Tough Luck

I was major, major sick yesterday… for any of you who’ve read my previous blog, you’ve heard of my cool built-in forewarning system: when my skin starts to hurt I know I’m getting sick. Unfortunately I had to work after school, but in the last hour I had to call Joel in to close for me. I went to my parents’ house (they had left for meeting but had soup and vitamins on the counter for me!) and had a detox bath. Afterwards, and after I shuffled around gaining sympathy from my mom, dad and Squirt, I layered on the clothing and made a cocoon out of the bed and cold-sweat through the night.

In the morning I found my bodily temperature really did constitute for all the pain I was in–in plain English, because I don’t know if that meant anything to anyone but me–I had a fever. It was 99.6 and yes, Canadians, unfortunately I’m speaking in Fahrenheit.

So, there is my story of the day. I have a huge throbbing headache–you know the one that whenever you stand up or exercise too much it feels like your brain is pulsating? I wonder what that really is, by the way. Hm.

…and T-Day pics

Beck and Elav… aw how cute.

[more] Thanksgiving Photos

 
Above Left: Ingrid posing.  Above Right: Ingrid posing.

 

Left: Britta posing.  Right: Ingrid.
These pictures were my theme of “women with long hair” for my photography project on Friday. I’m rethinking it because, while I love these, I don’t feel sure of my goal within the photos. So I may be doing something else…
As always: more pictures on my Picasa Web Album.

Below: Britta and Ingrid.

 

Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone else’s T-Day was a blast. Mine was really simple and relaxing. Perhaps a titch on the side of being too relaxing as I probably gained about ten pounds! I rode down to Rockford, Illinois with Eric Anderson and Deanna Bing (Eric is brother to Elav and boyfriend to Deanna) on Wednesday late-night and drove back up on Sunday afternoon. The weekend included: John & Julie (los padres), Britta & Ingrid (las hermanas), Eric & Deanna, Elav & I. Kinda cute–everyone is paired up.

I really did miss being with my huge (close to thirty people this year) family, I will admit. I had to ask at one point that Jelly, mi hermana, would be silent about how their T-Day meal went partly because I was very sad I couldn’t be there and mostly because we hadn’t eaten yet and I was starving.

Elav got a new XBox 360… I enjoy the car racing game in which at one point my aim was to try head-on collide with every car driving at me as I drove the wrong way in the game. I looked away for a second and Elav, who didn’t know what I was up to, said “Hey! I just passed you!” I still maintain the idea that video games are a sneaky way to desensitize people in real life from whatever action they are practicing on the screen. So don’t be surprised if you start hearing stories about me driving the wrong way on I-94 in downtown St. Paul attempting to collide head-on with each vehicle.

The Top 10…

I have a limited time to write, but I wanted to write something happy. Well, of course! Write a top 10 something list. Hmmm what to write …well, Top 10 Pet Peeves is not happy. That’s called “complaining” in parent terms. Top 10 Thing Elav Does To/For Me isn’t always appropriate for public blogs so here are my…

Top 10 Reasons to Live in River Falls, Wisconsin
*sometimes just referring to my situation*

1. There is a university in town.
2. With a clock that chimes at every hour for a few seconds and much longer if it happens to be a Sunday afternoon and you are taking a nap… or trying at that point.
3. There is a river that goes through the town (River Falls people…).
4. The Whole Earth Grocery, commonly known in my blogs as the Coop, is half a block away and I have the key so I can midnight shop!!!
5. It is considered big enough to be a city.
6. The city-center consists of an actual Main Street.
7. The city-center is thirty miles away from St. Paul.
8. It is thirty miles away from the majority of my friends.
9. It is thirty-three miles away from where I used to live: Patagonia, the Tea Garden, the Art store, Whole Foods Grocery, the Thai Restaurant, Starbucks…
…and lastly…
10. where I live is on Main Street and and I can get around without driving!

Poor man’s easel

This is my new easel although some may call it an ironing board. I found it on the side of the road while I walked on my way to school so on the way home I had it under one arm and my canvas under another.

Yesssss!

You know you are living in 2006 when…

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don’t have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
: )

12. You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn’t a #9 on this list

AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.