Sick Day

I never made it to my desk as intended today. After the illnesses of the weekend I decided to stay away for just one more day. If nothing else, to save those I work with from catching whatever it was that knocked me out for the best part of the weekend.

As a result my highly exciting tasks of the day have relvolved around eating something for the first time (Yay!), taking pictures of the surprise snow we got today (that I didn’t know about until someone the other side of the world told me it was there!) and photo editing.

I was then caught off guard when the groceries were delivered half hour early which meant I needed to go outside in bare feet.  Wasn’t fun!

Still, it’s more than likely back to work tomorrow. I have a feeling it’ll be a long week!

Good Luck Katie

My favourite non-traditional-student is starting an amazing new job tomorrow which she’ll totally rock!

I just wanted to use this to wish her luck because at the time I’ll be slaving away at my own desk. (or at home ill)

Have a great time!

New Year, New Effort

I’ve really neglected this thing recently haven’t I?  Nothing written since the end of November!

I guess a new year is a good time to try and revive it? If not only for my own benefit but maybe for the people I won’t get to talk to as often now the new year is taking people in new directions.

I wish I could say 2009 has started brightly but it really hasn’t. Especially today. I try not to be negative but sometimes it can’t be helped.  So far today’s woes have so far included:

1. Everyone around me (family, friends & work colleagues) have been ill over the past few weeks. I rarely get ill. I haven’t had a day off sick from work in over three years.  But this morning it caught up with me.  It’s been trying for a few days. New Years Eve I briefly woke up with a sore throat but it seemed to disappear within a few hours.  However today I woke up with a headache, feeling sick and with very little energy. After managing to just about take an aspirin I passed out again resulting in:
2. Me missing a phone call I really wish I had taken!
3. In fact I’m coming to the realisation that I don’t give enough time to my friends. All of them. I really need to change this. I will change this.
4. The Colts lost.  I don’t know how or by what score. I haven’t been able to bring myself to check yet. But one message not long after the game went into overtime told me all I needed to know.  I’ve followed NFL in the past loosely but this is the first season I have really been into it and the first season I’ve dedicated myself to following a team. I’m bitterly disappointed. Especially after a 9 game unbeaten run.
5. I’m guessing this is as a result of 1. But I just cannot warm up today! I’ve been told by people in the know that the secret to surviving this is layers (although I’m not convinced hairstyles has anything to do with it). I’m wearing several tops including my Colts jersey (in mourning, and technically (due to a 1.30am kick off) today is still game day in the UK) and I’ve not stopped shivering all morning.
6. Providing I wake up in some semi-fit state tomorrow work starts again. I’ve worked only a handful of days over the past couple of weeks so I’ve got myself in a relaxed state.  A five day week does not strike me as a whole lot of fun.
7. Again work related. January marks the start of the fourth financial quarter at work.  Which means every man, woman and child (well maybe not the kids) will want reports on what happened in the third quarter.  As the company’s resident dimensional modelling expert (it’s a posh term for meaning I can do clever stuff with data and numbers) that means in a couple of weeks i’ll be wanting to hang myself… well that or question if I am in the right job.  If that happens I’ll try and make a point of writing about it.  I need to keep telling myself that it’s just a job and I should leave those issues at the door. But sometimes people can be really unreasonable.

So I guess it’s safe to say I have some issues today.  I suspect I’m just feeling sorry for myself because of being ill. With any luck I’ll wake up tomorrow and this will all be gone.