Quoc’s Web Journal

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So… I sooo desperately need to vent today… I’ve had quite a terrible day… It’s been detiorating from the past week…  It pretty much started with me coming down with a cold last week… My cold finally caught up with me and came at me with a revenge on this past Saturday…  I got all the symptoms with all the trimmings: runny nose, stuffy nose, sneezing, coughing, itchy throat, lungs and sinus…

So, I spent all of Sunday pretty much chillin and trying to recover….  It was a pretty miserable existence as I had plans on visiting my Sis and my Brother In Law… I was going to bring my camera to the Bellflower home and snap some shots before they move out of the home that I pretty much grew up in from 1979 until just 2001?  That’s a lot of years to spend in a home… A lot of memories… So, I spent the day and evening just in bed… Sigh…  I did get some chores taken care of though… I got the dishes cleaned, some vacuuming in… then the bathroom and even the kitchen floor! Oh yeah, loads and loads of laundry were done.

I was going to call in sick on Monday… But I didn’t as I had to present during a Training that I couldn’t get out of…  I presented the afternoon long peace and went to my meeting afterwards… I then chatted with my new pal in Holland…  Then to bed…

I woke up on Tuesday feeling really really lousy from a night’s worth of coughing with all the other symptoms…  Those symptoms did not subside… I continued having the coughy sneezy stuffy nose symptoms…  I didn’t want to spread my disease so I stayed home and rested most of it…  I did manage to clean my apartment clean on Sunday… I was grateful because I needed to be bedridden all of Tuesday… I didn’t even go to my evening meeting… In the many hours of being in bed and sleeping on my side or sleeping with elevated head from too many pillows?  I don’t know… Somehow, someway I ended pulling my back right neck muscle AGAIN!!  It was very annoying!!!

Then Wednesday came…  I spent the morning at our company launch of a new campaign to distribute condoms nationwide!  It was very cool being at the House of Blues…  The restaurant/bar/night club was empty at 11 in the morning…  We stayed for the President’s yet another inspirational speech before heading off to enjoy some continental breakfast followed by lunch with my co-workers at a Thai restaurant in Hollywood…

Then I was non-stop until 7:30P…  I was exhausted, but was pressured by my supervisor to get a project done… I left almost disoriented because I was so tired!  I went to my meeting to give a friend a cake for an anniversary… I couldn’t not be there because he’s one of my best friends… I stayed for the meeting and shared what was going on…

The final straw was some crazy homeless guy… I mean LITERALLY CRAZY guy tried to get change from me, but when I didn’t offer any up, he grabbed me pretty firmly… That really upset me!!!  Not cool man!!!  If I weren’t so disoriented, I would have dropped kicked it butt and then made amends later… I am glad I didn’t act on that…

Suffice it to say, I came home exhausted… With a pain in my neck to the point where I can’t move my head.  I am physically exhausted and dehydrated… I am sooo grateful I just cooked chicken soup in a crockpot for over 10 hours… The meat is falling off the bone and the bone is actually incredibly soft too!!!  Yum!!!  I love chewing the marrow!!!  I had 3 big helping bowls of it with a little rice…  It really helped rehydrate me…

So, now I am about to go to sleep… I just got done chatting with my bud in Holland… This whole webcam thing is a bit addictive…. It’s cool to be able to chat with someone around the world… See them and hear them and talk to them… This is the first time I’ve ever purchased a webcam… I kinda like it!

Anyway, I needed to vent a little bit as it’s been an interesting few weeks… My life has indeed become sooo full, I find little if any time to blog anymore…  My life has indeed become rich and meaningful and full of activities and people to hang out with and activities to do!  It’s quite fantastic actually…. The bummer part of it is that it’s all blog-worthy stuff to write about… Except that I find myself too tired at the end of each day to record the thoughts and feelings from days past…

Here are highlights… I turned 1 year sober this past July 21.  I got to make a list of people places and things I owe amends to and actually take the steps in doing so… I got to spend time with an old buddy and his son…. They reunited after many years of not knowing the other person existed…  I got a cat: BK = Burger King… He was originally named Baby Kitty, but for whatever reason, whenever I heard BK, I thought Burger King… So that’s his name…  I am too tired again to really write all the fantastic experiences I have had…

Alas, it’s time for me to go to sleep already again… I just needed to vent a little though… Thanks for listening all…  It’s been this long since I’ve had a bad day!!!  That’s fantastic!!!

Cheers,

Quoc