Dispatches

• I listened to my choir Christmas CD on the way to work today. No, I am not one of those people who start listening to Christmas music before Halloween and quit around January 1. [My mom, though, turns on the Holly station on XM as soon as it starts playing Christmas music and leaves it there for a LONG time. I guess she doesn’t mind the repetition of “Christmas Shoes” (*gag*) and “Grown-Up Christmas List” (another bleh!).] Anyway, I listened to it this morning in an effort to start learning the songs. But I’m already completing choreography—complete with jazz hands—for one of the songs. You’re going to want to see this. 😉 (And, BTW, does it make me terrible that I’ve already found a grammatical error in the lyrics of one of the songs? For you and I? Really, I is not the correct word there!)

• Yesterday was an exercise in compulsive eating for me. I had breakfast at 5 a.m. (I know, I know. Dumb idea.) We had department meeting at 9:30 a.m., which translates into FOOD. So I had a lot. Like asiago-cheese-bagels-with-cream-cheese a lot. Which meant I wasn’t hungry for lunch, so I skipped it. Then, when I did get hungry it was too close to time to go and actually eat supper, so I ate a bunch of Lay’s cracker crisps (yummy!). Which only served to put off the inevitable crash which resulted in me eating leftover mac and cheese and chicken almost as soon as I walked in my front door yesterday. Then I had a brownie. Then, after choir, I had a cup cake. I promise, I do not weigh 400 pounds.

• I am making progress on some of the behind-schedule stuff at work! Yay!

• I really wish I had a stylist who fixed my hair, helped with my makeup and/or helped pick out my clothes. Because I really should have ironed this camisole/shirt today, but I just didn’t feel like it. And drying my hair is a chore I hate. 😦

• New rule, fellow employees: if you just have to have fish for lunch and heat it up in a microwave, go to some other department on some other floor and use their microwave. Because our hallway smells like microwaved fish. Which, BTW, isn’t a great smell! 🙂

• I only have 1 meeting today! YAY!!!!! (And I actually called this one!)

• Dear lunch bunch: I love you guys. I really do. But I feel we’re going to have the talk that Rachel, Joey, and Phoebe once had to have with Ross, Chandler and Monica: there’s a salary differential going on here. I CAN’T go out to eat in celebration of every little thing and pay for my lunch and chip in on the lunch of whomever we’re celebrating. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to or am angry, but I cannot spend all of my expendable income on eating out. You are married and most of you have 2 incomes. I’m doing everything you are—paying for a car, gas, utilities, a house, etc.—on one salary. That isn’t as big as yours. So my saying no really has nothing to do with you. It’s just me trying to be responsible. Please don’t make me feel bad for it.

• I’m going to run today. 4 miles. Pray for me! 🙂