I was taken by surprise when I got to work and found on my table a plant in a vase with my first pet fish! It’s not from a secret admirer it’s from my co-worker. I’ve been wanting a plant for ages and my co-worker knew that. So she thought of surprising me with one. But the fish is another story. I don’t like pets, I’m stuck with one now! It’s called a fighter fish. It’s red, it has long fins and she’s one scared fish. She swims away from my finger if I touch the vase. Though it’s really cute, how can I take care for it during the weekends when I’m at home? Doesn’t it need filtered water? I’m worried it might die?

Update: uploaded the pic.

All this time I’ve been thinking I had 26 days left!! I didn’t want to take anymore days off and I told myself I better keep them for next year because it wasn’t worth it. But guess what? Yesterday as I checked my vacation leaves since 2006, I found out that I’ve got more days than what I’ve been informed. I discovered a flowing error. I didn’t want to embarrass myself at first because I suck at math so I kept quiet. I told a friend at work. She checked my vacation leaves and she noticed something didn’t add up as well. Rami told me to get someone from Human Resources or Employee Relations Dept. to explain to me how 35 days vanished to thin air, that was according to my rough calculations. And yareet it was 35 days. It was 54 freaking days!!

Yaaaaaaaaaay!!

P.s. I’m taking 5 days off starting from next week. Work sucks big time …

For the first time in 3 months I’ve arrived 10 minutes earlier and hopefully I’ll be leaving with the rest of the girls too. Dropping and picking up Hassan from nursery everyday made me late to work. Yesterday was his last day until he joins back in September. It was so hard for me to leave the house with a toddler crying and screaming, not wanting to get out of bed and get changed lol. I’m still not relaxed because yesterday after he came back he was not feeling right. He had a fever and an earache.

On Sunday I took him to Dar Al Shifa and the ENT doctor there told me that his ears were fine. He didn’t remove the wax maybe he didn’t feel like it, or he was too scared. Well guess what? Last night I took him to another ENT doctor in Sallam Hospital and I was told his ears were all red and infected AGAIN. He took out balls of wax from both his ears, one was black and another was orange. He’s been having Otitis Media since he was little, which is all weird. I’ve always fed my son the correct way and held him in the right feeding position, plus I was breastfeeding him until he turned 3months. He weaned himself off the bottle all on his own before his 2nd b-day. And back in May we got rid of his pacifier too. And still, he’s getting this over and over again.

Research says kids are prone to such recurrent ear infections because of wrong bottle feeding positions and long term pacifier use. Well, with my kid that’s not the case. I believe he has an allergy and probably this is the cause for his repeated ear infections, though I’m not so sure I can confirm this. Anyways, ENT doctor put him on antibiotic shots for 5 days. His fever went down after his 1st shot, nose got unblocked and cough actually sounds better. Everyone who knows me knows I hate antibiotics but yesterday I gave in because this is different, he’s been having one day fevers for the past month. I’m guessing because infection is left untreated. Inshallah he’ll grow out this phase.

most of my co-workers and including myself have cried at least once or twice at work. it’s like our venting place now lol

An evil co-worker has retired for good yesterday so we had a farewell party for her, though she doesn’t deserve it but we were trying to be nice and better than her. She was always good to me but she was never good with a lot of my friends so I had mixed emotions. I’m happy more than upset that’s for sure.

I called some guy to fix some errors on my computer and apparently I was on msn chat. I left my office and when I got back, he wasn’t there but I found out that he changed my personal msn message from ‘my work computer sucks!’ to ‘I love my work computer!’

I couldn’t help laughing … 

Before when there was nothing to do, I’d usually sneak out of the office to watch Rotana Zaman on the plasma screen in the reception area. Ayaaaaaaaaaaaam!