My Old Friend~Tim McGraw Lyrics

Went to work only to find out that we lost yet another ADT / Tyco family
member.  This one was still young, but filled with so much fun and laughter
that she got a lot out of her 33 years on Earth.  May Beth Good rest in peace
and join the countless others that we have lost in the last few years.
 

Ms. Good / Ms. Great / Ms. Always bubbly and smiling.. 

Don from our resource desk..

Mat from our inbound department..

 

One of my former managers, Mr. "Rontastic!" Burns..

May the one(s) who took him from us know no peace
and those who knew him, know peace and comfort.

One of my former training assistant new hires, Loyd..

You never knew just how much we would miss you.. 

Another one of our inbound personalities, Glenn..

And another one of our managers, Vivian..

There were a few others that we have lost these last few years.

We actually were all intact last year, but the year before that

saw us lose five people, and we are up to four this year.  : (..

My heart goes out to all of their family and friends.  May they

all know much peace and comfort.  And lemme tell ya, between

Beth, Don and Ron, Heaven is hoppin today!  Lol.  I don't think

they knew what was in store for them up there.  : )..  Until we

meet again, y'all keep the party goin.

The difference between men and women.. Lol..

Soo, while I had a healthy respect for the power of that cold or whatever you would call it, I made it through it with minimal complaints and the medications that I was given, plus a few cough drops and Aleve.  I still wake up with a sore throat and still cough on occasion, but I'm past the worst of it.  I wasn't cranky, I wasn't short with people.  Lol.  I was even cracking jokes for the fact that I had no voice on the day that I went in to work.  I still functioned by getting up, cleaning out the fridge, getting the trash out.  I still got up with the puppies and let them out and in and out and in and back out and back in and out..  Lol.  They loved having me at home for two extra days.

However, dh came down with the exact same thing.  Totally different story.  Lol.  He's sick!  He doesn't want me asking him questions about how he's feeling!  He's sick!  He slept all day yesterday and well into this morning.  Knowing that the zpak and the codeine cough syrup never stopped my sore throat, I also got one of the Cloraseptic Max sore throat sprays.  Did he use it?  I highly doubt it.  I told him it was there.  He knows it's there because I told him about it a hundred times.  Lol.  He's sick!  Men.  I still functioned.  He's sick!  Hopefully, he will have the same results with the meds as I did.  I was feeling so much better the second day and have been feeling better by the minute.  He's sick!  Dang it!  Lol.

Update on our American Heart Challenge..  Hmm..  I'm thinking they must have been going by how much red each team had, or the fact that the other groups also included signs and symptoms..  Something happened.  The Training Department won, followed by our Home Health Department and then the first shift Team Carlos group.  Dang!  What?  Did we come in last?  There was only one other group besides us.  Lol.  : )..  I never found out.  I still think our "pod" looked great and that at least this was all for a great cause.  Here's a picture of our QA group, I wish they would have shown more of our pod decoration.  We decorated our manager's "office" instead of an actual pod.  I'm not in the pic because they took it yesterday.  Lol.  Here it is..

The streamers that are hanging above everyone?  They are connected

to more of those big red mylar balloons.  : )..

We had a lotta red stuff..

Oh well..  It's all good..

Great job Team QA!

Getting a little better...

Whew.  Finally.  Starting to come back out of this sore throat / cough that has been terrible.  It's not your average little, ooh my throat is sore type of deal.  It's like strep throat sore without it actually being strep throat.  It hurt to breathe, talk, sit still, lay down, eat, drink, cough, etc.  Now, it only hurts when I talk, cough, eat or drink.  That's a definite improvement though!  Whatever this was, not only got me down, but my dh is coming down with it and actually agreed to let me have the doctor call in a script for him as well, and I think Emmy had a little touch of it yesterday as well. 

I have a script for antibiotics and some cherry flavored Codeine Cough syrup (yay for Walgreens and their awesome pharmacist who suggested that!) and another day off from work.  That makes two vacation days and we aren't even two months into the year.  Whew.  Hopefully, this will be gone by Monday.

