What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
-Oscar Wilde


man i've missed blogging the past 2 weeks! too too busy=/. and it doesn't help that this past week i've been home sick. today's my first day back at work and when i finally feel like i got rid of those nasty body aches. went to the dr. on tuesday to get some cough medicine..hehe y'know, the strong stuff that'll help knock you out at night=). normally if i have a bad cough i just email the doctor and she puts in a prescription of meds for my cough at the pharmacy. but this time i had to schedule an appointment to make sure it was nothing serious bc i guess there's been a strain of bad coughs going around this season. well turns out i just had a bad cold/cough. no flu bc no fever..but ugh..i was in bed for 3 days straight. you'd think it'd be fun to not be at work right? pshhh i was stuck in bed and when i could finally go downstairs to eat some soup or make tea or get water...haha i'd just plop myself on the couch and knock out downstairs. always nice when husby came home from work to wake me up=). i swear i probably could've slept for the whole day. haha but he was worried if i kept sleeping that i wouldn't be able to fall back asleep at night. ha, i think i could've gone the whole day lying in bed if i didn't drink so much water and have to keep refilling! at least at my doctor's appt i got my tetanus shot. there were other immunizations mixed in w/ that one. hehe but the only one i could remember was the whooping cough..guess it's making a come back? i wonder how that sounds. lou and i were trying to imitate it one night when i was having a coughing attack. hehe bad of us, i know! it just sounds like one of those sicknesses that happened so so long ago. *sigh* sometimes i wish i understood healthcare more=P..hehe guess that's what seester and the aunties are for.

so, since yesterday i started feeling a bit better..i was able to get some vacay researching done. and woohoo i'm happy to say that we'll be going to PERU!!!! thanks to danielle, millicent, jevon, and kat for pushing peru so much...made it sound that much more intriguing to visit! lou and i really wanted to do the inca trail trek that our friend kat had done....so when we found out it was all booked i was bummed. they had alternate treks so we were going to just settle for that so that we could keep our original vacay dates in may. but after doing more research and just comparing the 2, i think husby and i wanted something a bit more challenging. hehe so we shifted our vacay dates to june to try and do the inca trail trek. it was so stressful getting our paperwork in yesterday! 3 of our travel buddies decided to join us and i was just so worried that they'd sell out of the permits and deny us on the trek=/. only 200 trekkers are given permits to hike the trail/day! insane!!! after finally getting our paperwork and payments in..it was all a waiting game to hear back from them if we were confirmed for the trek. and yay, this morning we got confirmation that we're on the inca trail trek!!!! crazy bc 1 of our other friends and his gf decided they wanted to join and when i checked the site our date was already sold out! i emailed the company and they told us we were lucky in getting the last of the permits for that day. phew!!!!! so i'm stoked. i can't freaking wait. as long as that's taken care of then things should be easy peasy to plan.

now i gotta get my butt back into study mode. only 2 more weeks till the test and i haven't been studying for the past 2 weeks!!=(. i thought i could study while at home sick, but i just kept falling asleep=/. and the week before..it was all tri stuff. i was too tired after the tri-trainings that i'd just go to sleep after. i'm bad. need to get back into the study game..ha, i was doing so well before. 2 more weeks..crunch time. ack..then just 3 more weeks after that til my mini tri. double ack! i seriously spread myself too thin. i'm loco. hahaha.

so much family stuff going on the past few weeks as well...too much too think about! i'm just hoping and praying that everything will always work out for the best. *sigh*