Goodbye weekend,

Jeremy is in Chicago for our friend Thomas's wedding, so it's just me and Oliver here at Casa de Pain. I've spent most the weekend typing my draft up on the computer. I've got 20 pages of 62 on here so far and have been shouting at myself over inconsistincies but not too much. They're all pretty small and can be sorted later. i'm kicking myself for not using notecards to keep all my strands untangled sooner.

It's suddenly sunny and beautiful in London this weekend so I've been out for long walks yesterday and today and had a really awesome roast dinner at a new pub in Nunhead today. roast beef = yum. But mostly I've been sequestered in the second bedroom either typing and editing or watching old epidsodes of ANTM and project Runway online while I knit.

It's been a pretty awesome weekend.

I've got physio therapy for the demon costochondritis on tuesday. i'm hoping it will help me get off the cocodamol because they mae me feel pretty grody and don't even take all the pain away and that, friends, is lame as hell.

And tomorrow it's back to work in the city where hopefully the very large investment bank I work for will not be shutting down (actually they seem to be clinging on by their stubby stubby finernails, so fingers crossed) because I totally don't want to find a new job or get transferred to some dank mailroom someplace. Fingers crossed.

no fair

i am still sick.

i've gone home early the last two days, in fact yesterday i only came in for one, TUPE related, meeting and then went directly home to drink some Night Time cold and flu medicine smuggled from the walgreens on the corner of broadway and granville in chicago and then fell directly into a coma for the afternoon.

i'm feeling better today, but my head won't stop hurting and i'm still coughing. being sick is for suckers and clearly, that's what i am right now.

stupid sick.

return from scandinavian environs

copenhagen was really nice. there were a couple of burps in the trip but mostly it was a good time.

burp #1 - i am sick. the sickness took hold on friday morning while i sat at heathrow waiting for the ticket windows to open. because it turns out that when they tell you to arrive at the airport 3 hours ahead of your flight they don't mean it if your flkight leaves at 06:30 because nothing at the lousy airport opens until 05:15 anyhow. but yeah the sickness, i have caught cold, or rather it has caught me and is working it's way steadily into my chest where it will likely become bronchitis even though i haven't touched a cigarette since guy fawkes day. luckily there is this nose spray called zymelin that you can buy in your friendly danish apotek and it makes the snot magically disappear from your nose. i love it!

burp #2 - the rough guide to copenhagen is out of date and full of lies when it comes to restaurants

burp #3 - when we got home we found two big spots of oliver pee on our duvet, oliver might be adorable but he is full of spite!

burp #4 - many citizens of copenhagen don't seem to get that whole rule about letting people off the train before they get on, even if those people are tiny old women with canes, the danish youth don't care, they will knock those grannies down, all in the name of getting a seat! lame.

happier copenhagen moments:

1. the louisiana museum of modern art is fucking awesome! it has a crazy circular layout with sulptures sort of hidden all over the grounds. it's built into a hill right on the coast and when the sky is clear (uncommon in december) you can see the enemy aka sweden. they have a great collection and are currently featuring these wonderful cubes created by keith tyson that everyone should see.
2. boutique liza - a very nice bar we were told about by jeremy's ex girlfriend mollie's sort of long distance boyfriend, the half indian half danish rahul. his friend's brother is one of the owners. the have a reel to reel tape playe and ask their friends to fill a reel with their favorite songs and this provides the soundtrack for the bar. they have lots of nice cocktails (i had the weeping jesus! with absinthe!) and the atmosphere was really good, it was crowded but still pretty chill.
3. yoghurt with granola, fresh fruit and maple syrup! genius combination!
4. i found the modigliani jigsaw puzzle i've been wanting and unable to find since our trip to barcelona last year
5. i ate some tasty venison with mushroom gravy and roasted jerusalem artichokes
6. tasty almond based cakes and good coffee in norreport
7. all the yarn in the world at affordable prices (compared to london) i got some great thick yarn to make my brother a hat for less than £7, unheard of!
8. law and order:svu with danish subtitles! do you know what the danish word for oops is? it's ups! thanks you tv for teaching me a new language!
9. there was more, christiana, lots of nice shops, danish furniture, they pushy cat at the b&b, standing on a grey beach watching abig black dog swim into the waves after a stick, the nice man who gave us directions, and more. it was really good to get away even if i had to get sick while i was there.

now, back to work and the world of TUPEs and files. oliver slept on my chest for much of the night and followed me around this morning. jeremy and i had a big fight about the cat pee last night but then we ate chinese food and watched lost and everything was okay. conlict resolution at its finest. i brought a giant toblerone in to work (not exactly a danish treat but a treat purchased in denmark nonetheless) and now i must return to approvin D3 files and leave this interweb world. remember me fondly. at least until tomorrow.

i stayed home today because i still feel like crap. probably i could have gone in but i'm tired of going to work when i feel gross

my dad had one of those deals where they put the dye in his arteries yesterday to check for blockage. this is the email i had from my mom this morning
Hi,
Dad is in the hospital over night and I hope to bring him home early
tomorrow morning.
He has three blocked arteries but his heart muscle is strong so they feel
they can correct this problem with angioplasty (balloon inflation to clear
the artery) and stints that will help hold the artery open. But being that
this is your father there is one more little problem we have to check out
first. He has an aneurysm in the main artery to his heart located in the
stomach area that is quite large. It is something the doctor feels is
hereditary but before they can do the angioplasty he must have more test to
determine the size of the aneurysm or weak spot. These test will be done in
the next few days by a specialist and then the decision will be made if he
needs surgery on this weak spot or if it is just something they will watch.
Once that is out of the way he will go back into the hospital for the
angioplasty and get his arteries opened up.
The good news is they could do open heart surgery on him but because his
heart seems strong he can have the easier procedure. This is really good
news and means he will be back to normal fairly quickly. The bad part is we
have to find out about this aneurysm stuff.
It is after eleven and I just got home so I am going to bed and will write
more when I get him home tomorrow. He will have to take some more
medications to help the blood flow smoothly until we get him fixed up but
other than not overdoing he will just wait for the test.
Talk to you later,
Love
Mom

not exactly good news but not exactly terrible, i mean nobody wants an aneurysm but at least he shouldn't need open heart surgery

small blessings, right?

suck

i am sick. i am cold except for my face. which is warm. i can barely keep my eyes open and my throat is scratchy. my temper is really short and i just want to go to bed.

i had onion soup for lunch instead of the ham sandwich i brought from home.

let the crappening begin