Thursday, July 3, 2008

No sick day today! Yay! Not that I wasn’t sick, but I still managed to get to work. Except I looked awful and was constantly running to the bathroom to blow my nose so it wasn’t exactly what I would call pleasant. Wendy and Jayne met me for lunch and then I made it to the end of the day and then home where I took a turn for the worst!

(This is a picture of my eyes. they were bright red, I felt as good as this picture makes me look. Really, that bad)

I don’t remember feeling so miserable in a very long time! Even shedding a few tears, which is so not acceptable in the book of Brighton (I just don’t cry, so this was even a shocker to myself). It probably just made it worse to that I was far from home, and feeling like I was never gonna get better. Ugh, I am just so happy writing this because I realize how much better I can feel than I did this night. Luckily I have great friends who got me dinner and made sure I was comfortable and then let me go to sleep early.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Well...the not so good news is I am still sick. Sick Day #3. I am starting to feel like I may just be on my death bed. Three sick days in a row. The only thing that is keeping me sane is that I managed to go to work for half a day yesterday.

(Jayne was nice enough to piggy-back me out to the ocean because I looked like I didn't have the energy to get there myself.)

(Can you imagine living in one of these houses along the beach?)

(Sunset on the beach)

Somehow in my head I figured that some fresh air would be a good idea, so I took a stroll to the beach with Jayne and Wendy. I fell asleep for a bit, and then we decided to stick around to watch the sunset! So beautiful! I really just can’t believe it. Really things like this make me so grateful I get to experience this. (not the sickness, Australia)

(Even though I was sick I was able to save Jayne's life as she almost skidded into the end of her mortal state)

(Seems like there was a common theme for the night, here is Wendy saving my life, we make great friends don't we)

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Today I managed to get to work, but felt brutally awful, so only managed a little over a half day. I went home and rested for a bit and then went out with Wendy and Jayne to get some food at the Flaming Rooster, a cute restaurant by the bus stop I take to work everyday. I didn’t feel great, but was sure that I was getting better. That night we managed to have peach cobbler again, (can I say obsessed!) and watched our favorite show So you think you can dance before going to bed.

(Wendy and Jayne took a shot by the store they have given the most financial support to while being here in Sydney Yes, I mean the Pharmacy. You should see the bag of medicine we have between the three of us!)

Monday, June 30, 2008

Today I woke up and had the far-from-subtle realization that I was not able to avoid the sickness that was getting past around my apartment because I was sick! So sick that I had to call into work and not go, which is pretty drastic for me because I don’t even remember taking a sick day ever the 2 years I was at Wells Fargo, and the two years I was at Washington Mutual I only took one, and that wasn’t even in actuality because I was sick, it was more for the high school championship game that I was going to miss (Don’t worry, I have grown up and don’t lie to get out of work anymore). :)

I am pretty sure that being sick is not my favorite thing in the world, imagine that!

Sunday, July 29, 2008

So Wendy is still sick and somehow found the energy to drag herself to church, where we went to Sacrament, and then asked a few people where the nearest pharmacy was that would be open because by the end of that hour Wendy looked awfully sick. She got a blessing from the Elders and then our friend Ravenska got her boyfriend to drive us to the nearest pharmacy where we checked in and waited to be helped.

Wendy was able to get prescriptions so we are crossing our fingers that she will fill better. We are just so grateful that we had so many people willing to help us.

Saturday, June 28, 2008



Okay...I know you were rooting for us to actually make it to the Blue Mountains this time, but surprise, surprise, We didn't. Wendy was still super sick, and no sleep is not good for hiking around the rain forest. We decided to go to Paddy's Market in China Town (this is where all the cheap souveneirs are and cheap clothes and it also has a great Fruit and Veggie market), because it is only on the weekends and we never have been able to make it because we always have plans for the weekends.


We finally got some fruit and veggies, and although I had gone with the intention of getting little gifts for my family, I came out with a shirt and a jacket for myself. Selfish I know, but they were cute!

Some of the things they sell to tourists make me nervous?

That night Wendy was feeling too sick to go out, so Jayne and I stayed with her till 11pm and then went out to go to the Pump House at Darling Harbour. We heard about this club (the Pump House, that was really great and played Hip hop music and so decided to go there. After we had paid to get in we realized that it was maybe not as great as we had heard. It was really small and didn’t really have the A class guys we were looking for in it. Just a lot of smelly ones. Luckily, with time, it got better and we found a group of people that were fun.

We look pretty gangsta' don't we! Ready for a night hittin' up the clubs?

One thing that was interesting to me is that the people dance cleaner in the clubs here. I don’t know what it is, but in general people don’t dirty dance. I would assume it would be worse, but most of the clubs I have gone to have been cleaner in that sense.


We didn’t leave till like 3:00 am and decided to stop at Mackers (Australian word for McDonalds) for an ice cream cone before making the long journey home. While waiting in line we met some Australian/Turkish boys that were pretty cool. Except for the fact that they were convinced that America had made up the September 11th attacks to get money for something that I can’t remember because I tuned out. We got the digits after telling them they could not come home with us, even if they would pay for our cab, and started walking to the bus stop that was like a 20 minute walk.


The frustrating thing in Sydney is after midnight the trains stop running, and only a limited

number of buses run, and the ones that do come very rarely. This is why we had to walk to a bus stop that was very far away, wait like 30 minutes, and then it was like a 40 minute bus ride, then a taxi home. Kind of ridiculous, but that was the cheapest way to do it. We didn’t end up getting home till almost 5 am. Crazy, I know!

Friday, June 27, 2008

Friday, wonderful Friday. Tonight we hung out with Jess, this super amazing, really cool girl from our ward. We started the night with Enrichment night at church where Jess taught about food storage, and then the best part for sure was when the couple missionaries taught us how to make a bunch of different foods and had the finished product for us to just eat! It was great, home made bread, chilli, cinnamon rolls, chicken wraps, homemade granola, the works really.

Then Jess drove us to all these sweet views of the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour bridge and we ended the night hanging out with her boyfriend and his friends from New Zealand. We spent the night reading eachothers fortunes, interpretating the way we ate our oranges, (long story really), but it really was just all the fun in the world, put into one night. Okay, maybe not all the fun, but a lot. We were pretty dumb though cause we didn't leave till like 4:00 am and were still planning on going to the Blue Mountains the next morning, bet you can guess if we actually made it or not!

This may not seem significant to you, but we were so excited to get to drive with Jess in her car because we have been completely relient on public transport, which can definitely get old.