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So, I haven't updated in awhile, partly because I have been out of town and partly because I am lazy and don't think my life is that interesting. Well, I can't believe this break is almost over. I know a lot of people have been saying how it seems so long to them, but to me it's been rather short. I got home from break just in time for Christmas, then it was New Years, the I was in Orlando playing bridge, then I was at my mom's for a week playing video games, and then, this past week I have been spending almost all of everyday hiding under a blanket. Now, it is Sunday morning and I realize that in a week I will be back at school, which means that I still need to clean my room and read three books before then.
Now, to fill in some blanks. Christmas was good. I got basically what I wanted which was cross-stiching stuff and money. YAY money! I have started my first cross-stitching project that did not come in a package. It is a dragon surrounding a castle, and I think it is awesome. I did not cut as much of the fabric as I really should have, but it will fit on what is there and that's what's really important. Thankfully, my carpal tunnel hasn't acted up while working on it, which makes me very happy. On a side note, the computer I am typing on has a keyboard that might actually be a little small for my hands, which means that it is for a 5 year old child, but I am correcting all the typing errors, so readers should not have any problems. That was random, I apologize.
Ok. Orlando. If you are a girl and go to Drew, then you are probably wondering what happened there. I thought that it was going to be just me and my partner, Matt, there, but I got to see some of my other young friends while I was there so that was cool. Umm...my hotel was named the "Orlando Grand Plaza Hotel and Suites." That sounds pretty nice right? Well, I have come to believe that the more names you put on a place, the less "grand" it is. I am not really picky about where I stay. I am not big into camping without plumbing, but I don't need my accomodations to be really nice. However, the only way that I was able to survive the place was by not looking at the bottom of the shower I was standing in (I wish I had thought to bring shower shoes) and by not looking under the bathroom sink. Also, the toilet ran on a number of occasions and the TV did not have HBO. Even motels that rent rooms by the hour have HBO!!! I was also kind of disturbed that it cost less to rent porn than movies under the Children/Family category on the on-demand/in-room movie watching service. NO, I did not rent porn. Instead, I watched the food network every night. Also, my cab driver got lost on the way to my hotel from the airport and got so lost that I eventually had to give him directions to the hotel, despite not really knowing where we were or how to get there. Then he overcharged me by ten bucks, but what was really funny was that he asked me if I wanted him to drive me back to the airport when I left the following Monday. Was he insane??? I politely told him that I might be getting a ride from a friend but for him to give me his card and I would wall him if I needed him. I promptly lost the card...oops :) Thank you to Stacy for putting up with my ranting at 1 AM. I really needed that. Oh, this trip also emphasized the difference in maturity of a 20 yr. old girl and a 20 yr. old boy. I am sorry if any guys are offended by this, but honestly, I really understand why girls are attracted to older men, guys at our age just don't have it quite yet. On a completely random note that will show jsut how much of a geek I am, Matt gave me a CD with about 1200 songs on it while I was there. He told me that he would make me this CD, but it was a few months ago, so I didn't think he'd remember. He does surprise me sometimes :). Now, the reason why this makes me a huge nerd. There is no pop, hip-hop/R&B, rap, country, jazz, or any other normal type of music on this CD. It is all video game soundtracks. That's right ladies and gentelmen, I now have the complete soundtracks to FF6. 7. 8 , 9, and 10. Plus piano arrangements to a variety of songs from all the FF games. For those of you who don't understand the FF part, just rest assured that I AM a complete and utter dork. Ok, enough about Orlando, because this entry is getting super long. Any mroe details will be given upon request. ;)
So, the week at my mom's was really good. Basically, all I did was play FF8 and watch anime with my brother all week. It was fantastic and so relaxing which was something I really needed. However, I really should have done some reading while I was there. Now, my "project" for while I was home on break was to clean my room at my dad's house. Basically, it looks like my life threw up in there. Why is this? Well, I started to work on it over the summer, so there are half-filled tubs of stuff to go in storage everywhere. Also, part of the reason that my room is a mess is that I really have a lot of stuff from almost 20 years of existence and no place to put it all. My plan was to work on my room this past week, however, like I said earlier, I spent most of this past week hiding under a blanket all day. Why? Well, I am so lazy that I never take my contacts out. This has caused several lacerations aka cuts on my eyes. My right eye became severly infected this week. I went to the EYE emergency room, yes there are emergency rooms just for eyes. There I was informed that it was a good thing I came to them, because if hadn't gotten treatment and for my eye then or a couple days later, I could have needed a corneal transplant or have jsut lost my eye. Scary huh? This infection caused me to have something called photophobia, which basically means that my eyes are very very sensitive to light and even shadowed daylight caused me sever pain. That is why I would hide my head under a blanket, so that I basically lived in darkness for several days. Also, my glasses perscription is so old that it only corrects my eyes to 20/80 and 20/50. You need to have 20/40 vision to be able to drive. So I am currently immobile. My eye is much better now, I have been taking antibiotic drops, at first every hour while I was awake and every 2 hours while I was trying to sleep. Then it got reduced to simply every 3 hours. Needless to say, however, I am severely sleep deprived. It is hard to get a good night's sleep when you are waking up every couple of hours to put drops in your eye.
