For those that haven't heard me rant before, I work with a bunch of people who, in all honesty, couldn't care less if I worked there or died tomorrow. The only time most of them even talk to me is to yell at me for something. And they've decided that no matter how fast I go, even when I'm running circles around everyone else, I'm never "fast enough" for them. Every day at work involves me being lightheaded from the stress, often to the point that I feel like I'm going to pass out. I've informed people at work about this, and they don't give a rat's ass about it. There's about 5 people that are exceptions to this rule, however, and I love the rare days I get to work with those coworkers.

Last night, I worked a late-night shift, 10pm to 3am. As if the sudden odd hours weren't bad enough, it seemed as if that day, the entire universe conspired to hate my very existence. Things that couldn't go wrong somehow found a way to at least not go right. Anything that could go wrong went horribly wrong. Add that to a bunch of stress and depression I had been feeling over the past several weeks, and I was miserable by the time I walked in the door.

At one point during my shift, however, one of my coworkers--who rarely speaks to me unless it's job-related (not yelling at me as the previously-mentioned people do, but never gets in casual conversation with me, either)--starts asking if I'm alright, totally out of the blue. This prompted a discussion where I got to rant about things that were bugging me...Not everything, of course, but the stuff that was really getting to me at the time. Something about the fact that someone was genuinely concerned about how I felt, and the fact that said coworker seemed to be trying to cheer me up throughout the rest of the shift, made me feel quite a bit better. In fact, this was the first time in months that I didn't get that lightheaded feeling at all.

So now, I have 6 exceptions to the rule that started this post.

And now it seems everything's turning around. Most of the things that had gone wrong yesterday (with some exceptions) have cleared themselves up by the time I got up this morning, and I'm actually in a better general mood than I have been in for a while. To top all of that off, I just logged into my Zazzle account, and found a $7.88 royalty! 0_0 Apparently, I managed to refer someone to the site (not my store, but the Zazzle site itself) , who subsequently bought over $50 worth of stuff, so they gave me a referral credit! I almost died of shock from that!

So, it looks like things are starting to change for the better. Let's hope it's an ongoing trend.

~Kyetsu