Randomonium House

So, today I learned how to make tamale’s…I knew they were labor intensive, but my gawd, i didn’t know they were THAT labor intensive!! One of the girls at my office had the tamale party (all girls only), we got together at 11AM and we were wrapping tamale’s until at least 3:30…we made beef tamales, turkey tamales and chile relleno tamales - in all - 200!! so we’ll have some good eatin tomorrow and for the holidays - cuz luckily, you can freeze tamales!! 

not like I could eat all 15 of them in one sitting.. whew…

Anyways, we went out for sushi last night and I did what i said i was going to do and stuck to my “12 step sake program” which is 1) drink 1 sake 2) drink a 2nd sake 3) no more sake…

but our wonderful barkeep kept filling it up with nice HOT sake and i ended up having about 2.5 before i said - no more… so to me, i made a good leap on my 12 step program. haha

really, i like me alcohol, but sake has kindof taken me by storm and i’ve already noticed the program - so hey, at least i see it, i admit it.. now to sticking to my 12 step program and not having anymore sake binges..i mean holyhell, the last binge - i couldn’t leave the bar “without” my sake, i’d be heartbroken - or so i remember saying.. and then it was in-n-out burgers and a sweet hangover after that..so no more…only the 12+? step program for me! haha

my bruises are starting to go away pretty good now… my left hand is practically healed, my left arm still hurts some but not as bad.. the only bad “on the outside” bruise is finally purple and going away.. but i’m still pretty concerned bout my upper chest area..i’m taking naproxen (over the counter) for it as an anti-inflammatory and most of the pain seems to be going away except for this pain right smack under my boob - no really, it’s not “the boob”, it’s under the boob and around the armpit area…so, as a C/D cup, i wonder if landing on my boob could have somehow bruised or fractured a rib or what not? of course, I’ll be looking up the info myself but i find it a bit difficult to think that breast muscle could do such a thing…but when i probe around some (stop it you pervs!! ),it hurts the most underneath the breast tissue….ahh, i think i’ll give it another week before i go in for an xray - but it seems like there might be a bigger problem since it’s really hard to get into bed (ie: put weight on the arm/side) and it’s difficult to open/reopen/close/open etc etc the car door.. after a while, it gets to be an enormous pita because it builds to a point it’s constant…but anyways, if i keep dwelling on the thing, i’ll go back into hypocondriac mode and that’s not something i want…so, till tomorrow, we’ll see how i’m doing then.

tomorrow, i’m home all day esp since i was gone all day today - during the weekends that i’m home and not traveling, i have to stay home and get my home time and my kitty time in.. and dh time, if he’s home too.

Man, I’m just not having any fun today…My side hurts like bajesus and I wonder if i didn’t do more damage laying on a heating pad for most of the night.. or if i didn’t just do more damage period and I just don’t know it - I mean, can you actually bruise your rib cage on the side of your body? cuz that’s where it hurts the most… My boob still hurts, but my right side just below the armpit hurts worse and like when going to bed, all I do is moan and groan just trying to get in there and get positioned correctly so I won’t be laying there in mindnumbing pain….sometimes it’s pinpoint depending on where/how i turn, sometimes it’s just all over and spreads as it goes…I just don’t know…

I’m thinking if it doesn’t start getting better by mid to late next week, i’m going to the dang doctor cuz it could be that i pulled muscle really bad or it could be that i really did bruise my rib cage somehow - i’m hoping it’s not worse than that but i don’t know how to tell if i’ve fractured a bone or who knows what.. I figure, ok, if it’s broken, i wouldn’t be walking at all - then again, i’m not a nurse nor a doctor and i don’t like playing hypocondriac with trying to figure out my own condition! hahaha

other than that, the swelling in my eyes went down - so at least there’s some positive today AND i only have to work 1/2 a day! YIPPEEE for that!!!!

tonight, I think i’ll try ice instead of heat and see how that works.

Not so much that I hate *working*.. working is fine, but the fact that it seems that i’m always away from home when DH is home.. just plain SUCKS! All I want to do is be home with him and yet, i can’t.. the only thing from preventing me from being at home and/or spending time with him is work - yet in order to do the things we need/want to do, like owning our house, traveling or what not, i have to work!

sometimes, it just S.U.C.K.S.

What i’d give in order to find a “work at home” job or “work whenever I want to work” type job - heh, yea..i’m dreaming… haha

ok, back to life - almost time to go home, but just NOT soon enough!

So, I got home last night and doug had made some fajita’s for dinner - something new - cool, i’m down with that! everything was normal except we were trying a new type of salsa and it was pretty yummy, not quite as hot as I typically like it (spicy hot, not hot hot)… anyways, a half hour to hour later, my body starts literally wigging out and poof, allergy attack! no joke! my eyes (both) grew to the size of a golf ball, i was literally draining out my nose every few seconds and i was having these weird out of body experiences.. so i took 2 benedryls and called it a day -> that was 9pm last night…

I wake up this morning at 7am (normal wake up time for a 9am show at the office) and i’m feeling overly sluggish and my right eyeball is still the size of a walnut…geez, that benedryl worked great! NOT… so i write in that i’m going to be a little late, take another benedryl and poof, i’m out again (cuz all benedryl does is knock you out)…

so doug finally wakes me up at 9am and i’m like “shoot, i gotta get to the office”…eye swelling is down to about half a walnut by now - so at least i was able to accomplish that…but i’m still overly sluggish, wobbling around as if my equilibrium is just totally out of wack!

get to the office and it’s FREEZING!!! not outside, inside…I’m wearing a light sweater (it IS arizona!) and all day long, i’m just freezing my tail off… so i decided that tomorrow,i’m bringing in my winter jacket until someone figures out what air conditioning unit we’re on because so far, nobody in this office knows and i haven’t been able to figure it out while fiddling with air conditioners all over the office!! sucks!

