I've just been hit by another life lesson.
Don't order sushi from a delivery place. Or maybe just don't order chinese anymore at all since Colin is pretty sick too.
I didn't make it into work because I haven't been able to get away from the bathroom for longer than 20 minutes all morning. I did stay away for about an hour though when I fell asleep around 10. I woke up thinking I might actually be able to make it into to work for a half day until I ate a small bowl of frosted mini wheats and repeated my morning in the bathroom all over again.
For some reason I'm not one of those people who gets sick and fully loses their appetite. In fact, I'm pretty hungry right now but I'm scared to death to eat anything.
Didn't sick days used to be a kind of cool thing? It's a legitimate excuse to stay home from school and lay around all day watching TV. It's not like that anymore. All I can think about now are the sick days I'm using and how I won't get over time and all the bills I have to pay.
It seems like every lesson I learns only points to the fact that being a grown up sucks.
Welp....it's that time again...the RR is calling.
ugh. ugh. ugh.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Hi, I'm five!
I learned today that an apple is one of the worst things to bring for lunch. They are deceiving though so if you’ve made the same mistake I have today, you aren’t really to blame. You never think about how messy or annoying an apple is when you’re eating it at home because when you’re at home you don’t care if your face is covered in apple juice and your hands are stickier than a toddler’s. You also don’t really register how annoying it is to get the apple skin stuck in your teeth because you’ve got floss only feet away. However, there should be a warning label that lets you know, as delicious as apples are, they are not…I repeat NOT a good thing to eat in front of your co-workers.
I grabbed one this morning on my way to work, a Fuji to be exact. Fuji apples are the kings of apples and I can literally eat one for a meal and not be hungry until it’s time for the next meal. It seemed like such a genius idea when I was leaving. It wasn’t messy, it didn’t take any preparation and I didn’t need to carry it in anything because it’s naturally packaged! Then comes lunch time and I bring out my apple buffed and ready to eat and it hits me….crap I’m going to have to take a huge bite to get this thing started. I look around at my fellow lunchies as they put civilized bite size pieces of food in their mouths. I take a deep breath, hope no one is paying too much attention to me and I dig in. The first bite was a little less than successful. Despite my efforts I wasn’t able to get a piece of apple free. I did that thing where you try to take too big of a bite and you have to retreat leaving huge teeth marks and try again. On the second try I was only able to wriggle a small piece free and I had apple chunk stuck in my bottom teeth along with apple juice running down my chin. I quickly wiped my face and dug in once more. The third bite covered more ground, but also resulted in more apple juice all over my face and hands. By the time I finished the apple I was in desperate need of floss and a face wash, with no means to do either.
If I weren’t so lazy I would have cut the apple up and brought it to work in slices, but the whole appeal of the apple in the first place was that I thought no preparation was needed. If I’m going to take the time to put a lunch together I’m going to at least make a sandwich, which I’d do tomorrow if we had any bread.
Being the optimist that I am I like to find a silver lining…so…Upside to bringing an apple: I didn’t have to leave the building for lunch so I made it back to the conference room before anyone else in my group and got to dance around and sing out loud.
Life is good.
I grabbed one this morning on my way to work, a Fuji to be exact. Fuji apples are the kings of apples and I can literally eat one for a meal and not be hungry until it’s time for the next meal. It seemed like such a genius idea when I was leaving. It wasn’t messy, it didn’t take any preparation and I didn’t need to carry it in anything because it’s naturally packaged! Then comes lunch time and I bring out my apple buffed and ready to eat and it hits me….crap I’m going to have to take a huge bite to get this thing started. I look around at my fellow lunchies as they put civilized bite size pieces of food in their mouths. I take a deep breath, hope no one is paying too much attention to me and I dig in. The first bite was a little less than successful. Despite my efforts I wasn’t able to get a piece of apple free. I did that thing where you try to take too big of a bite and you have to retreat leaving huge teeth marks and try again. On the second try I was only able to wriggle a small piece free and I had apple chunk stuck in my bottom teeth along with apple juice running down my chin. I quickly wiped my face and dug in once more. The third bite covered more ground, but also resulted in more apple juice all over my face and hands. By the time I finished the apple I was in desperate need of floss and a face wash, with no means to do either.
If I weren’t so lazy I would have cut the apple up and brought it to work in slices, but the whole appeal of the apple in the first place was that I thought no preparation was needed. If I’m going to take the time to put a lunch together I’m going to at least make a sandwich, which I’d do tomorrow if we had any bread.
Being the optimist that I am I like to find a silver lining…so…Upside to bringing an apple: I didn’t have to leave the building for lunch so I made it back to the conference room before anyone else in my group and got to dance around and sing out loud.
Life is good.
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