Ah HA!!

VICTORY IS MINE!!




(I don't know, I just felt like Stewie for a moment and felt I should share.)

Time to Breathe

It's so busy at work today, oh my GOD! I barely had anytime to breathe let alone eat lunch.

And I'm not complaining, people who know me know that I am a happy camper right now. But even this camper needs to have a seat and eat some berries from time to time.

Vacation Daze

Hmmm, I just noticed that I have about a business week or so (5 days) worth of vacation days that I have to use up before the end of the year.

Well, I could do the American thing and get paid for those days (we're such good Puritan workers, yes we are) or I can take a couple Friday's off along the way and have some nice 3 day weekends to play with?

I don't think I'll be apt to blow all of those days on one massive trip to London like I did at the beginning of the year. I need to get a new car, perhaps something from this century would be nice, so I'll be saving up for that.

Meh.

Well, it was a great ride and I had a lot of fun, but I'm now single again.

I'm OK with this now, I think because I didn't see it coming at all is what was such a shock, but I understand and am willing to make the next step for a friendship. I just needed some sulking time.

Local Gallery Opening House

Art Space in New Haven is having it's 10th Annual Open House tonight which will feature art from a bunch of local artists and a chance to mingle and jingle with the artists as well. Always a plus for me.

I always remember pining to be an artist when I was a kid, so I always like to check out what's going on and perhaps get some inspiration to start up my own stuff again. And I'm a sucker for meeting up with local artist's, it's always cool to meet someone that actually chose to be an artist and get a chance to talk with them, kind of like looking in the mirror and seeing what could have been.

Casual Fridays

I think transitioning to a business casual (slightly formal) office attire environment has made me really appreciate wearing jeans to work on Friday.

At my old job, I used to roll in with jeans all the time, and then hoodies in the winter. Granted it was a 2-3 man operation and engineers, if not ordered too, will dress bummy mostly because we don't really care. Our excuse is always a resounding, "pffffft, I make your buildings, I can wear f***ing jeans if I want too!"

But now that all this jean-ness is pushed to one day a week, it kind of makes it fun. It's kind of like breaking the rules a bit which I've always been a fan of, only in moderation of course.

Silver Lining

For anyone in the northeast, here are some things that always help me to find the silver lining even for the massive impending doom clouds that have been over us for the whole day:

- finishing a work project and hour earlier than anticipated
- helping people witht their projects when they didn't think I could offer any to begin with
- bagels mid-morning courtesy of the HR guy at work and his love of spending petty cash to make us happy

And I'm not bragging at all, anyone who's any close friend of mine knows that the top two on that list are things that would really cheer me up, especially now. I hope I can keep on this upswing.

Panini Happiness

If I could accurately type out the drool/moan that Homer Simpson does whenever he encounters something very delectable, I would put it here right now because that's how good this panini from Gourmet Heaven was for lunch today. However, this pic will have to suffice.

Gourmet Heaven has two locations in New Haven and each one has it's own cute atmosphere. Both have buffets where they charge per weight, so feel free to load up on whatever happens to be there: crab cakes, lobster rolls, fried mac & cheese, sushi...the list is endless. At the one near my job they have this great hot and cold deli where you can order up custom sandwiches and panini.

The one I had that turned me into Homer up above was called the Monte Christo. I don't really know what that means in "sandwich speak" but I do know that it had turkey, ham, a bunch of different veggies and some type of honey mustard sauce that was delectable. And points for being extra drippy too, I think any good sandwich should be judged on whether or not you have to wear a bib while eating it. Anytime I have to enter a cavewoman-like state to eat something means it's just that good, good enough to turn back the evolutionary clock!

Update: Twitter Style

I was toying with the idea of getting a Twitter account and having it link here since I don't always have the time to actually update properly on here and I'm much more apt to have my cellphone on me and be able to text away a quick little message about what's going on and what cool place I'm visiting. So anyway, I shall update away!

