The week in review

Hello dear readers, it's a pleasure to be with you again!

My head is swimming with things to do. It is so full, in fact, that the only other thing there seems to be room for is mucus and thoughts of my new toy. I can explain...

Thursday evening my coworkers and I went to Lemongrass for a farewell dinner. It was so, so nice, even if the kitchen was a little off. Several of our meals were particularly salty, which is not what I'm used to there. Rita said that in Germany they say if the food is too salty, the cook must be in love. :) What a lovely spin to put on it! Here is the group shot of us!



Anyway, we had a good time and boy was I in for one heck of a surprise. Here, you can see my gaping maw right here:



I couldn't believe it! I was actually embarrassed a little, which Yoko thought was very cute. I mean, I've purposely NOT read anything about the ipod touch because it was so not an option. But omg! So cooooooool! And of course I immediately knit a little cover for it! I was bored by those socks anyway. Check it out!



Ok, so that explains the new toy fixation. What about that mucus? Argh... I am so incredibly allergic to my parents' basement that it's not even funny. We've already taken care of one half of the basement, and we started on the other half today. Taking medicine ahead of the work didn't help. I thought I was going to end up with brain damage, I was sneezing so hard and so often (almost constantly). I knew things were getting bad when, despite blowing my nose as often as possible, I could no longer prevent my snot from dripping on what I was trying to work on. (TMI? Too bad!) So I took more medicine! It said "extreme" on the box, so I knew it was good! Woohoo, that was some good stuff, I've been loopy all day and ended up needing to take a nap in the evening. But we did get some good work done there before dad and I ran out of juice.

However, there is still a LOT left to do in less than two weeks. I would be lying if I said I wasn't just a wee bit stressed... but at this point it's still mostly eustress, not distress. More updates later!