Week two, taxes & cravings

Second week of work done! 21 more weeks to go! But again, who's counting? This week I started making a shopping list of the things I want to buy while I'm down on Denver. You Americans really know how to have a SALE. At most up here in Canada, we get 50% off the original price max, but when I go outlet shopping in the US, there is 50% off the last ticketed price which is about 50% off the original price and then, somehow, you magically get another 25% off at the register just for showing up! I paid $6.50 for these awesome Ann Taylor silk crop pants that I just LOVE. Never in a million years would I have been able to find that kind of a deal here. So, my working has enabled my shopping...although the list is very practical at this point and full of necessities that I was putting off buying like underwear and bras. Still fun to get to go out and buy it though!

In other news, I just about dropped from shock when I check the bank balance this morning and discovered that Revenue Canada deposited our entire refund plus a few whole dollars in interest!! We were thrilled to finally get that money back. I haven't seen that much money in our bank account for a while and it was nice to have a little cushion in the cash flow again.

Finally, I've started having horrible cravings and for really strange things too. I'm Chinese so our seasoning of choice when growing up was soya sauce. My Mom used to make me soft boiled eggs, crack a little opening off the top and then I would eat it, spoonful by spoonful with a little soya sauce dropped into the egg for each mouthful. Mmmmmmm yummy. Don't knock it until you've tried it! Trust me - soya sauce & soft boiled eggs are amazing. Now in my adult years, I've discovered that eggs really upset my stomach (gas, bloating, diarrhea) so I don't eat them anymore but boy oh boy was I craving one a few days ago. Anyone else get any crazy Lupron cravings?

I feel much better today too and I've been off the BCP for 2 days. I don't know if that has anything to do with it but I'm not as paranoid or insecure as I was a few days ago. I went back into work the next day and all of a sudden my problems and issues were not so insurmountable. I had a productive week too so I feel like I actually earned the money instead of mooching it off the company for work not really done. In one instance I was worrying on how to answer a question and fill out a chart because the issue was that in my mind, the question wasn't applicable and I just couldn't figure out how to complete the chart and answer the question properly. Next day, I had a blinding flash of insight (haha) and simply inserted "N/A" as the answer. Sheesh. Lupron sure does strange things to your brain.