ishtar87 , 34

I might be enjoying the first night of my 2 week long paid vacation. Or not. Officially, my vacation starts on Tuesday -or rather, Monday at 4pm. But I'm off of work tomorrow and the week-end, so I have requested to take Monday off and work on May 13th, Sunday, instead. The problem is, the boss' helper was alone today and she had no power to give me a day off, so I have to wait for the boss to come back tomorrow and call me to say yes or no to taking Monday off. I don't really count on it, many people are already missing, but maybe they'll be so desperate for an extra worker on any Sunday (they usually are) that they'll let me off on Monday. We'll see.

Work was ok, although I was kind of...weird. Anxious, nervous... but for no specific reason. Just a gut feeling that something was going to change in my environment and it was frustrating not to know what it was. The thing is, 99% of the time my gut feelings are right, so I started freaking out that my cat might die next week in her surgery to neuter her, but my instinct has the good point that it "tells me" if I'm likely to be right or not, and deep down I knew it wasn't about my cat. Anyway, after a while I suddenly relaxed, as if the "danger" or whatever change was over.

Back home, I found out that once again I was right. Exactly at the same time I had that gut feeling some street workers came and chopped the tree that's across the street I live in, right in front of our window. It's been there all my life, and suddenly I got home and it was gone. My gut feeling "calmed down" at the same time the workers were done chopping the tree. No big deal, it's sad but I didn't particularly love that tree, what I mean is, it's funny how I can feel things happening. Like one day I was at work and I felt something was wrong with my mom, so I called her and found out she had just had an argument with one of her friends and she was upset. Or when my cat Yngvie (the cat I had before Kali, Yngvie died last October) was ill, in her last few weeks of life, I heard her meow in my mind at the exact minute she had a kind of fit that signaled her condition getting worse (again, I was at work when it happened). I could go on for ages with examples like that, and they're not always related to people (or pets) I have a special bond with. My instincts or gut feelings about things are very often related to world events, or people I don't even know but I end up hearing I was right one way or another. In a way it's cool, because I often feel good things happening, but it's also scary because you can't help but wonder what's the next bad thing you're gonna feel coming. I've had this "gift" all my life but I find it has developped a lot over the past 2 or 3 years.

Ok, enough about this. This afternoon I went to the medical center where my dad has his doctor because I had to pick a certificate for him, but I went for nothing because his stupid doctor forgot to get it ready and she (the doctor) won't be there until next Wednesday. *Great* I knew I had requested to have a different doctor for a reason. (She was my doctor too until last fall).

So, I walked back home and played the Sims a little until it was time to take my cat to the vet for a pre-surgery visit. Kali, my cat, is doing fine. The vet said she's in good condition and can safely have the surgery to neuter her next Wednesday. Of course, any surgery implies some risk, we all know that, and I know I am going to freak out all day on Wednesday (and probably Tuesday too) until the vet calls to say everything's fine. But it needs to be done for Kali's sake, and being young (almost 9 months old) and in good physical condition, she will be as safe as she can be. Plus, of course, the vet is a good professional.

Guess who called at work early this morning? Yes, the drug guy from a couple of weeks ago. Happily I wasn't the one to take the incoming call... This time he didn't ask to talk to me (phew!), he wanted medical advice because he had a hard-on (caused by the coke he takes) and couldn't get back to "normal". He added that he couldn't stop masturbating. Ok, we didn't need to know that!

Oh well. I got another of those memorable stupid calls: a woman had called 3 days ago to request her husband's health card and she was asked to fax us a photocopy of her husband's ID card. Ok, so today she calls me and says she's at a book store that has a public fax service and goes "I called the other day and I was told to fax you this number (mentions our fax number), so how do I send you the number?". I was like huh? what number? and why did anyone tell you to fax a fax number? Because I wasn't the one who talked to her the other day, so when she first started talking I had no clue what the call was about. So I start asking her questions and I find out what's going on. Basically, the woman had gone to the public fax and told the clerk she needed to send a fax. The clerk asked what she needed to fax and the woman said "oh, I needed to have something to fax?". HELLOOOOO??

Other than that, work went fine. Especially because it was my weekly 7 hour shift! lol. I had a long afternoon ahead of me to relax... but unfortunately it went by way too fast!

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SweetLakeB

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People are so ridiculous! This woman called this morning at work to request her health card, so I proceeded to check her data to make sure everything was ok. It's the way we are supposed to do it when someone calls for that. So I ask her to confirm her name, address, etc and when I ask her to confirm her social security number she says she doesn't have it with her, so I nicely ask her to please call back when she has it. Guess what? Although she had been polite until then, she suddenly blew up and said she was going to report my service and *me* to the police. Hello? Oh well, I know I have done my job correctly, I've been polite and calm all the time, and the conversation was recorded like all the conversations we have, so I'm not going to be in trouble. Besides the police will probably just laugh at her. Not in her face, that is, but they will just laugh it off. Some people are so ridiculous!

But anyway, other than this, work went ok. I was a little bitchy due to my period not being over yet, but I survived.

My dad went to Estonia this morning. He's gonna be there until next Monday. He really needed to get away from here, it's great for him, and it will do my mom and I good to be on our own for a few days as well. lol

Work was strangely quiet for a Monday! We got just as many calls as on any average day... So it went pretty well, except for the one bitchy caller, but although she got on my nerves by yelling at me, she had an excuse to be bitchy -she had just been diagnosed with breast cancer and is gonna have surgery in 2 days. She was freaking out because the clinic she was looking for was not on our listings. Oh well, if I was in her situation I'd be freaking out too, so I understand.

After work I went to check out some books. Today all books have a 10% discount, so it's worth it, but I didn't find the ones I wanted. Well, I did, but they were in Spanish and I want them in English. I don't mind reading in Spanish but these specific books tend to lose a lot of their fun when translated, so I'd rather read them in their original language, that is, English.

The joys of spring... all these roses being sold today have triggered my allergies. As well as my dad's! We're both sneezing non-stop.

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SweetLakeB

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Two days since I last wrote, that's strange for me! lol. Let's see... on Friday work went ok. It was *kind of* boring but I survived thanks to reading. Also, no major assholes that I can remember right now. On Friday afternoon when I got home I found my parents were gone, so for a second I freaked out, but I found a note from my mom saying they had gone to the tourism congress. For my part, I went to try and find Lydia's late birthday present, and to the post office to pick up a pack of books I had received. After that, I just spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing.

Yesterday I went to Lydia's place with Judith. We had another of our wiccan reunions and it was a lot of fun, but we promised each other we wouldn't tell other people what goes on in these get-togethers, so that's all I'll write about it.

Today I relaxed most of the day because I had some cramps and a low blood pressure, so I didn't feel like doing much. I still had to translate a text for my dad (but it only took me 1 hour and he'll pay me 10 €, which is better paid than 1 hour of my actual job), and I had to go to my old school to vote for the French presidential elections. I voted for Ségolène Royal... I don't think she'll win (although I can't help hoping she will) but I had to try. At least, if I understood it well, she goes into the second round. That's a lot! We'll find out the final results after voting again on May 6th. The good part is that so many people went to vote. The participation beat all records for France. Even here in Barcelona, where there are about 22,000 French people registered to vote. When my mom and I got to the voting place we found a line of over 1000 people waiting! CRAZY! We had to wait in the sun for over 1 hour, it was horrible.