A Cold New Year

First off, Happy New Year!!! I’d like to say that I spent my New Year hanging out with family or friends but it was quite the opposite. Two days before I had to leave home and head back to the college I got sick. Sadly I spent my entire New Years Eve (after I got off work) in my dorm curled up in bed watching movies. I attempted to sleep but I merely dozed. Coughing and not being able to breathe properly does that to a person. All I want to do is go home. I can’t though. I have work Saturday and even though we’re closed tomorrow I see no point in driving all the way back.

Even though I'm sick I couldn't stay in bed for long. After two movies and a book later I ended up gutting my desk and some of the closets. I even rearranged some things and cleaned. I can't help it, really. I shouldn't have done any of that because now I feel even worse. It's in my nature though. Dirty things will be attacked and purged of any and all germs and dust. I'm the type that can't live in filth, no matter how little. Call me OCD or a clean freak but regardless everything will be cleaned. MWAHAHA!!!

On the bright side my dear feral cats were very happy to see me last night. When I pulled into the college parking lot they came sprinting to me. I only shook my truck keys once too. Amazing! They apparently missed me more than I thought they would. They even tagged along when I went to throw the trash out. I ended up feeding them twice that night. Momma has a worrisome pudge to her belly. I pray to God that she’s not pregnant. I really can’t deal with that right now. I’m not Mother Nature though so in the words of Shigure “Que, sera sera.”

My brother has already called my twice today. Once to tell me that he went to his friend’s ranch and shot off fireworks of which I’m so jealous of. Fireworks were banned five or six years ago in my subdivision so I haven’t shot off a firework in a long time. I’m happy he got to though. The second time was to ask me what exactly an aardvark was. To be honest I didn’t really know. So I did a little research and discovered that they look like anteaters, are commonly called anteaters, but belong to their own family and resemble pigs. Their closest living relative is apparently an elephant shrew. I personally think they look more like a possum and an anteater decided to have offspring but whatever. I ended up sending him a picture of an aardvark.

I think I’ll go put in another movie now and hopefully get some sleep. I don’t appreciate feeling like I’m underwater but then most people don’t. I think I’ll go get some Kleenexes in the morning.

Candy Cane Poem

A significant symbol of Christmas
Is the Simple Candy Cane.
It's shape is the crook of the Shepherd
One of the first who came.
The lively peppermint flavor is
The regal gift of spice.
The White is Jesus' purity.
The Red is sacrifice.
The narrow stripes are friendship
And the nearness of his love.
Eternal, Sweet Compassion
A gift from God above.
The Candy Cane reminds us all
Of how much God cared.
And like His Christmas gift to use
It's meant to be broken and shared.

~Anonymous

Bringing Home the Bacon

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Well, I went home for Sunday, driving through the night on Saturday... between Brady and Llano I did something I have never done before.
I hit something.
I've been driving for three years now, and have never hit anything. However, in the hill country of Texas, I came up a hill to see a gray shape in the road. There were a few thoughts running through my head- surprise at hearing my own startled yelp, noticing that the animal-shape did not have the long neck distinctive to deer- and was therefore probably a pig of some kind. (Because we do have wild pigs in Texas.) The rest was instinct. Push on the brakes, turn the wheel to try and avoid hitting the creature.
I did manage to avoid a head-on collision, I only caught it with the corner of my car. I pulled over to try and see the damage... I couldn't find my flashlight, so all that I could see in the glare of my still-operational headlights was that the section of car under my right headlight- I don't know that you would call it a bumper- was gone. Snapped away as if it never was.
I was- and am- fine. However at church the next day, my parents and friends proceeded to tell me how bad it COULD have been. Apparently, wild pigs are one of the worst things that you can hit. Low center of gravity+ High density= High probability of flipping cars.
I was also lucky that my car made it the hour remaining to my house- apparently the impact shoved an important tube up against something that spins, and a hole was being bored into it the whole time I was driving.
I just really didn't need this right now. Ah well, stella vi, right?
I did get to see my church's candlelight communion on Sunday- which I try my hardest not to miss every year- its my favorite service. I didn't even know that they were having it this Sunday!
It just doesn't feel quite like Christmas to me until I've stood in that Sanctuary, candle lit, seeing the whole room aglow just from the candles we hold, and sung Christmas songs with my church family.
Soon I get to go back home, and hopefully, get some rest and relaxation. I'm driving my mother's truck, and the last thing any of us need is for something to happen to THAT.

Burned out

So Fruit Bat and I went to go see the Princess and the Frog tonight... And only got about halfway or so through the movie. T_T
The screen started showing lines, getting blurry, and finally the film burned all the way through. We waited for a little bit, peering into the light booth, but no one was there. Fruit Bat and I left our seats to seek out an employee- to no avail. It was midnight, and Nobody was there. No one at the concession stands, or ticket booths... we called for people up and down the halls- the doors were locked... it was so weird... I mean, who leaves people behind in a theater? We could have totally messed the place up with no one there.
Eventually we found an employee-manager type person and explained the situation- he had somebody check on it, and gave us some rain checks, so FB and I are going to try again later.
For tonight, it's reruns of Danny Phantom and a very late dinner.

Snow day!

So yesterday, Fruit bat woke me up early to let me know that it was snowing outside- I got up to look, and promptly went back to bed. Sleep is a good thing, and I never feel like I get enough. When it was finally time for me to get up, I grabbed my camera and ventured out into the closest thing to a winter wonderland that I've seen in a long time. Camera clicking constantly, I walked across campus to my class. There were college students making snow angels and leaving tracks in the snow- two girls I met had tread out a heart. I myself made a miniature snowman, ate some snow, and upon arriving at my building, dropped my bags and made a snow angel. ^_^
After class I came back to the dorm, where Fruit bat was waiting. We immediately went back outside (me grabbing some gloves, because my hand had let me know during the snowman incident that touching the white powder unadorned was not appreciated.) Within two seconds of us being outside we were engaged in a snowball fight. It was fast and furious and fun- surprisingly we managed to hit each other most of the time- my aim is notoriously bad.
We made a snowman-woman-thing. We started calling it an alien because it looked so weird... Lol...
It was a lot of fun, and I was very depressed to wake up this morning and see the sun shining down on a parkinglot devoid of snow.