I keep telling myself that I have my on weeks and I have my off weeks - along with having my “u know what”, this is just an OFF week and as soon as friday is over, i’m wiping it off the slate!! starting saturday with an entirely new week…

cuz i HATE these weeks where nothing seems to feel right.. you don’t feel totally sick, yet you don’t feel totally well.. things are just “off”

I’m looking forward to the weekend though.. DH has been off this entire week, been able to spend it at home and here I am - at work…SO looking forward to friday afternoon when i get to be home for days with DH and my kitties.. sometimes I really wish i could have a cat at work - i’d be so much happier! hahahaha

What is it about traveling?? I woke up this morning, a full 2 days after being back, and my eyes are all puffy.. my head in the clouds and my body’s just hurtin all over… granted, my fall over the weekend is what put my body over the edge and all but geezlepete - why does it seem to take so dang long to recover from traveling?

I don’t even know how it is that i made it to work this morning considering my eyes didn’t want to stay open AT ALL!! granted, that happens on almost a daily basis for me because i’m a night owl and not a morning person.. but sometimes, it just gets sooo bad that really, if i didn’t have a job that paid really well, i’d just up and quit… haha

I feel like I should be 62 and not 36… Does anyone else in their 30’s feel this old & tired? sheesh….is it time for a nap yet?

So the hubby and I went to Zurich Switzerland this weekend… took a day to fly out there, stayed for 2 days and flew back. The flight there wasn’t so bad - 3.5 hrs to atlanta, 8 hrs to zurich..but the flight back is always hellacious because of the headwinds…10 hrs to atlanta, 4 hrs to phx.. ARGH! 14 hrs sitting in a plane plus 2 hrs of layover and having to go through our lovely TSA security/customs check is enough to make anyone ralph!

Getting into Zurich, they didn’t even stamp our passport - just looked at them, asked why we were there and we moved on. No having to go through security clearances, taking our shoes off or anything like we have to do at home!
We have a friend who lives in Zurich now, so we met up with him after we’d checked into our hotel (Swissotel). We’ve stayed at the Swissotel before and we’re again pleasantly surprised with how the room was laid out.. the tub/shower was a little narrow (maybe a foot across at the bottom) but the temperature and the pressure were just great! that’s what really makes the trip for me.. If i can check in early and take a shower, then the hotel has an A+ from me!
The hotel had a Lavazza espresso maker - our favorite since using it while on our last germany trip. so the room was pure heaven in my eyes!!

our first stop was meeting up with Christian and getting a bite to eat…we were late, so we grabbed a bretzeln at the main HBF (hauptbahnhof) - train station - and walked over to Christian’s place. Then we went and walked around town, stopping here and there to watch the swans in the lakes, take in the historical sites…by about 3pm, i was dog tired and had to go take a mini nap… so we napped till bout 5 and then walked back to Christians as he offered to make us a fondue dinner… can you imagine having fondue with a swiss guy who doesn’t even like cheese?? yup…we sure did! then he brought out his homemade apple schnapps and the party was off! …we headed for the Expovina, which was the major wine festival in town…The expovina is an international wine festival that takes place on 12 different boats (all next to eachother). wines from all over the world can be tasted for 15CF (swiss francs)..like $12/person…talk about heaven! each booth had at least 10 different wines, 5 reds, 5 whites or more… each vendor would give you a full 1/4 glass and you could stay there till at least 11pm…

so anyways, we finally left the expovina around closing time and we really hadn’t drank muchl, so here i am, walking down the street.. my foot catches on a cobblestone and poof - down i went! hard too…bruised up my right side a bit to where i though for sure i had broken my boob (no, i don’t have implants)…but i scraped up my left hand some, bruised my left shoulder/arm and my right knee - could i do anymore damage? sheesh….so here i was walking around in pain, no aspirins or anything with me talking about how my boobs broken! hahahaha
so, we went into this bar (a gay bar since our friend is gay) called Cranberries and it was WAY cool….i had something to drink to numb my body a bit and from there on, it was just nothing but good conversation, meeting new people and trying actual swiss/german jager shots (again, to numb the pain as much as i could). we ended up going from Cranberries to another tiny(!) gay bar, where we closed the night…

Woke up the next morning around noon (yup, time difference can be difficult if your not well rested!), i was hurting pretty bad and so that slowed me down a lot more than i thought…not so much that i was hungover cuz i wasn’t, just cuz my body felt like it’d be hit by a truck! so, we met up with christian again, walked around town some more and over to the oktoberfest that was going on - listened to the oompah band, had some beers and met up with a guy that is American, living in Zurich - soon to move on to Kuwait City for work.. apparently, he’s a travel journalist for the japanese newspaper, selling advertising and writting articles. so, we hung out with him and he decided to come with us to the expovina after oktoberfest closed down…ended up staying out till late in the evening again only to get up at 5am to head for the airport…

so, that was pretty much it - the trip in a 2 day splatter filled with good times, bad times and a few really good learning experiences!! until tomorrow….

I’ve never done this blog thing before, but it seems pretty simple just like writting in a normal diary - only you don’t have to go and dip your pen in the inkwell too often, which i have to admit it’s pretty darn nice! but anyways…we’re off to switzerland today, zurich actually…to go see the alps, visit a friend that we have over there now (our first European “visit” of sorts). and i’m pretty darn excited. I always get so excited when i’m leaving on a trip whether it’s for a few days or a week, i’m just always ready to go…

Anyways, thinks to do, will write more later!

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