Happy Birthday to me!

Well, it's been a lovely vacation and it's shame that it's over so soon. I got to see Jen, Leanne, and Mesha. I decided to keep the friends' visits to a minimum, since I didn't have as much time this year. So I really should make an effort to phone anyone that I didn't get to see. Otherwise, I was so glad to catch up with everyone.

It was a little exhausting hanging out with my family. I guess there's a lot of personal stuff happening that just makes everyone stressed out. That's one nice thing about being so far away is that it's not a part of my day-to-day life but then when I'm visiting, I'm kinda inundated with it because they know that I'm out of the loop. What they don't know is that I like being out of the loop. On the other hand, I went to the gym twice with Kim. That was good because I got to keep up my workouts and I got to encourage Kim with it.

Today we did a birthday celebration that included a lot of food (per usual). Now I'm just trying to recover from the sheer volume of food. Prolly negates those workouts now. Oh well.

Even a caveman can do it.

I didn't get any snow, but I did use it as the perfect excuse not to go to the gym. Well, not really. I did have this nasty sinus infection.

It started out as just a flu that both my roommate and I picked up at Karoake. (new plan - require drug tests before you are allowed to karaoke with us!) Mine was made worse by a personal training session that led to me getting dehydrated and unable to get a Gatorade to make it go away. So I spent the night at work (as the manager in charge) feverish and slightly goofy. Example? Sure. "Ginger, I have a customer here who would like to return a shirt." "Sure, just add a little sauce."

So I was out of work for a couple of days, thinking it was just a virus and would go away, but it did not. This led me to go to the doctor's (finally) and she said it was a sinus infection and prescribed antibiotics, which started curing me promptly. Feeling better now, except I'm all husky-voiced, which can be good up until you start hacking up phlegm.

Meanwhile, loved ones are experiencing record amounts of snow. I texted my brother Nathan and the exchange went something like this.

Me: Hows the snow?
Nathan: If I were (to) play it low key I could only say there is enough snow here to cause the extinction of man ... that doesnt even make sense?
Me: But ur not xtinct yet?
Nathan: Actually I had problems writing the txt since I just thawed out of a block of ice, and this technology scares me.

He's so funny.