It also made me reschedule my winner, winner, chicken dinner winery dinner winner dinner that was supposed to be tomorrow afternoon.  I know that William from Fence Stiles had health issues late last year, plus I didn't want to take the chance that I would still be contagious and pass it along to others (sorry to all my co-workers yesterday, lol).  We will reschedule it for later.

I made it through seven hours of work yesterday, including a little time to help decorate for our American Heart Association challenge.  All of the other groups that participated did a great job with their pods, but I still think that ours stands a pretty good chance of winning.  : )..  I did manage to make this yesterday to include in our pod..

Plus, I stopped by WalMart and picked up some healthy snacks.  I got apples, fat free popcorn, sugar free jello, granola bars and some sugar free punch packets.  We are giving the snacks to the team that had the best QA average, which turned out to be our Custom Home Services (the celebrity / rich / well to do division) and Home Health (the I've fallen and I can't get up) group.

Not sure when we will know which pod won, but, we stand a pretty good chance.  : )..

Alrighty.  I am going to take a break for a minute and try to get me something to drink.

Later!

My throat, my throat, my throat is on fire..

Ouch.  My cough has all but gone away until I move around, get up or lay back down.  However, my throat is soo raw and sore right now.  I kept waking up last night, thankfully, dh had to get up at 4am and leave for work.  I am sitting here, sipping some yummy, warmed beef broth.  I think I am going to keep plenty of that on hand, plus stop by somewhere and pick up some kind of medication for sore throats.  Wow.  Whatever this was, I would have rather had a Mack truck hit me.  Yikes.  I am going into work early today.  Going to do an early in / early out.  Got some stuff to do before one of my friends from Jefferson City comes in for our winner, winner chicken dinner winery winner dinner on Saturday.  : )..

We are decorating our boss's pod with all kinds of red items for an American Heart Association challenge.  We ran with a theme that should hopefully give us an edge over the rest of the floor.  Yay.  We decided to make it a QA theme and put hearts up, asking the floor reps to keep their Unit Managers (one day shift, one evening shift and one night shift) hearts healthy by being the highest scored QA group.  We are checking the QA scores for the last three months to determine which Unit Manager's team had the highest scores and that group gets to come and pick up some heart healthy snacks.  I'm bringing two big red plastic bowls and stopping by to grab some heart healthy snackages before I get to work this morning. 

I think I might even kick in a red tile "trophy" for the Unit Manager to display for the time being.  That way we can also tie it into a progress challenge and have it be a traveling trophy.  I think this will really be a great way to celebrate this cause. 

ADT has really gotten into the charity / volunteering kick the past two years.  We had a car wash, cell phone recycle, blanket and towel drive and a host of other items as well.  This year we are collecting pennies to go towards a couple of kid charities.  We have collected over $600 in just two weeks.  That penny drive will last for three months.  I can only imagine how much we will end up with if that's how well it's started.  I have pennies to donate for days.

Alrighty, beef broth has almost been consumed and my throat is feeling a little better.  Time to get this day started.  : )..  And time to get the tile going!  Woot.  I'll post pics when we take them.

O noo..

Soo.  I have a sore throat and a slight cough.  Well, the slight cough sounded like I was about to hack up a lung at work yesterday, but I think part of that was because I inhaled a little bit of honey lemon cough drop.  I have a slight temperature as well, 100.4.  Which, answers two questions.  Yes, I do actually have a slight fever and yay, our old battery operated thermometer does still work.  It only took about 30 seconds to beep this time and let me know that, yup.  I have a fever.  Awesome.

Soo.  My kingdom for some Cold Eeze.  I knew that I was starting to feel a little run down and not quite right last Sunday.  I stopped to look for some, but could only find Zicam for a huge price.  Nah.  No thanks.  Stopped at WalMart on the way to work yesterday and got some Cold Eeze.  Waiting for it to kick in.  I'm also going to take today off work and take care of myself instead of pass this along to my co-workers.  I'm sure they will be glad.  Lol.

Anyway, I looked on here for Cold Eeze and found that they have a lotta different flavors. My favorite one is this..

 Strawberries and cream..  Yummy..

But they didn't have that flavor..

 So I got Honey Lemon instead..

Still good..

But now, I see they have lemon-lime.

I want some lemon-lime ones..

Yummy..

Alrighty..  I am going back

to bed..  Later..