Ringing in the New Year

I've been on break since the 17th and it's been great! My mom and I did all the touristy things a person might do while visiting Dubai. I wasn't sure there would be enough for us to do for the 10 days she was visiting, but instead, I found that we didn't have time to do everything. I guess that means she'll just have to come back. A quick run down... we went to tea at the Burj al Arab, desert safari, the creek, the souqs, madinat, malls, beach, ice bar, E. Coast, the Friday Market and we went on a few different trips to IKEA so she could help me organize my too small apartment, and when I say "help" I mean do it for me. It was great! When she was leaving, she said something like, I'm sure you're ready to get back to your regular life, uh, no, I wanted her to stay forever!

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were both fun, I spent Christmas Eve Day at a friends house watching endless episodes of Gilmore Girls and then we went to another friends for dinner, after that, I stopped by another friend's apartment that lives in my building to hang out for a while. Christmas Day I went to lunch on this terrace overlooking the Burj al Arab and the Arabian Sea with some friends from work. Somehow lunch turned into sunset drinks at 360, then I took a golf cart over to a different hotel where I met some other friends for pre dinner drinks (just what I needed) then Christmas Dinner at an amazing restaurant that was out on this pier overlooking the Burj and had a delicious Champagne flowing Christmas meal, after that we went to another bar that had great views and wine. Not a typical Christmas, but very fun!

I woke up not feeling so great on the 26th, I figured it was just too much wine, but when I still couldn't move the next day, I figured I had somehow gotten sick. I decided downloading Prison Break and Grey's Anatomy episodes from iTunes would be a great source of entertainment, so I spent the next three days watching that. I finally went to the doctor on the 29th when it was 2:00 and it hurt so much to breathe I thought I might just stop and I still could not drag myself out of bed. I ended up being diagnosed with Bronchitis and hooked up to some crazy machine that I inhaled some sort of mist/vapor something or other for 20 minutes. It was like a miracle device. It was the first time in days that it didn't make me cry to take a deep breath. They gave me about a zillion different medications, but I'm still wiped out and laying on the couch and BORED. I've finished watching all the downloaded tv shows and am tired of just sitting around. It's New Year's Eve and there's people doing a bunch of fun things, I'll be at home lying on the couch watching Because I Said So for the zillionth time and being annoyed that I'm sick. But for those of you that remember my stellar New Year's Eve and New Year's Day from last year, alone, on the couch with Bronchitis is actually quite an improvement! It's no wonder I hate most holidays. But.... Happy New Years! 2008 should just be so fun...