All Things Woompty

Bits. And also pieces.

You know, I'm a little offended that no one commented on what a cute little kid I was, with my darling little pigtails in my Christmas tree ornament picture. Because come on, I was freakin' adorable. Admit it, you just wanted to pinch my little chubby cheeks.

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Onward.

The Year of Tragedy and Trauma continues unabated. This week, one of my employees got some horrible news, especially considering the time of year. First of all, he is the nicest, kindest, coolest guy...great sense of humor, hard worker, devoted to his kids, former military guy who served in Desert Storm. Youngish, late 30's/early 40's at most. He takes fantastic care of himself...exercises, eats right (jokes have been made about the amount of fruit he has been known to eat for lunch).

He was supposed to get some minor surgery done a couple weeks ago (sinuses maybe?) but then he got sick. He thought it was a flu or something...he just didn't fee right. But then last week he found a lump on his neck, so he headed in this week to see what might be wrong. The doctor immediately ordered tons of tests...CT scans, bloodwork, the whole spiel. And the doctor told him he was pretty sure it was cancer.

Got the news today that yep, it's lymphoma. From what we've heard, it's the highly curable non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. They're starting chemo for him next week.

Merry fuckin' Christmas.

But if anyone is going to beat this, it's this guy. He's the most optimistic, cheerful, determined to be happy and live a good life guy I know. Here's hoping the new year brings him health, and lots of it.

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Tomorrow night is our holiday party...it's been downgraded from a full on sit down dinner to a cocktail reception this year though. It's been classified as "business casual" but I've decided that I need to look hot anyway.

So I'll be wearing my Hot-Cha-Cha dress. I'll just try and dress it down a bit instead of dressing it up like I usually do.

Mostly I'm just going to wear it because I want to see the look on people's faces since usually at work I'm all buttoned down and professional. Well, somewhat professional anyway. They have no idea how hot I can be when I put my mind to it.

Man, I'm full of myself.

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Okay, I am seriously slacking on my Christmas cards. I have one more batch to write up, and that's it. I suppose I should go get started on those right now.

Right. Now.

posted by Melinda @ 8:53 PM