I need a VACATION!

First, I must tell you that the concert was amazing. We sat so close, it was unbelievable. I've never had the opportunity to be that close to the stage for a live performance before...it was amazing!
The weekend was full of house cleaning to prepare for our Thanksgiving visitors, and working at job #2 for me. Mom and Dad did a lot of cleaning outside to get ride of the trillion plus leaves that fall from our trees and coat our yards and cars.

Monday was a tragic day. A friend of our lost her husband to a massive heart attack. It was unexpected and he was young, at only 52 years old. He was a very fit, healthy man. It certainly was the last thing we could have expected. We found out as soon as we got to work because the friend also works at the same business my Mom and I do. We went to the hospital to comfort her and offer our condolences. She's falling apart and her heart is broken. Her husband was her best friend. She met him after one miserable marriage, he was her knight and shining armor. They both were out of terrible marriages and found one another, which as luck would have it - they were soul mates. I have not doubt after seeing them together that they belonged with one another. After returning to work, it was very hard to focus with his death weighing so heavily on our minds. He was a wonderful man and he will truly be missed.

I have a co-worker who we shall call Gossip Queen (GQ for short). She's always running around gossiping (big surprise!). I knew how she was when I came to work in this department, and I was sure to distance myself from her childish antics. While I admit to doing my fair share of gossiping, I do not spread untrue things or gossip about people who I do not know. I am keenly aware that you never know someones situation outside of work, they could have the most miserable life possible. You have to remember to have heart, to understand, and to have a little something called compassion. GQ has none of the above. She's always worried that somebody is getting something she isn't. She's very jealous and nosey. I never tell her anything I don't want anyone else to know.

Anyway, yesterday when I found out that my friends husband has passed away, I walked to my Mom's office to comfort her. She called me in hysterics telling me about it. I think it really scared her because he and my dad are the same age. At lunch she called me and told me she wanted to go see the friend, who was still at the hospital waiting for his son to arrive so he could say his good-byes. Since my boss is out until December 1st, I went into her bosses office and told her that I was going to lunch, and I would likely be a little late because we were going to stop at the hospital (she knew what was going on). When I got back, 2 hours later, the building was evacuated for a fire drill and it was 37 outside. I went into a neighboring building and signed into my e-mail to check it, and shot an e-mail to GQ to let her know I was back if anyone was looking for me, but I was keeping warm next door. When I saw everyone enter the building I came back to my office and got to work. At 5, right as I was getting ready to leave, the boss that I talked to when I was leaving for lunch called me, she asked me to come by her office before I left for the day. I stopped by her office and she proceeded to tell me how GQ was mad at her because she said she was being unfair and letting me come and go as I please. It hurt my feeling, I was so livid when I left work yesterday - it was unbelievable. I knew she enjoyed gossiping, but being heartless is a whole new one for me?!?! She knew where I went, I told her when I left that I was heading to the hospital. I am a punctual, hard working employee and I'm not patting myself on the back. I bust my butt for my job, make sure it gets done, and it's correct. Nothing falls back on her, she's not my backup and she has nothing to do with the job I do. We work in the same office, but not for the same supervisor or the same division. The big boss that called me in is her supervisor and my bosses supervisor. We're 2 units, HR and Admin. She's admin and I'm HR. We have no bearing on one another. She was apparently having a bad day and decided to run her mouth about me. I told the boss that called me in that it hurt my feelings because I have known GQ for quite a while and I didn't feel like she should feel that way about me, of all people. I don't understand people and their jealousy. I assure you I did not want to go to that hospital, but you know what? My friend didn't want to loose her husband either. Sometimes we have to do things for other people that require us to act like the human beings God intended for us to be. I am proud of who I am, and the actions I took yesterday. I hope she can sleep at night, knowing that she complained because I left to comfort a friend in need. BITCH. Wow....that felt good!

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and enjoy your time with your family!
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