I didn't go to work last night since I woke up feeling really crappy. Whenever that happens, I find myself running that ever classic computation in my head - comparing just how bad I feel versus how much I might miss at the office should I skip work. It's a pretty complicated problem to solve for given how many possible variables there are and just how does one quantify one versus the other but last night the side for staying home won out and I stayed. The troubles never end there.
Once the decision to stay home has been made, I end up feeling guilty for most of the day and I develop on again, off again panic moments when I start obsessing about work. It's not as bad as it used to be a few years ago - I think I've learned to let work resolve itself in my absence. In truth, there's only so much that I can do from home and I just need to learn to accept that limitation. Still it makes staying home rather uncomfortable and just being near the computer has me obsessively checking my work email remotely. It reached a point last night when I just left the computer entirely and decided to just let things work out. If they really needed me, they're probably IM or text me or something. It helped me relax a bit.
Thank god I never go through this when I have pre-planned vacation leaves. It's the unprojected sick leaves and emergency leaves that drive my batty.
This is definitely something of the seasonal variety - the kind of slow-burning sickness that you feeling building up for a week and then it opts to hit you at the worst possible time, like on the day of a really fun party or something. Thankfully we have no major events planned for the weekend, so I can just focus on staying home to rest and recover.
Tobie and I stepped out for a bit today after I had hibernated the night away and woke up past 12:00 noon. The goal was to scout out possible gas ranges, pending confirmation that it's absolutely okay to use gas around here, and also a fridge. If it's one thing we've learned thus far in our cooking experiments it's that we have a very healthy propensity for veggies and that means the need for a heck of a lot more cold storage space. We pretty much max out our very limited fridge space a lot and this forces us to make more frequent trips to the supermarket throughout the week and potentially more expenses because of those trips. More storage means better meal planning and eventually better budgeting. At least I hope so - Tobie is bent on adding ice cream to our regular purchases, hehehe.
I want to learn another easy main dish to cook - any suggestions?
Oh Wally, only you would talk to Catbert that way, hehehe 