Oh, the one last thing that I will say before I stop this horrendously long entry is that sometimes, I wish my parents would think beyond themselves for a minute and think of me. DOn't get me wrong, my parents love me and want whats best for me and would do pretty much anything I really needed, but they have no problem putting me in the middle of their disputes. My dad was out of town most of this week consulting which left me alone with my step-mom. This was fine, we got along all week. However, Maggie, my step-mom, had her weekend of class this week for her PhD. This meant that as of Friday that she was going to be staying at a htoel in Philadelphia, which meant taht I needed to stay at my mom's for the weekend, because I can't stay home alone at my dad's. Well, here is the problem, I still can't drive with the glasses I have and my sensitivity to light, which means that someone from my mom's house would have to come and get me. This is about a 2 hour ordeal for them. My mom doesn't get out of work until 7:15 and hates driving at night, so she couldn't do it, and David had appointments all day, so he couldn't do it either. My mom was mroe than willing to come and get me Saturday, but that would mean that I would have to be at my dad's alone on Friday. However, despite the fact that my dad doesn't really care if I stay home alone in that house, Maggie has a rule against anyone who doesn't have a kid or is over 25 staying alone in the house. Needless to say my mom thought this rule was ridiculous and so she and my dad got into a fight about how this was really inconvenient. I have to say, I kinda side with my mom on this one. Why I can't stay alone in that hosue for one night is beyond me. There are numerous times when I could have done so without their permission and haven't. I would never throw a party or do anything to trash the house, so I don't understand why the rule can't change. But whatever, my brother came to the rescue and picked me up after he got off from work, and my dad apologized for being rude to my mom. Sometimes though, I just hate parents. They seem to over-complicate things. Anyway, I won't go into more details about what's been going on over this break. Sorry that is entry is so long, but I can't remember the way to make it a one line link to this...sorry. Hope everyone is having a good week!!!
Now, to fill in some blanks. Christmas was good. I got basically what I wanted which was cross-stiching stuff and money. YAY money! I have started my first cross-stitching project that did not come in a package. It is a dragon surrounding a castle, and I think it is awesome. I did not cut as much of the fabric as I really should have, but it will fit on what is there and that's what's really important. Thankfully, my carpal tunnel hasn't acted up while working on it, which makes me very happy. On a side note, the computer I am typing on has a keyboard that might actually be a little small for my hands, which means that it is for a 5 year old child, but I am correcting all the typing errors, so readers should not have any problems. That was random, I apologize.
Ok. Orlando. If you are a girl and go to Drew, then you are probably wondering what happened there. I thought that it was going to be just me and my partner, Matt, there, but I got to see some of my other young friends while I was there so that was cool. Umm...my hotel was named the "Orlando Grand Plaza Hotel and Suites." That sounds pretty nice right? Well, I have come to believe that the more names you put on a place, the less "grand" it is. I am not really picky about where I stay. I am not big into camping without plumbing, but I don't need my accomodations to be really nice. However, the only way that I was able to survive the place was by not looking at the bottom of the shower I was standing in (I wish I had thought to bring shower shoes) and by not looking under the bathroom sink. Also, the toilet ran on a number of occasions and the TV did not have HBO. Even motels that rent rooms by the hour have HBO!!! I was also kind of disturbed that it cost less to rent porn than movies under the Children/Family category on the on-demand/in-room movie watching service. NO, I did not rent porn. Instead, I watched the food network every night. Also, my cab driver got lost on the way to my hotel from the airport and got so lost that I eventually had to give him directions to the hotel, despite not really knowing where we were or how to get there. Then he overcharged me by ten bucks, but what was really funny was that he asked me if I wanted him to drive me back to the airport when I left the following Monday. Was he insane??? I politely told him that I might be getting a ride from a friend but for him to give me his card and I would wall him if I needed him. I promptly lost the card...oops :) Thank you to Stacy for putting up with my ranting at 1 AM. I really needed that. Oh, this trip also emphasized the difference in maturity of a 20 yr. old girl and a 20 yr. old boy. I am sorry if any guys are offended by this, but honestly, I really understand why girls are attracted to older men, guys at our age just don't have it quite yet. On a completely random note that will show jsut how much of a geek I am, Matt gave me a CD with about 1200 songs on it while I was there. He told me that he would make me this CD, but it was a few months ago, so I didn't think he'd remember. He does surprise me sometimes :). Now, the reason why this makes me a huge nerd. There is no pop, hip-hop/R&B, rap, country, jazz, or any other normal type of music on this CD. It is all video game soundtracks. That's right ladies and gentelmen, I now have the complete soundtracks to FF6. 