First Honeymoon purchase made!

I've had an awful throat infection the last half week. It made me miss all my uni classes which is very annoying, as well as a day of work, which is expensive.

Yesterday I saw Dr Lum and he gave me MegaSteriodsOfDeath to kill the thing in my throat. So far they seem to be working so I will head back to work today, yay!

I'm feeling a tad bummed about having basically missed everything since Saturday due to being either unconscious or in a stupid amount of pain (it seriously felt like I had a ball of barbed wire stuck in my throat) so today I drove mc_shamo to work then navigated a vast amount of roadworks to get to the Kathmandu outlet.

My old faithful backpack that had been all over Europe and done a fair bit of Australia finally packed it in after my last overseas jaunt. When I left for Greece I had a backpack and a roll of gaffa tape, when I returned from Rome I had a weird, vaguely backpack-shaped concoction with just visible canvas between the gaffa tape. So today I thought I'd go in the Kathmandu outlet "just to price" Ha! Yeah...

To be fair, I was not expecting a bag that was near bloody perfect, almost exactly what I had in mind, to be sitting there with a pricetag that had $400 crossed out and $100 written in it's place. That's cheating. I quickly did some sums, decided it was possible and bought said bag. The only issue with it is no detachable daypack (I'll live) and it's a trolley bag that does not convert to backpack (I'll still live, I don't plan to take it hiking and I can haul it up stairs if need be). It's lightweight, 90 lts, has compartments, has decent wheels and handle, packs away flat and is even my favourite colour. Yay! And from everything I've read Kathmandu bags are really well made, which is why they are usually expensive, so it should last me at least as long as my old backpack, if not longer.

I also bought a microfibre towel as they were on special. Apparently a lot of Malaysian places still don't provide guests with towels (and when they do they are often of questionable cleanliness even in more ritzy places) so I figure one large emergency travel towel between us is a good idea. i also have to admit my inner geek (who some may say is not too inner) wanted to ensure I had a towel and knew where is was :-)

I have spent today feeling progressively better and better. Now if only my nose would stop running everything would be sweet.

I suppose it had to happen once...

I spent most of yesterday unconscious and in bed, when I wasn’t unconscious I was buoyed up by pillows, entertained by Youtube and surrounded by snotty tissues, queen of all I surveyed.

The most entertaining moment, albeit not the least stressful moment, was when I had selected an old AbFab episode to watch and settled down, glanced at my left hand and saw… just that, my left hand and and only my left hand, no sheen of gold, no sparkly diamond, just an expanse of pink skin.

“SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!” screamed the easily panicked side of my brain as I tossed pillows and sheets with gay abandon, “How long has it been missing? Where is it? What if it’s been gone for ages and I’ve not noticed? Seamus will kill me and I will cry a LOT and he won’t want to be with me anymore because I didn’t take care of it and everything is going to CRASH AND BURN!” “Calm the fuck down” soothed the slightly more reasonable side of my brain, “you’ve not left the house in 24 hours, you were definitely wearing it last night, on the infinitesimally small chance you have lost it Seamus will NOT hate you, he just may be understandably upset. Finally to quote the great Homer Simpson ‘It can’t go far, it has no arms’”

Within two minutes I had located the missing item at the bottom of my handbag, I’d scrabbled around in it in the vain hope of finding a Strepsil about an hour earlier, it must have slipped off then. I was so relieved I had a nap to celebrate.

I really hope that incident is never repeated, it was quite enough excitement for one engagement!