So long to the visitor, giving blood & halloween

Thursday night was another evening with the nephew - we met up with SB & MS for dinner again at Cheeburger, Cheeburger.  Where VJ proceeded to eat the 1lb burger (I knew he'd be able to), got his picture taken for the wall, and got the promo pack of a t-shirt & extra picture.

He left about 10 pm for home.  It was a short visit, but worth every minute.  Even though we didn't do much together, it was so worth it.

Saturday morning was the Capitals blood drive at Kettler Ice Arena.  Something about either the Caps blood drives or having Dan with me is a bad omen for me.  The girl who poked me with the needle didn't get it in there correctly and the blood did NOT flow AND it was hurting!  I've NEVER had issue giving blood (either for tests or donations).  Needless to say, I basically immediately bruised up and boy is it big now.  I've never had a bruise this big from blood being drawn.  Dan was the man though - he gave double blood cells!  I had never heard of that before.  It took a little bit longer and he was FREEZING afterwards (the blood gets put back in the body cold) and a little light-headed.  Then yesterday he was exhausted - not sure if it was from the blood donation or not.

Halloween went well.  We handed out all of the candy - probably a little too fast - but we handed out for 2 hours.  Kids were still coming to the door after we turned off the light.  It was cold out and Dan was trying to get dinner for us, but it wasn't done before the doorbell started ringing.  We sat outside for awhile with the pups (Zed was shivering, he was so cold).  Esa had on her bat collar and Zed had on his wizard costume.  We just weren't really into halloween this year (my reason is because of the job being in limbo).

Yesterday, I took Zed up to visit the shelter.  One of the employees, who fell for Zed as much as I did, hadn't seen him since we took him home.  She was so impressed on how good he looked.

Work is still in limbo.  The new company, Marketplace Development, and the Airport Authority are working towards bringing in the new company.  Everyday, I feel the contract coming to an end and it's hard to stay motivated and positive.  I have sent in my resume to Marketplace, but have yet to hear from them to set up an appointment.  I did get an email saying that they would like to speak with me, but nothing else.  In the meantime, I'm sticking with Westfield until the end.