an unexpected friday night off.

as you can guess, in the restaurant business having a friday night off is a major rarity. it is one of the busiest nights of the week. everyone works basically. i got to work early and checked out the floor map for the night to find that i was listed as "extra" with the word sick beside my name. i had to call in sick yesterday. i was pretty excited. i double checked.. and collected my paycheque and was on my way.

so… yesterday was probably one of the worst experiences with gluten (or wheat, more specifically) i have ever had. i have been staying away from it for about a year and a half. it has been pretty easy for me, considering my mom never uses wheat in her cooking, and i know how to get around it. but there are times when i cheat. and i did that too much over the holidays with jeff's family and christmas parties and stuff. it lead to gross bloaty-ness and nothing really moving through my insides. but whatever. it was worth it. i have been focusing on eating better now that the holidays are over and for the most part i felt like it had all passed. but wednesday i worked day, and so had the night off with jeff. we decided to have a junk food night. jeff has a way of just making me cheat and eat all the things. well… in the middle of the night i woke up feeling awful. i didn't leave the bathroom all night. and i was stuck there most of the next day too.

either i had a really short run in with the flu, or that was the worst gluten/wheat reaction i have ever had. it was horrible. a girl i work with who is celiac calls it being 'glutened'.

sooo… the short version of that story is that i had to call in sick to work thursday, and so they weren't sure if i would make it friday… and had too many people scheduled anyway, and so i got the night off. it was great.

i came back home without telling jeff so i could surprise him. they had just fallen asleep for nap time and so i got to join in for the rest of that (which was awesome). afterwards i suggested a family date night at ikea. it was a hit.

i got these christmas cookie cutters that fit together to make standing 3d cookies. pretty stoked. and they were on for 49 cents. we got some cool green glasses to go in our bar. and some glass water bottles, a bathmat, and some very cool grey crates to complete our shelf storage situation.

we got this big shelf to separate our living room from the dining room/office space. this is the living room half. on the other side is the giant pile of stuff we haven't dealt with or put away yet. so the middle row has been saves for crates (which jeff was supposed to build for me… but that isn't really happening) which i will fill with all my fabric from my sewing dresser, so we can get rid of the dresser and put a big 6 foot desk across the wall. so now we have acquired the crates, and figured out what we will do about the desk. woo!!

painting is well underway… and it is sooooo much brighter. i also have jeff convinced that green and sea foam are the perfect accent colours. its awesome. i'll share more pictures as more things come together!!

now… i discovered man from snowy river is on netflix, and i am making jeff watch it with me (even though he has been grumbling through the first 15 minutes mocking it. hah.