Sunny Sickness

   I have been sick many times in my life but for some reason it is always worse when it is sunny outside. I can't go outside and get a tan cause it makes my head get really fuzzy.  Back in Oregon its was rainy so much that when I was sick it wasn't that upsetting, I didn't really want to go out in the rain anyways.
   So hear I am sitting on hulu watching old roswell episodes, good stuff. And I can't help wondering why they don't play good theme music on tv shows anymore. Shows like Charmed, Roswell, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer had such good music. The kind that you want to find the name of and add to your ipod. What happened to the music?
  It's wednesday and that means less than a week before I go back to USD! I love school and I love San Diego, in fact those are two of my favorite things. Add in the pool and sushi and I am one lucky lady. I have a few goals for this semester, get good grades, join a sorority, get fit, and meet some new friends of all types. That includes guy but most importantly guy friends, hanging out with my brother over break I really miss having that guy that I can joke around with and he won't be fazed by anything I say.

2 Weeks Left

   I love my family, I really do, but sometimes... Lets just say that I am ready to go back to school. From tying the canoe to the top of our rental truck to a way too personal conversation about being safe when I go out it can be hard to escape the very strong opinions of my mother and brother. Especially when the only escape is to jump out of a moving car at 85 mph. Which was very tempting at times. 

   I also want to get back to school because I get to rearrange my room. I have used that as a way to escape my family on the long trips between California and Arizona. I just jump on my computer and rearrange all the furniture until I forget what I was mad about. Then I pretend to rejoin the conversation. I have realized that my family's favorite activity is to argue. If Sam says McDonalds, my mom says Honeys Donuts.

   But its not all bad. I love the sun, the beach, and realizing that most of the things I worry about when I am at school are inconsequential. 

  So now I am going to sleep because even though its only ten I know that I will be woken up really early. Thats right, my break means waking up early. I don't like sleeping in anyway, right?

Chemistry
    It seems like chemistry is out to get me. Now I know that lots of people hate chem, its not really a new development but I can say that I am probably one of the strongest haters of chem. I have known for years that I would major in bio but what I didn't always know is that in order to major in bio I have to survive 4 semesters of chem. Since the first semester is over I thought I would be less worried since I am one fourth done with it but no, not really. That B- on my transcript actually came as a surprise, it shouldn't have. And today I just got off the waitlist for my chem class, so excited. I would rather take two calc classes for every chem class, no joke, thats how I feel about chem.
  
    Now there is one class that I am taking for no real reason other than for the fun of it and that is massage. I can truthfully say that massage is a class I will thoroughly enjoy. I just hope that there are some massages in the deal for me. I can't help but wonder who we will learn on. I mean I don't really think you can massage a dummy, other than one of the human persuasion.

   I am having a great time in the sun and swimming two days in a row is definitely a plus but I am also really sorry that I can't visit my friends back home. I can't help but wonder what we would be doing and when I will ever see them again. I love my college friends, but there is something to be said for friendships that started back in middle school. Not that I really went to middle school. I barely remember anything from that time in my life other than returning to school and having my friends react as if I returned from the dead, all the while answering "no I just have really bad allergies". That is a big plus about San Diego, practically no allergies.

    Bye, I have to go watch Pretty Little Liars, not really something I want to do but everyone seems to really like it so I figure I should give it a try before I make fun of them. Plus, watching it should give me some good material with which to tease them.

Christmas is never quite what I expect. Is this a good thing or bad thin? I guess its a bit of both but at times I just wish it were over. My family is so unique. I am sure that if I told you about the things we discuss you would be quite surprised but for me its just another holiday with the fam. For instance, my christmas present wasn't a pair of uggs or even dish towels, no I got a hamster. And I also got some sports bras which are a little less unexpected for a college freshman living in a dorm room with no room for a hamster even if that hamster would be allowed to live there. Ok, so you might have been thrown by the hamster but I bet you wouldn't expect what happened the next morning. My mom walks into the living room with the hamster and tells us that it is dying. Thats right one day later and its already ready to take its leave of us. That doesn't mean that we gave up the hamster without a fight. We fed Nadia, the dwarf white russian hamster, corn sirope, which if you don't know from growing up on a farm, is a sure way to raise an animals blood sugar levels fast. She didn't make it however, so we ended up going out and getting a hardier one, good luck hamster.
So after the hamster debacle I went to the hotel where a family friend is staying while she visits over the holidays with my family which is staying with my grandma in Mesa, AZ. It is lovely outside here with temperatures in the sixties and the sun out all day with no clouds in sight. This being the case my brother and I decided to go for a swim in the outdoor pool at the hotel. Before getting in the pool I decided that I would go workout in the exercise room for a bit. This proved to be a slightly flawed plan however as there were only five machines there, a bowflex, bike, old stepping machine of some sort, and two treadmills. The newer of the treadmills was out of order however, so I decided to use the bike. This may have also been a bad decision because the bike was not entirely what I would call "in order". Every few minutes it would randomly turn off and I would have to start it up all over again. Given my habit of being quite impatient it might be expected that I would give up and try a new machine but I kept restarting the machine for over 40 mins. After I finished working out my brother, Sam, and I hit the pool.