Indépendence Cha-cha

Although I recognize and appreciate Independence Day in the U.S. where I live, I have to celebrate my own first. Well, I don't usually, but for once, I have decided to be slightly patriotic and rep my peeps... D.R.C. Baby! Today is the day and though I am probably not going to be celebrating it, I wanted to mention it.


My hubby will probably take out the giant flag my mom brought him last summer. I'm guessing he'll place it somewhere random in the house, but in retrospect, it is nice to show a bit of patriotism =) Here's to us hopefully moving in the right direction someday soon, and getting our country back to her glory days. Lots of hope there, but I chose to be more positive about it this year. Boom!

Sigh

This morning was really rough for me. My day started out very strangely. I got a call at work for a verification of employment but the lady sounded EXACTLY like a very good friend of mine who passed away last year. Talk about a cold sweat. I froze and thought I was in the Twilight Zone for a second...

I was literally speechless for so long that the lady had to say "hello?" a few more times for me to snap out of it. I have no idea how I made it through the rest of the day without curling up into a ball in some corner, but I did. 

Does this ever get any easier? Every time something reminds me of her, I get a horrible tightening in my chest and it feels like something is pocking my lungs with needles. I can't breathe, I get really warm, and sometimes my vision blurs.. *sigh. This is hard.

Recovery

Our 4th Game Night was a mad success and had the most amount of people it's ever had. I believe there were 18 of us total, but at one point there were 20 people in our tiny townhouse! It was loads of fun tho, but seriously, I'm getting too old to drink that much, blaaaaah. I was knocked out most of Sunday, even though I was wide awake from 10 am, I was not functioning. I don't know why my hangovers keep changing, but spacing out, is definitely not a fun one. Oh, and all my muscles and bones hurt as if I'd been in a fight! gaaaah... lol.

I spent the entire day on the couch, staring at my computer and books and homework, then finally snapped out of it around 8pm and did whatever assignments I could, and then went to bed at 1am.

Getting to work this morning was still rough, and it was difficult to stay awake at times, but I managed to get quite a bit of work done. The day went pretty fast actually, because I never noticed lunch time arriving, and I was busy most of the day after that. Now I'm just enjoying a short break before getting back to it. Before I even had a chance to stare at the clock and say "why aren't you moving, you impertinent clock?", it was almost time to go home :)