July 3, 2013
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Work and working out
I didn't really do anything exciting for Canada Day. I was supposed to go to an impromptu "Earnest" reunion, but a couple things stopped me. I wasn't feeling well due to trying this protein shake (must remember never to have milk in the morning nor on an empty stomach or I will feel really ill), it was at least a thirty minute drive in the rain, plus I'd be the only girl among three to five guys. While I would have liked to see Algy and Jack again, I thought it may as well be boy-bonding and I'd just be in the way.
I've been doing Jillian Michaels 30-Day shred DVD, and it is absolutely killer! My asthma starts to kick in at about ten to twelve minutes, but since it is only a twenty minute workout there isn't much point in taking a dose of my puffers. I hope that by the time I'm done this workout I will no longer be wheezing. @Karoline1982 is doing the DVD as well with her sister, and already likes it. I think she's nuts to find it fun, but it certainly does get your blood pumping... and your muscles screaming the next morning.
My other friend Dawlz is going to start the video, too. Apparently Dawlz has never made it through the whole month because she hates Jillian's voice, so doing it "with" someone might get her through it *L0L* I told her I am going to be doing the dvd for longer than the thirty days because I am only going to do it Monday through Friday, then on Saturday do the New York City Ballet Workout (though I may switch to the second one because the first is poorly made), and have a rest day on Sundays. She's going to be doing that with me if she likes the ballet workout --though she could do yoga instead as it isn't all that dissimilar.
Apparently my mum was waiting for me to wake up this morning to do the workout video together. I did it without her yesterday, so while I was at work she tried the second level (there are three and, according to Karo's sister, you're supposed to do each level for ten days). Today she said how much easier the first level was after doing the second, that her weights were too light and she needed to go up a couple pounds, that she was hardly even sweating and wasn't having any trouble breathing at all, and I was doing some of the moves wrong, etc. It was driving me nuts, but if I said anything to her about what she was doing I know she would revoke my privileges of dvd-usage.
On Friday I had cornered my boss to get some answers for my project "baby", and he gave me the go-ahead to move forward with it. Then yesterday he retracted that as someone is interested in buying the entire building. If that happens both companies will either move elsewhere or lease space back, and I don't want to move to another location. It rocks being able to walk to work in ten minutes! The other problem with it is that should this person buy the building, my "baby" dies and I lose any extra hours boss-man might have given me as the manager thereof. Not that my title would be manager or I'd get a raise to match the responsibilities, no they aren't like that. They call me a receptionist and I get paid minimum wage for all the work I do for them --things like content writing, social media consultation, sales, proofreading, copyediting, layout, etc.
Anyways, he said to me yesterday that if Mel didn't have any work for me to do then I shouldn't bother coming in. Say what?! I work for his daughter in the afternoons for four hours on three days a week, so unless she says that to me I will be coming in for my hours. It's crazy enough that my hours got cut in half, but to get them cut completely? I've started looking at the job bank and asking around if any friends know of their work hiring, because it looks like I really will have to leave my job. I like the work I'm doing, but the bosses are not too high on my appreciation list at the moment...
I had another weird dream in the night. I think it was due to my thoughts on the fact I need to finish getting my full license before going to Ireland, because I was dreaming I was taking my G-test. My dream was seriously nuts and kept jumping around to different scenarios. In the first part of my dream, I had done an excellent driving test, and after getting back to the building he asked me out on a date. I thought it was inappropriate and said the timing was bad because I didn't want anyone to question my passing should people find out we started going out right after that. I said that if we bumped into each other at a later date, he had permission to ask then. I didn't think we would see each other again due to my leaving for Ireland shortly, but didn't want to offend him in fear he might flunk me for refusing to going on a date with him.
The next scenario: I was driving down the highway when the instructor told me to put the car in cruise mode and I refused because it had rained and I didn't want the car to hydroplane. The instructor was getting upset with me and even tried to reach across me to grab the wheel or press the button, I wasn't sure which. It freaked me out and I thought the instructor was a bit suicidal from the way she was acting.
I couldn't take it anymore and I pulled over to the side of the road. I got out and walked a few feet from the car to call the Driver's Test people. I was complaining that I felt what the instructor was asking me to do was unsafe. I then turned around to head back to the Driver's Test building, and the instructor kept freaking out. I went inside saying I wanted someone else to test me, but got told that I was just making a fuss because the instructor flunked me. I started protesting that when the situation changed, and I was back on the side of the road being told that my instructor didn't find me waiting and thought I had changed my mind. I asked if that was the case, then who was the person with me claiming to be an instructor?
My dream changing again, I was back on the road driving when the instructor tried to get me to get off the highway and down a country road. I thought she might try to kill me or something and took a different exit where there was a Tim Hortons. I kept trying to tell one of the workers to call the cops because my life was in danger, but I had to do so without the instructor seeing. When the instructor tried to pull me out of the cafe I made a fuss, and the instructor claimed to be my mother. I said that was impossible and asked her age, stating she would have been nine or twelve when she had me if that was true.
I started asking customers how old they thought I looked, just so they'd all have to look at me and remember me for the police. Then this guy came in and claimed he was an undercover cop and tried to get me outside with him. I wasn't trusting him either and refused, then I ran to the staff bathroom and locked myself in when he tried to drag me outside. Eventually there was a knock on the door and a person claiming they were a cop, asking me to come out of the loo. I had my cell phone in my purse and called the police to ask if the cops had arrived at the donut shop and was told they were on route, so I knew the person outside the door wasn't a cop.
I guess the psychos got really ticked at me because they started a fire in the storage room, which is where the bathroom is also located. I stuffed wet paper towels around the cracks in the door, doused myself with water, and laid down on the floor to wait for rescue. I was pretty much unconscious when a firefighter managed to bust the door, wrapped me in a blanket, and ran with me to outside. I woke up about then, so I only have a vague recollection of two scenarios going on with them. In one I can see some people in handcuffs, but in the other they're not captured and I'm scared they'll either try to take me during the chaos or they will go free.
And now it's time for me to go to work!
SUMR
