Congestion = A Nightmare

This week I've had a little cold. Nothing too major except I couldn't talk for two straight days because of a sore throat (very difficult for me to do I can assure you) and I looked like a complete and total insane maniac. Plus my brothers were not very conducive to my recovery by shrieking loudly, running around the house, and pounding on the drums when I was trying to sleep (you'd think they'd be more considerate, but I've learned not to expect too much from brothers..). Anyways, last night, however, was NOT fun. I thought I was all over my cold, but I woke up with my ear throbbing so bad I thought it was going to pop off my head. I lay there, writhing in pain, for a few minutes debating whether or not I should go wake up my mom. Normally I don't like to wake people up from their beauty sleep unless the house is on fire, I'm covered in snakes, or I'm just plain dying. The pain was so dang bad, however, that I stumbled out of bed. I figured I probably wasn't dying, but I didn't want to take any chances....

After explaining all this to my mom, she got up to get me some ear drops and a heating pad. Unfortunately, at this point my stomach started hurting really bad and I felt like I was going to hurl at any moment. Plus the world started spinning wildly and my ears started ringing. I wasn't sure what this signified but I knew it wasn't good. I have a deathly fear of fainting so I began to panic over the idea of fainting, which didn't help matters one bit. "Mom!" I said rather frantically. "I think I'm going to faint." My mom told me to get straight back to bed, so I lurched down the hallway wondering if I was going to pull through and wishing I hadn't eaten all that popcorn right before bed. I lay there for a while, and finally the nausea passed as did the ear pain. Let me assure you, though, it was some of the WORST pain I've ever had in my life and my ear still hurts a little bit as we speak. Apparently all that congestion from my cold went straight to my ear cause it feels full of something (I don't really want to think about what at the moment...). It feels better today though so hopefully it'll be all right soon. I really can't take this being sick much longer. For a workaholic, sitting around trying to recover from a cold and doing *gasp* nothing is a horrible nightmare that should never be contemplated. Scary stuff....

Later :)

Haha

Life can be incredibly strange. So strange in fact that it's downright funny. Some of my most interesting life observations come from looking back on the past and then seeing how much my perspective has changed since then. For example, about a year ago this month my mom dropped a bombshell on me. We were going to be moving....Instead of being the rational person that I am and taking the time to think through this announcement, I immediately freaked out.
Me: "WHAT THE HECK?!?! Are you kidding me???? This is gonna mess up and ruin my life!!!! I'm gonna be miserable and hate my life!!! How can you do this to me???? This is a nightmare!!!! AUGH!!!!!" (Exit stage left in a furious huff).

Now, I realize what an idiot I was. Okay I wasn't really an idiot seeing as how there was no way I could have known how good moving here could be, but I still should have looked on the positive side instead of acting like a psycho maniac. Moving here has been absolutely AMAZING and I can't imagine not living here now. It was one of the best things that happened to me (who would have thought I'd have been saying that year ago....). So yeah there's an interesting perspective change for ya....

It's also interesting how much my opinion has changed concerning this fluffly white stuff known as snow. As a child, whenever I saw snow I about went wild. I ran outside, acted like a maniac, got coated in wet snow, and ran in freezing but for some strange reason very happy. Now, snow is more of a bother than anything else (no I'm not a Scrooge or anything). It's pretty, I'll grant you that, but seeing as how I don't even get school off for it there's really no point to it. It only keeps me cooped up in the house all day and all my plans get canceled. So I've been pretty frustrated because it's been snowing allll day and it'll probably be snowing more tomorrow so who knows how mad I'll be after it's all over....But hey, no point in fretting about the weather right?

Ttyl

Tired

I'm tired. I'm so tired I can hardly look at the computer screen without my weary head hitting the desk with a hard thunk. Why, you might ask, am I so tired? Well first of all I haven't slept decently for three nights in a row. Last night, when I was about to fall into a calm, peaceful sleep, my dear brother runs into my room and says, "Hannah, I have something for you to fall asleep on." And he then proceeds to tell me a rather long drawn out story while I am sitting there, blinking my eyes because of the sudden explosion of light in the room and wishing I had the power of super strength so I could throw him furiously out of the room...Well he finally left but, wouldn't you know it, I couldn't go back to sleep. I tossed and turned and groaned and thought about how tired I was going to be if I didn't fall asleep which didn't help matters at all. The other two nights were pretty much exactly the same (minus the talkative brother) so right now I'm pretty much a zombie. I think I'll fall asleep tonight though. At least I'd better or I better get used to being nocturnal...

I'm also tired because we started school back today. It went well, but I was really getting the hang of being lazy and sitting around all day doing exactly what I wanted when I wanted to. Now I get to spend a whole lot of time everyday with my good old friend named calculator (physics and precal take up so freaking much of the day) and my brain feels a bit more stretched than it did before. Not to mention summer seems so very far away. I found out a few weeks ago that I get to go to Boston this summer to visit my cousins, so now this semester is going to go by that much slower....*sigh* That's life I suppose.

I'm too tired to write anymore so ttyl ;)

A New Year

Well 2010 is finally here and I have to admit that this fact creeps me out just a tiny bit. For one thing, this is the first time in my life where I can remember every single year of an entire decade. For another thing, I've always viewed 2010 as that far off, momentous year in the misty future when I graduate high school. I never expected this year to ever get here for crying out loud....;) Anyways, I'm trying my best not to think about it too hard and to remember that I'm taking a year off before college (the only things keeping me from having a full scale panic attack).

New Year's Eve was actually pretty fun. I played games with my crazy family for most of the night, and thanks to some of the goings on during said games I will never be able to contemplate black snakes with a straight face ever again (just don't even ask...). ;) I even was able to sit up till midnight and got to watch all the insane maniacs on TV celebrating the start of the New Year (just so you know you couldn't pay me enough money to be at that crowd on New Year's Eve). I'd rather watch the whole affair from the comfort of my living room if you don't mind...

Today we didn't do too much except watch the Rose Bowl Parade (my dear friend introduced me to that as I had, sadly enough, never watched it) and fire a toy rocket. To get things straight this rocket was not my idea whatsoever as I really don't get into such dangerous things. (haha). Like the extremely intelligent person that I am, I sat in the warm, heated car and watched the rest of my family attempt to shoot that dang rocket in the 16 degree weather. That might be their idea of fun, but it sure as heck isn't mine....;) haha

Happy New Year's to everyone and I hope 2010 is amazing for you. I have a feeling it's gonna be a good year....;)