Last couple days & the week(s) ahead…

Sleep shall be soon…

I think I have returned to ‘normal’…I’ll get to that.

Let’s see…What am I wanting to remember to put here…Oh well, we’ll just see what I do remember as I go.

I was going to go for a bike ride yesterday…I got as far as kicking up the kickstand on Sonja’s bike, when ‘It’s the End of the World As I Know It’ starts issuing from my pocket. O.o My first thought is…How did she know?! [That is Sonja’s personal ringtone for my phone.] Their father got called into work, so they needed me to come get them. *grins* Happiness! *saves Critters for a bit*
That was at around 2:15…Wasn’t sure how long I was going to have them. At midnight decided that I was shutting lights off & if it showed up, it was going to be tough out of luck. They is mine & I was keeping them. As it turns out, he didn’t call until about 6pm, and it was another half hour before he got here to pick them up. [Apparently it takes him 30 minutes to go 5 miles…Not complaining though, the longer my babies are with me, the happier we all are.]

Anyway…I had a sneezing fit right after I got home with the Critters. They are awful fits on occasion, just couldn’t stop. Terrible really. Sonja got me some allergy medicine out of the cupboard. I hate taking meds…& I really didn’t care for that kind to begin with, knowing that they tend to make me sleepy. BUT…I wanted the sneezing & crap to go away…So I took the evil things.
Made a quick run to drop off a package at a UPS box. [*growls* The power cord to my laptop has gone all blah on me (power cords so hate me, I swear)…I had one ordered from Amazon.com, unfortunately when it got here, it decided to be a piece of crap and now work. Blah!]
I started feeling droopy on the way back…Okay, yeah, we did stop at the grocery store to look for something to eat, but even so…I hadn’t expected the allergy med to make me sleepy THAT quickly.
Came home, Mum made some food, then I proceeded to crash. I was semi-with it…But dozing pretty good at times. [Sucks to be like that when my Critters were here, but they were just happy to be home, so I guess it’s okay for the most part.]
Woke up this morning, still not feeling quite right…Ate…Took the supplements I’ve been taking…Felt the tiredness start to creep in a bit stronger again. Honestly, I was like WTF? I’m use to the allergy meds doing that at first, but I am not use to it lingering into the next day!
I’ve come to the conclusion that the allergy med & the St. John’s Wort do not mix. Unless of course you are a fan of feeling a bit f#cked up. Which I, am not.

After another nap…I’m feeling more like myself though, as I stated earlier. So hopefully that uck is all out of my system.

Other things…
Monday we shall be making our way down to Grand Valley’s campus…& try not to get lost. O.o I’m taking my books back & picking up those of the next semester…Which may or may not be DOOMED. *falls over*

Honestly, really…I’m beginning to wonder about the intelligence of Grand Valley. [I also have found our recently that it’s considered the toughest school in the area when it comes to the Education program…Joy for me. *rolls eyes*] There are only 3 weeks until the start of fall semester…I have 2 classes…1 of them has a teacher. *shakes head*  I’ve read mixed reviews about the Intro to Social Linguistics professor. Sonja says I’m not allowed to call him Jackie Chan because it would be ‘racist’. [Honestly, not my fault…I wouldn’t do it anyway…It’s just Harley has been watching The Adventure’s of Jackie Chan…So that’s what came to mind.] Yet, she had no problem with me calling my Econ teacher Akhmed…& that wasn’t even right, because he was Pakistani, not whatever an Akhmed would be. [Gods…This part of this entry sounds SOOOOOO bad. *headdesk* Maybe the med/herb combo isn’t quite done with me yet…I can claim being drugged, right?]

The other class is Teaching Reading…Which by all rights should have been set to be taught by the professor I had that was just told she no longer has a job! & in fact, is the class they offered her at a third of the pay. IF they will consent to turn it into a hybrid class, then she will consent to teach it. But she said she’s not going to teach it for a third of the pay & have to stay up here until December. So…We shall see…The only other ‘English’ professor I know of for sure up here is Kurt…O.o I so am not ready for another Bullock class…I am relishing my break from him.

On another note…Tuesday…Mum will be going in for surgery. She’s had bad acid reflux for…Pretty much forever. Hopefully this surgery will take care of it. That is the plan anyway. Afterwards she is going to be off work for a month…& has to be on a liquid diet for 3 weeks!
So yeah…If anyone has any ideas of something I can feed my poor Mum over that 3 weeks…I’ll be quite happy to take them. I’ve been looking up ideas online, hoping to keep things interesting for her. She wasn’t impressed when I told her she was going to have butternut squash soup & like it. *nods* She needs to try more stuff, it’ll be good for her. She seemed a bit more pleased with the idea of the Peanut butter Shake thing I found a recipe for.

I’m not sure if anything other than going to Grand Valley is going to get squeezed into this next week. Not sure Harley will enjoy it, he might…Sonja is looking forward to it. She wants to check out the bookstore & the library.
With Mum off work…Not sure she’ll be feeling up to it this week…& not sure we’ll have the fundage for anything the few days I have the week before classes start again.
Critters want to go camping…So maybe we can manage that somewhere in there.

Saturday…I will be hopping on a plane once more, & heading for Missouri for a week. Planes are still not high on my list of ‘Yeah, I want to go do that.’ Tho…Admittedly, once I’m on there, things seem to be okay. What I’m really not looking forward is my layovers this time around. *falls over*
On the way down I have a 3 hour 45 minute layover.
On the way back  I have a 2 hour 31 minute layover.
Food will be a necessity on the way down, I’m sure. I’m flying out of T.C. @ 12:25pm…So before I leave O’Hare, I’m probably going to have to feed my belly.
I’m hoping there is enough to keep me occupied for the time I’m there. I know there is a Children’s museum at the airport, but if it’s on the other side of security, they can forget it…I’m only going through security when I have to, not going to bring that on myself any extra t

imes.

Not sure what to expect during my trip, or how it’s going to go. Hopefully all will be well. Honestly I’m a bit nervous on two parts. 1. It’ll be the first time I’ve been down there since Wasil got hurt, and has become the extra sensitive soul that he is currently. I’m hoping tho, that once he sees I’m not going to change how I am with him, that maybe he’ll start feeling a bit more secure again, and not be so clingy & needy…It’s really quite stressful. But I love him, so I’m willing to be patient & hopeful. 2. He’s not living in the same place he was living, which wouldn’t really matter, but he’s got a roommate now. I’m not a fan of people in general…& I’m pretty sure ’Bubba’ is a people. It’s just knowing that there is going to be an extra ’body’ around the entire time…Someone I don’t know…It’s a bit unnerving. I’m not good around people/beings I don’t know.

Although I might be in for a bit of a treat while I’m gone too…If Wasil follows through on the thought he sent in my good night text. *pokes @ text* He said something about staying one night at a hotel, something about in luxury, and a themed room & a Jacuzzi. I think I could live with that. *smiles* We shall see.

Okays…Been writing this for nearly an hour…Should probably curl up in a ball and take a bit of a sleep.