i've had better
i can't even remember the last time i wrote. i think it was before finals. finals really kicked my ass this semester. luckily, one of my finals was a group project and i lucked out BIG time on my group in this class. i don't know how i would've gotten through without this group of girls. we got along professionally and personally, which made the project itself a little more bearable. my other final project was a lot of busy work, but it wasn't nearly as bad as i thought it was going to be. both projects were completed before they were due, which allowed me to start my christmas break a little earlier than scheduled. within the last couple of weeks, both assignments were graded and both were 100%. woo! unfortunately, the class with the group project is still waiting for our second assignment (an individual assignment) to be graded, so i don't know what my final grade is now. however, my other class had everything graded last week and i passed the class with a 100%. first time that's happened! i'm hoping i didn't blow that other assignment and i can move on to the print with 2 more A's in my pocket. :)
sadly, during the week following thanksgiving, i started coughing. it never fully developed into an actual full-blown cold, but the cough kept tagging along. sometimes i had days when the coughs were manageable, but there were some days when it was just horrible. my lungs felt like i was running for long periods of time at top speed. i would wake up in the morning feeling like my body had been through the ringer. i never woke up from them, but marshall said that i would have coughing fits at night, which caused him to not sleep well. i was just waiting for it to go away. i never had a fever and i wasn't coughing up anything alarming. finally, marshall and i a few others pushed and i made it to the doctor this last saturday. she didn't find anything in my lungs, but noticed that i was draining down the back of my throat pretty heavily. she prescribed me some codeine cough syrup and antibiotics and suggested i get the "real" sudafed for the sinus pressure. i got all med'ed up saturday afternoon and didn't start to really feel any better until yesterday. i'm still coughing, but only a FRACTION of what it's been like the last few weeks. i'm getting used to the codeine and taking real sudafed, which is making me feel all sorts of weird. i took some last night with all my other stuff and i couldn't get to sleep until 2am. i was totally wired. my mind was racing and my heart was pounding.
i wish saturday night i was feeling better because we were at a friend's birthday party and i kept having to excuse myself to blow my nose in the bathroom. the pressure in my sinuses was so bad that i felt like my face was going to explode. i wanted to badly to have a good time, but i was just feeling awful. marshall wasn't feeling that great, either, due to not getting enough sleep and starting to feel a little under the weather, as well. it just sucked. i fell asleep on the couch saturday night and ended up staying there. i was going to offer to sleep on the couch anyway, so that marshall could at least get a full night's sleep without me snorting and coughing next to him. while i was OK with this scenario, i still felt a little snubbed or something, i don't know. we spent yesterday afternoon finishing up some shopping. we're pretty much done, but the majority of our christmas gift exchange with friends is going to be AFTER christmas. we finished all the family gifts, though.
after shopping, we got together for dinner with my parents at sino. originally we wanted to go to sj omogari, but they're closed on sundays. no worries, though, considering the food we had was delicious. we all enjoyed ourselves. we also had a nice time catching up and chatting about stuff. since marshall and i are celebrating christmas eve/day with his family in LA this year, i wanted to see my parents before we left. i think we're going to have dinner with my family new years day.
anyway, neither marshall or i slept very well last night. marshall got up at some point and stayed up until almost 2am. i tossed and turned, but the sudafed coupled with some cruddy stuff that happened right before i went to bed kept me up. my heart was just pounding in my chest and my mind was going a mile a minute. i just could not get my body and my mind to relax. it was so frustrating. i checked in on marshall and i think that helped me calm down a bit. i got back into bed and eventually fell asleep. i woke up this morning feeling all woozy and still very frustrated with the stuff that happened the night before. i've been in a haze all day, so my monday has been kinda loopy. i'm not really here, but i am. i dunno. i'm hoping this clears up soon.
marshall and i leave for LA on thursday. we're driving, so at least we don't have to deal with the horrible airline traffic right now. i'm hoping for an easy drive. at least the weather is supposed to clear up, which will be nice. we're staying in LA until next tuesday. we're not totally sure what the plans are right now. we'll certainly get in touch with friends down there and hang out. we still need to coordinate christmas eve and day to see where we'll be. marshall's dad asked me if i was interested in going to disneyland while we were down there, so which i am, but we haven't figured out which day we're going to do that. so yeah, everything it's still up in the air. while i certainly don't like not having any set plans, i'm trying to be OK with it.
i also just realized that i didn't start baking like i wanted to yesterday. guess i can bake tonight and tomorrow.
