I'm sick!

I am sick at the moment and for the first time in ages it's not an eye related illness thanks be to god, I am fed up hearing "Conjunctivitis" being said around me or other words associated with it like red eyes etc. Gah drives me mad, I have had it 3 times this summer, and i am hoping its not going to rear its ugly head again!

Anyway this illness is completely unrelated but also unconfortable, I had been suffering from ongoing pains since Monday but just couldn't make anytime to go to the doctor to get myself checked out so I just kept avoiding it and hoped it would go away, no such luck.

So today I finished college at 12 and went straight home and went to my doctor to make an appointment, but it was still closed for lunch, this was at 1:20 they close for lunch between 12:30- 1:30. Finally I got in and organised an appointment. Only to realise there was only a male doctor in today, and that wouldn't do.

So then I headed to the next doctor and they were also closed for lunch but between 1-2 ahhhh drive me crazy!! Then I found another one beside Mcdonalds, the same story so then I decided to just buy food and wait. I got a chicken wrap yummy!!

Then I tried the closest doctor, no free appointments today and then I tried the third doctor, no free appointments til tommorrow... but luckily the receptionist was really nice and told me to come back at 5:10 and i would be seen.

So I went in and was diagnosed with a bladder infection :( Apparently I am not drinking enough water. So whe put me on antibiotics and said I should be better by next monday! so fingers crossed.

Damn you Census!

It's Census time in Ireland at the moment, well I suppose technically it was during the weekend, but ours still haven't been collected... Our appartment is a bit off the beaten track... so perhaps its never going to be collected which makes it even more annoying GRRRR!!

Well the main reason it was annoying was because it was so bloody long... and very very personal. which I suppose it's supposed to be. But the incredibly annoying part was the following question

How would you describe your health?

(a) Very good

(b) Good

(c) Bad

(d) Very Bad

No sooner had I picked very good, then I suddenly came down with a horrific sore throat. Damn Census!! Now I know the census didn't give me the sore throat, I just feel like it jynxed me, in general I am very healthy. I don't normally get stomach aches, vomiting or anything like that.

But anyway I have identified the main culprits who caused me this misery, Polish, not Polish people, polish food, On Sunday night, me and my boyfriend decided to stay at home and watch a movie, Alice in Wonderland.

we wanted to get some snacks and we thought we would be adventurous and try polish snacks, OK I lied we thought we would be lazy and go to the polish shop across the road. We bought Polish digestive biscuits and Polish loop crackers. Don't ask me the names because we threw them all in the bin..

Word of warning when you eat polish snacks don't eat too many in one go. Especially when you don't know whats in them. That was our biggest mistake. We just munched on them for the whole movie and then the next morning we woke up and OH MY GOD our throats were so sore.

So my boyfriend decided we would go on a hot food free diet, no oil, no spices, no meat. Just vegetables and fruit. Thrust me not Yum.

Yesterday I was starting to feel a lot better, then last night I made a huge mistake we went to the pub and I had 2 bottles of Smirnoff ice WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?? then I woke up this morning and I can't speak.  So its pretty quiet in our apartment right now... I also have a meeting later at college, I might have to bring my boyfriend as a spokesperson

Does anyone know what to do if the Census man forgets to collect your Census form?? I'd feel terribly guilty if we made the official count inaccurate. 4 million people + 2 forgotten people so sad lol

Ouch my eye!

Like everyone I have a secret, I have pretty bad eye sight, which possibly explains the reasoning behind my Tattoo Desires I haven't worn glasses since I was 15. OK I wear glasses in my house when I'm not going out or we don't have visitors but other than that I always wear my contact lenses. Thus most people I know these days don't know I wear contact lenses because, basically it's never cropped up. But yesterday it most definitely did.

As it brought Back to Business to an immediate halt last night, I was working on one of my assignments all day yesterday, wearing my contact lenses, then my boyfriend came home from work and had 2 cigarettes and then my eye started itching like crazy. Then my boyfriend said "Oh my god, what happened to your eye??????"

Horror struck me, it couldn't be, I rushed to take out my contact lenses and peered into the mirror. Shit! Shit. I knew the symptoms straight away, Conjunctivitis had reared its ugly head again.

For people who are not familiar with conjunctivitis let me explain, this is when your eye gets itchy, red, stingy and uncomfortable and makes your eyes feel like their burning. Thrust me it's absolutely horrible and it's even more horrible for people like me who wear contact lenses on a daily basis.

So I rushed my boyfriend off to Tesco to buy some sort of eye bath medicine and cucumber, It was 10'oc at night all pharmacies were closed so Tesco was our best bet. He obediently did what he was told because there was absolutely no way I was heading out in this state.

He returned and I analysed the instructions on the eye bath medicine, in particular the causes of red eye.
1. Too much computer use

2 Contact Lenses

3 Smoky environment

I encountered all of the above, so anyway I applied the eye bath then tried to go to sleep but my eyes just kept tearing up. I was totally stressed out, Memories from the last bout of conjunctivitis were floating round in my head. The Last time I got Conjunctivitis was the summer of August 2008 and it lasted a month. I went on Holidays to Tenerife with it. I kept relapsing, it would go... 3 days later it would come back... It was horrible.

But my main fear is having to wear my glasses out in public. I loathe my glasses. I know glasses look gorgeous and sophisticated and even cute on some people like Taylor Swift, Gok Wan, Khalil Fong.

I love Taylor Swifts big glasses

Gok Wan, I liked him when I first saw his show "How to look good naked" Then I read that his Mom is English and his Dad is from Hong Kong. I thought he was really interesting.

Khalil Fong, The last time I had conjunctivitis and felt depressed about having to wear glasses, a chinese friend introduced me to the singer Khalil Fong. He apparently made glasses popular. His music is really good too. Check it out below.

Regardless when I wear glasses I feel like I look like Granny Dryden from Postman Pat, Even my Boyfriend sometimes calls me Grandma when I am reading my book in bed. "Grandma do you want to go to sleep now?

I just feel like as soon as I put my glasses on I become a different person, I am not me anymore. I told my boyfriend I will have to take the week off college. There's no way I can go to college like this with red eyes and glasses everyone will stare at me. He said don't be foolish no one will stare, no one will joke. There's much more funnier things to talk about than your glasses. If anyone stares you can call me.  

So after a lot of persuading I went to college with my glasses on and although I felt like people were staring, I think I was just being to self conscious. At the end of the day I am just a normal person. Life goes on.

The good news is today, I woke up this morning and my eyes were almost back to normal.So I canceled the doctor's appointment. And I went to college with my glasses again, and I wore my glasses for virtually the whole class and didn't give a damn.