Not Feeling Well . . . UGH!

So, what's been happening around here?  Not a lot, that's for sure!  This past week has not been the greatest.  I had been feeling like something was coming on, a cold or whatnot.  You know how you can just "feel" something coming on?  As it turns out, I woke up Thursday morning and my ENTIRE body hurt!  I could hardly move and felt like a wet noodle.  I have so much to do at work every day, that I really don't want to call in sick, but I didn't have a choice on Thursday. I managed to take a shower, wash my hair and started putting my make-up on.  I got as far as putting eyeshadow on when I gave up.  I had to walk down stairs for something, and just walking back up completely wiped me out.  (Mind you, because we have a tri-level, it's only eight stairs.)  That was it.  I thought about the 40 mile drive into work, and the way I was feeling, I didn't think I was even capable of driving that far safely.   So, I set my alarm for 7:30, so I could call in and did that and went back to bed.  

I woke up at 7:30 and called in and went back to bed.  I woke up around 10 a.m. and went to lay down under the blankets on the couch.  I slept there until about 4 p.m., then spent a few minutes on the computer and went to bed.  I woke up Friday morning feeling a little better, so it was off to work I went! 

I thought I was much better, but once I started walking around the greenhouse, I realized that I was still pretty weak.  Fortunately, I didn't have to go from my office to the greenhouse and back and forth too much like I usually do, so I was able to make it through the day.  I got all my salescalls made, but then the main copier/printer took a dump on us.  It kept jamming and wouldn't print, etc.  Of course, that was RIGHT at the time that I needed to print all kinds of reports so that I could do my Saturday work.  ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!  I was NOT a happy camper!  I could have been done and out of there by 4:30 (mind you, I start at 7:30 a.m.), but with all the problems, it was 6 p.m. before I finally left.  I couldn't get the main printer to work, so had to figure out how to switch printers so it would print on an OLD dot matrix green bar printer.  I was quite frustrated and ready to cry.  I didn't feel good and just wanted to be home, in bed.  The problem was the program I use and the fact that it's not easy to tell it to print somewhere else.  It's kind of a DOS program, so it's not like windows where you get to "choose" your printer.  It's hard to explain, but suffice it to say that after an hour of trying to print and going back and forth to the printer to find nothing printing, it finally worked!  YEA!  Praise God!   

The best part about it printing on the big green bar paper was that the print was larger than if it had printed on the original printer on 8-1/2x11 paper.  Normally, I enlarge it to print on 17x22 paper, which is the size of two regular sheets of paper put together.  I thought for sure it was going to print as small as 8-1/2x11, but it printed it MUCH bigger!  Yea!  Again, Praise God!   I was finally able to leave and go home to bed.  

Today, I went in at 6 a.m. like I always do on Saturdays, and discovered that the greenhouse crew had already done a bunch of my work!  How awesome is THAT?!  Thank you, Jesus!  I was still feeling kind of weak and not myself, so it was great to have a lot of my work done for me.  I LOVE our greenhouse crew, as they are really the BEST!  They had some extra time so they did some of my work for me, because they had a preliminary report of what had to be put out for the drivers.  I still had a bunch of work to do today, but not as much as I would have.  That was a good thing, because I was still moving pretty slow and not feeling quite normal yet.  

I managed to get everything done today, with my helper of the day, Patrick.  (Normally, I have Megan helping me, but she was off today.)  He's a GREAT kid (in high school), who has really matured since starting to work with us.  He was kind of a doofus when he first started, but like I said, he has really matured and turned into a GREAT worker!   He was a BIG help to me with the larger plants we had to sleeve, and with the 104 Jerusalem Cherries that had to be sleeved up (one person was off today, so I said I would take care of the Cherries).   

At about 8:00, the phone rang, but I couldn't run to the other side of the greenhouse in time to answer it.  When I went to check the voice mail, after all my greenhouse work was done, it turns out it was a customer wanting 36 of the Jerusalem Cherries!   So, back up to the greenhouse, I went.  I was exhausted by this point, and one of the greenhouse crew offered to take care of them, so I didn't have to sleeve up another 36 cherries.  Thank you Lord!  

Our office manager came in and was having problems connecting to our server, so the computer problems continued.   She WAS able to make some copies, though, so that was a good thing!  We have the copier/printer scheduled for service first thing Monday morning, so by the time I go in on Tuesday, it should be back to normal.  Now, for the other computer problems.  Not only could Sandra not connect to the server, but I discovered I could not, either.  That meant that I couldn't get to the forms I needed to use for my reports from the last week of sales.  Taught me a lesson . . . keep a back-up copy of your forms on your own computer!   So, I already know that Tuesday is going to be messed up.  I can only pray that they have the problems with the server figured out so that we can connect to it again!  I hand-wrote some of the information I need to put on my report, so some of it is done, but still, it's going to screw up  my day.  Oh well.  It is what it is and I'll be happy to have everything working properly again come Tuesday morning!    Makes me glad that I'm off on Mondays and won't have to deal with the problems and they'll all be magically fixed by the time I come in at 7:30 on Tuesday! 

So, that's what's up around here in the last few days.  I'm still feeling icky, and need to get to bed.  I had to go over to my mother's house for her birthday after work and bring her her present, but that is another story!  Trust me, it's a pretty cool story, as her gift was pretty special!  I'll write about that tomorrow, if I'm feeling up to it.  Right now, it's time for bed.  I'm pretty happy right now, that church doesn't start until 10 a.m. tomorrow, so I don't have to get up early.   

Hope you enjoyed the journey through "normal" life here!  LOL 

Peace to all! 

Julie