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No Seafood For Me

Sep 18, 2006 Daily Blurbs, School

Saturday afternoon was great. Ryan and I met by 3pm at Glorietta 4 and watched You, Me and Dupree. We both loved the movie. It’s not just one of those comedy movies you’ve seen, there is actually a lesson involved. I recommend for everyone to see it.

After the movie, we were off to Cavite, his friend Myda’s house. She was the one celebrating the birthday. Her actual birthday is the 19th. We arrived at SM Bacoor at 7pm, and we had to wait for the others too. We got to her place at 7:45pm. We were greeted by loud singing from some of her visitors. Myda rented a videoke machine. The party was great. The people were cool and friendly. Ryan’s friends from work were there, too. By 3am, I was beat. I excused myself from them while Myda let me snooze on their sofa. Everyone was in the garage, so no one would disturb me there. I can hear Ryan being rowdy that time. Everyone took turn singing, but every time a song came up and he likes it, he would pester the person and say ‘Hey, that’s my song!’ Leaving everyone laughing.

At 4:45am, everyone called it a night. Or day! Duh.

By 8:30am the next day, I woke up. My stomach was aching pretty badly. It felt that my stomach was in churning knots of painful of all the painful things! I got off bed and ran to the restroom. Man, that’s the worst case of diarrhea ever, I thought. By noon, I was experiencing chills. I was under 2 blankets and a comforter. I thought it was just really cold, but then, I couldn’t get up from bed. I asked my brother to touch my forehead. He said I felt hot, so he took the thermometer and gave it to me. I checked my temperature, and I was burning up at 38.8. I sent a text message to my classmate and told her I won’t make it to school today.

Ryan was so worried about me because 2 others from the party were hospitalized. What we experienced is slight food poisoning from the oyster we ate from the party. I am lucky my dad knew what to do. My mom also called my cousin’s husband, who is a doctor, and asked what medicine to give me. I didn’t sleep well last night, though. I kept on waking up every hour sweating buckets. My head felt so heavy and my back aches so badly from being in bed for the longest period I can imagine. My mom was there beside me to monitor my fever. I slept in their room last night. I woke up at 9am feeling so tired. My fever was gone, but I feel like my body is covered with wet blankets. I felt so heavy.

Ryan was non-stop text messaging and calling me because he was afraid I’d get worse. I told him not to come here anymore, but he did. At least I didn’t have mesothelioma.

*time stamp 9:21pm*
Ryan just went home. He’s such a doll. He knew I am sick and he just had to come here and visit me. He brought two boxes of Go Nuts Donuts for me, but unfortunately, I can’t eat them because I am not allowed to eat sweets. Darn it. He also brought the DVD of Final Fantasy Advent Children. I’ve only seen one movie of FF, and this one’s really good, graphics wise. Too bad it’s in subtitle, I mean, I can read really fast, but not with at my condition. I am nauseous, even up to know. I just had to blog. Hahaha!

Everyone is home today, so there was enough bonding time for Ryan and the household. I sense that Ryan is a bit jumpy though, when my dad’s around. I mean, Ryan was sitting on the floor when we were watching Duplex (Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore), when my dad walked in, and Ryan was suddenly half-sitting half-getting off the floor! Hahaha! I guess dads have that effect on boyfriends. Lol!

So when he was gone, my dad went downstairs again and raided the box of donuts then tarted to interview me about him.

Dad: Has he graduated from college already?

Dre: Yes. Computer Science.

Dad: Who is he living with?

Dre: His parents are both in the US, so he’s living at their home with his aunt’s family.

Dad: How did you meet?

So yep, those were the kind of questions I was bombarded with. But it’s cool. I like the fact that my dad is interested. It goes to show that he wants to get to know the guy who snagged her daughter’s ice cold heart. Lol!

Anyway, I just got word from my classmate that they chose me to be the leader of a group report on our BASICON class. I was a bit annoyed because I wasn’t even there to accept or decline the position. Now, the pressure is on. I mean, she said, I hope we get a 100% on the report so that we’d perfect the exam! Ooh.. wow. Just lay all the pressure on me! Well, I just hope we do get a good grade. Did I mention I hate reporting in front of many people? Argh.

I hope this headache goes away when I wake up tomorrow morning. I even have to drink my medicine every 6 hours, and the other one for every 4 hours. Sigh.. I hate being sick!

I leave you with a mushy quote from the movie Meet Joe Black

“I know it’s a cornball thing, but love is passion,obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? I say fall head over heels. Find someone you love like crazy and who’ll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart… Run the risk, if you get hurt, you’ll come back. Because the truth is, there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love — well, you haven’t lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived… Stay open. Who knows? Lightning could strike.” — Meet Joe Black

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