12-23-99 Thursday

We had our company Christmas party at a Moraccan restaurant last Friday.  Here's one of the pictures my coworker took.  They made me wear this red fez hat thingie...

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Ugh, I've been really sick these past couple of days.  Definitely a cold, not the flu.  But thanks Seiichi for the flu advice. He says, "There are two new drugs out on the market this year to treat the flu. One is called Relenza and the other is Tamiflu."   If I am unfortunate enough to get the flu, I'll remember the drugs.

Also thank you very much to Seiichi for sending the mug and shot glass.  I'm using the mug to drink my Echinacea today, which my kind coworker Jeff Kletsky bought in for me after yesterday's day of sniffling and sneezing.

Thanks Seiichi and Jeff.   It's the mug of healing...

Also thanks to Larry Wong for sending me the beautiful Mikasa bowl and ornate pin.  It was my pleasure to play hostess to you wil you were in town this summer.   :)

Ok, this was a really bizarre screen capture sent to me from Brian & Grace 'Yam'.

"Here's a screen capture I got of you in a rather interesting moment. My caption would be "Lorraine meditating and hoping for that perfect Christmas gift... Ohhhhmmmmmmmm".

Thanks Brian and Grace!

And also thanks to Sara aka IRCGRL for sending me a gift certificate to Amazon.com.  That was very, very sweet.  

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I keep wishing for comfort food while I'm sick.  As I was driving to work this morning it occurred to me that the best food when you're sick, in my humble opinion, is Chinese rice porridge, "jook" or "juk".   Mmmmm, my favorite is the pork with preserved egg.   Almost lunchtime...

12-21-99 Tuesday

Yikes, I can't believe Christmas is this Saturday.  And then New Year's after that, and then my birthday after that... sigh.  Too much going on.   

I was so tired yesterday, had another bout with my food allergies I think.  I just had a hot pastrami sandwich and it threw me into a food coma.   I could not stay awake and had to walk to my car to sleep for half an hour.  It was horrible, I felt like I had been drugged.

It usually only happens when I have certain dishes at Chinese restaurants that have too much MSG.  Ugh.

Anyway, today I've been sneezing all day.  First I thought it was allergies but now I'm pretty sure it's a cold.  My body is starting to feel run down and my sinuses hurt.

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I caught Kazu aka Zipper spying at me on my cam today.   We were ICQing and he said, "Playing with your hair?"    Doh!   No peeking.

Here are a couple of screen captures from one of my viewers...

He asked, "Did you realize that the day was thursday?"
Looks like I'm pointing at the time/datestamp on the screen eh?

And here is one I took of myself today.

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Ugh, my cold is really kicking in right now.