Paula Light is the lovely hostess for The Monday Peeve, where I get to do the thing I cannot do in real life – complain.

I am pissed off with my body at the moment.

I got food poisoning about 2 weeks ago after eating some dinner rolls mom forgot to promptly place in the fridge upon coming home from her birthday dinner. I assumed it would be fine after nuking it in the microwave but apparently, it was not. Not even 2 hours later, I was doubled over, clutching my stomach in a kind of pain that even I couldn’t tolerate and, mind you, I have a pretty tolerance when it comes to pain. Thankfully, mom had some Chinese magic potion that made the pain subside in less than 30 minutes.

My stomach has not been the same since then. I now get frequent intermittent pains in my esophagus region as well as cramps in my stomach. I have no clue whether that’s caused by the 14-day regimen my oral surgeon had me start or my body is taking its sweet time to recover.

It pisses me off when my body is acting out.

After my gums got inflamed twice while I was on vacation last September, which were caused by eating a couple of fries, all deep-fried foods became off-limits. I think the worst thing I’ve had since then is probably a crispy fried egg. Everything else have either been boiled, poached, or stir-fried. You have no idea how much I’m craving deep-fried foods like fries and potato chips at the moment. There have been days when mom and I would be in the grocery store and I would be staring at the bags of potato chips, salivating and angry that I couldn’t have any because who knows what would happen if I did.

Grr…