I’ve had a super long weekend – we got off at 1 p.m. on
Thursday – and am quite ready to get back into the swing of things.
But it’s been nice, if overly social for my tastes. I spent
Christmas Eve at one colleague’s house, then Christmas Day at another event
with about 20 people. Boxing Day was with yet another group at someone else’s
apartment, then today I went to the All Things Made in China place
with someone else.
It’s now 5:30 p.m. and I’m just so ready to chillax.
And not eat sugar. My gosh, I have OD’d on all things sugar
the past week or so. My desk, which is at the main door of a long office, has
been the gathering place for all the stuff that people have brought in to
share. If you stand and talk to me, you inhale so much sugar you might as well
eat some of it.
I’ve been in the gym as usual but the sugar wins. It’s just
been everywhere.
The weather is finally changing here, and the gym has been
crazy. I’ve been freezing and sweating from cold and heat in the same 2-hour
visit. I don’t understand how they do the heating and air in this building,
honestly. The management here asked if they could turn off my air because
apparently I share a unit (or something) with someone who’s ready to crank up
the heat. Meanwhile, I am roasting under my cozy comforter. I wound up opening
a window in one room but having the heat on in another. It’s bizarre.
Coming down to the wire of 2015. I’ve decided to go ahead
and suck it up and go to Hong Kong next
weekend to see Star Wars. I’m only going for the day, so it’s a rather
expensive movie but I want to see it. It’d be more expensive if I stayed
overnight, but it’d be a lot cheaper if I could wait until Jan. 16. I’m going
to HK then, too, to see a shoulder specialist. But I figured if I waited until
then to see it, then I should just see it her, and I didn’t want to do that. It
seems my only option for movies here is 3D, and not only is that expensive, I
don’t like the experience so much.
So I’m off to Hong Kong on
the 8 a.m. train on Jan. 2 and returning again on the 8 a.m. train the same
day. I hope it works out. I might not go alone; I mentioned it to a couple
people at work and someone may tag along. I’m OK either way, though.
The shoulder appointment is something I wish I could speed
up time to get to. I’m really in pain, and my desire to suck it up and put it
off until Florida
blew my shot at a medevac. And because I deemed the doctor I had been seeing a
crook, I start over again in Hong Kong midway
through January. Fortunately, I have the MRI from January and I hope that will
stand; I just want to get whatever over and done with. It’s starting to affect
my day-to-day in a much more major way. Screaming in sudden pain has kind of
become a norm, and not a really fun one, you know?
But I am still trying told hold out until Tallahassee to deal with the hip. That’s
chronic, not the result of an injury, and it’s just more nagging than anything
else. So we shall see. Lord knows I have enough other specialists I want to see
in Tally. Home leave – what fun!
So now I am trying to find hotels and such in Hong Kong for the doctor weekend. I’m headed down on
Friday because my appointment is Saturday morning, so I’m staying in a hostel
that first night but will switch to a hotel and split a room the following two
evenings. (It’s MLK Day.) The plan is to go to Disney on Sunday and come back
Monday afternoon. I bought a total of four train tickets today, so the plan
better come through for me!
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