The first food I managed to keep down wasn't really food but sucking on the only boiled sweets in the house - candy canes I'd kept for baking.  Turns out they do expire though.  They got thrown out (including the one I was sucking on) but at least it was the first promising sign...

I started getting really bad stomach pains on Saturday night.  I thought they were feminine cramps or stress over the oven trying to burn the house down.

( No house is perfect )

So, I didn't sleep on Saturday.  Sunday morning I went to pick up a TradeMe auction near  my parents.  Managed to make it to my parents before the throwing up started.  Stayed for a few hours talking (which was good), drinking chamomile tea, cuddling a hot water bottle.  Made it home before the throwing up started for real.  Like every 20 minutes.  I couldn't keep water down.  Even a sip of water was enough to upset the fragile (okay non-existent) balance.  I wanted to die.  It was so horrible.  Bless Patrick.  I think we were both happy that I managed to sleep that night.
Managed to get water down on Monday.  A cup of soup on Tuesday.   We tried to go out for dinner for my birthday to a local cafe in the hopes the universe would smile on us.  I ended up rushing outside gulping down cold air with my belly raising little revolutionary fists at me and telling me that it food was a sin.  Feeling kind of miserable as it wasn't the birthday I was hoping for (and miserable about feeling miserable...).  The womanly fun just added to a delightful day.  Poor Patrick, he'd been planning dinner reservations at this romantic place we went to a year ago.  We decided on a raincheck.

Woke up this morning still feeling headachey and stomachachey.  I've lost 4kg in as many days which I'd be thrilled about in other circumstances.  Tired.  Weak.  Light-headed.  I'm pretty sure that the lack of food will simply comound problems.  I'm not too sure that I can drive but decided to ring the doctor's clinic anyway.  School holidays = vacations + swine flu.....The only appointment was at closing time which was pointless as then the pharmacies would be closed.  The local doctors either wouldn't see new patients or were full or were charging $72!

So I'm going to see what I can keep down today and hope I can get enough strength together to get into work for at least part of tomorrow.  I'm thinking invalid food like jelly, boiled egg, dry toast.

At least I have more Bones to watch.

Tags: birthday, health, pain, renting

Gosh, it seems awfully close now!  I'm turning 28 and some bratty little underage teenager still refused to sell me wine at the supermarket because my license was in the car.

To follow a trend, if anyone wants ideas of my general wish list (which is also a check list for me over the coming months and which Patrick has already seen) things that I'm looking for are:

• A cute apple peeler.
• Chanel (blue) hydrating toner.
• George R. R. Martin's a Game of Thrones series - Book 2 of the series.
• Neil Gaiman's The Sandman graphic novels Books 5-10.
• CSI: New York on DVD - Season 3.
• CSI: Miami on DVD - Season 5.
• Mamma Mia (the movie) soundtrack on CD.
• Gift vouchers for Forever Shine on K Rd (they're tucked away in the arcade next to Starbucks)
• A Queen or King Size Emerald Green mink blanket (I'm fixated on that size and colour to complement my two blue doubles.  I'm finding the right colour in Single or the wrong colour in Queen.  If anyone finds one please point me in the right direction!)
   
• There's a little Living and Giving-esque store in the Stables/next to on Elliott St that sold...something...that was the perfect solution to blind baking only I can't remember what it was.  Little metal balls?  Either way I have a lemon tree and pastry so I'm going to have to head back that way!

The best birthday present though has been moving house away from our odious landlord and the tremendous support that we've had from friends and family.  Thank you all very much!

Tags: birthday
Current Location: work
Current Mood: happy

( And now I'm caught up! )

Tags: family, friends, kitten, major events, moving house, renting

( Long post :) )

Tags: friends, health, major events, oxfam trailwalker, pain, patrick

So after listening to the Chocolate Carnivale get promoted repeatedly on the radio, I decided to have a squizz at the website.  A week of chocolate related activities does sound scrumptious but given that it's during school holidays, I think I'll pass on the army of over-hyped midgets.  What sound attractive is the Larnach Castle Winter Ball held on the Friday night.
The Ball sounds fab and is definitely affordable.  Getting to Dunedin, however, is not.  Looking online, neither Air NZ or Jet Star fly from Auckland to Dunedin.  The only flights that I can see are with Pacific Blue and they would set me back over $300!  Pity...

( Trip to the Spa )

Tags: health

For a change Cosmo is gracing the pasenger seat in my car (instead of TIME) to keep me amused as I sit at traffic lights.  Apparently the latest trend is for butt facials (and V-facials but the beauty editor chickened out).  Somehow I'm not quite comfortable with the idea of spending AUD$260 to have someone spend an hour or two getting intimate with my butt.  I gues I'll leave the beauty spa to the J-Lo's of the world....

Is this a new fad?  Have I somehow been onblivious to this phenomenon because I don't check out the RTD fridges very often and normally buy my wine from the town of food?  According to the newspaper I can now pick up 1L of Sauvignon Blanc in the form of a 4 pack of slim cans for only $9.99.

....

Part of me feels that wine should not exist in a can.  Part of me feels that the metal may alter the delicate nuances.  Part of me is intrigued and is curious enough to keep an eye out next time I pass a bottle store.

( Book reviews )

Tags: books

I do enjoy Tracey Barnett's opinion pieces in the NZ Herald - I notice that today's article has yet to be published on her website.  I came home tonight and sallied forth looking for the American tv ad that had caused her such giggling and pain.  It was truly everything I felt promised.  Words fail me so you'll simply have to watch it for yourselves: (If you're a woman) Mow the Lawn

Tags: humour, television