|:: The Day I Called In Sick ::|

yesterday, on thrusday, i was suppose to have a 6:30 am meeting with a manager at boeing to discuss about future plans for the application that my team is supporting. i got the meeting notice on wednesday evening at 4:20 pm when i was about to leave the office, which was so uncool. so i set my alarm for 5:30 am to wake up and get ready to attend the stupid meeting. but when i woke up, i got the laziest feeling to just skip work.

after spending 5 minutes debating to myself whether or not i should go to work, which ended up taking more like 15 minutes, i finally decided that i'd call in sick. so i grab my phone and called my partner who was so damn adamant that he be apart of the meeting, the day before. he actually got a bit offended when the client asked for me to attend and didn't include him on the email list.

when i called him, he picked up and i could tell that he was still sleeping. and before i could ask him if he was attending the meeting, so that i didn't have to attend, he immediate said that he wasn't going to attend because he didn't know where the meeting location was... so i told him that i was sick and couldn't make it to the meeting, and he just said "fine." he didn't even care, i wasn't the least big surprised. finally, i called a friend to cover me so that i can take the day off.

wow, let me tell you, that day off was one of the best days ever! it was like a mini-vacation and had some amazing therapeutic effect. everything, or at least it seemed, happened so rightly, it was almost perfect. simply an awesome day!

after the phone calls, i crawled back into bed next to wifey and passed out for the next 6 hours. oh god the extra hours of piggying out was so good. not only that, but i had a sweet dream where i had a super power of some sort, don't really remember what i was but it filled me with this amazingly joyous feeling of happiness; the same feeling as the first day your parents brought you to the toy store, and you could pick out whatever you wanted. yeah, it was that good!

when i finally decided to open my refreshed eyes, it was 12 noon and was perfect time for lunch. i (after much much struggle) managed to wake wifey up and got her to start getting ready so we can head out to lunch. i was suppose to drive down to my company's main office so i can tell them to dis-allocate my laptop so that i won't be held responsible for it anymore. but while wifey was getting ready i called them and they said that they could take care of it without me driving all the way down there; sweet! now wifey and i had way more time to go to our favorite sushi restaurant and pig out on their so call "edible art" fusion sushi; delicious!

that was just the beginning of the day. the rest of it was just as spectacular, and after it all i felt so close to wifey. spending the whole day with her doing the things that young love-birds do; so many smiles and so much laughter. by far one of the best days for me to skip work.