In Sickness and in Health

I have spent the last three days feeling a bit "under the weather", as they say. Keeper has, as usual, been more than supportive and caring. Over the past two evenings, I was supposed to work a pre-screening of Cowboys&Aliens, as well as another pre-screening of The Change Up (I had worked a screening of this last week). Unfortunately, I was too sick to be able to attend either screening, so Keeper went in my place. He's been doing everything in his power to try to help me get better, and I truly appreciate everything he's been doing for me. Yesterday, he sent out emails to all who I would've been in correspondence with throughout the day, to let them know that I was ill, and that I would not be able to make it to work, the screening, etc. He made sure that everyone knew that I wasn't feeling well, and Anthea even offered to keep me company while he went to the screening last night.

Tonight is a pretty important get-together for Keeper, and I really, truly hope that I'm feeling at least 30% better than I feel right now. I'm incredibly shaky. I had coffee this morning, you see. I had coffee and my vitamins, and that's it. I should probably go eat something. I just don't know what to eat. I spent all of tuesday drinking grapefruit juice, almost nonstop. Yesterday, I stayed on the couch at home, curled up in a blanket, watching movies and fading in and out of sleep. I ate some toast. And Keeper gave me some grapes when he got home for lunch. Around 9pm, I finally ate some chicken, corn and potatoes, and then had some pomegranate custard. Probably not my smartest decision, but it didn't make me feel any worse.

At the moment, I feel rather nauseous, and dizzy. I might need to leave work soon. I hope this gets better! Especially for saturday, when one of my best friends is getting married! I told her that I'd help with set-up and take-down and such. I'm really hoping to be feeling better in order to help her! Keeper will be coming with me, and I'm pretty excited for us to be attending an event like this, together.

Wish me luck (and good health!)!!

Lonely Piñata....

I woke up with this song stuck in my head this morning... and I'm not really sure why.

This weekend was an interesting one... Keeper and I both worked on Friday and Saturday, me during the day and Keeper working events at night. Then yesterday, Keeper's parents came to town, and we wandered around the museum, then Bastille Days, and then we all went to Glorioso's. His mother was nice enough, but it seems his father still is a little cautious about getting to know me, really. It was a little disconcerting, but I made do, and we still had a pleasant enough day. After the Glorioso's visit, we returned to the condo. Keeper's parents went for a swim in the pool downstairs, while Keeper and I were hanging out upstairs. When the parents returned from their dip in the pool, we all decided to go get dinner, so we went to Kopp's. After Kopp's, his parents drove us back to the condo, and left for home. Overall, the visit was not unpleasant, but I think it might've been better. I hope the next visit goes better.

In other news, I seem to have gotten my dearest E. addicted to Viva Piñata. She started playing it last week on our Xbox, and has since downloaded the PC version to play while we're not at home. It rather amuses me. She finds that "hurting" the piñatas is cruel (even though, you  know, they're Piñatas... as in, they get hit by small children for candy to fall out...), and she looks as thought she might cry every time a piñata dies in the garden. She seems to really enjoy playing the game, though, and that makes me happy. :)

I'm really hoping that this week goes better than last week... Until next time,

“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”

-Winnie the Pooh

Woes

I'm addicted to this game. Especially during those idle 5 minutes, here and there, at work. This week has been most... stressful. Today is no exception. I wish to go home now. Like, NOW. But I still have 2 hours here today. I'm tired of dealing with all of the stress today. I didn't really even sleep last night. I basically just passed out. I was beat by 7:30pm. Keeper and I spent most of the afternoon together, going to Mega Media Xchange, Half-Price books, and Kopp's (don't ever have their 'Rum and Coca Cola' flavor... it's not very good, especially when burping 6 hours later). Then E. and I spent most of the evening together,  playing video games, and just being by each other. I zonked out around quarter to 11pm, and woke up at 11:30pm. After that, I passed out, until about 5:30am, when E. had locked out the cats and gone to the bathroom. After that, I tossed and turned until 7:57am, when my alarm went off. I tried to sleep some more until my second alarm was supposed to go off, but it didn't work very well, so after about 10 minutes, I got up.

This week has been one stressful day after the other. I really hope this weekend is better. Both Keeper and I work tomorrow, and Keeper's parents are coming to town to go to Bastille Days with us on Sunday. Godz, I really hope this weekend is better.

I hope all of you are having a better week than I am...

News Swen Wsne Ensw

School. Work. School. Work. Life.

I'm looking into switching majors... again. This time, to the TC major (Technical Communication). I think it'll be a good switch for me. I'm hoping to go into the more graphics-related field of TC... Like, designing letterheads and doing stuffs like that. I talked with a professor last week about the field, and what the major is going to be like here at school. It seems like it might be an almost-perfect fit.

In other news...

Poison

“There is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

I have a new friend! S. seems like a really nice person. We've talked a bit back and forth for the past week or so, and I seem to be connecting with her. It is a strange feeling for me, as I do not usually get along with girls... at all.... I think we're going to have a girly-day soon. Which, again, is a weird thing for me. I don't know how to be "girly"... I don't know what it is to enjoy shoe shopping, or gossiping, or just be... well... "girly". I don't imagine that's exactly what S. and I will be doing when we have our girly-day, but I find it interesting to be connecting with a girl like I feel I am with this girl. I even helped convince her to start her own blog, which so far, has been really enjoyable to read and understand a little more about her. Unfortunately, she works a lot of evenings, so I don't think we're going to be going to any summerfest concerts this week. :\

Speaking of Summerfest!