1st week back at work....

I went back to work on Monday, April 23 and what a week it was!

On Monday, my coworker was heating up her lunch in our microwave.  I am pretty sure the microwave is from 1887.  No joke.  Anyways, she put her Lean Cuisine in and turned the microwave on. A little while later I smelled something burning. I yelled at her that I thought her food was burning and she walked over to our breakroom.  All of a sudden, she started screaming.  My other coworker and I went running toward the breakroom.   There was smoke billowing out of the microwave and filling our office.  Her lunch had caught on fire and then the microwave had caught on fire!  This is when we realized our office didn't have smoke alarms!  It's a good thing too since I know they would have gone off!  Luckily, no major damage was done...well, except for that poor microwave! 

Then on Thursday I had an encounter with a homeless woman that cracked me up.  Everyday I wear a pink ribbon that my friend, marlena, made for me to represent my struggle with breast cancer. The woman, who was homeless but just a "down on her luck" coherent type of homeless woman, stopped me to ask me what my ribbon meant.  I explained it to her and she started telling me how Loaves and Fishes (our very nice homeless shelter/transitional home center) was offering free mamograms. I told her she should do it.  I explained to her that I am 33 and have breast cancer.  Her response.... "oh i am going to go sign up right now.....wait, what? You're 33? I thought you were 18 or 19."  It made me laugh!  I almost told her she should get her eyes checked too!  She gave me a hug and told me she was going right now to sign up for the mamogram!