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kinda freaky Kinda freaky. I just ran to the bathroom, and on my way back in to my office, I stopped by the new receptionist's desk and asked what she was reading. She was telling me about the book and asked me what I was reading when she came in at lunch today, and I told her about my book. It's really quite depressing, and is reminding me a lot of what my life would probably have been like had I married my ex-fiance. This woman's husband lost his job and it sounds like he was depressed. He wouldn't go look for other work, so they eventually had to move in with his parents, who absolutely hate this woman and her two children. They are awful to them, and of course the hubby is just blind to it. And I'm sitting there reading, silently yelling, "Just get out!!" but of course, she hasn't. So I'm telling New Receptionist (NR) about this book, and I tell her about the ex, and how his mom was just awful to me, but his sis and father were nice to me and how their family was disfunctional and how he had mental health issues and ended up leaving...and and she tells me that it reminds her of the life she left back in CO. Her BF turned out to be bipolar, (which Ryan has) along with some other problems, and his parents were awful to her as well. It's just weird. Same name. Her birthday is 2 days before mine. Just a lot of parallels. The other assistant ditched me at lunch yesterday, and it shouldn't bug me, because she actually did me a favor. But it does. Every day just before noon, she comes into my office and tells me she is going to go get lunch and asks if I want something. I used to almost always say no, but since I've been living with my parents, I've had difficulty bringing lunch with me, so I've been getting a sandwich. On Monday, she came in and told me she was going to go to Subway, but didn't ask if I wanted anything. I asked if she'd mind grabbing me something, she said she didn't, and I gave her my money and off she went. But yesterday, it was 12:05p and she hadn't come into my office. The NR came back from break late, so when she came back, I went into the other assistant's office to ask if I could get her something. She wasn't there. Puzzled, I just figured she'd had to run an errand or something. I came back, grabbed my book, and decided to spend that lunch hour at Carl's Jr since we were having a staff meeting and I didn't want my lunch to be interrupted by those who were arriving early. I walk into Carl's Jr, and guess who I found there, waiting for her to go order! 98% of the time, she goes to Subway, so I was quite surprised to see her there. She tells me she was just starving, and I tell her I am too. She's standing next to me as I place my order, and I tell the guy it is for there, and she's all, "You aren't eating in the office?" Nope, and I told her to have a good lunch and walked away. She has never just left for lunch without saying anything, so I'm left to believe she grew tired of me taking her up on her offer to grab me something. I'll be sure not to do that anymore. I had a lovely lunch. I was eating my burger when Nancy came over and invited me to her table. We usually eat together before staff meetings, but she didn't think she was going to be able to make it that day b/c she had a client meeting, so she hadn't asked me to lunch. Turned out we both just happened to go to the same place, so I had a nice chat with her. She's a really neat lady..has done some varied and very interesting things and always is so so positive. So completely opposite of the other assistant. I went back to the staff meeting not all tense like I always am after eating lunch with the other assistant. So it was nice. But i can't help feeling a little hurt that I was ditched. She asked me a weird question on Monday. Before she left to go get the sandwich, she asked me if I had planned on staying here for lunch or doing something else. About 1 time a month I don't eat with her, so I was a little thrown by that question and told her I was staying, and asked her why. She never answered me, but I wonder if she was not wanting to eat w/ me then. I'm really giving this more thought than I should. Artboy called me yesterday while I was at work all excited. He'd spoken to the owner of the condo that we'd looked at on Saturday that was too expensive for us, and the guy agreed to knock the price down $50. He went and took a look at it, and it's everything we're looking for, according to him, but it needs a coat of paint and new countertops. We have an appointment tomorrow after work to go take a look at it, and if I like it, we can move in April 1st! We'll ask for paint and new countertops to see how that goes. I'm excited! I went home and was trying to tell my father about it, but he just interrupted me and started talking about something else. He didn't get interested until we ate dinner and I was talking to my mom about it. And then he says, "I thought you were going to be staying here 2 months! Why are you leaving so soon?" And I told him, "Well, Dad. By April 1st, I'll have been here for 2 months. To which he said, "Well, why don't you stay another month?" Mom says something about Dad liking me being there, and I said that was weird, considering all the complaints he has when his other daughters come visit him. He tells me, "That's different." How that's different, I'm not sure. But okay. So he likes me being there. Or maybe it has more to do with feeling more comfortable having someone around in the evenings when Mom is at work. Who knows. But he has expressed that before, but just in a different manner. Complaining that I didn't visit often enough. I can't wait to go see the condo. It'll probably take me awhile to move in since April 2nd is Val's shower. I got roped into doing the stupid baby shower games again. Why must that always be my contribution??? I HATE shower games. I mean, absolutely detest them. If I am ever thrown a shower, there is no way I want games at my stupid shower. I told Donna I'd see what I could come up with since she doesn't want to repeat any that we did for the first shower (and that's another issue--I don't feel it is appropriate to do another shower so soon after the first one.) except perhaps the Bingo game I did. But of course, all that is packed away and I have no idea which box it is in. Didn't think I was going to have to need it. *sigh* |