Monday January 27, 2014

Hello Everyone:

I feel like crap today.  I can't tell if it's allergies or a cold or a combination of the two.  Either way, I'm sniffling, I have a sore throat, and my sinuses are throbbing.  I'm pretty loaded on meds and I've been drinking mostly hot water with lemon.  That and eye drops help.  I feel like staying in bed all day but I'm not the type to do so.  I end up feeling like a big sloth and I get really bored.  Besides that, whatever is on television during is so not worth watching.  At least getting dressed forces me to get off my bum and do something so I don't feel like a sloth.  The only downside with feeling sick is that I get really hungry.  I mean the kind of hungry that I want to eat food that's bad for me.  Yet another reason to get up, get dressed, and do something-staying out of the cupboards and refrigerator.  I don't even have enough cash to go to 7-11 and get something-that's also good.  Besides that, I had enough junk food at the family get together Saturday.  That chocolate cupcake was good.  Hey just because I went vegetarian doesn't mean I have to give up dessert.

I spoke to the bf over the weekend and he's going nuts at his work.  I really admire the fact that he has so much patience to work with the elderly, especially an Alzheimer patient but, as I told him, is his job really worth his sanity?  I can understand he needs the paycheck but at what price?  Is really worth being taken advantage of, as he his, just so you can put food on the table?  I know we all sometimes have to make those choices, especially in these economic times but at what point do you say enough's enough.  I've found myself in similar situations before, where I've been fit to drop because of work.
You just get to a place where you have to just walk away, even if there's no new job waiting for you. It's tough but sometimes you have to put yourself ahead of that paycheck.  I feel for the bf in so many ways.  He's working for family so it just complicates the situation.  A long time ago, I was given some very sage advise, "never work for family, friends, or for free."  Words to live by.