rant about emails at work

Okay, so I just had a run-in with management... again!! I sent out an email asking for support for our Tabitha Foundation house building in Cambodia. I thought that with enough people from work, we could probably build one full house. A manager emails me back saying that this sort of email is against policy, and that I can have my email privileges provoked, etc. Oh for fuck's sake!!! Every day, we receive many emails that are not totally work-related! Who fucking cares who is having a baby, or going on maternity leave, or someone's relative died. Not trying to be uncaring or anything, but seriously, does it really affect every single one of us? No. Not in the slightest. I don't want these emails in my Inbox. I swear, this woman has a hit out for me. Fuckin' hell. I'm tempted to send her back a raving email, but then again, that would be playing with fire and, as I must continuously remember, I am a mere pion and cannot anger the gods that be in the upper levels. Seriously considering what my options are for next year...

On another, more positive note, check out our new Rockin4Tabitha blog: www.rockin4tabitha.blogspot.com and see what we're up to for the fall!!!

Working on a sunday

I actually voluntarily signed up to be "weekend manager" a while back so today I am working on a Sunday. Not a bad thing - but not many visitors so I have the time to catch up on a bit of work and random writing.

Standing up for a long time is not pleasant right now - I have a muscle knot underneath my left shoulder blade and it is killing me. I went and got a massage on Friday evening, and haven't trained since Wednesday, but it's not going away. I've tried hot baths, muscle relaxants, Aleve, but it won't loosen up. I guess it will sooner or later loosen up by itself, but until then, I'm suffering quite a bit. If it's not gone by mid week, I'll go and see my doctor.

Otherwise, it's been a quiet week. Joc put me onto Facebook so I finally signed up. It could be addictive though! The amazing thing is that it's put me back in touch with alot of people from both highschool, Science North and Laurentian. Howard's even come out of the woodwork! It's like a flash from the past on your computer screen. He's still in Ottawa actually, so I will try and see him soon. He's living with his girlfriend, which makes me a bit nervous (jealous?). How is it possible to still have those emotions for someone after 10-15 years? Crazy. It's so funny to see what is tucked away in a little corner of your mind that you don't deal with on a day to day basis.

ARgh. My back really hurts.

The boutique has fudge.

No no no no no!! Must stick to the diet. I came back after the 4 days at the cottage and had gained weight (4 lbs), which is not surprisingly given the amount of alcohol, fudge and other food, but it still pissed me off. I have another appointment with Beth for a body composition test next week and want it to show good progress.

Back really hurts. I just want to go home and soak in the bathtub.

I've had way too much coffee today. I've been looking through MLS listings for houses. There's one for sale in Hintonburg that is kinda cute! Old house, 2 bedrooms (one is a loft). I wonder if I could get a mortgage...

Back from birthday weekend at the cottage

Just got back from a long weekend at a friend's cottage, enjoying the sun, the beach, a few drinks, lots of laughs and the wonderful feeling of being able to relax and read and not worry about being in meetings! Abbey had a great time as well - who says you can't let Greyhounds off the leash? He was a really good boy, very well-behaved and only violated boundaries once or twice. He's come a long way since last year when I first brought him to the cottage. But then again, I had only had him a month at that time! He didn't even really know his name.

33 years old. I could sit here and take stock of the past year, but I think I will have to leave that til later this evening.

New tattoo

Ah, the long weekend is almost over. Long, long weekend actually, as I took Friday off as well. After a full week of meetings and union negotiations, a friday off was very welcome! But it's been a pretty quiet weekend. I had the opportunity to go and drink my face off on a patio, but declined as it's too much of a temptation on this diet. If I'm going to follow this diet fully, even one beer is too much of a temptation. I'm not sure what I'll do at Scott's cottage next weekend, but since it is my birthday weekend, I'm going to allow myself one or two drinks. :)

I stopped in at Planet Ink on Saturday and got the rest of my right arm tattoo finished - a set of Buddha eyes above the Tibetan script. Looks awesome! Hurts like a bitch though. All the colour meant alot of filling in and thus scraping back and forth across the skin. It's fantastic though.

I'll try and take a better photo of it when I can - it's hard to take a photo of your own arm! I was going to get it on the back of my neck, but I want to save that space for the sak-yant when I'm in Thailand.

Sitting around today, reading a book of travel stories from Thailand. This afternoon I'm going to go to Camp Fortune and do some hill running with the dog. Figured I should add some hills and interval training into my running schedule as long, slow distance running is only going to do so much good for Muay Thai training.