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• short+sassy member

  

  December 2023

  @VarunaTT, so many things to look forward to!  Vacation next week and future concerts.
  
  I had my work Christmas party on Saturday at the race track.  We were in one of the big clubhouses that overlooked the track.  When you checked in, they gave each employee and their guest a $10 voucher for betting!  That was a nice surprise.  Though unfortunately none of our bets won.  
  
  The food was good, but light on options.  It was just a salad, one side, one veggie and one entree (pork).  With cookies for dessert.  I guess it was tough luck for any vegetarians in the crowd.  They're an old fogey kind of company and I wouldn't be surprised if it never occurred to them.  Or think vegetarians are only in CA, lol. 
  
  I like most of my coworkers and it's always nice to hang out with them in a more social setting.  I totally hit it off with a coworker's date and we had a lot of fun conversations.  He's involved in the wardrobe department for tv/movies.  But when COVID first started and none of that work was going on, he picked up an online job being a stylist for StitchFix!
  
  I got some tea.  He said it was a great job for awhile, but then a new CEO took over who came from the IT industry.  And that person did not jive with the creatives, who were a lot of the employees.  They started not treating their employees very well, though he didn't give me examples.  And turns out, they were using the stylists anyway to gather data and create a good AI program to replace a lot of those folks.  But take all that with a grain of salt because he does have some hard feelings about the company.

  

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• levioosa member

  

  December 2023

  Those shows sound fun @VarunaTT
  
  Weekend was a mixed bag. Friday I got home and cleaned the house after work. Saturday we did a hike and then SIL and I went shopping. The mall was not really busy surprisingly. I’m almost done with my shopping. I might buy a few more things but otherwise I am pretty much set. Now I just have to wrap everything. 

  
  

  
  

  

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• charlotte989875 member

  

  December 2023

  I’m off until January! I had a few things to wrap up this morning after having to take the afternoon off on Friday but now I’m done. I definitely didn’t get as much done as I wanted but it’s fine. I’m not worrying about it now! 

  
  

  I’m going to work out. Eat. Nap. I have 4 more gifts to get plus wrapping paper and finishing up cards. But I have all week to do it! 

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• CharmedPam member

  

  December 2023

  Great line up, @VarunaTT.  Although I don’t know who Beth Hart is. I would do p!nk in a hot minute!
  @short+sassy that sounds like so much fun! Nice of them too. I’m starting to not care for meats at restaurants.  Everything tastes so salty to me that I’m slowly turning into a travel-vegetarian when I’m out.  Lol.  My stomach hurts from seasonings and what’s ever injected in meats.
  I loved stitch fix, don’t get me wrong, but I do think the chosing was not of a human later on in the years.  Less and less I found myseld keeping the items. 
  

  Woohoo @charlotte989875! Enjoy that time off! I have two more work days left myself but I put those two days in heavy quotes.
  
  Last day on the ship and I have the vacation end blues.  But I have Alaska in 2024 to look forward to and my parents are planning to book another Carribean cruise TODAY (best prices are on the ship or black Friday) for early 2025. We’re going to invite a few other couples.  Fun people too. My parents and aunt have fun friends.
  exH and I went on this itineray and ship in 2019 so I had some memories of that.  We were on the road to divorce back then and already paid so we decided to go and make the best of it. The re-do with people I love was a lot better. 

  
  

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• MissKittyDanger member

  

  December 2023

  I'm back!
  
  Surgery was Dec 6th - all went well.
  We got lucky with timing. IL's could pick up BK on Wednesday after school {i didn't get out of hospital i think until maybe 6?}
  M got me home, settled, toast and juice {in hospital i was so nauseous from anxiety}
  
  Side story - anxiety is b.s lol I was dry heaving before, my heart rate went up in OR .... my dr and nurses and staff were SO nice.
  
  I was so half dead. M kept getting mad I did stairs half asleep and half out of it, but I needed to get up a couple times.
  I slept super late next day, and BK was so sweet. She brought a stuffy to me before she left.
  
  Thursday night was the wake for SFIL's dad - Luckily BK is old enough to follow directions easier with low help. She knew I couldn't do much, so I was in our bed with a pillow propped up while waiting for BK to get ready. She ended up adjusting the pillows on her bed so I could sit easier and read a story and do song.
  
  Friday was the funeral.
  M dropped off BK then headed out because it was 10am and east end - so traffic.
  
  BK ended up having a double sleepover at my mum's because M was exhausted and I was sore.
  It was good.
  
  Working from home wasn't easy - my chair sucks.
  
  Found out last night M's friend's dad passed. Knew it was coming, but figured not this soon.
  He was much older {like late 80s} and not really in great health.
  Likely funeral in January because he's Russian and they're gonna wait for the orthodox holiday.
  Downside - likely we'll see people we haven't seen/spoken to since I was pregnant.
  BK definitely won't be there.
  

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• short+sassy member

  

  December 2023

  @MissKittyDanger, I'm glad your surgery went well!  BK is such a sweetie.  Good to hear from you.

  

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• CharmedPam member

  

  December 2023

  Glad it all went well @MissKittyDanger. I’m sure your happy to have it out of the way too.  Sorry for your loss

  
  

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