In all its randomness

I just feel like blogging, so that's what I'm doing now.
It's been a Monday pretty much like any other Monday, overly busy at work as always, and the weekend has as always been too short. I swear, the people who invented the weekdays must have been bad at maths! Shouldn't the workweek and weekend be shared equally between the number of days in a week? Seriously, what sense does it make with a 5 day workweek but only 2 days weekend? Aren't people supposed to have a life outside work? Like hellooo I'm a full time worker, and now also a part time student who also enjoys a good chat with my many friends from all over the world. I need more weekend to have time with it all ;)
On top of everything else I'm working hard on one day make my dream reality with the awareness and charity choir. I have even decided on a few songs already even if it's all just in the dream-about stage yet. And the location for it all will most likely be London even if that's like an hour or more by plane from where I live. I just feel London is a central place, a place where you can really make a difference and it may be easier to find people who want to sing too :)

But before any of that can happen, I have my dream trip I'm planning for this year: Opera in Barcelona, Put flowers on at the foot of the statue in Montreux, visit London to see some important Queen and Freddie Mercury places and see the musical We will rock you!

Until summer, I'll work hard, and study hard and then hopefully go on my trip :)

I'm a student again!

I'm a university student again! It's the first time in 2 years I'm studying anything, and I feel really motivated! I went to my university this morning to attend an introduction day, the course is net based, but school is in Lund which is only like an hour away from Copenhagen, so anyways. I got to meet some of my classmates, and the two teachers out of which one teacher I've had before when I tried this course at Campus in 2006, the other teacher was new to me but he seems great! I had a blast today despite having to get up at the ungodly hour of 6.30 on a Saturday to be at school at 9am ;)
I came back home at about 4pm, and have been studying for about 2 hours since I came home, practicing writing characters by hand. It's a bit overkill at this point since we don't have to use characters yet, but I want to learn it and learn it well so it's better to start early. As for the course now, all of it is repeat for me as I've already passed this part of the course, but I feel I need to repeat it to manage the part I haven't passed yet, it's been 4.5 years so I've forgotten most of what I learned at campus.
I was really in the mood to do some translation exercises today, but there wasn't any new ones up on the course web page yet :( The one that was up is the very same one I did at school this morning.
Oh well...

Shoe rant!

OK, so we have to wear safety shoes at work, or well, we should at least wear them and most people do, most of the time. I do when I can handle wearing mine because those shoes are just a near death experience for my poor feet, ankles, knees and whole body really. Seriously, how difficult can it be to make COMFORTABLE safety shoes!?! After all, us who wear safety shoes at work are not office people sitting on our bums all day, we're physical workers who stand or walk all day, lift heavy items and/or deal with machines- which is the whole reason why we wear the safety shoes!

Many times, if I manage to wear my damn safety shoes for a whole day, I don't walk like the 25 year old I am when walking to the bus, I walk like a 80 year old lady! I'm in so much pain I can barely even walk! And the pain lingers for days, and even wearing proper shoes is painful for days!

I've been wearing my safety shoes for a day or two this week. Today I tried wearing them but had to give up after just a short while, the pain was just too much to handle! I had to risk my feet safety because the shoes made to protect them are too fucking uncomfortable! For crying out loud, I'm driving around a 800kg (~1764 pounds) forklift at work!

The worst part? NO INSURANCE is valid if I get hurt at work without wearing my safety shoes, be it a bad cut or be it having toes hurt by falling goods or a forklift.

I need better safety shoes, or the safety shoe makers need to wear their own shoes to try them before putting them into mass production!

Out of my own experience, Terra has good comfort, but the pair I have is a bit too narrow in the toe area so I get deep blisters from the steel cap so I can't wear them much. The other pair I have is a pair I got at work, they're from FTG and to put it simple- they make my feet suicidal and I have better comfort and foot support while standing bare feet on concrete floor!

