i'm a mess

you guys, i feel disgusting. absolutely disgusting, for a number of reasons.

1. that cold that I thought I got over (quite smugly) last week came back and sucker punched me in the gut, turning into a terrible flu. I don't understand what happened! I even felt good enough to start going back to the gym for a week and then last saturday i again fell ill. It's been a slow recovery, although I've discovered that I have a LOT of time on my hands when I don't go to the gym. I've moved furniture around in my apartment twice already this week!

2. I attended two holiday parties last week, had a potluck at work THIS week, our holiday party toNIGHT, and the office has been buried beneath a pile of gift baskets full of chocolately goodness. can we say gluttony?

3. I bought brie for the potluck and ended up finishing most of it off myself because apparently "chinese people don't eat cheese". Then m.poynter left me another chunk of brie in my stocking which I polished off in practically one sitting by myself. just me versus the brie and a pile of wheat crackers. oh..my..god..so..much...brie.

4. since I've been having that ugly sounding hacking cough the entire week I haven't worked out. at all. I am literally finding pockets of fat sprouting all over my body at an alarming rate. like, "wtf??? where did this love handle come from??? why the heck am i jiggling so much??" and then I start coughing again so hard that I think I'm gonna puke in my garbage can at work.

At least before this tremendous downward spiral I had a pretty good weekend. The Fremont crew came up and finally took me out for my birthday (only a month and a half late). Cherry and Debra took me on mystery drive to pac heights to get my haircut by an asian girl with the last name "Tuggle" (i'm still trying to figure that one out). The moment she lay her eyes on me she gasped and muttered "for the love of god....! when is the last time you got your hair cut?!"

well not really..but she did tell me that I had a "lot of hair going on" and she then proceeded to lop off 4 inches. I think Cherry and Debra were trying to tell me something . thanks girls, my hair has admittedly been looking pretty good the past few days. Cherry was so mesmerized at how shiny and healthy it looked that she couldn't stop petting me.

Then they marched me over to Shu Uemura where a young gay asian man applied makeup on me and I bought RIDICULOUSLY (and i mean ridiculously) expensive makeup. It's so expensive that I'm afraid to open up the package and use it! I *have* been using the eyelash curler, and Debra was right..it really is all that it's cracked up to be. oh those wonderous engineers at Shu Uemura! it LOOKS like a normal eyelash curler, i swear! but somehow it's so very different than the ones you buy at the drugstore. oh, and cherry made a bad attempt at some liquid eyeliner which will forever be another classic Cherry moment. :)

then everyone else met up with us which is when i started feeling a little run down. We dined on japanese food, gelato, and took pictures in the photobooth at japantown. I tried to pinch David's ass to try and capture a surprised look on camera, but I did it too soon. damn!

Thanks to everybody who contributed to my late late late b-day!