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This weekend was meant to be filled with friends, drinks, and laughter. Instead it was low energy all around.

About midday on Thursday (Australia Day, and a public holiday for most), C came down with a terrible virus. He had the shakes, a high fever, and eventually got the runs. He was barely able to stay awake, and lost his entire appetite. Within 24hrs he had dropped 5kg. I immediately kicked into the “caring girlfriend” routine and fussed over him, waking him periodically to take his medication and to make him drink fluids to keep him hydrated. When I wasn’t there, one of our housemates, Joe, stepped in to keep an eye on him.

Needless to say, I cancelled my plans of going away with some friends camping to stay home and look after C instead. I also had to cancel C’s weekend on the Gold Coast for a birthday party, tell some friends not to come over on Friday night, and tell his boss he wouldn’t be in on Saturday morning.

Today was incredibly low key. I woke around 10.30am (after finally going to sleep at 2am, too caught up researching the upcoming Thailand trip) and lazed around the house in my pyjamas. Mum stopped past quickly at midday, then I showered and changed. A few hours were spent as a domestic goddess, washing clothes, weeding and general housework, then I retired to the couch. Where I now sit.

I was also meant to go to Laser Force this afternoon with some friends, but unfortunately the place was closed when they arrived so it got postponed until tomorrow night. I won’t be able to make it as I have netball, so bummer for me. I was also going to go to their house to watch the Australian Open Men’s Singles Final, but my lazy gene kicked in and I piked again.

I have managed to climb out of my indent in the couch to make some banana bread, my first time making it. Hopefully it turns out, I will be sure to post some photos! I also had grand plans of washing and straightening my hair tonight, but at this stage I think that’s out. Maybe tomorrow night after netball…

So I hope you all had a most exciting weekend! I’m happy to report C has improved to the point that he is sitting on the couch, and has stayed awake for most of today, but he is still barely eating anything and doesn’t stray far from the bathroom. Yet he is improving, and that’s fantastic to see.

Next weekend will be more high energy, I’m sure. Now just to start planning something!

Pardon me for the lack of posts, but with a laptop that can tether with my iPhone intermittently at best, I haven’t written in a while. I know I have WordPress on my phone (from which I am posting now) but for posts with length and quality, the extensive typing on my phone can be a bit of a turnoff.

So how did I spend my Sunday?

Right now I’m relaxing on the deck with a glass of wine while inside C makes some pork chops for dinner.

After a few months of stress, days like this just remind me how lucky I am.

I’m living the dream.

Woah, a Saturday to do nothing all day. I am excited by this. Yet I have already got things planned.

It’s pretty much a day of catching up on a lot of chores; washing, vacuuming, mopping etc. Fun times. To really push the excitement factor into the next level, I also decided I’d start sorting out my tax file and get ready to do my tax. Woo!

I’m also aiming to get down to the beach for a few hours with my dog this afternoon along with C and some friends, and also run 10km at some point (there’s a nice track in Kawana that I might do). There’s only 6 weeks until the City 2 Surf, where I’ll be running 14km from Sydney CBD to Bondi…you know, for shits and giggles (as you do). I figure I should really start racking up the kilometres, since at the moment I’m only running just over 4km in the mornings. I need to shock my body now while I have the chance, otherwise I’ll be totally wiped out after the race in Sydney. Actually, given our track record of going out the night before, I’ll probably be wiped out anyway.

Tomorrow I will be driving down to Brisbane to catch up with my aunty and cousin, both of whom I haven’t seen since Christmas. I’m looking forward to it, they’re fantastic. The downside is that I have probably timed it so that I will get stuck in traffic heading back to Brisbane, all the weekend revellers who enjoyed a weekend away up at the Sunshine Coast. Dammit. I’ll just have to make sure I have some good music in the car so that I can conduct an impromptu concert if I get bored. Oh yeah, I know you’re all wishing you could buy tickets (I have tickets on myself…hardy har, geddit? geddit?)

I won’t quit my day job.

I suppose I should probably start attacking the list that I’ve made for today. I just had a 9 hour sleep, the longest sleep I’ve had in a long long time. It’s the first time I haven’t allowed myself to get woken up by an alarm, instead just waking up naturally. Pure bliss. I should enjoy this last weekend off too, since Monday signals the start of the next uni term. I promise I won’t bitch so much about chemistry this time…I’m feeling motivated and dedicated to establishing a study routine.

Ok…I’m going for real now. Housework ahoy!

It all started on Friday…evil, evil Friday. Years gone by I was never keen on going out on a Friday night; I had worked all day, and I was tired by midnight. This Friday I went out again, and it’s the second Friday in less than a month gone by that I’ve been out on the town. How times have changed!

My housemate and I went down to the local Pig & Whistle for a few drinks for one of my housemate’s work colleagues, who was leaving the workplace to move south. I had met him before and got along really well with him, hence my invitation to such a prestigious event. With my newly developed drinking skills I started on the pints of Toohey’s Extra Dry, and it wasn’t long before I was feeling that familiar feeling of drunkeness.

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What a crazy 48 hours! If I had the chance to live the weekend over, it would be a resounding “hell no”.

The biggest fault of the weekend was dealing with a cold, which first surfaced earlier in the week. Friday I got knocked my ass by the virus, and spent most of the day sleeping on the couch before scoring a 19/20 on my uni exam online Friday night, which I was pretty stoked with. Saturday morning I woke up looking like death again, and couldn’t get back to sleep after I woke up at 5am. I got up, promptly stopped my dog from eating a toad (still had to wash his mouth out to ensure there was no poison in there), then passed the morning in a zombie-like haze. Just before lunch though I had an epiphany, and decided that I would only continue to feel sick if I acted sick.

Suddenly I burst into action doing all the housework, and was incredibly productive. I felt a lot better (although I had to take frequent breaks to blow my nose), and even went for a walk down to the chemist to replenish my cold & flu supplies. Later that night things turned soured again, and I ended up having a disagreement with Mat. I decided to go and do some night photography, which resulted in my long exposure beach shot for Project 365. The next minute my brain kicked into gear again, and I realised there was no better time to go see a movie by myself than right then (especially item no. 42 of my 52 in 52 challenge states I have to go see a movie by myself 3 times this year). I booked tickets online using the Pocket Cinema app on my iPhone and headed to the cinema to see The Social Network. I actually enjoyed going to the movies by myself this time…it was the down time I needed and the cinema wasn’t crowded.

That night I managed to get a bit more sleep than I did Friday night, so this morning woke up feeling a bit more refreshed. Unfortunately I had reached the coughing phase of my cold, and Mat’s friend had stayed the night in the living room. My options were either to stay in the bedroom and wake Mat up with my coughing, or sit in the living room and wake up Mat’s friend with my coughing. Not good. In the end I went and spent half an hour in the garage with the dogs, before deciding I would lay in bed and read a book. I managed 10mins in the bedroom before I went and vomited up all the vitamins I had just taken, along with a load of cold-related disgusting products. Much more efficient than gradually coughing it all up I guess? I returned to bed, and managed a few more hours of rest.

Today was pretty much sitting around at home doing nothing. Mat and I did go out for lunch together in Mooloolaba, but that wasn’t anything exciting. So all in all, it was a weekend spent trying to deal with my cold, having an argument, and watching a movie. The peaks definitely don’t offset the lows, though I can’t say it was the worst weekend on record either. I’m just glad it’s over, and hopefully this week I will be able to get rid of this cold for good, and spend next weekend doing something fun. I’ve just got to pray the rain goes away now!