Looooooong Weekend

Ok, so it's not really a long weekend. As far as actual weekend length goes, this weekend is as normal as they come. Saturday, Sunday, done. No holiday Monday or anything... It's just going to feel really long for me. A bunch of my friends are leaving this weekend for different things. Adrian's gone to the Philippines for a couple weeks, so that leaves me work-lonely and after-work-lonely and just missing him in general. He's not the only one out of town for a bit. Grant and Matt have headed out to Sunshine Valley for a backpacking trip with some other guys from church. So that leaves just the girls in town... for the most part. Kelly and I both have major assignments due for our Psych class on Monday. I haven't actually started compiling mine yet, and I'm sure she has some little stuff to finish up. She is an amazing time-manager! She also has the most amazing study-skills out of anyone I've ever met! Megan is here too, but I don't know what she's up to... I need to hang out with her. I miss her sooo much! It's funny how someone can live practically down the street and yet you never see them. When you put all this together, the result is an extremely long weekend for me. My Psych assignment leaves me with one option: to barricade myself in my house, at my desk, every spare moment I have so that I can finish on time. Sigh... At least by this time on Monday I'll be that much closer to finishing the semester and a few more of my friends will be home. Maybe I'll post again then. I dunno, we'll see. At this point, I just needed to rant. On the bright side, the weather is gorgeous and summer semester is almost finished! I'm excited for the end of the semester and, subsequently, my summer vacation! WOOHOO!

Heatwave

The weather here has been unusually warm, even for summer time. Temperatures in the high 30s and early 40s have been rocking our area, much to the shock of the people who live here. It's actually kind of scary, seeing the effects of the heat. I saw an older man on the sidewalk yesterday who was down on his hands and knees and he looked like he was having trouble breathing. He had a group of about three or four people around him trying to help him. When the weather gets this hot it's really tough on older people and kids and pets and there's nothing we can really do, besides try to shield ourselves from the heat. It's pretty crazy! People talk about global warming and climate change and stuff with all of their new theories and whatnot, but in my personal experience the weather here has definitely been getting a whole lot more extreme in the past few years. I mean, we got snow this year?!?!? A whole bunch of it, for a really long time. And it actually got below-freezing!!!?! That rarely happens here. We generally have such a mild climate and what we are experiencing right now is anything but mild! That being said, I am enjoying the warmer weather! I don't feel cold anymore, lol. The downside is that I feel like I need to shower every couple hours. I don't like feeling sticky :S I also have a valid excuse to grab a Starbucks frap or to zip over to Booster Juice ;)In the wintertime it's a bit more difficult to explain my preferences for frozen drinks, but this is coming from someone who gets cravings for a caramel macchiato on the hottest day of the year... My inner thermostat is just totally messed up :P Anyway, I think I'm gonna head over to the mall to revel in summer sales and air conditioning. Hope you are finding ways to enjoy, or beat, the heat ;)

Not myself lately...

I've been feeling kind of weird recently. Not in my usual weirdness way either. I'm talking health-related this time. It actually really sucks :( I've kinda been all over the place, stomachache, headache, mildly feverish, energy-less, feeling like I'm gonna pass out... Any of those things by themselves I can explain away, but when you stick 'em all together and stick 'em on me, well, that's a problem. So please, please, please, pray that God would put His hand of healing over me and make my body act the way it's supposed to. That's the newest with me. On another (happier) note, one of my friends passed his roadtest! Yay! There is also a festival this weekend that we're all planning to attend for some summertime fun :)Add to that the fact that the weather has been absolutely gorgeous and Canada Day was a blast and you get a pretty darn good week overall!(I like to end on a positive note when possible ^^).