Why I called off Work the Day I was Meant to Start. Hello Everyone. I really hope your holidays were healthier than mine. On Friday I started getting a little under the weather. Really the five consecutive nosebleeds should have been a warning sign to me. Around 1 in the morning Friday into Saturday I started having a gallbladder attack. It lasted throughout the night and into the next morning/afternoon. However it cleared mostly up but Sunday. I enjoyed a bland Christmas meal only nibbling on a few tiny sweets. I guess that was a few too many because around 2:30 (Sunday into Monday) I started throwing up. Not fun at all. I wound up calling off on my first day back to work. While I am feeling much better, I'm still resigned to dry rice and Jell-O for the next few days. I’ll be at work tomorrow. 9-5 Tuesday to Sunday. Home around 6-ish. So if anyone wants to hang out gimme a call. Aside from that – Christmas was pretty good. Played with the baby, got some nice gifts (and gift cards * big smile*), took some good picture. The only part I didn’t like and nearly set me into a bad mood was one of my aunts started talking religion and started saying my one cousin (Jason) was a Satan worshiper. (He’s Wiccan). His mother and sister defended him and Millie asked me a question relating to the God and Goddess of Pagan religions. I answered because I knew what she was talking about and my aunt gave me such a look of loathing I wanted to cry. Her blind hate was just. . .horrifying. She didn’t even ask me if I practiced or not, she just assumed the worst. It was like philosophy class only worse. It was towards the end of the night so she left not too much later and the few remaining got to relax a little. Jesus was a man of Peace, Love and Acceptance. How can anyone who follows his teachings so blindly lash out at others? HATE another person? He teaches forgiveness and understanding. Some people just seriously twist his words to suit their own needs and it makes me sick. People just need to learn to be better people themselves rather than judging everyone else. Didn’t he preach – “Judge not, lest ye be judged”? or “Let you who has no sin throw the first stone”? Where is the Love?