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I make no claim to being entertaining in this post... I just need to vent a little bit.
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Stress at work has been growing steadily. Not from deadlines or anything like that, but my job security seems to be diminishing before my eyes, and I'm a bit freaked out. More like FUH-REAKED but I try not to think about it. I think maybe I'm being paranoid, but I also think I'm justified. Considering they took me off the schedule for the big company sales meeting this year, and they are already training someone else to give the class that I learned how to teach (and haven't even GOTTEN to teach yet, goddammit), I think I have every reason to stress out. I totally understand cost-cutting measures and all that, but up until this point the things I was doing were important to garnering more sales. Apparently someone has had a change of heart.... I just wish they would be up-front with me about it.***
Caught B's cold this weekend, which I wouldn't have minded but I wasted a vacation day on Monday. We did get out of the house for a little while, but I slept the rest of the day afterwards, and I'm kind of wishing I had called in sick today too. I don't have a lot of nasty symptoms, but I just feel like I've been hit by a bus and could sleep for days on end.
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Other health news... I had a doctor's appointment last week with a new family practitioner. Very cool doc, young but competent and easy to talk to. He noticed the tension in my shoulders and neck, and asked about it... I told him how my arms fall asleep all the time and how my shoulders cramp up in the morning after sleeping on my stomach or my side. After a bit of poking & prodding, he said that I have Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. Basically my top rib tends to ride up against my collarbone, pinching the nerves and blood vessels that run to my arms. He gave me some stretching exercises to do to help with the muscle tension in my shoulders, which should keep my ribcage from being pulled upwards. Nothing major, but it explains a lot.
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I have 2 more vacation days this week (Thursday & Friday) which will be spent in Cleveland with the in-law's. Otherwise, there really isn't much worth writing about! I will be extremely happy when spring arrives, to say the least.
