Knee High Boots Week 6

Hi ladies! Glad everyone had a good weekend!! Nykkie....I LOVE Texas Roadhouse!!

Nykkie, have you considered trying to find another job maybe? I know that's not necessarily an easy thing to do anymore, but I'd consider it anyway. I make it a personal rule to never stick to a job that I just dread going to. I refuse to make myself that unhappy. You shouldn't have to put up with all the abuse you are taking!!! You're a nice, smart girl and you deserve better!!:flowerforyou: I know it's hard not to, but try not to let them make you feel worthless...you definitely aren't, honey!!!:flowerforyou:

Kaitie thanks so much for the kind words - they mean a lot!
I've been looking for a new job for quite a while now...just seems like there's nothing there. I've found a couple I could apply for, but would have to take a paycut which isn't ideal!

I have decided to go to school to become a Registered Dietitian and this will take FOREVER since we can really only afford one class at a time and you need a Bachelor's Degree to qualify to become one...I have a goal to become one by the time I'm 35. I am very excited about this and can't wait to be in a job where I help people! :happy:

I'm pretty much stuck here until something better comes a long unfortunately...it's miserable. Sadly this is what I've had to deal with this month alone:

I admit I was gone quite a bit this past Nov/Dec due to stress, and when I get stressed I get migraines. They're horrible and I can't get out of bed when I get one.

As you know the 1st week of Jan. I hurt my neck and I had to take 3 days off of work total, Dr.'s orders. I was nice enough to get a Dr.'s note, bring it in the same afternoon (while my neck was still in intense pain and stuck to one side), and come talk to the CEO and profusely apologized for the inconvenience that I was causing everyone (we're a crazy small co. so that meant pulling someone from their job to cover). He assured me it was fine, not to worry about it. I was also kind and decided not to report this as a work related injury, which technically, it was.

Then the other week my husband called me and said he was having chest pains and that he needed to be picked up from work. I called my boss and explained to her what was going on, and said that I would like to stay home with him that day since I was terrified that he could have a heart attack and she said that was totally fine, that it was very scary and she hoped that he was ok. It just turned out to be a panic attack, I guess chest pain is very common.

The day after I returned I got called into my bosses office and they wrote me up for being gone those 4 days this month...which none of them were in my control. She accused me of not being a team player, basically calling me the worst employee ever! She even went back on what she said about my husband, using her's as an example of how she went back to work after dropping him off at the hospital for a routine colonoscopy (spelling?) and then said "I guess I don't love my husband as much as you do". It's not like my husband could've called me if he was having a heart attack!
They also told me that if my neck "really hurt that bad" then if it flares up next time they would force me to take short term disability which before that kicks in I would have to take almost two weeks unpaid.

So I dealt with that and since they moved me to a different position that I wasn't crazy about and didn't really want, but I took it anyways to make them happy....they had this big list of new duties that I would need to be trained on but haven't been trained on much at all, in fact, they trained another part-time employee to do something off of my list when I had offered multiple times to do it.

I don't know I just get a complete lack of respect or recognition that I do anything around here. It just makes me sad as I AM a good employee and I have never done anything worthy of being called a bad employee other than missing work, which I couldn't really help...

Sorry this is so long!! I'm feeling a bit better today - I worked out last night and gosh it felt so great! I forgot how much of a antidepressant exercising was.
The sun is out today so that helps too

Thanks again sooo much for listening to me whine and I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the week!

Hi girls!!!!!!!! Sorry I havent been on. Im glad to see that yall are still here. Im back on track. I logged everything in today and was under in calories! I dont have a job so that should make it really easy to stawy under my calories and log everything in. Its not. I feel depressed. I feel like eating everything in sight. Anything chocolate or super salty. I hate not having a job. I was told yesterday that I looked really skinny. It felt good. Im done being jobless and feeling fat and nasty.

I'm so excited!! I've finally broke the 170's!! :bigsmile: I haven't been able to get into the 160s in what seems like FOREVER, but I'm there now and I feel so proud of myself. My Sweetheart even commented that he sees a big difference across my stomach!! YES :bigsmile:

Sam - have faith Hun!! You'll find something soon :flowerforyou:

Nykkie - I'm with Kaitie.... xerox copies ALL AROUND!! :laugh: