Beethoven – Fur Elise

I hate colds. I’ve been fighting this one for almost 2 weeks… it hasnt been too bad, some days I wake up feeling crappy but it goes away, and I’ve had this cough like normal for this time of year, but yesterday it just got so much worse, headache and everything %( We went to PLUG… only to get there and the place it was planned to be at was empty, the signs were up and everything, but we got there at 7:45 (the talk starts at 8, they have an optional Q&A session prior to the meeting tho, and people are ALWAYS there). I guess no one showed ’cause the meeting was not planned well, the presenter posted to the PLUG list yesterday afternoon saying he’d be doing the presentation, but no update on the site was made so I guess people assumed it was canceled… So a 45 minute drive into the city, through tons of traffic for nothing! Ugh, I guess we could have waited around longer than we did (about a half hour) to see if anyone would show, but Myk was tired, and like I said this cold has gotten worse, so we weren’t really in the mood.

So why am I spamming you with a Samantha Juice picture? Because this juice is yummie and I never tried it before. It used to be a Maine company… but the label on this says it’s in Maryland, oh well… it’s good anyway, and this kind has 1000% daily requirement for vitamin C … and each little bottle is 2 servings, so I just drank 2000% daily requirement, TAKE THAT YOU STUPID COLD! I bought this when I walked up to the store this morning to get some DayQuil… the only cold medicine we had in the house was NyQuil, and that stuff puts me to sleep (more on that in a minute)… so it was either sit here miserable all day with a cold and wait for Myk to bring something home tonight, or brave the cold windy weather to get medicine so I’d feel better now. Of course after i got back from the store I felt 10 times worse, but now after taking the DayQuil I feel much better, at least the headache and cough are gone. The stupid label says “non-drowsy” but they LIE!!! I am tired… or maybe it’s a combination of a little bit drowsy medicine along with the fact that I have a cold… I want to take a nap.

Right, so about NyQuil making me sleepy. Of course, it’s like 20 proof, hehe… but when I was younger NOTHING made me drowsy… another one of those strange things that happens when you grow up. Since I turned 18 all sorts of things like that have been happening. Medicine all of a sudden makes me drowsy when it never affected me before, caffeine keeps me awake when I used to be able to drink two cups of coffee and go to sleep, and you know how they say drink 6-8 glasses of water a day? It never bothered me to drink little until I got older! Now if I dont have at least 2 glasses, and a glass near my bed at night I get all dehydrated. And I am definitely much more lactose intolerant than I used to be… when I was younger I stayed away from dairy because it gave me migraines, but now I get serious stomach problems because of it (thank science for lactaid pills). I knew I never wanted to grow up! Hehee.

Thanks for the comments on yesterday’s entry. I dont actually look for answers to those questions I ask, they are more rhetorical than anything else, since this is sorta like a diary, I dont TRY to make it reader friendly. I do greatly appreciate input on my situations tho %) I think I will drop Pete and email and tell him I’ll be up in Rochester for a couple days, hey for all I know he’ll be out of town during that time, and I do want to see him.

Sooo drowsy….

So that new chat room that I am in on opn (err freenode!) is really great. It’s called #goddess and despite it’s random name, there are a lot of really cool people there, and most of them are linux users… and their usage varies from complete newbie to experienced users, which is nice. And for a room with about 30 people (*most* of whom i’ve seen talk) it really is an easy room to get into. In the past I’ve found it’s nearly impossible to become “part” of rooms that are well established, but I am very pleased with how accepting these people are… as long as you dont use mirc and arent a liar %) They are really helpful with each other, and luckily I dont feel as stupid as I usually do on OPN rooms, I even helped someone set up his Enlightenment desktop to look all nice %) Anyway it’s a great room and I’m glad my friend invited me there.

I spoke to my mother recently, didnt write about it sooner ’cause I kept forgetting, but she was getting all nostalgic about when I was younger and said something about how I never really asked for much. Now this came as quite a shock to me because I thought I tended to be a spoiled brat back in the day %) I threw tantrums in stores sometimes when I didn’t get what I wanted, and I was a terrible loser, crying sometimes when I didn’t get my way… Not to mention I was an insanely picky eater, I dont know how my parents put up with me! But as far as my mother is concerned I was an angel. Maybe she is just remembering things wrong? Or maybe I was an angel compared to my other sisters? Or maybe I really was a good kid and I’m just way too hard on myself %D No I was a brat, what is my mother thinking?! Hehe.. I think this angelic view really came from my little sis, since lately she’s been acting like a ‘wigger’ and all… oy.

I was watching the local news last night, something I hardly ever do. But I had just watched a new Law and Order, and I was all snuggled on the couch with Myk and didnt want to get up, and there was probably nothing else on anyway. Well apparently there have been some serious storms up in Maine this week, and they actually showed a clip from Portland, Maine! Yep, on big Philadelphia news they showed my little city. Of course they showed a flooded road with cars half covered in flood, and this guy in a kayak!!! Kayaking down the road!!! Gah… my whole life living in Maine I never saw such a thing, and they show it on Philly news so they can laugh at how silly Mainers are, *sigh* Of course after that scene Myk says “we are NOT moving to Maine! Floods!” Of course I tried to assure him that during my whole life living there my house had never flooded, and they clip they showed was probably from the one place in Portland that ALWAYS floods. Oh well.

Ok, I give up you stupid DayQuil!!! I am gonna go take a nap, so tired, and the sleep wont hurt, I have a cold and I need rest! %) *wanders off to take a nap*