Friday!  Yay!  I don’t have to come here for the next two days!  YAY!

I applied online to go back to school near the end of last week.  I can’t wait until I get back to school, because I’m really feeling apathy about working here, and that’s never a good sign.  I’ve got to be a good little ‘Manda, because who knows what will happen when I’m looking for a reference from someone or other here.

FormerBoss aka Sales Mgr has been in the hospital for, pretty much the past three weeks.  He and his family went to Halifax to visit friends, and he ended up coming down with appendicitis while there.  He had surgery at 3 am Sunday morning to get his appendix out, was back here on Wednesday, and back in the hospital here on Thursday.  Apparently, the surgeon who took his appendix was doing other surgeries before his and wasn’t too keen on doing Art’s, so he was surprised when they woke him up to take him into surgery.  During the surgery, they nicked his bowel as well as an artery.  Which, I guess, are both complications on the extreme end of the spectrum, but required him to be rehospitalized back here for over two weeks.  He’s back home with his family and apparently going to see if he can work full days starting Monday.  Considering he’s not able to sit upright for more than 45-60 minutes, a full day is probably not going to happen.

So, the past two weeks I’ve been doing part of his job, which I used to do when he was my boss - entering purchase orders.  Fine and dandy, I don’t mind, but our production manager is out of the office this week and next and I have no idea what lead times are for products, so I’m getting dates (”Whenever,”) from my boss and entering the po’s.  Plus everything else I do: test reports, phones, filing, faxing, etc.  I was printing up packing slips too, until Monday, which I’ve passed back to my boss, because there’s no way I can do everything.  I doubt I’m going to get that back from him when Art’s back next week.  Oh well.

I went tubing last weekend with some friends at Voyageur’s View, and it was a lot of fun!  I always have fun tubing.  Except for the fact that we were missing a lot of people this year (only 8 went as opposed to the 15-20 that we usually have) and that I got a nasty wicked sunburn on my shins.  I burnt my legs bad enough that when I woke up yesterday I had a nice big blister on my left leg.  It got bigger throughout the day and is just gross.  My feet are even swollen (i was wearing dock shoes because of the sharp rocks in the river), so I’ve been sleeping with my legs propped up on pillows, which is helping me not get aloe vera gel all over my sheets.  I picked up some gauze and polysporin and tape after work and wanted to pop it SO BADLY BECAUSE EW.  It popped on it’s own this morning as I was getting out of the shower, so I’ve got two 10×10cm gauze pads taped beside each other on my shin.  I need to come up with a better story than “I got sunburnt bad enough I blistered and it popped.”

Work at the store tomorrow morning will be interesting because I haven’t worn long pants since sometime last week.  NOT FUN.  Owie.

I’ve got some family from Calgary coming into town this weekend for a couple of weeks.  It’ll be nice because I haven’t seen the cousins for a couple of years.  I’m excited and hope I’ll be able to spend some time with them.

… Right.  Work.  I should probably do some of that.