7. 8 , 9, and 10. Plus piano arrangements to a variety of songs from all the FF games. For those of you who don't understand the FF part, just rest assured that I AM a complete and utter dork. Ok, enough about Orlando, because this entry is getting super long. Any mroe details will be given upon request. ;)
So, the week at my mom's was really good. Basically, all I did was play FF8 and watch anime with my brother all week. It was fantastic and so relaxing which was something I really needed. However, I really should have done some reading while I was there. Now, my "project" for while I was home on break was to clean my room at my dad's house. Basically, it looks like my life threw up in there. Why is this? Well, I started to work on it over the summer, so there are half-filled tubs of stuff to go in storage everywhere. Also, part of the reason that my room is a mess is that I really have a lot of stuff from almost 20 years of existence and no place to put it all. My plan was to work on my room this past week, however, like I said earlier, I spent most of this past week hiding under a blanket all day. Why? Well, I am so lazy that I never take my contacts out. This has caused several lacerations aka cuts on my eyes. My right eye became severly infected this week. I went to the EYE emergency room, yes there are emergency rooms just for eyes. There I was informed that it was a good thing I came to them, because if hadn't gotten treatment and for my eye then or a couple days later, I could have needed a corneal transplant or have jsut lost my eye. Scary huh? This infection caused me to have something called photophobia, which basically means that my eyes are very very sensitive to light and even shadowed daylight caused me sever pain. That is why I would hide my head under a blanket, so that I basically lived in darkness for several days. Also, my glasses perscription is so old that it only corrects my eyes to 20/80 and 20/50. You need to have 20/40 vision to be able to drive. So I am currently immobile. My eye is much better now, I have been taking antibiotic drops, at first every hour while I was awake and every 2 hours while I was trying to sleep. Then it got reduced to simply every 3 hours. Needless to say, however, I am severely sleep deprived. It is hard to get a good night's sleep when you are waking up every couple of hours to put drops in your eye.
Oh, the one last thing that I will say before I stop this horrendously long entry is that sometimes, I wish my parents would think beyond themselves for a minute and think of me. DOn't get me wrong, my parents love me and want whats best for me and would do pretty much anything I really needed, but they have no problem putting me in the middle of their disputes. My dad was out of town most of this week consulting which left me alone with my step-mom. This was fine, we got along all week. However, Maggie, my step-mom, had her weekend of class this week for her PhD. This meant that as of Friday that she was going to be staying at a htoel in Philadelphia, which meant taht I needed to stay at my mom's for the weekend, because I can't stay home alone at my dad's. Well, here is the problem, I still can't drive with the glasses I have and my sensitivity to light, which means that someone from my mom's house would have to come and get me. This is about a 2 hour ordeal for them. My mom doesn't get out of work until 7:15 and hates driving at night, so she couldn't do it, and David had appointments all day, so he couldn't do it either. My mom was mroe than willing to come and get me Saturday, but that would mean that I would have to be at my dad's alone on Friday. However, despite the fact that my dad doesn't really care if I stay home alone in that house, Maggie has a rule against anyone who doesn't have a kid or is over 25 staying alone in the house. Needless to say my mom thought this rule was ridiculous and so she and my dad got into a fight about how this was really inconvenient. I have to say, I kinda side with my mom on this one. Why I can't stay alone in that hosue for one night is beyond me. There are numerous times when I could have done so without their permission and haven't. I would never throw a party or do anything to trash the house, so I don't understand why the rule can't change. But whatever, my brother came to the rescue and picked me up after he got off from work, and my dad apologized for being rude to my mom. Sometimes though, I just hate parents. They seem to over-complicate things. Anyway, I won't go into more details about what's been going on over this break. Sorry that is entry is so long, but I can't remember the way to make it a one line link to this...sorry. Hope everyone is having a good week!!!