Thanksgiving

The last week or so have been crazy. But first, Thanksgiving. I had to work at the nursing home. I did have some say in the matter; I am required to work a holiday and so I requested Thanksgiving because I'd rather be home with the fam on Christmas, and of course, we got paid time and a half (which actually comes somewhat close to what I think we should be paid normally). But I would be lying if I said I wasn't kind of sad today. Not resentful, because I do feel that I get to do a lot of things by working nights, such as enjoy the summer sun when others of you are in offices, but I was a little sad that I wasn't with my girls today.
In other news, I have been sick with the flu for the last week. Today was my first normal feeling day. As luck would have it, there was only one of the really sick days that I had to miss work, because of course, no sick time for me, so no money if I miss work. I am part-time at both of my jobs so I don't get any benefits.
Just before I got sick, and probably, worsening my sickness, a friend/coworker of mine committed suicide. I am not sure if I feel it is appropriate to write too much about this on here, since it seems like it is trivializing something that is so huge and terrible to me. However - an interesting note about this - I spend time on Facebook, and often times, keep up with my friends solely through their status updates. So naturally, when my friend died in this tragic manner, I wanted to put it on Facebook but it seemed wrong somehow. Then, though, other people that knew him started putting it on (I am sad today; We will always love you; etc) so I decided to as well. Then, I started IM'ing with friends about him, and in the end, realized that I did a lot of my grief processing via IM and Facebook. SO I guess it is ok...right?