Stress Eating Comes Naturally

You guys are the best. My bum self runs out of things to talk about and yet, you still come and wish me well. My laziness was brought on by the continued frustration with the job sitch. But a slim chance of a job change was enough to revive the Over Sharing Queen’s French manicured fingers into a typing frenzy.

What I did during the blogging hiatus:

• Spent an early Canadian Thanksgiving with the fam. Eddie Baby (aka Iron Chef Tsui) outdid himself again with the spread. Crustaceans and eggs. Baked and broiled poultry. Wok stirred four-legged grass eaters. Flash sauteed, scaled water dwellers. Shiitake mushrooms in oyster sauce, yams and Caesar salad. After the main course, we had to make room for the strawberry and peach trifle that I made. It accompanied the mango pudding (it’s still not as good as the mangoes from back home but it’ll do.) and the pumpkin cheese torte and Kona coffee perfectly.
• Watched a lot of Dexter and Weeds while alternating between white chocolate brownies and popcorn. I also threw in some rice crackers and hummus since I was trying to cancel out the unhealthiness of the previous two.
• Ate a lot of sushi and dim sum. Rice and soy sauce trumps mac n’ cheese as comfort food any day. Plus, its so much more fun to see your ankles get bloated from the sodium overdose. Luckily, the salt hasn’t quite caught up with me yet.
• Resuscitated the increasingly lethargic muscles in my gluteus maximus, by going back to my twice a week volleyball schedule. Sometimes, we got lucky enough to play on Saturday nights too. Now if I can just get motivated to go back to the gym.
• Tsu-man and I spent $50+ bucks on frigging coffee and tea drink supplies. Kahlua lattes. Ghirardelli white or dark chocolate mochas. Spiced or vanilla chai tea lattes. All in your choice of fat free, soy, or rice milk and with matching to go cups if you prefer it iced. What a couple of coffee crazeees we are. But now I can pour you a latte with an artsy heart! Ha!
• Polished up the ol’ CV (with Mama D's awesome editing) and applied for another position within the company. It will still be in the area of compliance and not under the Hag’s domain. Oh wait; it can’t be under her domain because the new position will be doing responsibilities she has been stripped of – without her knowledge. So although I would like to gloat to you all about how she reacted when I informed her about the new opening, I will for now keep you in the dark. But I promise to discuss the matter in detail once I have heard more certain news.
• I lurked. And lurked. And lurked some more. I apologize for not writing back on all the lovely comments. I had a two-week long pity party / bad case of I-had-nothing-nice-to-say. None of which was brought about by y’all. Sometimes, even the toughest of us bitches just needs a break, I guess.