Vacation - Day 10

I missed a couple it seems. Shall we backtrack?

On Friday the high point of my day was getting a few beers with my buddy Warren. Warren and I met in 2006; he's a sweet gent from South Africa who happens to be engaged to the daughter of a former co-worker. The wedding's come up soon, so there's bound to be a fun posting about that in the near future. Anyways, amid Friday's late afternoon snowstorm we had a few pints of Guinness and hit a few topics of coversation... good times.

Saturday (yesterday) was the big day of the weekend. I usually go down to the St Lawrence Market for some grocery shopping on Saturday mornings, and I go quite early, but this time I had companions: Miriam and Heidi. I was very impressed: Miriam awake and ready to go at 6 AM! It wasn't really the best day for the ladies to go with me as they are both going away next week for a trip, so they were not into buying a lot of food, but good times were had. After we were done there we trooped up to Eglinton and Mt Pleasant to get pedicures. Fantastic. I'll admit I get a bit nervous when they start going over my feet with that razor, but the end result is fantastic; callouses shaved down, toenails clipped and trimmed... everyone needs this. We got pizza in afterwards and watched Hot Fuzz before we called it a day.

And then I got sick.

Yes, today is my birthday, and my present from the gods of irony is illness. I managed to sleep okay last night what with having been up so early and then taking a night time cold relief pill, but at one point in the night I woke up with a horrible fever and had to pile on blankets to sweat it out of me. I still feel a bit warm right now but it could just be from the hot shower I took. I can feel sinus pressure inside my head; it's making my teeth hurt. And I have events today; Michelle and Greg are coming down for brunch and a movie, so I have to recover enough to be hospitable but not give them my cold on top of everything. I have a few hours to go before then; I should be okay.

I'm not going to dwell on the whole "I'm turning 37" thing today. True, it's that much closer to 40, but my friend Jamie will get there before me, so he can tell me what it's like. Then I will decide if I will stick with this ageing thing or dig my heels in and fight it.

So for now more tea will do, and all sorts of warm healing thoughts.

That is all.