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Oh! You guys! I love Friday the 13th. It turns out what I thought was an allergy incident was actually the beginnings of a cold. I'm just congested/drippy/sneezy/floaty-feeling, so I didn't feel crappy enough to stay home from work (I *do* feel crappy enough to stay home sitting on my couch -- instead of grocery/present shopping or cleaning -- all weekend drinking tea, eating chips, and watching _Parks and Rec_ on Netflix. For some reason, chips are pretty much the only thing I can bring myself to eat when I'm sick, and I only watch _Parks and Rec_ when I'm sick). I have to feel *really* bad in order for me to be able to justify staying home from work, especially since it was the annual luncheon day (free food *and* the bigwig flies up from the Bay Area for this, so it would look bad if I stayed home, so I went to work. The morning was just the typical morning (with extra Kleenex and restroom runs to blow my nose), then we went downstairs for lunch. AND THEN!
I won a fourth quarter Award for Excellence! And the bigwig was there to see it! I had *no clue* this was coming. I assumed that I specifically would *not* get it because I just never get things like that. I can tell from the nomination text that it was my boss because it was precisely what she put in my annual review (and one of the reasons given was my perfect attendance record -- and I was in fact there on a day where I felt kind of crappy but not sick enough to stay home). But the most awesome part and my main reason for posting: There's a $100 Visa
gift card involved! I'm thinking about using it for a small Sephora order just to make sure it works and then tucking it away for Emerald City Comic-Con (Espionage Cosmetics should have their nail wraps there, and I want many of their designs).
And then I came home to a stack of boxes on my stairs: PopSugar, Birchbox, and Scratch nail wraps! And the nail wraps box bonus item: a Hammond's Candy Cane Crunch bar: dark chocolate with peppermint bits! The only thing in my mailbox -- where the bills usually go -- was a brochure from the city about composting and holiday garbage pickup schedule changes! I love mail days like this.
(My previous Friday the 13th highlight: March 2009, when a local theatre showed the second-to-last episode of _Battlestar Galactica_, and there was someone there who happened to be in town for her mom's birthday, so she and her family came to the theatre after dinner and a whole lot of wine. It was a packed house, and you had to be there hours in advance in order to be able to get in, but I got in, and I got a fantastic seat. The someone is named Katee Sackhoff. We sang "Happy Birthday" to Starbuck's mom!)
(And now, hot shower and tea time. I'm not doing anything that is any more strenuous than making tea tonight. When I feel kind of icky and just hole up for the weekend, I can usually kick this sort of crap in the teeth. Sometimes it just takes one evening to do the trick. Fingers crossed that it works this time!)
Congrats on the award!
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