Today was a momentous day for me: I got to utter the famous words “take this job and shove it” to my HR manager today. Okay, maybe not those exact words, but a variation on them. I’ve been working at Acme Software Co. (you didn’t think I’d tell you the real name, did you?) for 6 months now, and the last 4 have been hell. Yes, you read that right. Only the first 2 months were any good. The rest were all crap. Now don’t get me wrong, I can usually take quite a bit of crap at work even though I might bitch about it the whole time. But I bitch because I love, you know? Acme Software Co. takes the cake though. I suffered so much with all the crap that they were throwing at me that I actually lost weight. And not just the “ooh, I can now fit into my skinny jeans again” type of weight. We’re talking “holy sh!t but I actually need to use a belt on the skinny jeans!” Sure, I lost about 5 or 6 pounds because of the stupid braces I had put on my teeth in the fall, but the other 15 or 16 were definitely because of the stress at work. I haven’t been this skinny since I was 20! (And before my sister makes some comment about that, pffft I say! [that's a raspberry directed at you, Seester.]) Given my family history with cancers below the  navel, I was a tad concerned.

Off I went to the doctor. She was 95% sure it was just stress, but she signed me up for a battery of tests anyways, just to be sure. I did the blood work (all fine), the abdominal ultrasound (still waiting for the results), and I’m on the list to have a colonoscopy scheduled sometime in the next couple of months. I also took two weeks off (unpaid) from work to test out this theory…and wouldn’t ya know it, after about 5 days, I was feeling normal. After 7 days I was hungry again and eating everything in sight. By day 10 I was feeling peachy keen.

So I made the call today. Told Acme Software Co. that I’m resigning my position effective immediately. And I haven’t felt better. So rejoice with me today as I told them to stuff it! Mwah haha. Besides, I’ve got some knitting to finish.