fuchsia fragments

Think the air con / hot weather / air con temperature fluctuation finally caught up to me and I was hit pretty hard for a few days with a cold that really knocked me out. Was home from Monday afternoon until Thursday and although I knew I'd be fine, my colleagues were genuinely concerned with a few of them offering to drop by with food, medication and company. Didn't expect that!

So a couple of them did come by on Wednesday evening and took me out to dinner (knowing that I don't cook here). It was nice but they were pretty mean and said I looked like crap :( Embodying the 'tell it like it is' mindset...

Got asked some funny questions like 'do I have a buddy here?' (someone who will check up on me if i go AWOL). Do I know where the doctor is? What's the emergency number?.... slightly aghast to admit that I don't know!

Got a busy busy week coming up and having to prepare for it feels like going back to uni again. I have been studiously reviewing case studies and writing notes... it is so tiring! Today was also the first full Sunday I spent at all without going anywhere, not even a walk along the river.

It was bound to catch up with me sometime. I wasn't to get away so easily.

So the weekend with all its excitement and glory has worn me down. It was a little too cool and probably a whole ton of not enough sleep. Wedding, cake, cake, delivery, dinner, late night, discussing rusty chef, catching up...

Hello Monday... feeling sick. Although it really didn't onset until late in the afternoon when I was sneezing a lot (I am not a sneezer) and nose was starting to run, throat was ticklish... :( And we went out for dinner again.

So I've been like forcing myself to drink litres of this chinese herbal tea. It's meant to work wonders, I think if I wasn't drinking it, I'd be a lot worse. I want to be well enough to go to work tomorrow. Gosh, it's like bloody drama-ville. I feel like we're in high school.

How did the team get is so wrong?

I'm either blogging every second day, or not blogging at all...

In my defence i got sick (refer to previous post thinking it was hayfever: guess not huh?), and sicker before getting slightly better. went to the doctor to be told that it was allergies causing all these symptoms and there was actually nothing wrong with me. even though had a cough, blocked nose and body aches. wasn't prescribed with any medication and was told to continue taking over-the-counter (non-working) drugs! and he gave me a sample of this hayfever nasal spray... when i am pretty sure it wasn't hayfever. hahaha what a funny doctor...

in between or just before, i hosted my 3rd annual high tea (by hosted i mean lay on the couch for half the afternoon whilst every one else enjoyed themselves), had lots of baking to do and life in general.

was feeling slightly better by tuesday and was planning to work from home in the afternoon only to get onto a role in the office and stayed the whole day. which paved the road for full days of work for the rest of the week. guess i survived.

CFO gave me a overly-ripe banana on friday afternoon, said to me 'don't say i'm not good to you!' and then massively hinted that i needed to bake banana bread for monday. HA HA funny.

spent a good portion of my weekend in the kitchen making sugar flowers and cakes and burning my hands whilst trying to do some fancy pansy stuff with toffee (like build a croquembouche, read about it on my other blog). and silly me being silly like to pop the blisters that protect the burn so it hurts even more. have three so far and they're pretty painful!

went for a drive to donnas and beyond last night. thought castle hill was far. beaumont hills is another 10 kms from her place. that makes it very very very far from my place. huge ass houses out there but not about to make that trek any time soon... at all!!! but nice to just sit and donnas and drink tea and eat her eucalyptus drops, thanks dude!

went to chris' (work colleague) place for dinner last night with other work people. had hot pot and then played a bit of mahjong whilst watching mr and mrs smith on tv. left just after midnight and no joke, it was 1:15 by the time i was home. even in no traffic, it's a long drive!

think i'm ready to let this weekend go, feels like i've achieved a fair bit so rather content!

it smack bang monday night with the flu.

still have it.

managed on tuesday.

struggled on wednesday...

and by thursday... it was a HUGE HUGE effort to get to work - late, and leaving early. i must have looked like shit because i felt like shit..

i made it to work today despite nick thinking i would be a no-show. i was outraged by what he thinks of my work ethics!!! at least he appreciates that i came in yesterday knowing that if i didn't, we would be screwed for payroll...

time to get better.

that's 2 june long weekends in 2 years wasted!!!

so last night, nick's like 'im going to be in late tomorrow, probably half 8' and im like 'okay then' - don't think to much more of it.

worst morning to get sick ever.

so he decides to rock up at his usual time (him living closer to work means him getting in earlier to work even though we both probably leave our respective places at the same time). well at least i think it was normal time. he had already printed off my bank statements for me so he must've been in.

anyway, so i left house a little late pretty much because i woke up feeling really cold and had this massive headache that two panadol solubles couldn't cure. so i didn't get in to about quarter past 8 which is about 20 mins later than usual.

and lol.. we must have literally just missed each other. cause he had to meet someone at quarter past and thats when i go in.

so he gets back to the office at quarter to 9-ish and was like...

