Da Teefs

Seems that my toothache is not going away.  I even called ER line for my dentist: she called back from Canada, which means I'll have to wait on pain killers.  Hopefully, this New Year's day will not be filled with every-moment pain.  Well, after all, it's just a tooth, and if I have to pull out two more after this one, it is not going to change much.  I hope teeth-pulling fairies understand it, too.
Everything else is great and I got no problems I can think of at this time.  I was told at work that I will not have to come in on January 1st and that really improved my mood.

many say it's all about oxycotin and prolactin. those are clearly "junkies"

Well, as expected, nothing unusual happened on supposed end of the world.  There was some night attempts to ruin my sleep, but they were dealt with.  I purchased a lot of food and drinks at Sun Hing Market on 86th Street and filled my fridge with lots of tofu, bean curd, lotus buns, pumpkin buns, sesame buns, juices, drinks, bananas, pickles and huge bottle of French yellow mustard.  I brewed extra strong tea from various kinds of teas including coca tea and now I have it in bottles.  Well, actually I already drank most of them, just one left.  I used "old" style Coca Cola bottles, which I like. I am planning to see my parents, give my father the new bluetooth headset and give Max several boxes of Cesar dog food that he likes.  I will also bring chocolates to them, which I got as present at work.  These are not my major gifts for New Year, of course.  Also, I am planning to buy expensive wine and maybe champagne for the New Year's dinner, but I think I can do it later.  I should collect clothes and take them to laundry tomorrow as well as clean dishes.  I was putting it off for few days and now it starting to look messy.

to eat pizza or stick with noodle soups?

I bought many more little New Year presents this week, however, I did not buy the gift I planned to buy for myself - a new computer - because it doesn't seem there are or will be any decent sales around New Year.  I still did not book a vacation.  I was set to go to Israel, but I don't want to go into war zone or sit half a day in bomb shelter, or get army personnel policing me when I am going to a public bathroom - it's not safe to go there now so it will have to wait.  I set myself for that trip so now I don't know where else I would like to go.

Tomorrow I have to be at work an hour earlier, so it would make sense to go to bed earlier.  Maybe it's the rain that lasts for more than three days, on and off, maybe I didn't take any vacations all year and tired of routine working weeks, maybe it's something else, but I feel more like sleeping rather than working lately.  I am enjoying sitting at computer browsing the web, playing online games with sound off, not having TV on, no stereo music, just sitting quietly and smoking.  Today I had rice with chickpeas and potato wedges for lunch. Also, I had vegetable eggrolls.  At home I ate spiced pre-made oatmeal plate that was sitting frozen in my fridge since day before yesterday.  Lately I've been chatting over emails more with my old school friend who now lives in Poland.  He mentioned that I can come visit him, but I don't feel like going to Poland.  I heard that some people think the world will end in three days and noticed a lot of links related to December 21, 2012 on the web.  On the other hand, there are plenty of links that say that by next year humanity is going into a new enlightened existence.  I think both possibilities are 99% unlikely to occur.  Maybe I will buy some vegan pizza slices tomorrow.  I don't know yet how I will feel about this idea tomorrow.

3 days of feasting

I had exquisite food three days in a row: day before yesterday I decided to feast on cheeseless pizza and new sort of falafel sandwich and some fancy pickles and cucumbers, bread and juice from Cherry Hill.  Yesterday I attended an Annual Christmas/Hanukkah dinner at El Caribe and had lots of fancy food topped with Eggplant Napoleon (super delicious).  Today it just so happened that working day was so busy I couldn't spare even 10 minutes for lunch downstairs and ordered out around 3:30pm: had 6 rolls of splendid avacado sushi and miso soup.  Lately I've been smoking Rothman's and Classic (red).  Classic are rather good cigarettes, at least compared to Rothman's.  Playing same games, drinking lots of coffee and caffeinated beverages, buying different holiday gifts for self and others here and there...since I received a 5% raise at work and a "thank-you" letter for good job performance.  And today I found out that I even won 50$ Whole Food Gift card in work raffle.  That's probably the most I've won so far in all lotteries and raffles that I ever participated in.  Gemini meteor shower started and it will last until late night Friday.

sick day

Well, I got sick at work  yesterday, so I called in sick today because I wasn't able to function: it was hard to breathe, my nose was dripping all the time and it still is.  I bought a lot of medications and keep taking them every 4 hours.  Went to acupuncturist -  she said I have severe cold or flu.  I couldn't sleep all night because of it, so I sort of felt asleep at acupuncturist's office during the session.  She said I was snoring very loudly.

I spent all day playing Godfather Five Families, obtained two new neighborhoods and rose in ranks. I am not visiting parents tomorrow, don't want to get them sick, so I'll do the same, I guess.  There is nothing else to do anyway except taking medication.
A friend from another country sent me a gift, a book by Pelevin, called "T".  I read more than 200 pages so far.  It's hard to read, as anything popular in masses and/or blasphemous material, but eventually I'll finish reading it.  If I wouldn't feel getting sick from specific client, I would probably think reading it made me sick...But we have to know our contemporary literature and norms and morals to fit better in this dying, yet laughing society.  In a way, I respect that: the world is like a slowly dying patient who refused prescribed treatment and keeps boozing and overmedicating on pain meds thinking it will make it all better in the long run.  But, from my working experience, usually such joy ride ends very tragically, alas.  On second thought, no, I don't really respect that, I think it's not very bright at all.