Soo... I'm feeling a lot better today. If I was a battery, I would probably be at about 76%. My nose is still runny, and I still have a bit of a cough, but my head is clear and my ears don't hurt as much. Usually when I reach this stage of being sick, my brain goes into hyperdrive. I'm pretty sure when I woke up this morning, I had about 7 different complete thoughts within the space of ten seconds. And thus, we have reached my topic for today's post: all of the random things I've been thinking about today.

1. I'm really freaking out about my English essay. As in, I didn't even procrastinate it on purpose this time! I just got sick in the middle of Reading Week.

And now I have to wake up uncharacteristically early tomorrow and fire one out that will get me a good grade. If there were ever a time to pray for me, it would be NOW. Ha.

2. I think I have figured out a use for my ever-growing collection of vintage mother of pearl buttons. I am either going to make a monogrammed pillow sham using the buttons to do lettering, or I found a new stitch that would allow me to connect them into a necklace.

3. I really must learn how to sew this summer... I have skirt envy. A LOT.

4. I have gone through 2 full boxes of kleenexes, three packages of Lipton chicken noodle soup, and two packages of throat lozenges in the past four days.

5. I HATE LEMON FLAVOURED THROAT LOZENGES.

If I get one in a package, I won't eat it. I'll choose another. Look what happened this morning:

So. Not. Impressed.

6. I forgot to do up my resume last week.... Guess I found my project for the week... Blegh.

7. I have really soft sheets.

8. I'm grateful for all the friends/family that have been texting and calling over the past few days to check in on me. :) It made nearly dying from infectious micro-organisms a little more pleasant.

9. There's still one homemade peanut butter cup in my fridge. Hmm...

10. My phone has randomly been shutting itself off. It's annoying.

11. I wore my favourite shirt today (My yellow Beatles one). I also wore a cardigan. It was purple.

12. Semicolons irritate me. They're too finicky to use.

13. I want flowers. Stat.

14. I can sum up my main point for my english essay in one sentence, and I have to find a way to stretch that out into 5-7 pages. Oh joy.

15. When Momma Froc comes in April, I hope she takes me grocery shopping. I want some grenadine, but I'm too cheap to buy it myself.

16. I updated my Happy Things picture album on facebook. It's just a bunch of pictures I like. But it makes other people happy too. I like that. :)

17. I need to get started on learning all my Lethbridge friends' middle names. (It's a thing I have. Just roll with it.) I just realized how few of them I actually know. Disgraceful.

End.

Here is what I did today: Nothing. Last night's stupid attempt at an all-nighter failed miserably around 4:00 AM. Nothing I was writing was making sense. I crashed. When I woke up this morning, my nose was plugged and I couldn't breathe again, so I took a long hot shower to clear my sinuses. I had (and still have) a headache as a reward for trying to finish my essay so late into the night. And to top it all off, my ears started hurting insanely bad. I called my mum and whined for a few minutes. She thinks I might be getting an ear infection. As luck would have it, the doctor is out on Saturdays. Indie offered to try one of her family's herbal concoctions, and she poured it in my ear, and now my room smells like lavender and I feel sick to my stomach. I think I might need a blessing.

The worst part about being away from home is definitely when you get sick.

And my essay remains unfinished.

End of complaint.

Ben came over to my house to play. I made my Fabulous Lemon Chicken, and he made rice. We ate the rice straight out of the pot. With chopsticks. While waiting for the chicken to cook, we made homemade peanut butter cups. They were delicious, and surprisingly tasted exactly like Reese's... After lunch, we secretly stole all the chairs out of the dining room and proceeded to build a massive blanket fort in the basement. After our fort was established, we watched Ben's Veggietales Esther movie and played with his button maker. I started his friendship bracelet. (Black and gold, of course.)Then we popped in Hercules. I sang all the songs and quoted all the lines. Stupid, stupid thing to do when your throat is sore to begin with. I now sound like a pubescent boy. :( Homework in progress, but coming slowly. I may end up pulling an all-nighter. Who knows?

Saturday I was home by myself. I don't like to be alone. It makes me sad. So I called home and cried. Pathetic? Yeah, lil' bit. Anyways, later that day I went over to my friend Ben's house for a "study" party with him and our friend Lizzy. We ended up just watching Big Bang Theory. And wrestling with blankets over our heads. And playing Marco Polo. And eating copious amounts of candy. (Well, really that was mostly Ben and Lizzy...) Then we made supper in the fancy kitchen! It made me happy. :) I love my friends.

Day 2: Sunday

Normally nothing super interesting happens on Sunday. Church was pretty good; I made two new friends! After church, my roommate Indie and I decided to invite some kids over from the ward for a Games Night at our house. Only about 8 or so showed up, but it was still fun! We had a rip-roaring game of Truth or Dare... complete with the consumption of an extremely nasty sandwich (mustard, icing, hot sauce, veggie burger, yogurt), a toilet paper zombie, and Lindsey skipping around the house in a cape shouting "I am here to protect!". Also, I had my first marriage proposal last night. Yes, it WAS a dare, but technically it still counts right? It was kind of awkward... like an Old Spice commercial in my living room. *cough*

Day 3: Monday

I caught cabin fever. I couldn't stay in the house any longer. This morning I showered, dressed, and cleaned my room, and then packed my backpack and set off to go do something. I waited for fifteen minutes at the bus stop before I realized that it was Family Day, a provincial holiday, and no buses were running! So I walked down to the main road. I went to the drugstore to pick up a few things, then got bored and went to Totem. I was just going to look for chalkboard paint, but I ended up planning my dream house and leaving with a fistful of paint samples. I think I need human interaction... Then I walked over to Value Village and bummed around there for a bit. I found sheet music for movie musical songs for the clarinet! I just may have to whip that bad boy out again...

Also, at FHE tonight, we planned for the Stake Roadshow. Our ward is in charge of a skit, and the theme is "Fairy tales". We decided to do a skit about Fairy tale couples on dates, how they go badly, and how they are eventually fixed in the end by the "three fairy godmothers" (Our bishopric). I was cast as a main character! I get to play Belle. No big deal. She's only my favourite Disney princess...

I'm not going home for Reading Week this year. I'm kinda sad, because I was really looking forward to seeing the FamJam at the Homeland, especially since I won't have a chance to get back until probably June. I could get there no problem, but finding a way back here was proving to be just about impossible. So I am stuck here for a whole week. It wouldn't be so terribly bad, except that basically all my friends and roommates are either:

a) going home

b) going somewhere awesome on vacation, or

c) talking non-stop about how stoked they are to go home/go on vacation/see friends

Ah well. C'est la vie right? In any case, I know I HAVE to do something with myself over the next week or I will die of boredom. For real. Each day next week, I will attempt to do one awesome thing and post about it. Hopefully, this will make the break suck less. I even already have some schemes cooked up in my devious noggin. Wish me luck!