'i see how it is. i tell you that i'm going to be in late so you just decide to rock up whenever.'

lol. damn it. i even had a perfectly good reason but it just looked so suss!!! but he knows the truth. i would never do that. haha.

bit of a funny joke for us this morning. and the fact that i had to go get my own coffee!!! (i avoid like the plague because the guys at the coffee place downstairs are super creepy - they know my name even though i have never told them who i was and they know my order even though i rarely go downstairs to get it myself...)

and poh (who is our very very very nice finance contractor helping us with our system implementation and budget stuff) took us (i.e., finance) out to lunch. because i made her awesome sesame st cupcakes and macarons and because well, nick gave her a job (kind of a long story but basically she use to be nick's boss at the old job, something happened at that work, they all left and now she's looking for a new job so this is a transition phase for her).

we went to ma-su-ya. yum yum yum. best lunch ever. and i love being able to not think about work and just relax a bit. funnily enough, i have never felt that i could confide in a manager as much as i can with these two :) :) feels good. and it feels good to be understood. and appreciated. oh and nick wants 20% shares in my new business in exchange for doing my tax returns, etc. LOL!!!!!! i said i'd think about it...... if he does my business plan also =D

oh and most exciting part of the day?... val finally emails me back after 2 weeks!!! made my afternoon :)

literally slept for 24 hours, 4 carbon tablets and 1 vial of po chai later...

at least i don't have the urge to vomit anymore whether it is food or water or nothing. yuck.

now i have that feeling of floating from lying in bed so long...

but not going to waste the last day of my holidays, at least going to try not to. i am glad summer finally decided to arrive also!

can't shake this cold!

finally went to the doctor and got a dose of antibiotics and nasal spray.

:(

since it was the only opportunity i would get to go to dfo - i did.

and it felt like christmas came early. i felt like i kept spending all this money cause i kept swiping my card but it only ended up being about $130.


~ 2 dresses
~ 2 bras
~ skirt
~ shorts
~ 3 tops
~ 3 singlets

feels good. without the dent in my wallet.

and nessie chewed up my target shirt. bitch. is angry.

the dramatic change in weather yesterday hit me. and i came down with something. i think its a stomach bug. cause i was vomiting all day yesterday and feeling really really nauseaous. fun~ i had to go home from work early ... after every person i walked past was like..

r u ok? u look really pale. have you been crying? what's wrong wyn wyn?

so anyway, came home. and either lay in bed or had my head in the toilet. =D NICE!

and i was so disorientated i knew my phone was ringing but i didnt know when. and by the time it rang again, it was like 10 pm?! and i had no idea when mum came home. or when she came in. or when someone brought me water. hell, even taking a shower was painful.

feel slightly dizzy but i think thats just the side effect of not eating since sunday..

i said to mum last night how i had such a good immune system and what not (half jokingly) that i hadnt been to the doctors in yrs apart from vaccinations. anyway, last night, my right shoulder blade was really hurting. like.. it hurt to breathe. but mum was like.. u probably just pulled a muscle.

this morning. i woke up and almost fainted. like literally, the 10 odd steps to the bathroom was like a marathon and then some.

i think it was a combination of it being cold, my back and massive migraine. so i had to call in sick. and i spent most of the day dozing in and out of sleep. i was so incoherent.. like dizzy and then nauseous and then sweating and the exhausted...

im feeling slightly better now. thank goodness its a short term thing.

so i had a cold for this holiday monday which meant i went to work and came home and slept for most of the afternoon. so much for studying. although i did finish my notes for my gened course so thats one less thing to worry about at the moment. as if that makes me feel so much better.
i went and bought this huge jar of vitamin c tablets. lol. im becoming a druggie. sucks that i can't eat fruit at the moment. and sucks that there's no sun. i need vitamin d as well!!
exam time means studying. studying means staying home. staying home means in front of computer. in front of computer means procrastinating. *sigh*
i can't believe there are no freggin past papers for econ3121. noooo
and lol
decisions decisions.
Justin's 21st or Japan.
Justin's 21st or Japan.
Japan or Japan
HAHAHHAHAHA there really is no choice right? =D

i was actually really sick over the weekend.. like i was really dizzy and my head really hurt and all my muscles were sore. and so my parents thought they were such great doctors and were like 'yeah, it serves u right for not wearing enough clothes, etc etc'. pfffft i dont think so
anyhow, it meant i couldnt go to work haha yay =)
oh and all this hp fever.. i dont feel it... yet