I think my hypermobility may play a part in my shoe issues too, but I'm not the only one at work complaining about the discomfort of that shoe model from FTG!

I've even put gel insoles in my shoes to try to make them better, but it doesn't help!

Feeling like a bag of potatoes

I'm so incredibly tired lately, probably due to the flu I had and not sleeping well for a few nights now. Constant joint and muscle pain doesn't really help sleep either, it makes me sleep even worse! Right now I'm so tired in my whole body I can't even sit properly, I'm more or less hanging over the desk!

Planning the journey of my life!

It sounds dramatic, but it isn't really. I'm just planning to go on an extended weekend to Barcelona sometime this year, and I'll see an opera there and if I can get to see Montserrat Caballé perform, that would be the absolute best! I'm also going to London for a few days to see some places that were important to Queen and Freddie Mercury, and to see the musical We will rock you. I'm also hopefully going to attend the Freddie Mercury Memorial festival in Montreaux, Switzerland in September and put some flowers at the base of his memorial statue there. Freddie would turn 65 this year, had he still been amongst us, and it's also 20 years ago since his passing so doing this journey this year feels like the right thing to do!
If any of my friends reading this would like to go with me, or meet me at one of the locations do let me know. The more the merrier :)

Life is music, music is life

Sitting here, it's late at night and I'm listening to song after song with Freddie Mercury, and his duets with Montserrat Caballé. Each tone hits me like a massive wave of joy, filling me up with happiness and a desire to sing!

The afterflu

So, I've been quiet for a few days again. It has its good reasons though. I've been down with a flu! I had a cold all last week, actually since New Year's eve, and then on Thursday after standing outside for an hour waiting for my bus, I started feeling ill, started freezing. Did manage to work my shift, but as I suspected, I had a fever when I got home that evening and I was still freezing. On Friday morning there was only really one thing to do- call in sick! I had a fever on Friday which ended up reaching 39.5 degrees C in the evening. On Saturday I was even more sick, waking up with 39 degrees and barely being able to get out of bed all day. In the evening my temperature reached its peak, a whopping 39.9 degrees! That's when I decided to call the doctor. Called doctor, and as I was too weak (and alone) to go to the doctor, a doctor came home to me, confirmed that I had the flu and gave me a couple of Paracetamol and an Ibuprofen (I had run out of those at home) along with a prescription for Tamiflu (which I still haven't picked up).
Anyways, fever went away night to Sunday and since I woke up on Sunday I've been fever free and slowly but surely started to feel like a human again. Today I can even breathe some through my nose again! Today I've also started to work again, it was hard and tiring, but I managed it :)
Nose is still a bit swelled up on the inside along with some coughing, but I'm on the mend :)

I've actually only had flu maximum once or twice before this in my 25 years, and I've never taken the flu shot!

I guess I'm normally quite immune to the flu, but it hit me this time probably because of me already having a cold so my immune system was a bit weaker.
Really, other years I've been around people who has had the flu at that time, and I haven't got it!

In fact, I very rarely catch any of those seasonal bugs!

Hypermobility and I

Hypermobility or possibly Ehlers Danlos Syndrome may be the cause behind my constant pains and aches. I realized that shortly before Christmas and the more I read, the more everything fits in really. I don't have joints that dislocate all the time, but many joints can be overstretched. The reason I think it's not impossible I have EDS is because even after years and years of working with my hands, they're most of the time so soft you'd think I sit at home all day wearing cotton gloves, I can get scars easily from small injuries that normally wouldn't leave a scar, and as I'm a woman, I have these joyful few days every month and that is a pure nightmare especially on the worst day when I need to go every hour or so for a while to avoid leaks. It has always been like that.

I'm going to ask my GP to refer me to someone who can test me for EDS and HMS, I really just want answers!

Oh, and I'm writing this blog while having a fever and generally not feeling at all well, freezing because of the fever and everything so I don't really know what I'm writing.

Anyways, thought I'd post some pictures of my "partytricks" as I like to call it ;)