Well, Christmas Eve was alright. Ben and I had our friend Tom over for Christmas Eve. We cooked dinner and watched movies, it was great fun. Christmas Day, Ben took Tom home. Then we met at Ben's dad's house for brunch, which was quite tastey. Ben's sister (Renee) was quite stand-off-ish towards myself and Ben, but whatever. We got Rockem Sockem ( Read more... )

Done with Animal Physiology final, HOORAY! I don't know whether to say it was easy or hard because there were areas where I was completely lost and didn't know what to say, and there were areas where I totally rocked it (or so I feel). Either way... ITS OVER ( Read more... )

Stress! Whee! Here's my game plan for the next few days ( Read more... )

Haven't updated in a while... where to begin... Lots of family drama (and for once, its not my family, it's Ben's!). Too long to really write about, too emotionally involved to really feel ok divulging it to everyone (if you want to know, I'm happy to talk about it, but I don't want to just post it for all the world to see ( Read more... )

Ear pain. Nurse/RN at doctor's office said it wasn't an ear infection, so no antibiotics (good thing I think because I'm not contributing to the drug resistance problem, at least for now). Unfortunately, I'm still in pain. You know when you cry too hard and you feel like you've got a painful lump in the back of your throat? Imagine that, except ( Read more... )

My head feels like BOOM ( Read more... )

Ben continues to recover, albeit slowly. Trying to wean him out of his 'I'm an invalid and I need help with everything' mentality ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm really pissed now, lol. I had an entry about 90% done and then Spud walked across my keyboard and erased it all, and I have no clue how to restore saved drafts ( Read more... )

Ben had his surgery yesterday, everything went well. He's finally able to talk now, but barely above a whisper. The nursing staff was wonderful, except the nurse this morning. According to Ben (I was home sleeping at the time), the nurse, just before shift change, got mad at Ben and, like, yelled at him because he hadn't peed during her entire ( Read more... )

In response to my frustrations from my last post, I called my mom. For those of you who don't know, my mom suffers from a lot of the same things I'm going through now. She has fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, and has had them for at least 18 years. She's a huge source of support for me through all of this; and she helped me come to a ( Read more... )