Today got off to an absolutely crummy start.  I woke up this morning to go to the bathroom (been drinking my water again!) and noticed that somebody was clicking away on the computer in the kitchen.  Knowing that my dad should still be in bed, I headed downstairs to see what was going on and it was my mom.  Apparently she woke up with a 103 degree temperature this morning.  I knew that she wasn’t feeling her best yesterday, but today she sounded downright awful.  She could barely talk.  She took her temperature while I was standing there and luckily it had gone down quite a bit, but the crazy woman was actually working!  Her computer for work is a laptop and since they’ve been having a lot of overtime lately, she had it at home with her.  She said that she had gotten on just to see where things stood and saw that a few of her co-workers needed things from her, so she decided to get them taken care of.  Did I mention she’s a crazy woman?!  Luckily, when I got up to get ready for work this afternoon, she was in bed or I would have had to have smacked her.  She did sound a bit better when I left.

I’m terrified that I’m going to get her cold.  I haven’t had a major cold since I started Weight Watchers and started taking vitamins.  Coincidence?  Both of my parents had raging colds last year, but somehow - even with living in the same house - I was able to avoid getting one.  I’m especially concerned this year since I haven’t been following the plan as closely and because I haven’t been taking my Vitamin C like I was.  To top it off, I’m about out of sick/vacation time at work (my biggest concern).  So I’ve been washing my hands like a crazy person and will probably go through an entire bottle of antibacterial hand gel by the weekend.  :)  Of course, my mom couldn’t have told me on Saturday that everyone in her office was sick before we shared a bottle of water at lunch.  Grrr.

Keep your fingers crossed for me!  I’ve been given all kinds of suggestions - everything from garlic tabs to echinacea - so I’m open to any and all ideas.  I can’t get sick!

The first pleasant surprise for today was that I peeked at the scale and was down two pounds from yesterday!  I know that the odds of me actually losing two pounds in one day are slim to none, but it’s encouraging.

Then, as I was getting ready for work, I had the cutest outfit picked out and succeeded in putting a run in my last pair of pantyhose.  Argh!  So, by this time, it was already time for me to leave for work and I still had to iron another shirt and get my lunch together.  I was about 15 minutes late leaving and then traffic was crazy!  It’s also such a windy day that I honestly felt like it was going to blow my car off the road!   I may have gone just a few miles over the speed limit, because I was only about five or six minutes late. 

I finally got here to work and that’s when my biggest pleasant surprise occurred!  Back in May, I wrote a post called “Saying Goodbye.”  It was about how one of my co-workers and friends had decided to move back to Los Angeles and how sad I was to say goodbye.  I was worried that while we had promised to keep in touch that we wouldn’t end up doing so - you know how it is.  Surprisingly, we’ve actually e-mailed quite a few times since he left.  He had mentioned that he would be back in town to spend Thanksgiving with his parents this week and might stop in.  I had forgotten this until I heard a male voice before I walked in our department (my dept. is all women) and then saw him as I walked in.  I was so pleasantly surprised!  It really made my day.  I think somehow he knew that I would need a couple of hugs today.

Of course, it didn’t hurt that he greeted me with “Well, look, it’s Miss Skinny!” or something to that effect.  Then went on to say it was noticeable that I’d lost weight.  I told him I hadn’t really lost anything (in fact I’m actually about the same), but he said it was definitely noticeable.  Maybe the extra working out I’d done had paid off or something.  Or maybe he’s just really sweet :)  I did have one supervisor come in yesterday that hadn’t seen me in almost a year and apparently after I left to fill my water jug, she had to ask my supervisor who I was.  She didn’t recognize me.

Anyway, Andy’s such a great guy and has the best sense of humor.  He is always baking and brought in this tray (tray!) of homemade cookies!  After he showed us the cookies, I accused him of being Satan himself.  His response?  “Well yeah, but I make cookies, too.”

It was fantastic to see him and he suggested again that if I’m able to make it out to Los Angeles to visit my friends that I should give him a call for lunch or something.  Hopefully I’ll be able to make it out there next year.

I’m in a much better mood than I was when I got here, and hopefully the rest of the evening will go well!