My goodbye lunch is set

I'm really touched by the people in both sides of our code QS-Safety and QE-Environmental and a few civil servants who have asked when my goodbye lunch is happening. I haven't been over to the health unit, but I'm very friendly with the folks over there, too. They've all been bugging me about it so I sat down with Faten yesterday and we decided on an Italian restaurant with a big back room where we could have space for up to 40 people. I'm not sure they'll all come. An email was sent out yesterday asking for RSVP's so we can make reservations. I like all of these people so much, I really hate to leave. One man retired this week and says he'll come back to my lunch! Of course, he admits he knows nothing about computers and just got a new PC at home. I've offered to come over to help him with it and he has accepted. Heh, maybe this could be my business!

No, I'm not good at all the paperwork of being self-employed. That was clear from my year of contract programming after I was layed-off.

Eric comes home tonight!

I should be in lab right now. Because my stomach is upset and has been all week, because I have to go to school to do my labs after all and because I need to take a couple of days off or work without pay, I'm taking today off. I'm so tired. I'd rather just sleep. But I know the tiredness is dread of the many hours of lab ahead of me.

Ooh, I'm late for my chiropractor. Maybe I'll just miss that today. I'll do labs until I have to leave then I'll get our traditional Friday burritos and put one in the fridge for Eric. At 9:12PM I'll be waiting outside the secure area at the airport for my darling Eric!

I'm so excited he's coming home! It's been very quiet around here without him. I was concerned that my night terrors might make an appearance with him gone but they didn't. They were a fairly regular thing for me until I started living with him. He makes me feel safe.

I haven't heard from steelergirl. I know she's in California. We had tentative plans to meet for lunch this weekend but she hasn't contacted me. :(