lucky 13

by now, I'm sure you've realized that today is Friday the 13th!! I never really get why this freaks out folks so much. superstitions I suppose. silly stuff. I like the number 13. the movie, thirteen, wasn't all that it could have been but then, you can't like all of the movies, all of the time. Speaking of "thirteen," I saw another Evan Rachel Wood movie the other day, "Down in the Valley." It was okay, not bad actually. It's an interesting story about a young girl who has an affair with an older guy who thinks he is a cowboy. There are some interesting twists in the story that were interesting.

I'm really happy that the weekend has arrived. it's Mark's birthday weekend. officially, his birthday is tomorrow. We don't have a whole lot planned. Tonight, we really needed to go and get some groceries. We were both so brain dead after work though that we decided not to bother. That left us with the issue of dinner. We decided to go out. Standing in the door, coats on, keys in hand, we changed our mind and ordered a pizza. I'm glad we stayed home, I don't think I could have dealt with a Friday night restaurant crowd. Besides that, we now have pizza for breakfast tomorrow!

What we actually end up doing for his birthday tomorrow is pretty much up in the air. We will need to get groceries at some point (yes, we have no tomatoes!) but beyond that and a little bit of laundry, we have an open schedule. We're both feeling healthy again so if we do decide to go somewhere or do something wacky, we'll actually be able to do it. cool huh?

almost there

I know that this has turned into a short week for me (well really short - being off Monday and then being sick on Tuesday) but it's feeling really long.

The problem with days off (the only problem really) is that the work on my desk waits for me. So this week, having 2 days out of the office, the 3 days that I am in are sort of nuts. Today particularly was hectic. I was only at my desk for 2 hours. I'm tired now. The meetings were quite good but tiring.

The rain is getting me down too. It's been raining here this week, a lot. It's cold too, colder than it should be.

On the upside, I feel like I'm over my bug and my back is almost better. I'm such a whiner, aren't I?

incredible effort

my brain is well and truly fried.

I went back to work today and everything seemed to overwhelm me. whatever the bug was that I had yesterday was nasty and it's lingering a bit. I actually have an appetite again so at least that's something.

with any luck at all, tomorrow will much better and by the weekend, Mark's birthday weekend, I'll be 100%.

*fingers crossed*

introducing insult

so in addition to lingering minor back discomfort, I seem to have picked up a stomach bug somewhere.

I'm definitely not going to be making it into work today.

Quite frankly, I'll be lucky to make it to the sofa today.

On the bright side, if I'm not in a coma tonight, I can watch Sanjaya tonight.

Every cloud really does have a silver lining, doesn't it?

crap

I'm still sore.

I can almost walk upright but not very quickly. I'm moving very slowly.

This is no fun, it's not at all how I intended to spend my long weekend.

Yuck.

It could be worse I suppose, no I know it could be worse. It's just so easy to complain when things don't go the way you'd hoped they would.