Post Birthday

I'll start with saying I had one of the best birthday's I've had  in a long while. First off, I had been waiting for a package from home since at least two weeks ago. My loving sister and boyfriend put together a box of things for me to enjoy, and I expected it to arrive last week sometime. The morning of my birthday I kept thinking it was lost forever and started researching UPS stores around Dalian. Turns out there's one right down the street! Also turns out the package made it by July 14th, and had failed to deliver twice. So for two weeks I had been jumping at every ring of the bell, startling at the telephone and expecting at any moment for it to show up. The minute I gave up on it ever arriving, the phone rang and the guards downstairs said they had a package for our room. Sarah, my other roommate kindly went and fetched it for me and it was indeed my long anticipated stuff! Surprisingly the best gifts I got were my own clothes and things, and I can't express how grateful I am for the effort my dear ones went through to get it to me:)

Yesterday, after sleeping in til noon, popping a Mucinex (hoping that would rid me of my annoying cough), laying about the apartment for a few hours to rest up, then we made our way to iCafe to have a celebratory dinner. Our "reserved" table was given away to actual guests, but luckily they had a table just open as we walked in. I found a birthday card at the table, and warm wishes from my coworkers as I entered the restaurant. My roommates and I enjoyed a bottle of red wine while we chatted to our chef friend. Heather and Tricia snuck away and sneakily got my birthday cake, lit the candles and walked it to me while I was chatting with my friends. They sang happy birthday and set the cake down with the quickly melting candles and I swiftly blew them out as the frosting and the wax was almost indistinguishable. My cake had a white chocolate bar with Doctor Who stamped on it! I burst out laughing and clapped gleefully much like a five year old at well...a birthday party. (My analogies can't be great all the time). I was delighted by my cake and my friends going that extra bit to make my cake day special. After dinner we headed to the jazz club just down the way from Shangri-La, and enjoyed a drink while soothing music played in a kinda medieval setting. Then we set to find a bar suggested to us by a colleague, but after some failed attempts we resorted to a oldie but goodie: JD's.  I had a great time with the girls, but had to end the night a little earlier because my weak constitution started complaining.
This morning I worked about two hours, then had to head home. I think after two months my luck has finally run out, and my body is realizing how much it's been through. It might be overreacting, and for that I just don't know where it learned to behave that way!
So today I tried to rest, and make my time worthwhile away from work. You know those dry irritating coughs that tickle your throat? And that feeling like nothing is interesting to look at or engage in? Well I felt nothing like that. Wait... no just kidding that is exactly how I felt. I was restless, irritated and going a little crazy...not to mention the more than aggravating times when the internet refuses to work and balefully blocks the outside world. If the internet was a person, it would be an argumentative and probably only speaks pig latin because...well just because that's super annoying!!

I just need some soup, Adventures of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and a warm entity to be there just for comfort. Also maybe some tea, and chocolate. But mostly a good nap and a hug.