call me sickie
january 13, 2006
so.......you know how i've been saying i'm sick with this sinus infection thing? well, it turns out that i have that walking pneumonia crap as well. how i got it, i don't know. when the doctor initially gave me a note to take me off work this week, i thought to myself "what the hell is he thinking? i don't need to be off for a whole friggin week!!" but in the last 5 days, i now know why. i've been so lethargic and have such bad symptoms that it's no wonder i needed to be home. plus it wouldn't be nice to spread this bad boy to an already crippled office full of sickies.
i knew work would be insane this week but i convinced my boss that i would recover at home while working (part of the time). it's been working well and now i know how it feels to telecommute. i get a lot of stuff done because there are no interruptions (aside from snowbie) and i'm still doing the same thing as i do at work. i can log into everything and work remotely via the net. i kinda like this. i wake up, take a quick shower, then change into comfy sweats and then go to my computer room and log on. and when i really feel ill, i go back to bed and lie down and rest. or i sit in bed with my wireless laptop.
the only positive thing is that i lost 8 pounds. the only nonpositive thing is that i'm sure i will gain those 8 pounds back. and oh yeah, the person most happiest about me being at home is definitely snowbie.
and just when things can't get any worse, i got an eye infection. doctor prescribed me eye drops today to get rid of it.
this has certainly been a bad start to the new year or maybe it's a bad ending to the year of the cock. yeah, i like the latter better. can't always be pessimistic you know?
oh yeah, got the results of the CT scan, everything looks normal.
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on sunday, i went to houstons in pasadena to celebrate F's birthday. in retrospect, i really shouldn't have gone because i was pretty darn sick but TGILW said those infamous words..... "maybe you'll feel better if you go out and see some friends."
WRONG.
towards the end of lunch, i was ready to vomit. especially since everyone had the prime rib that was all bloody and fatty and just smelled so....meaty. it didn't help that i had the beef dip made with the same prime rib (which i usually enjoy). but i seriously could not consume it, the more i looked at it, the more i wanted to just throw it to the floor.
it's rare that i feel this way about houston's food but i just didn't like it that day. the salad changed as well. wth? did the whole franchise change or what? or maybe it was because i was really sick and didn't have an appetite in the first place.
if you sat across from me that day, i would be compared to one of those balloons where the air is let out slowly, finally becoming limp in the end. dead. kaput.
i'm never listening to TGILW again!
the only up side to the luncheon was seeing my friends who we didn't even see during the holidays at all. i guess everyone is too busy with their own life these days to hang out anymore.
^ the birthday boy and his wife.
^ he just got major knee surgery around 1 month ago and the reason why we
haven't seen them in ages.
^ the 3 month old newlyweds. she chopped her hair off immediately after the
wedding. i think all women do that.
^ the mexico city soup was quite tasty but not piping hot enough.
^ i only took this for you dear readers who like to eat red meat like this!
i can barely look at this now without feeling nauseated.
currently listening to: kevin shields, are you awake (from the lost in translation soundtrack)
