Um...Yeah...

So Lisa said that I was getting way behind on my blogging, so here is one just for you sis! Things are going pretty good. I'm just going to school and working. School is actually kind of fun. I don't like my drawing class because I'm bad at it and I don't really like my geology class (either of them) because it stresses me out, but the other ones I really like! My photography class can be really trying sometimes with figuring out the developing times and worrying about ruining my film while developing it, but the pay-off is so great because you end up with something all your own! I would put the pics on here, but I don't have a scanner. Maybe I will sometime later. I love being in orchestra now because I'm not worried about where I sit or how much better everyone is than me. I can just enjoy it and do my best and trust that it's good enough! Although the semester started off rough (what with the whole mono thing), I'd have to say that it's going to end up being a good one. I had a little trouble with some of my roommates at first, but now it kind of is like we're a family. I like it. Mike (my boyfriend) was in Canada all last week, but he's back now so that makes me really happy! His uncle took him hunting up there because it's something they both really enjoy. And Mike didn't have to pay for anything, so he liked that! He said he had a lot of fun, although he was still a little sick from getting his wisdom teeth out. But he's such a tough guy, he probably didn't do anything about it except live with it. He's awesome. Well, that's pretty much my life right now. I have to work tonight. It's not that fun, but it means that I get more money to pay for school! So I'm ok with it.

Wonderful...

About 2 weeks ago, I started feeling a little sick. I was achey all over and had a little bit of a fever. I wasn't too worried, and just tried to treat the symptoms as they came, but just go on with my life. I moved into my apartment that same week, which was a little hard just because of all the stress of new roommates, new rooms, new classes, and getting increasingly sick. My throat started to hurt pretty bad and I couldn't sleep at night. Then I started getting so nauseous that I could hardly eat anything without wanting to throw it back up. You can imagine how much fun I was, especially to all those girls that I just met! I started going through my first week of classes, and it was really hard. I wasn't getting enough sleep, so classes were a real trial. Then I couldn't eat, so I was always hungry and fatigued, but couldn't do much about it. I really was doing my best, but it felt like it just wasn't good enough. Well, friday morning, I woke up and my tonsils and lymph nodes were so swollen, it was getting hard to swallow anything or even breathe. And it hurt like heck. I told my mom about it and she convinced me to go to the doctor. I went and the doctor told me that it sounded like I was chocking on my tonsils. I had a blood test and they swabbed the back of my throat. I thought it was going to be strep, but turns out it was something much better. I won the prize and found out I have mono! Apparently it's a pretty bad case too. Now I'm taking about 6 pills a day and many doses of pain medicine so it doesn't hurt as much to swallow. I can't drive and my head is kind of fuzzy, but I'm glad that I'm getting things figured out! Now I'm at home so I can get my family sick instead of my roommates, but my mama is doing a good job of making me feel better. She even bought me my favorite breakfeast even though I'm only here for the weekend! She's the best! Hopefully I'll get better soon so I won't have to skip any classes and my roommates won't continue to think I'm the most boring, anti-social person on the planet.

It Finally Happened!

This week I made a pretty big change. I moved out of the house for the first time. For the first time in my entire life, I won't be spending every night (well, close to every night) sleeping in my dungeon of a bedroom that has no window. I'm going to miss that because now the sun coming into my bedroom will wake me up. I'm living with 5 other girls, and no guys. No more pummeling. No more seepy time. No more kitties sleeping on my throat while I'm trying to sleep. I'm going to miss it, but I need to start depending on myself. I'm going to miss my family a lot. Except for the yelling and chore lists (oh wait, still have that) and argueing over who's tv it really is (ok, might still get that too). It's a good thing I only moved 2 miles away so I can still come back and enjoy all those things whenever I want! And I won't even have to pay for laundry! I'm glad I moved out because it's nice to feel like an adult, but the Peter-Pan in all of us holds me back a little. Not very much, but it's still there. Nothing's going to be the same, but change is for the better. It gives us the chance to learn and grow in a way that we couldn't before. But now that I'm all moved out, I can spend as much time as I want with my man and no one is going to do anything about it! (just kitting mom!)