Friday, August 28, 2009

I finally received the fax from DR. B with the authorization to return to work....only he put the date 9/30/2009 instead of 8/31/2009. I called and they're going to refax. Hopefully it won't take too long.

Yesterday I spent a few hours at Barnes & Noble. They now have free wi-fi if anyone cares. I find that place peaceful. Besides they have the best unsweetened black iced tea, along with Starbucks. I used to work at this particular Barnes & Noble and helped them set up the store when they first opened in 1997. We had Starbucks come in and give us a lecture on coffee. We had to watch a film about how it was harvested, roasted, etc. After being on our feet for hours that day, lifiting and moving boxes filled with books, the film put everyone to sleep.

The rep then went around to each of us and asked us what we liked about coffee and to name our favorite book. Anyone who knows me, knows I can be very cranky...especially when I feel my time is being wasted. When she got to me, I said "I've never had coffee, I will never have coffee and you can't make me have coffee. Other than that, I do like it's smell. My favorite book is "The Last Temptation of Christ". She moved on pretty quickly after that....and I've still never had coffee. I worked there to feed my reading habit. When all was said and done, I think I spent more than I earned. I did go back to work the holiday season a few years ago while working full time. I guess I'm older than I thought cause after awhile I couldn't handle working 40+ hours a week at my regular job then on my feet on Saturday and Sunday at the store. I still had a good time though. I could sit in that place for hours.

I did get the first disk of Season 1 for NCIS yesterday. There were 4 episodes. Two I had already seen so I skipped over those. It's going back today. Gotta get my money's worth out of Netflix by getting/sending back as quickly as possible.

On my way home from B&N yesterday, I stopped in at the Moon building of work. We have three buildings in the Pittsburgh area. Two in Hopewell, where I work, and one in Moon which is really close to home. That's where HR is located and also my old boss in Risk Management. She just moved from the Hopewell building to Moon. I hadn't seen her since before the surgery. I also got to see a few others I used to talk to all the time before they moved. One was even kind enough to notice that I had lost weight. I hadn't seen her in about 8 months though we had communicated by email.

Today is my last week day before I go back to work. What to do...what to do...laundry...cleaning...naaah. Reading, I think.

-Suesan