The Flu and My After Thoughts

So for the past week I've been extremely under the weather. I was wondering why I had this sore throat that wasn't going at all. And then Sunday night I began to have this crazy fever... I don't think I ever felt so cold before in my life. I was shivering under 4 long sleeved shirts and a hoodie, plus a scarf, wool hat, PJs and jeans on top of them, and two wool socks on each foot... I might as well have been having hypothermia or something, but I fell asleep and it didn't bother me until I woke up and then I was super hot, but as soon as I took off the layers of clothing I I couldn't handle the cold. I stayed in bed for pretty much the whole day on Monday... just barely being able to walk upstairs and back down.

Yesterday morning was pretty brutal. I wanted to die. I got up 9:30 to get ready for a trip to the doctor's office. I had to do walk-in because "all appointments [were] booked until next Thursday" as the receptionist told me. It was so difficult to get up that early, my body was not willing to move at all, but I had to get up and go because I needed the doctor's note to give to my Chem TA because I missed that lab. After trying to get ready for 1.5 hrs... I finally reached the office at 11:30 am and got myself for the long wait ahead of me. Sitting in the waiting room was like torture for me... the only thing I could look at was the movie "Serendipity" and there were 15 people who were as sick as me waiting and waiting. I started to have this massive fever again and was gone. Two of the nurses asked me if I was okay, I said "yeh." After that movie ended, they decided two play "Pirates of the Carribean" to cheer the place up because we all looked "dead and gloomy" as the second nurse that checked on me said. so I watched pretty much that whole movie and then finally got called in... a wonderful 3.5 hr wait for the note that took 5 seconds to write. I was like "why... why me??? I just want to lay in bed and sleep". At 3:30 pm I got home and just went to bed... I was so happy to be lying down and just so exhausted. Spending practically my main portion of my day inside the office where there are no windows is so hard to deal with.

Today was a little bit more forgiving. I got up and felt great. Didn't go to school because my doctor told me I was excused from school until Friday and should try not to go to classes or labs... so I listened :D yey for me! An excuse to go to school where I can learn the exact same thing reading it from a book that I paid over $100 for. So anyways, I stayed at home and relaxed. About 2 pm I started feeling it again, but i have yet to fall asleep. I don't want this sickness to become a habit i can't break like not going to school, sleeping through the day and then staying up all night. I can't do that anymore... it killed me last time I did that. Now it's almost time for my bedtime... so yeh. Tomorrow is my last day off, but it's a day full of studying because I have to write an online quiz for chem tomorrow which won't be fun! and plus I have band practice for CCC which I am excited for. My first time singing at University in front of a crowd of people... well actually my second, but I just try not to remember the first time.

Things I've learned through this Flu week... I hated Serendipity before and I fully destest and despise it now so nothing much has changed in that point. I love sleep. I find classes pointless to go to if they just take everything from a book and I find buying their textbooks pointless if they decide not to take anything from it (and by anything I mean more than 10 pages out of it) because then I'll just photocopy it all.

goodnight and good luck!
~Coconut~

My Song Of The Week

I'm just loving this song right now. I'm definitely overplaying it, but meh whatever by next week I'll like some other song anyways!

Free - Hillsong

Would you believe me if i said
That we are the ones who can make the change
In the world today
Would you believe me if i said
That all of the dreams in your heart can come true...
Today...
Would you believe me if i said
That life could be all that you want it to be... today...

And if i had wings i would fly
'Cause all that I need You are
And if the world caved in around me
To You i'd still hold on
'Cause Your all that i believe
And the one that created me
Jesus.... because of You i'm Free

Would you belive me if i said
That God can make miracles happen today
Would you believe me if i said
That you don't need to wait for the answer before
You step out in faith
Would you believe me if i said
That nothin is ever impossible.. for God

Just live your life with God inside
You won't regret one moment of it
And give all that you can for God.
For God

L8s, Latex and all the good stuff :p

SNOW DAY... WAHOOO!!!!

So in about 1.5 years of being at Guelph... this is our first snow day. With the Olympics, on it just makes it for an all good time at the home with the T.V. on and hot chocolate in my hands (well in a mug in my hands... cause that would burn). It's a little upsetting that I got up at 5 am with nothing to read, went back to bed and woke up at 7 had a shower... and then dad calls me and tells me that there is no school. I coudl have slept in fora very long time, but I guess not eh?

So the Olympics. We aren't doing too bad this year, but I'm most upset right now about snowboard cross! Snowboard Cross the new olympic snowboarding sport had Seth Wescott (USA) winning the gold. That was supposed to be Canada "remaking History," like how CBC put it! But after Drew Neilson fell down in the first heat of the 1/8 Finals and came in 3rd in his heat (not qualifying for quarterfinals) and then Francois Boivin make it to the quarter finals and then coming in 3rd, so he couldn't get into the semis and then the biggest upset, the last Canadian on the Snowboard cross who made it to Semi finals Jasey Jay Anderson getting DQ'd for apparently intentionally pushing another competitor.... Argh it's annoying!

