"And how would you like your bacon......?"

So last night one of my dearest friends was having a crisis....broken-hearted and feeling down...so I suggested dinner and retail therapy.  Off we went to IHOP for breakfast/dinner.  Now my friend is beautiful...inside and out.....but she has a terrific figure and is a MAN magnet.  Do you see where this is going yet?  Here's a clue....I'm man REPELLENT.  Our waiter, who is very attractive, takes my order first....waffle and bacon.....he turns to my friend....and she orders the same....he had already commented on her IPhone and talked about how he was going to take care of "us".....by "us" he meant her cause he never looked at me....so when she said she wanted bacon...he said "and how would you like your bacon cooked".....

Trivial I know.....but as he walked off I thought now why didn't he ask how I wanted my bacon.  So I listened to her problems being the good friend that I am....when he came back to check on her water glass....I said "excuse me, how come you didn't ask how I wanted my bacon".....deer in the headlights.  He quickly jerked out his little pad and said...."I'm sorry, how did you want your bacon cooked".  Now the point of my rant is not the bacon....because I love bacon no matter how it's cooked.  The point is that I'm tired of being invisible.  Just because I'm not as pretty as my friend or as thin....I get my bacon any old way.

This leads into another problem I have right now......when I left my old job....which I was made to feel like I had been fired....they wouldn't let me work a 2 week notice...made me leave immediately....I left for a reason.  I lied about the reason to keep it from hurting the institution I worked for.  I told everyone that I wanted to pursue other dreams...which was partly true....but the real truth was that I was tired of being screwed over by the people who worked there.  Year after year they made promises they never kept.  They got my hopes up for promotions....and I took different positions with the "promise" of something better if I just hung with them.....this went on for almost 13 years.  Then somehow I ended up on the "badlist"....you know....no matter what I did it was wrong.  So I left.....up and quit....never looked back.  When I was approached by my current employer....yes, that's right.....they approached me....I was made promises......after 4 months I'm scared that it's going to be another "boulevard of broken dreams".  My boss is out of town right now...today I emailed him and asked to meet with him next week about my concerns.

I'm tired of being Invisi-Girl.....I want my bacon cooked the way I like it and I want what was promised to me....is that too much to ask!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!