Blathering, but I am Back

So you are thinking one of two things: Thank God this silly girl took a break from her random rants or God where have you been. Regardless of which camp you are in, I am back!
So I started my new job on January 28th, spent the first week in orientation and the second week in computer training - as sick as a dog. I literally sat at my computer sweating with fever and trying to catch the snot with Kleenex as it ran down my face. Gross for you the reader, but even worse for me as I have a booger thing! So why not call in sick you ask? Well, 1) it would have put me behind in my training and I could not get to my job until I went through each class, 2) I hate calling in sick, and 3) I did not have any sick time. I am a co-lead within my department and by February 14th, the other lead was so sick, she could not stand up straight. She ended up with pneumonia and was out for 5 weeks. A week after she left, our Supervisor resigned, leaving me to learn on the job, apologizing for my mistakes along the way, and the person in charge. On top of this, I was sick the entire month of February.

The good news is that my co-lead is back and working her way back to healthy, the better news is that I too am healthy, and the best news is that I am being considered for the Supervisor job.
And my 90 days review is 5 days away (ok, so I have already seen it and it was all positive).

I am still working out with the trainer 2-3 times a week and feel great. My body is changing shape and I feel great. Now that the weather is getting nicer, I am going to try and walk after I get home at night. My running is getting stronger, but I am still not able to endure for as long as I want to distance or time -wise.

I have read two of the most delicious books ever: sTori Telling by Tori Spelling and The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory. sTori Telling was a delicious tale of Tori Spelling's life and her answer to all the tabloid stories about her from before 90210 until now. What I discovered is that she is a poor little rich girl and our mothers were created from the same bolt of crazy. I always thought that Shannen Doherty was a no-talent ass clown, but this confirms that she was also an arrogant, manipulating bitch.

The Other Boleyn Girl was a fabulous book as well and I was reading it for my book club. I was hesitant to read it because it is a time piece and over 600 pages, but once I picked it up, I could not put it down. It is the story about the fall of Catherine of Aragon, the separation of Rome/the Pope/the Catholics and English, and the advent of the Church of England. It is so well written and I have bought the next book. We went to see the movie as a girl's night out. I went with low expectations and so I enjoyed it, but fully understand why the critics hated it. They left so much out that you would have had to have read the book in order to understand any of it.

So I think it is really cool that people are reading my nonsense, and I am sorry I have been gone for so long. Life is going well, with a few bumps and bruises along the way. I am jazzed about baseball season - Go Rocks! and have knocked off a few more things on my list.

In case you are keeping track, I have done nothing with the Jillian Michaels thing, but I did watch the season finale of Biggest Loser - go Alli.