Ahhh, November

First things first….thinking back to Halloween night…..I just don’t seem to have a lot of good luck when it comes to Halloween night…..Seems like bad things always happen around that time….this year of course was no exception. We ended up going to a party at one of our friend’s houses – Travis dressed up as a hockey player and I was a goth kitty – so were one of the few couples that didn’t have coordinating costumes. In fact, I bet we looked pretty silly together. But anyway….the food and booze was flowing freely at the party. My friend Lindsay makes a mean Lemon Drop Martini, so I had a few of those. I drank a whole bottle of pre-mixed Bacardi hurricane by myself, and I had a Red Bull and Skyy Vodka (and thought of you, Mandy, lol). By then I was feeling pretty shitfaced, and I kept eating a lot of the junk food that was out. Later in the evening more people came in, and I noticed one guy had a cool looking orange martini, and I asked him what it was. He told me it was a pumpkin martini and offered to make me one. So a few minutes later he brings me this drink, and I tried it, and it was strong as shit. This drink started making me feel very sick, so sick that I had to go home. Let me just say, pumpkins and booze do not go together – one is for making pies, one is for getting drunk! I was sick all that night and most of the next day. Yuck!

Now, I know it was wrong of me to not watch as this random person went and made my drink; usually I am pretty good about making sure that no one goes and makes me a drink without watching but this time I didn’t. Gah. I don’t want to accuse drink-maker-guy of slipping something in my drink but still, I’ve only been this violently ill once before after drinking. That was my freshman year of college when one of my friends gave me one nasty cognac drink that tasted like gasoline. And I have had more with less drastic results. But yeah…not fun stuff. I spent most of Sunday praying for a quick and painless death. At least the football games that day kept me occupied.

So I got back my saliva test results…and they confirmed what my father in law had said – that I am very, very low on progesterone, and that this is causing many of my other hormones to be out of whack as well. Wonderful! His solution is to have me go off my birth control pills – because apparently the fake progesterone in them is making my body not produce the real thing and it’s all confused now. At the end of this pill pack I will pretty much de-tox my body of the artificial hormones for 3 months and monitor my symptoms closely. Then if things don’t normalize some, I will be put on hormone therapy using real human hormones. We’ll see what happens – like many other things in my life I have to play the waiting game again. But I am willing to try just about anything if it gets me feeling better. At this point, I have become so sick and tired of my symptoms and having countless doctors tell me that nothing is wrong, and that they can’t figure out why I feel crappy. My father in law knows his stuff when it comes to compounding and hormones, so I can definitely trust him more than some other random doc that just wants money. I know a lot of the stuff he talked to me about makes a ton of sense, especially the fact that I am constantly run down, and that my moods are all over the place. Maybe once this gets going in the right direction, I’ll start feeling half human again.

On the job front, I didn’t get the revenue analyst job I had interviewed for. The lady that wanted me to apply ended up interviewing me and told me that I was the front runner for the position, but at the last minute someone else applied for it that had more government experience than I did and that person got the job instead of me. GRRRRR!!!! This was mostly because the job was left open way after I interviewed for it, instead of having it be closed after I applied. So I got screwed in that manner. But, there was an interesting turn of events. During that interview, the lady had someone from HR sitting in helping her, since she hadn’t done too much interviewing. And this HR person saw something she liked in my interview and talked me up to another HR person, who had an opening for a staff training specialist position. The two people who had interviewed me recommended me for this new position, and I was asked to interview for it as well. That was a long process – the first part took an hour, then I had a typing test (58 words per minute, and all I need is 30, lol), then a computer test to prove I can use Windows, Word, PowerPoint, Excel (yawn!), and a second interview part that lasted two more hours! I also had to do a proofreading test, a presentation on myself matched to a PowerPoint I made, and answer tons of questions. I am once again waiting to hear something back – the last I was told is that some of the bigwigs in HR were trying to settle on a pay compensation scale. So hopefully they will make up their minds soon, since I am tired of not knowing.

Meanwhile, November can’t decide what it wants to do weather wise in Indiana. We were unseasonably warm, and last night a cold front came in and we got some massive storms, tornadoes (none downtown, thank goodness), and now cold and snow. Yesterday the high was 65, today the high was like 38, with winds up to 45 MPH this morning (tropical storm force), and it’s 26 and dropping now. Joy. Is it April yet?!