I am a: Quirky sysadmin. Geek. Gamer. Comic fangirl. My little space, my home on the interwebs. I blog about personal stuffs, work, various coding projects, and anything else I feel like.

I had originally meant to make a post this past Friday, after my birthday, but have been really ill the last 3 days. I had gone out to dinner Thursday with Jim, Jessie, my parents, and my brother Jeremy to celebrate and apparently had gotten food poisoning from something I ate.

It hit me early Friday morning, I had to have Jim drive me home from work. I crawled into bed and wished for a coma, LOL. I won’t go into details as to how sick I was, but let’s just say that even my worst hangover or flu episode wasn’t this gross. {ew!}

Anyways, I got money from pretty much everyone for my birthday. Jeremy gave me a gift certificate to Marshall’s department store (YAY!). Jim’s buying my new case, so my box will be all decked out (after I buy the rest of my UV IDE cables) for the LAN party next weekend.

I was really surprised that my brother came down from T’town for my birthday, it was really sweet. :)

Needless to say, I didn’t do a whole lot this weekend, as I’ve felt like ass … but I did feel strong enough to go to my grandmother’s house for a “meet and greet” with some of my brother’s associates and Congressman Davis. Unsure what to expect of him, I have to admit that the Congressman wasn’t at all like I thought he’d be. He was very down-to-earth and personable, I liked him from the start. I also got to meet a young lady Jeremy’s now dating, but will reserve comment and judgement until I get to know her better.

It wasn’t a bad day, but I’m worn out. I’ve spent the last hour reconfiguring CGI scripts for one of my sites, and am thoroughly POOPED. I’m thinking of climbing back into bed for a bit, as I’m still a bit weak from being sick.

Family-wise, things are finally looking up. My brother bought Jessie a Winnie-the-Pooh book, Mom bought her a purse and all kinds of plastic/play jewelry. My brother and Jim get along famously … in fact, the whole family loves him.

Maybe for ONCE, everything is starting to work out right. I can only smile to myself and hope …