Was feeling a lot better on Thursday and Friday but still had a "frog in the throat" and was a little tired. Decided that going into New York and meeting up with all my New York buddies and visiting Briton was a good idea and that I was up for it. We met at the Empire State Building and then went to have a magically awesome feast at Todai.

I caught up with the New Yorker's as well as the Briton and her mum. Then went off to walk off said feast in midtown. Then we wished mum off on a safe taxi drive back to the hotel and went off on our merry ways to the Bowery to see a friend's band, Funeral Crashers at Crash Mansion. Kickass band and great bar, will definitely have to check that place out again as well as see the band again. Then I was on my merry way back home on the late night train to Union Station.

Saturday was a whole lotta nothing day and it was spectacular. Then off to celebrate another friend's birthday with some drinks at Sullivan's in New Haven. A great Irish pub that is a must see if you are ever in the fare city of New Haven.

Today was my sister's birthday, so I spent the day over at my parent's house where we celebrated with take-out food and ice cream cake, chased with some cannoli's. I actually saved one for work the next day for afternoon bliss that I'll surely need on a Monday.

And yeah, that's about it for now. I'm broke (well not really, but am stingy on letting anything else fly out of my wallet), I'm happy that it's supposed to be autumn soon (the humidity broke tonight finally) and I'm ready to start the work week off right by watching some [adult swim] and then drifting off to sleep.

What's that soft voice in the distance...

Oh yeah, it's my bed and it's calling out to me even from work. "Eris...come back...you know you shouldn't have gone into work today...you were trying too hard to be the normal overachiever that you are...you were too sick to go in..."

I'm sorry bed, but you will have to wait until later on tonight, Missus has got to go into work one of these days, that's what brought you into her life, remember?

2:45 really means 3:45...

Well, I left off my other post on my 2:45 doctor's appointment that I scheduled for Monday afternoon. Thankfully, I decided to just take the whole half of the day off from work because silly me forgot that a 2:45 appointment really means you'll be waiting an hour to have your name called and then you'll see the doctor.

So after running some diagnostics, blood pressure (which I'm happy to say I'm only 110/70), heart beat, listening to my lungs with a stethoscope, all that good stuff, the doctor runs a strep throat test just to be sure. That comes out negative, thankfully. So he decides to take some blood just for good measure since it could be the dreaded "mono" even though anyone I've come into close contact with has been tested previously for it and does not have it.

However, I did mention that I work in a new office and that the HR guy has a massive sinus infection. So the doctor turns around, thinks for a little bit and says "you know what it probably is, your body is fighting off this sinus infection right now, you are a battlefield right now."

So he decided not to give me anything since my "body is doing everything already" and giving me antibiotics would be redundant at this point. So they're just going to run my blood and see if it's anything weird and then give me a call. My lymph nodes will probably go back to normal size within the week and I'll slowly get back to feeling 100% soon, but I shouldn't push myself and I should just to nap during the week to let my body "continue the battle."

So yeah, it turns out I'm not really "sick" my body is fighting something off and is requiring more energy than usual in order to fight it off. That's why my body temperature has been off and I've been really tired.

Moral of the story: YAY for having a good immune system!

I am sick.

Yup, I think I got away in a recirculated air office without being sick for much too long. The gods have smote me finally with something weird. Essentially, for a week my lymph nodes in the right side of my neck have been hella swollen, but I didn't feel weird aside from feeling really tired.

Then over the weekend I started waking up with "the sweats" where I would basically wake up in the middle of the night dripping with my own sweat. Yes, it felt even more disgusting that that description too. Also, J was moving into his new place and I kept pushing myself a bit too far, much to the dismay of J since he kept saying "Eris, I'm OK, I don't want you to get sick." But he is now learning how aggressively nice I can be. *big cheesy grin* Plus, I like helping and this is a huge move for J, I wanted to be there for him. :-)

So after all that, not too much happened. I did lose my appetite Friday night and then just went to sleep afterwards. Occasionally I'll get SMASHING headaches and I'll have touches of vertigo, kind of like someone is poking me from behind and trying to push me down slightly. So yeah, I called the doctor and arranged an appointment for 2:45 yesterday.

To be continued...