It's Gone

The sipon is gone!

Thank goodness.

Now I only need to blow my nose about once or twice a day. It feels so good to be able to breathe freely. Although there's a wee bit of phlegmy feeling in my throat, that hopefully wouldn't turn into another week or so of sipon.

Official tissue count: 4 packs of travel-sized facial tissues, about 2 1/2 rolls of toilet paper, and bits and pieces of restaurant tissues and ones in those little packs (some I asked from my friends) here and there.

Man, this sipon has caused me money. Well, I didn't really spend any, but my mom had to get me medicine and tissue isn't exactly free. I've consumed about 150php worth of tissues during the whole ordeal.

I just wish everybody else who has sipon would get well very very soon.




Recently finished e-book:

• The Awakening by Jude Deveraux

I'm like, putting down one e-book each day or two. I have to stop and turn my attention to required readings pretty soon. Argh. But that would be hard. There are 12 novels in the Montgomery series and I'm only on the 4th right now. I'd probably finish the one I'm reading tonight, and then start another one right after that and finish it I don't know, maybe tomorrow night. But then I gotta read something for Philo. Humph.

Okay, don't worry. Just think that there are only 7 weeks left and then you'd have endless freedom.

Or unemployment.

Yikes!

Absolutely Endless

A few days ago, I thought that I was getting better. I guess I did get better, but this sipon! My gosh. It's endless. I'm almost tempted to say that I will be eternally sipunin, but I plan to get rid of the sniffles by next week. I can't very well sit through an orals singhuting away! Goodness.

Tissue count: 1 1/2 rolls of toilet paper, 3 packs of facial tissues (and these are the travel-sized one, like, 50 pulls each), and bits and pieces of tissues here and there.

My bag is actually filled with little sipunin balls of tissue.

I guess it's because I failed to take my meds this morning. I barely slept because of the Theo midterms cram-a-thon (which I had to do because I just couldn't stop reading an e-book!)

Everybody in school is either only starting to sniffle or are already hacking up phlegm through their nose. At least mine has tamed down into soft fruzzles. Still I need to blow out once every hour or so. Ugh.

It's because of the weather. I think the temperature is sublimely cool. But I guess Filipinos aren't used to this kind of cold. I wish it were always this cold here. I won't have to sweat so much and can even wear a jacket from time to time. And it saved us loads of electricity because we didn't have to turn on air conditioning for like, a week. We just opened the windows and voila! It was better than air condition.

But do we have to pay for this comfort with runny noses? Humph.

My nose is already patchy: skin started peeling off because of constant friction with tissue. Now I've managed to have a sunburned-looking nose without actually having to go out into the sun.

Recently finished e-book:

• The Princess by Jude Deveraux

On to another Montgomery adventure......

A Good Night's Sleep

... is all it took to make me feel better.

Not completely better though, but at least I can actually smell and taste things now without having to blow my nose with each bite.

I've finished a whole roll of toilet paper, a pack of facial tissues, and other random pieces of tissues along the way, more or less equal to another pack of facial tissues. Also, about 8 tablets of Neozep and maybe 3-4 antibiotics.

I don't know why my nose can't stop snot production. The rubbish bin is halfway full of used tissues already. That's like, two days worth of snot. Two days and a night's worth, more like.

At least now I could breath through my nose a little bit.

Zombie's Night Out

I was still feeling sick last night, but my friends suddenly sent me an SMS that I've been waiting for: an invitation to go out.

I've been stuck in the house for so long and I've been wanting to go out with friends just for a simple dinner and/or movie and of course, chatter.

So I jumped at the chance even though my head was still ceaselessly throbbing and I couldn't smell a thing.

It was a simple get together. I arrived at GH the earliest so I had a look around Astrovision for some new DVDs. I so want that special collector's edition of the Nightmare Before Christmas. And then I went to The Shops in search for shoes. I'm in a sort of shoe frenzy stage right now. Then I bought yellow nail polish which I have on now. It's really yellow. As in. I wanted to but the bright pink, bright orange, light blue, neon green, and black one but they cost 99php each. Don't need them that much so maybe next time. Then I proceeded to my search for shoes. Sadly, there are only two shoe stores there and they didn't carry anything I wanted. I have to get to Schu or Pretty Fit soon, when I still have money. Lol.

So then, having not bought any shoes, I went to Bayo and checked out the racks. I've grown fatter over the break so I was doubtful that anything would fit me. I really wanted a dress-like top (or a dress indeed) but they were a bit too costly for me (but I didn't try on any of them so maybe if one fits, I'd really get it). A couple of pieces interested me but my "saving" instinct kicked in so I only chose one: a black 3/4 sleeved knitted v-neck top. It's cute, and I've been wanting a nice black top for some time now, although I would much love wearing those bright greens and reds that Bayo offer. Next month, when my credit card refreshes. My dad might as well take it from me if I spend another thousand on clothes. He's been asking me to get my own card (mine is an extension of his and he pays for whatever I swipe so... poor him.)

Anyway, as I mentioned before, I'd be spending a little over a month in Taiwan so I'm trying to save up for shopping money. I just really hope there are clothes there that fit me because as far as I know, Taiwanese women are slight little things. As if the language barrier isn't sucky enough, no shopping prospects would make it hell. Although a really really fast internet connection would make up for it. I'd better get a whole chunk of free memory.

So now I'm going to spend the last night of my Christmas vacation still blowing my nose every 3 seconds. I think feel my brain starting to squeeze through my nostrils. And the sides of my nose feel raw from chafing against tissue. Oh well.

E-books read completely so far:

• Until Forever - Johanna Lindsey
• Highland Velvet - Jude Deveraux

Still working on World War Z. I think I can finish that tonight.

Veggie Zombie

I feel like a zombie.

Maybe I've already turned into one.

For speech, I now only am capable of grunts and moans. My head feels like it's steadily building up to an implosion. My lips and mouth feel dry all the time. My eyes are blurry, my movements stiff and slow.

I'm just waiting for my flesh to rot and everything will be set.

However, I haven't the urge to sink my teeth into human visitors to my room yet, so there's still that stage to tackle.

Or maybe I'm a veggie zombie. If there are "veggie" vampires like Edward, then I might as well be a veggie zombie.

Maybe I'll go attack a vegetable patch later.

Sipon

The hurting in my throat has subsided, but now all the phlegm have turned into SIPON. Goodness. I have a huge head cold now. My eyes are starting to water and balled up tissue now litter the base of my monitor. I hope this goes away soon.

Wow, credits are rolling again. That's officially the third time I watched Men In Black this Christmas break. If they show Transformers again, I'd watch that too, and that'd be, what, the fourth time this break? And also Spiderman 3.

I haven't even done the compulsory movie marathons of breaks. There are a lot of trilogies and movie series to marathon. What I wanted to do was the usual LOTR and Harry Potter (the latter would literally take all day. 2.5 hours x 5 movies plus food and bathroom and nap breaks), but I could also do X-Men and Spiderman and the old Superman movies. What else do we have anyway?

Pfft. Okay. I have two more days. I'm going back to reading through my watery eyes now.