Proposing Marriage!
Recently myself and Jamie have been having many discussions about marriage, proposals, weddings, etc. I have to admit they are ALL initiated by me. I have developed a feeling of urgency about getting married that I can't quite explain. I mean I know we're going to spend the rest of our lives together, I love him completely - so what's the rush? (any psychiatrists out there are welcome to offer an opinion - in the meantime, I'm chalking it up as a chick thing).
It's so sad, I've even asked Jamie to marry me (about 7 times now). He hasn't refused point blank he's just not ready. I really should stop asking though - he's a traditional guy and he wants to do the proposing, so I'm never going to get a yes, I'm just annoying him. It's going to be a quarter way through the year resolution (sionce I didn't make any New Years ones.

Anyway, as part of my marriage/proposal obsession I searched Google for How to Propose Marriage. Why not, you can get everything there these days? I came up with one interesting site. This guy is offering advice to his brother, on how to propose to his girlfriend, some of it is just weird but some of it is nice. I particularly like the first one. So for anyone thinking of popping that question, you should have a look at that page.

Friends in need indeed!
My friend Mike (see you got mentioned!) was being ever so nice to me after hearing the news that I was going for the snip (my tonsils!!!) and pointed me here.

However, it wasn't really out of the goodness of his heart (it started off with him complaining that he can't comment on my blog - I am now working to remedy that). He wanted to mock me over some of the good Doctors advice. Mike particularly found the following hilarious:
How long should you take off work? If you have a desk job, you may be ready to go back after a week to 10 days. If physical exertion is part of your work, I would be much more cautious than this. This also applies to resumption of daily activities. Anything that might tend to increase your blood pressure (exercise, strenuous chores, sex, and so forth) could cause a hemorrhage. Once again, discuss these issues in detail with your surgeon.

What Mike found particularly funny was the fact that sex is not a daily chore. Now in our house.... well I don't like to brag.... anyway for confimration of what I'm slyly trying to hint at here, talk to Jamie.

I haven't posted in a while. The reason for this is that I got a headcold (which by the way developed into a respitory tract infection - damn tonsils! - more on that later) and I was out of work for a week.

Headcolds are terrible things and they're made worse by the fact that there's no cure. You know, it doesn't matter how attractive you are, once you have a headcold you're gross. It's like your head is liquifying and its going to escape through any orifice it can find. Runny eyes, runny nose, heavy head with some voices in the background, going slightly deaf, pains [some of these symptoms may be associated with other problems].

Anyhoo, while spending a week of sleeping, taking pills and loosing my liquifying head contents, a thought suddenly struck me.... In order to ease the pressure on the sinuses couldn't we approach them like a blocked toilet. What we need is a "Nose Plunger" - a little device that attaches to the nose and with one push removes the blockage and allows your nose to empty in one easy movement with no huffing and blowing or dry skin around your nose.

I think its a pretty good idea.

It's Paddy's weekend (St Patrick's Day is Monday)
We've got friends visiting. It'll be fun, but its going to one of those weekends where you try to do everything, meet up with all the friends you haven't seen in a while. If you don't hear from me for a while you can take that I've died (or just gone missing - I should really cut out the melo drama).

Tonsils are still hanging on!

I went to see the throat specialist today because recently I've been having problems with my throat with infections and tonsillitis. Basically, my right tonsil is unusually large and this worried my GP. She wanted an expert to have a look at them (what a thing to be an expert in - tonsils....)

So off I went to specialist and he's going to have my tonsils whipped out - for diagnostic purposes. That is, they want to perform a biopsy on my right tonsil so they're taking the whole lot out. I'm getting a two for one really - we're going to take youe right tonsil out, so we'll take the left one out while we're in there. I get two weeks off work after the op!!
I told everyone at work that I wanted to get my left tonsil in a jar and put it on my desk. This is the end of life as my tonsils have previously known it and Lefty's been a little trooper (little being the operative word here). No one at work really liked that idea?

Did you know that adult tonsillectomies are really painful. Don't know why that is but it seems alittle unfair if you ask me. And I could bleed to death in the two weeks I'm recuperating at home. God bless Jamie, but he's no Florence Nightingale. I could die!!!! Children can have the operation done as day surgery - lucky bastards!

Anyway I'll keep you posted as to my progress, pre- and post-op.

So, I've resigned myself to the fact that I attract rain and paper cuts. I will proababubbly survive but am very afraid of the files on my desk that need dealing with. Some hypnosis therapy wouldn't go astray here.
Another lovely Spring day but I tell you there's a big rain proof hat in my bag.
Tomorrow I'll come in wearing gloves tomorrow and then I'll be able to fend off all my foes.

Another papercut. On the knuckle.
Ouch!

I suppose, if I were to look at the Silver Lining of this Oh! so wet cloud - at least I don't attract lightening :-)

I attract rain!
It's a fact. Ireland is a wet country - I don't think I'll get any disagreements with that but it seems that as long as I am indoors the sun will shine.
The weather report on the radio this morning said it would be a wet day. I looked out the window to see the sun shining and the birds singing. It was, to my mind, a beautiful Spring day. So I left hats and umbrellas at home and off I went. There was a light drizzle as I headed to the office.

At lunch time I decided to nip out to the bank. It looked dry and I thought I'd make it before the rain came. By the time I got outside the door, there might as well have been a little guy standing above me emptying a bottomless bucket over my head.

Now, I'm back at the office and the sun is splitting the rocks. It is, by all visual accounts, a wonderful Spring day agian. I on the other hand, am cold and damp. I look like a drowned rat and am clutching my cup of coffee for warmth - I am not happy.

I am the Rain King.

Paper Cuts - one of the greatest hazards of working in an office....
I know you're laughing at me for being weak. Well you can stop it right now.
I will admit that one paper cut alone is not much to whinge about. But I suffer many, multiples of paper cuts in a day. Everytime I try to... staple a document, take notes in my notebook, go to the stationery room..... it all leads to paper cuts. And they sting you know *sob*.

I found a website - papercuts.com - totally irrelevant but I htought you'd like to know that it exists.

Anyway, I' m going to start wearing latex gloves to work from now on, see how the paper likes that!!

Today is Shrove Tuesday, also called Pancake Tuesday - cos we get to make pigs of ourselves eating pancakes.
Traditionally pancakes are cooked on Shrove Tuesday to use up eggs and fat before the Lenten fast begins. This site explains Shrove Tuesday and has a little recipe too.

I however, will be in Brussels (work thing). So I probably won't get pancakes. I'm gonna make a truck load of them on thursday when I get back though.

Today is the first day of my blog. There is nothing here of note but I'm working on it.
Jamie is big into blogging. Powerless to resist and sick of hearing about this great thing, I joined in. This is gonna be crap for a while but bear with and hopefully it will get better.
In the meantime you can read Jamies blog