So I had a bittersweet day at work I guess you could say. When I walked in to the store today I saw my coworker 'S'. She has worked there longer than I have been alive, no seriously and she has been out of work for months, off and on because she has breast cancer. She is such a sweet lady and she has a husband and two older sons. Anyway, because of the chemo she has lost all her hair and has had sores in her mouth and lost her fingernails, etc. Pretty much she feels all around crappy most of the time. So she is back to work wearing a wig and her face is all round and puffy because of the steroids they have her on, but she looks happy and seems positive and upbeat so that was great! She gave me this article to read about how women who have survived something like this have come to realize their true inner beauty, it was an amazing article really. The sad part is that because she has worked there for so long, the customers all know her and know what is going on. It never ceases to amaze me how some people can say the dumbest shit at the most inappropriate times. Today she heard from a customer, 'Why are you wearing a wig?', from a coworker who's own mom had cancer, ' Your face is all puffy', and from another customer, 'Why don't you just cut them(her breasts) off?' I mean for real people! What the hell?

Besides that, my friend at work 'P' got fired! for doing something so stupid and mediocre but a rule is a rule so... Anyway, I had just heard that he got fired and why when he came walking in the store to pick up his last check. I was the first face he saw when he walked in and he hung his head in shame maybe, or more like sadness, I don't know really. I guess he thinks I'm disappointed in him, and I guess a teeny part of me is, but shit happens and he hopefully has learned that even stupid rules are still rules. So 'P' went around and talked to everybody and said goodbye and saved me for last. I was in the checkstand so it's not like I could just walk off and have some conversation for a while, but it was so... sigh... He walked up behind me, and since I am my small little self, 5'3", and he is like a foot taller than me he towers above me, but I digress. He walked behind me and he leaned over and his forehead was resting on the top of my head and he said, "I'm so sorry." I turned around and hugged him and called him a jerk It's crazy, I mean 'P' is a super sweet kid, a hard worker, the guy even saved a poor old man who passed out in the parking lot and hit his head... he is going to be a firefighter soon. Sigh... he better come visit me like he promised...

So i just talked to Matt, and I started out with hi... feel like reassuring me that you're okay? I'm sooooooo glad that he's okay, or getting there anyway. I somehow got nominated to be on the worry yourself sick commitee with Michael... not only am I a member but I'm the president too!

What else?? OH! On my way to work I passed another Mom I know, not real fond of her but she saw me and pulled up next to me and signaled that i should roll down my window so I do... and she proceeds to scream out her window at me, "The play last night was f**kin awesome! They rocked!" I just drove away... I mean she was right about the play, it was f**kin awesome, but I mean really, did she have to shout it at my car in the middle of a busy street :wacko:

Countdown days... 7 till my sweetie's birthday! Yay!

Hugs, Vivian