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*sigh* i'm really not feeling that great today.
sadly, during the week following thanksgiving, i started coughing. it never fully developed into an actual full-blown cold, but the cough kept tagging along. sometimes i had days when the coughs were manageable, but there were some days when it was just horrible. my lungs felt like i was running for long periods of time at top speed. i would wake up in the morning feeling like my body had been through the ringer. i never woke up from them, but marshall said that i would have coughing fits at night, which caused him to not sleep well. i was just waiting for it to go away. i never had a fever and i wasn't coughing up anything alarming. finally, marshall and i a few others pushed and i made it to the doctor this last saturday. she didn't find anything in my lungs, but noticed that i was draining down the back of my throat pretty heavily. she prescribed me some codeine cough syrup and antibiotics and suggested i get the "real" sudafed for the sinus pressure. i got all med'ed up saturday afternoon and didn't start to really feel any better until yesterday. i'm still coughing, but only a FRACTION of what it's been like the last few weeks. i'm getting used to the codeine and taking real sudafed, which is making me feel all sorts of weird. i took some last night with all my other stuff and i couldn't get to sleep until 2am. i was totally wired. my mind was racing and my heart was pounding.
i wish saturday night i was feeling better because we were at a friend's birthday party and i kept having to excuse myself to blow my nose in the bathroom. the pressure in my sinuses was so bad that i felt like my face was going to explode. i wanted to badly to have a good time, but i was just feeling awful. marshall wasn't feeling that great, either, due to not getting enough sleep and starting to feel a little under the weather, as well. it just sucked. i fell asleep on the couch saturday night and ended up staying there. i was going to offer to sleep on the couch anyway, so that marshall could at least get a full night's sleep without me snorting and coughing next to him. while i was OK with this scenario, i still felt a little snubbed or something, i don't know. we spent yesterday afternoon finishing up some shopping. we're pretty much done, but the majority of our christmas gift exchange with friends is going to be AFTER christmas. we finished all the family gifts, though.
after shopping, we got together for dinner with my parents at sino. originally we wanted to go to sj omogari, but they're closed on sundays. no worries, though, considering the food we had was delicious. we all enjoyed ourselves. we also had a nice time catching up and chatting about stuff. since marshall and i are celebrating christmas eve/day with his family in LA this year, i wanted to see my parents before we left. i think we're going to have dinner with my family new years day.
anyway, neither marshall or i slept very well last night. marshall got up at some point and stayed up until almost 2am. i tossed and turned, but the sudafed coupled with some cruddy stuff that happened right before i went to bed kept me up. my heart was just pounding in my chest and my mind was going a mile a minute. i just could not get my body and my mind to relax. it was so frustrating. i checked in on marshall and i think that helped me calm down a bit. i got back into bed and eventually fell asleep. i woke up this morning feeling all woozy and still very frustrated with the stuff that happened the night before. i've been in a haze all day, so my monday has been kinda loopy. i'm not really here, but i am. i dunno. i'm hoping this clears up soon.
marshall and i leave for LA on thursday. we're driving, so at least we don't have to deal with the horrible airline traffic right now. i'm hoping for an easy drive. at least the weather is supposed to clear up, which will be nice. we're staying in LA until next tuesday. we're not totally sure what the plans are right now. we'll certainly get in touch with friends down there and hang out. we still need to coordinate christmas eve and day to see where we'll be. marshall's dad asked me if i was interested in going to disneyland while we were down there, so which i am, but we haven't figured out which day we're going to do that. so yeah, everything it's still up in the air. while i certainly don't like not having any set plans, i'm trying to be OK with it.
i also just realized that i didn't start baking like i wanted to yesterday. guess i can bake tonight and tomorrow.
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*sigh* i'm really not feeling that great today.