P-town!

WOW - it will be one week since I've been back home in Portland tomorrow!

I've had a few very sureal moments; especially last week-end. But now that it's been a week it feels as if I live here again and not just visiting for two weeks.

Other than working, I've enjoyed just hanging out with D and of course Mooshi and Juju. I have to say Juju is very happy to have me home. She lays on my lap or right next to me every chance she gets. And she makes these little sighs when she's completely relaxed - it's quite cute.

Otherwise, it's almost as if I've never left. Over the week-end did some yoga, went to the farmer's market, Ken's pizza of course and Ken's bakery in the morning. Picked up two items to take back to the UK, a Swifter, yes one of those sweepers for hard wood floors (no idea why they don't sell these in the UK) and empty little glass spice jars with the holes to shake out spices (and no, they don't sell these in the UK either!).

Work is work; fun to see people and re-connect. It feels a little odd not to have an office on campus, but for the most part I just run from meeting to meeting anyway. At least until yesterday. Just before lunch I totally felt my body coming down with a cold. Literally felt a minor tickle in my throat, started sneezing and a bit of congestion. Sure enough by last night the beginning of a cold set in. Frankly it rather pisses me off. I've always been pleased that I have a strong immune system. Well, where the hell did it go? First I got sick in the UK and now here. I've been around many germs in the past and they always just bounced off me. Oh well. Today I stayed home from work. Managed to catch up on emails and ended up calling into a meeting this afternoon. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be better to go back to work.

For now I have veggies roasting in the oven for dinner. Plus D bought some really great smoked salmon so will have some of that too, maybe with a hunk of cheese on the side. Thankfully the cold has not slowed down my appetite! Since I've been home I've been noshing on croissants, pizza, bagels and other really good bread, cheese and basically anything that sounds good to me.

Tomorrow night the plan is to go out with Melissa and catch up on all the work gossip - I better be feeling better for that!