Stay or go home

Darn! I'm down with a flu. And guess what...I actuall had a flu shot on Thursday! Bummer. I think my flu started on Thursday, too! I worked both jobs that day and at night, my throat started to hurt. I've been drowning my self with tea since then. On Friday after my 8-5 work, instead of resting, I went straight to my friend's house. I can't just bail out since we all made plans. We went to QM. It was fun! 7 Horror mazes (it's hard to scare me) and a club. Saturday morning I was supposed to have a dentist appointment but I re-scheduled because I wasn't feeling well. I was pretty much down the entire weekend. Yesterday I went home early from work because I was still in bad shape. I slept from noon till 4pm and then again at 10pm till this morning. I am at work right now and still deciding whether I should stay or go home :(

No life

Not much goin on lately, other than work that is...what's new, right? Well, I hang out again with my gal pals on Saturday Night. I worked in the morning from 4:45am (I thought I started at 4:15am so I got there half an hour earlier when I should've had half-hour more sleep!) until 1:15pm. I took a nap at around 3pm-5pm (or is it consider sleep already if it's more than an hour?). I cooked crab rangoons per my friends' request and went to my friend's house at around 7pm. We ate dinner then went to the near restaurant for drinks. Now, I don't drink but my friends have been trying to get me to drink (I taste but I really don't drink...sips of two to four is enough - and I mean SIP and not drink) since I was 17 or 18 (my family has been handing me liqueur when I turned 18, don't know why) but I just really didn't like the taste. Anyhow, my friend ordered me Lava Flow. It was actually good, you can't taste the alcohol at all, which is what I want. But then again, I don't drink. Even though the drink is pretty good, I still can't drink it really, don't know why. I guess I'm just weird. Well, I sipped here and there but my friends ended up drinking the lava flow while partially conscious of what they're doing (we share drinks, foods - sharing is care :) and just made a comment when the drink was done...hehe...We went back to my friend's house and just hang out. Nope, no games. We just basically talked and touched bases.

Yesterday after work (I worked from 5:15am-1:45p), I just stayed home. I played sequence with my sister, exchanged banters with my family, watched TV...went to bed at around 9:30pm.

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Anyway, I should get back to work. I'm working as usual till 5pm at my day job, and 7pm-12:45am on the other one later on. Don't ask how I do it, I don't know either. Oh, never mind..I do know. I basically have no life.

Back to Work Now

On Friday (10/7), I took my eldest brother, my younger brother and my sister to the theme park for Halloween treat. It was fun...my sis was a scaredy cat and wouldn't let go of my younger brother's arm (she's 14). The theater show was great also! We left the park at about 12:30am and went to eat out...we were home by 1:30am.

On Saturday, I worked from 12:30pm - 7pm. After work, I went home to change clothes and picked up some ingredients to cook. I went to my friends house (it was game night!) and cooked for them (crab rangoon). I also brought cinnamon coffee cake (no, I didn't bake that) and we were playing and laughing the entire night. That night would probably be one of my favorite nights! Even though we were not complete, we were laughing so hard that my heart actually hurt! It proves that you don't need to go through so much heartache to be able to laugh so hard and be at one of your happiest moments. You just have learn how to let yourself completely go. We called it a night (or morning) at 1:30am.

Yesterday after church and lunch, I took a nap before going to work. I worked from 5pm - 12:45am. The night was pretty much uneventful, except for minor changes in shift coverage. One of the shift supervisors were scheduled to close and open the next day so he had to go home at 8pm and I had to take over. I was scheduled as a regular employee last night but there was no other way but to hand it over to me since I was a shift and already working anyway.

Now, I'm back at work (my day full-time job) and learning Spanish at the same time. I bought CDs level 1-3 with books for Spanish - the learn in your car thing but I'm learning it at work. I started on Friday with level one. I'm going to listen to it again today for refresher (and that way it sticks to me more) and then I'll go for level 2 tomorrow.

Well, I guess I have to go back to work now.

We take the time that we have for granted

Death. n. The termination or extinction of something. The act of dying; termination of life.

For the past week, there had been two deaths in my home town. The first one, early last week, was the person who my siblings and I considered as our second father. He and his wife helped my parents in raising us. He had been in the hospital for about a month or so, trying to recover from stroke. I wish I had written to him. I wish I had thanked him.

The second, over the weekend, was my uncle. He was the husband of my dad's sister. The even sadder news about his death was that they were celebrating my aunt's birthday when he had a heart attack. He was dead on arrival when they got to the hospital. He was 53.

Death comes with no age, no health, sometimes without warning, all the time inescapable. We know it. We can never prepare for it. Still, we take the time that we have for granted.