My "day off"

So I went to the doctor yesterday morning. They took some blood, send me home to have breakfast and made me come back after an hour to have some blood again, this time just a drop from the finger. Mostly that hurts but not this time.
The next test they wanted to make at 4pm - I had the day off!

This was the first time I got a sick certificate! I work for five years for my company and had been ill only once - and that was in my holiday. Not that anyone ever noticed. But I was always kind of proud on that fact.
I got a sick certificate since I work 40km off the town I work and at first the blood-check-scedule wasn´t clear.

So. I went to town and tried - successless - to find a gift for my brother, then went to the gym for three hours. Back to the doctor for another drop of blood. This time another staff memeber tried. She was so anxious to hurt me, she didn´t get deep enough and had to pick once more - into the same spot - now that did hurt!

I went to do some food-shopping, went home, cleaned the apartment up - I´d been on my feet all day - and really felt that way, my feet hurt! I need some proper shoes for Perth, Ingo is right.
I´m just not used to being up on my feet all day and my "office shoes" have soles way to thin. You feel every little stone right through. I thought about taking a hot bath... but was too lazy to do so.

I was not too lazy to take some pics, though.



This is the new jaap-sheep, the one to the right with the fancy norway-style cap, cute, huh?
See the smaller sheep to the left? I found it some years ago, it was lying on the street behind my car. It used to drive along since then, but when I had to give the car away I took it in my apartment where it still "lives". I wonder if it misses driving around or if it´s glad not to be exposed to the burning sun/freezing cold anymore...



Now I hope Ingo´s not freaking out, but I had to buy these Chili and Basil noodles!
I´m in noodles somehow. If you click to enlarge you can see that I have some sorts of heart-shaped noodles, pigs, cows hens and a rooster, teddybears, christmas trees, shooting stars, gingerbread and oranges and the Cologne Cathedral with bishops (my brother studied in cologne) - you get heaps of that stuff at Pasta Store.

And this cup I bought for my office - another lion.





Hanging there reallly lazy - this should not suggest that I´m lazy, too!

And another lion - this is the towns´ emblem: