have. At first I just thought they do that to be nice, kind and get you in a better mood. But now I know they are! Because this time she said that my last blood test was absolutely excellent and she had never seen that good results and I must be healthy and eat well and get plenty of exercise. Last time I donated was when I had 3 weeks vacation from work and all I did was play computer games and lie in front of the TV, drinking cola, beer and chips all day long…
The other day as I was flipping through channels I ended up on the “Actor’s Studio”. It’s one of those “let’s talk to famous people in movie bizz and see what they have to say” programs, but it’s actually usually quite good and some of them have things to say. And this time it was Michael J. Fox doing his best to try to sit there and talk about his career and Parkinsons. I particularly liked his attitude that “hey, everyone has their problems and issues, but they’ve learnt to deal with them and wouldn’t trade them for anyone elses” and how much a terrible thing like this was a “gift that kept on taking” in that it had helped him live life and appreciate everything.
And here I am with my biggest problems being a woman at work that don’t like me and owing the IRS $2000. Problem one is gonna solve itself since she’s decided to leave the company (which was what I tried talking to her about) and problem two is gonna be solved – somehow…