Yesterday my office had our annual Christmas luncheon, and we had an amazingly fun time. Everyone has been somewhat upset this week because the owner changed the requirement to be considered full-time because of all of the health insurance things changing, and some people lost their benefits. So, it's been a rough week for everyone to be happy to come to work for obvious reasons. And it has just been insanely busy, which is always the case at the end of the year. The worst part of it is when people get upset with you because they want to squeeze in their cleaning or a crown before the end of the year, and we have nothing to offer them. People get much nastier this time of year about things like this. Luckily, I have dealt with it enough that I recover quickly from getting my head bitten off.
Anyway, getting off topic here! So, everyone has been pretty stressed out, and yesterday was exactly what we all needed. The whole day me and my friend talked about food because we were saving our appetites for lunch, and we were starving! Even when we tried to stop talking about food, we kept talking about food! Luckily, several patients blew us off at the end of the day, and I collected all of the payments up front when the last patients came in so that we could hightail it out of there! My friend and I came back to my house to change, and then ran over to the restaurant.
Our lunch was at Ruth's Chris in South Barrington, and it was so unbelievably good! And all of us girls were ordering different kinds of martinis, and passing our drinks along so others could try them. And I was pretty drunk by my 3rd one! And my instagram account shows how crazy I went with pictures, were a lot of them weren't very clear cuz of the lighting in our private room, but it still documents the fun! Me and my friend and another coworker walked around the shopping center to sober up a bit before we drove home. And we hammed it up with the sales girls in one store who were "mad and refusing to help us" because we didn't invite them to our fun party, lol.
Oh, and the hygienist kept ordering fru-fru drinks for one of the doctors who is always a bit of a loner in the office, and he hammed it up for us....so it was just exactly what we needed. I am hoping it will help those who are upset to see they still work at a great office, and I think we got to bond more than we usually get to in the office. I even managed to muster up some niceness to a coworker who usually does nothing but rub me the wrong way at work and had given up on. But I think part of that was the alcohol, lol
We have 17 days til we go on our road trip to see my parents. And hopefully I can get some time in with some friends while we are down there, too! But I am completely ready! I am only waiting on 2 items which shipped yesterday, faster than expected! And I am going to finish wrapping and ribboning what I do have here! And then I gotta decide on what kind of cookies I'm going to make for my cookie exchange, which right now has 7 people (I got one of the male doctors to sign up, and he wrote poison cookies next to this sign up, lol). I will be happy with 10, and honestly, I am hoping no more than that because I don't want to make anymore than 60 cookies for this!
And I have to muster up the courage to make my next hair appointment. I'm such a wimp.
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