I'm Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiicccccckkkkkkkkkk

Ugh. I'm such a poop when I'm sick. And I'm not even that bad off... a touch of a sore throat, some nasal congestion, a little sneeze here and there. Mix it all up and you've got an Emily with a really bad attitude.

I guess it was bound to happen-- my parents have been sick with bronchitis for the past three weeks, and I'm in really close quarters with them. Sigh.

So yesterday and today, all I did was lay around the house, eat, and take long naps. I've also been taking elderberry juice with echinacea and throat lozenges with blueberry, elderberry and zinc. Hopefully those things will shorten the duration of my cold and I'll be well enough to make a trip to Boston on Wednesday, that is if the weather's not terrible.

I hope I feel ok tomorrow too because I have to go back to work for two days. Mostly I just feel sorry for myself... I always do when I get sick (which isn't more than once or twice a year, if that, for the most part). So that's it, I guess. I just have to snap out of it.

Snap.

(That was me snapping out of it in case you were wondering.)

Back To Basics

Thank God... my life has finally started to settle down a bit. Work is work, enough said. On my off days though I've been seeing some of my girlfriends a bit more, which is nice since I haven't seen a bunch of them since before Christmas. I've been using my late grandmother's Cavalier and I think I might have made the decision that I'm fine with the granny-car and I don't want to buy another.

Oh! I also joined a gym the other day, and I'm sure that pretty soon I'll be giving you reports of which body parts have become rock hard. Ahem. But seriously, I really like working out and I miss it, kind of. I belonged to a gym in Bing and loved going there to work out alongside all the juiced-up meatheads... this gym doesn't have as many meatheads, but it does have a ton of facilities and a fantastic locker-room which I take advantage of all the time by walking around in it naked. Heh.

Anyway, here are some photos of my recent visit to Long Island when I went for a playdate with Susan and Lynn. It'd been a long time since the three of us had had a chance to hang out, and we had a blast. Wednesday night we ate and then met up with Jeremy who all three of us ended up knowing from Bing, but who we all really didn't know too well that the others knew him. It was weird. So the four of us went to a bar/arcade place and had a really nice time catching up. Then Thursday Susan and Lynn and I went to eat again, and Lynn left for home. I was able to stay longer and had some really nice Susan-time. It was such a nice visit!

Then yesterday I drove up to New Haven to visit Laura. The two of us picked up Franzi from the library and went out to eat, then we found a new place to get bubble tea, stalked their friend Lila and all hung out for a little while telling stories until it was time to go back home. Here you can see Laura with head in hands because her homework is hard and laborious... and you can see that Franzi isn't doing her homework because she's focusing too much on looking good to take a photograph for her United Nations ID card. Heh.

Ok, so I just got home from Yale, and now I'm gonna head to the gym, I think. Again... think rock-hard Emily... it's true-- it's in the works!

T.G.I.S.

It's a snow day today... so far, two feet and still falling. And as much as I love when it's a warm and sunny day, it makes me nervous not to have snow and cold in the winter in New York, you know? We've had a really mild winter so far this year with only an inch here and there of snow, so I knew it was coming sooner or later... and honestly, I'm glad. Because when it feels like Florida up here from October through February, I get a little anxious-- like I've driven one too many miles in a non-fuel-efficient car and the ozone layer just couldn't handle it and now all because of me there will never be a cold winter in the nothern hemisphere ever again...

Ok, so maybe not *that* anxious, but I still am kind of glad it finally snowed. So I've just been going out a little at a time trying to shovel out the cars and the driveway so I can go to work tomorrow. I'm actually surprised I wasn't called in to do overtime since I'm almost positive that nurses who live an hour away must have called in to say they couldn't come in. But they didn't call me for overtime, so I'm happily shoveling out the place and making some potato-barley-lentil-vegetable soup. Mmmm.

Anyhow, for all of you Noodle fans sitting inside with a mug of hot cocoa watching someone else shovel, enjoy the day!

Looks Just Terrible

I don't know what it is about me, but whenever I cook, everything comes out the same-- brown slop. It's just terrible... my meals are pretty delicious, but honestly, they all look so unappealing... like shit in a pot kind of. Diarrhea actually.


So here's a picture of the something I made this afternoon. It's a something because I'm not sure what else to call it. Inside are garlic and onions, eggplant, green pepper, green squash, corn, broccoli, tomatoes from my garden and seasonings from my cabinet. So, the end product: tastes great, looks like crap.

Sigh. I love cooking... just wish the final product looked more attractive.

The Newest Captain Morgan

I'm sorry, I really have no idea-- not a single clue what he was doing, but I still felt the need to share this moment with you:


Needless to say, I'm hooked.


What a hunk... but not just any hunk-- he's my hunk! XO, baby-- I miss you!

Welcome To Barf City

Population: 1.

Something I value about being in pretty good health is that I don't vomit too frequently. Unfortunately, last night was one of the few times in the last year that I ended up ralphing my guts out. It was because of a migraine headache, and I was unfortunately already crapping sickly away on the toilet, so it's a good thing that all of my major bathroom appliances are *really* close to one another or else I would have been having an amazing throw-up extravaganza.

Too much information? Too bad.

Want to know something else gross about last night? No? Too bad again. That vomit that I was just talking about-- you remember it? Well, I had just eaten my dinner (breakfast and/or lunch? It was the first thing I'd eaten all day and I ate it at 4:30pm at the tail end of my lunch break) shortly before all of this vomiting transpired, so none of it was digested... so I'm still on the john, feeling miserable, and watching all of the contents of my stomach empty into the sink, wholly intact. That's right-- brown rice, zucchini, carrots, string beans and slices of portobello mushrooms. Mmmmm.

And what's best about all of that is that my sink wouldn't empty-- the chunks were too big. And I didn't want to get a clog... So wouldn't you know it-- when I was finally able to get off the can, I had to scoop up my vomit and dump it into the toilet so that I wouldn't end up having a plumbing issue to worry about as well as a being sick issue.

Sigh. I'm such a mess.

Anyway, I showered after all of that and went right to sleep, and when I woke up this morning, amazingly I felt better. Tomorrow I have to go back to work and I'm crossing my fingers that the day won't be as bad as it was yesterday (aka: I hope I don't get another migraine headache tomorrow from all the stress). But if it happens to be just as terrible of a day, fear not because I'm sure I'll wow all you Noodle fans again with more tales and details of the contents of my stomach!