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.
