11th March 2011

I haven’t written anything for over a week again. Eeek. Dave finished his guitar last Friday and we celebrated at the workshop by having a few beers and eating some sausages from the grill. Delicious! The following morning, I went with Steve and Dave to Greg and Terry’s property to finish milling a Kauri tree they had worked on a week or two prior. It was nice, (once the rain stopped), and Terry cooked up a delicious breakfast for us with sausage, eggs, mushrooms and toast. Sausage 2 days in a row!!! Yum.

We came home that night, made dinner and hung out at the house with Dave’s family. They were quite amazed with the guitar he made and Matt, Bryan and Dave all played guitar together. By the end of the night, I had to make an exit cause my throat was starting to hurt so bad, I needed to get in bed. In the middle of the night, I woke up cause my throat felt so swollen and painful.

During the week, I couldn’t really take it easy cause I had to work Monday- Wednesday. Oh well. The days were rough, but at least I was getting paid, or will on the 23rd. Tuesday I lost my voice by the end of the day, so Wednesday I tried to take it a bit easier, but each day I have had the worst headache, it takes 4 ibuprofen to make it go away.

Thursday, I did laundry and went back to sleep around 11am and did not wake up until 2pm. When I woke up, my head was bangin. Dave’s mom, Kathy gave me 2 15mg codeine and 2 ibuprofen and I felt much better. I went into town to pick up some groceries, then picked up Dave and made hummus and falafel for dinner with some veggies.

Today is Friday and I’m frustrated cause I got a phone call at 7am asking if I could work today. The most frustrating part is that it was Kaingaroa School that called. This is the school I applied for a teaching position for terms 2-4 because that teacher will be on maternity leave…. And this was the classroom I would have been filling in for today. So basically, the Principal called me to see if he could try me out for a day in the room I would be teaching in, and I had to turn it down cause I’m too sick. SHIT SHIT SHIT!!! I started 2nd guessing myself and crying after I got off the phone, but as I am typing this and coughing up nasty shit, with my head pounding, I should have confidence and know I made the right decision. I am to call him next week on Tuesday or Wednesday to see when I can come in to work in the classrooms that week. So, its not over.

Meg, (Bryan’s GF), apparently has been really sick too. Bry said she’s had wicked headaches, so much so that she didn’t go to work on Wednesday. She went to the doctor and he thinks she has a Strep infection, but in her blood, because all her mosquito bites are getting infected. There was a kid at the school we were teaching at last week, who had such a bad infection in his throat, there was puss and that’s probably what I have. Sweet.

I’m off to drink OJ, eat garlic and garden. Gotta get rid of this cold!!!