After winning against Germany 10-5, Brad Gushue and our Canadian team messed up, on a fairly easy shot, the game we played in curling against Sweden, losing 8-7. But since then, he has picked up those pieces and won 9-5 and 7-5 against Great Britain and Switzerland, respectively. As of right now though we are tied 5-5 against Norway on the 10th end. Hopefully we'll win it.

In hockey, are women are winning it all so far with our first game against Italy, 16-0, then against Russia, 12-0, and then against Sweden, 8-1. Tomorrow is our next game at 9:05pm (turin time) against Finland. Our Men's hockey team have only played one game so far and we won that 7-2 against Italy. Later today, is their next game against Germany.

Right now we have 4 medals. Our big gold winner right now is Jennifer Heil. If you saw it... I must say it was amazing. She was 1st in the qualification round, which meant she got to go last in the finals... and boy did she blow it out of this world. I liked the fact that she just kept it to the basics and didn't try anything too crazy. She worked on getting those easier tricks perfect and she did it... our first gold on the first day of the olympic games! We also have 1 silver from Cross-Country Skiing Ladies' Team sprint with Beckie Scott and Sara Renner, which was very pleasing. Our two bronzes went to Cindy Klassen for Speed Skating Ladies' 3000 m and to Anouk Leblanc-Boucher for Short Track Speed Skating Ladies' 500 m. And that's the update for now...

... I can't wait for the hockey game this afternoon and for another new olympic game, the Speed Skating Mens' and Ladies' Team Pursuit, I hope we win those. We did pretty good with Canada's Ladies' getting the Olympic record and with our Mens' with the World Record... so yeh... I'm audi! have a great day y'all and I'll see you soon! Home tomorrow night for a week of Spring Break... wahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SNOW DAY!!!

Coconut

Well I guess the horror ended... I found a place!

After stressing over housing stuff for a very very long time... I finally found the place. I've only seen two houses, but in fear of losing a spot in this place I just took it. The room is massive and is somewhat cheap for a place in guelph that's right beside everything. It's $425 including utlities, cable and internet. I love the back yard it's massive... like volleyball court size... I was like... sweeeeeeet!!! the first place I saw was (those two words are like a mirror, ha) in an apartment building... it was pretty nice, but the girl that I would been living with was vegetarian... and that my friends I could not do... don't know how'd she react with all my meat meals... Mmmm Meat!

So yeh... that's it... I went back to the place yesterday and signed the lease and everything. I met the landlord and signed the sept-sept lease as well... which is awesome... no more stress for me! Oh and the landlord owns a restaurant called "Good Taste Chinese Restaurant" and I got free dumplings yesterday from her... it was sweeeeet! As I was about to leave, she told me that from now on whenever I want food from here I don't have to pay any taxes.... and once a month i get free food... so it's a win situation for me, don't know about her! :D I'm really excited! That's about all I have to report... so yeh... l8s, latex and all that good stuff!!!

Coconut

AHHH! Houses... When will the horror end!?!

So, let me tell you.... I've been looking for a place to live in Guelph for the next few years and my goodness it's difficult. Last year, I found it a lot easier to find a place (not a great place, but a place none the less). But this year, the area that I want to live is not the area that people are trying to find roommates for. I want an apartment by myself, but my mother doesn't like that idea and yelled at me for even thinking of it. So I've been looking for a place with randoms, which is going to be a little weird, but I guess it's a little better. Don't know why, but I think it is... I hope it is!

This year I'm being extremely picky because I want to make sure that the place I have, is a place that I'll be happy living in and won't be "ashamed" of to show my friends. Like this year, I don't particularly like the house, actually I find it quite craptastic and by quite I mean ultra. Some of my friends want to come over and see my place, but I just say "No. It's too ugly to show people."

So far I have just been reading the descriptions of places and judging if I would like to live there or not. And I use the word judging because I can't really think of an appropriate word in terms of "is that a good area?", "is it close to everything?", "is it far from school?", "what's the price and is including utilities?" and all of that jazz. I guess it's just those normal questions that people should be asking, but I didn't really think of it that much last year. I just went with wherever Bryan and Mike wanted to live... turns out I have totally regretted living there... oh well! I've e-mailed two people and am going to be seeing one place tomorrow at 4pm and the other 2 pm on Friday.

The one tomorrow is in an apartment building with a girl... Don't know how my parents are going to feel about that, but as of right now I don't really care. I'm hoping that it's going to be a nice place. The girl is going to 3rd year zoology and wants to be a vet as well, so that'd be pretty cool. It's a ten minute walk to campus, right beside my church, right behind the mall and by two grocery stores. Plus all of my friends live in that area, so I don't have to go all the way across Guelph to see them and then have to walk home for an hour because I left their place after the buses stopped running anymore. It's just a little irritating when that happens almost every weekend. The other place is with 3 guys, in a house with a pool and hot tub and dishwasher and I'd get the master bedroom with walk-in closet... a quadruple score I must say... so I'm hoping that either of these houses will be the one.

That's all I have to say about this house business... I just want it to be over with so I don't have to worry and stress over it anymore...

latex and all that stuff (my new phrase)

Coconut