spring

Here are a few reasons why spring is my favorite season.

1. Rain. It's one of the most soothing things in the world. I sleep the best when it's raining and I can listen to it through an open window. When it's warm rain, it's fun to play in too.

2. Baseball starts

3. Everything turns green. It's beautiful.

4. I can finally golf and play softball again.

5. The truck. My family has had the truck since the day I was born. When my Dad got ahold of it some 30 years ago, it was nothing but a big heap of rusted metal. Dad spent numerous hours welding, rebuilding, and fixing it up. I've loved this truck since I was a little kid. Spring is when the ol' girl gets to come out of the shed and get her first bath of the season. It's something I look forward to every year. We only drive it during the warm months of the year. She's 67 years old so we try to be careful with her.

Somehow, this is the only picture I have on my computer. This is my papa and his baby:

Unfortunately, I'm not going to have time to get it out while I'm home this weekend. However, I'm taking it to a wedding I'm going to on the 13th of May, so I won't have to wait much longer to get it ready to go.

hooray for me

I don't have the mumps or strep throat. Huzzah! I officially have "the crud". So now I'm on some medicine and it shall all go away soon.

This weekend I'm touring southern Minnesota. I'll make a stop at my parent's place so my dad can take a look at my car door. I can't open the driver's side door from the outside. As you may guess, this makes things inconvenient. Luckily for me, I can put down the windows from the outside using my key so it isn't too difficult. It's just annoying. So hopefully my resourceful father can do what he does and make it work. While he's taking a looking at it, I'll be on my way to Rochester with Claussen and Krispy. Claussen is signing a lease for a townhouse in Pine Island so I'm just going with for the ride. If I go home tomorrow night, I might try to sweet talk dad into getting out the old truck so I can wash it.

That's all for now. Make sure to watch The Office tonight. It looks like it'll be super funny.

suzy thinks I have the mumps

I'm still sick. I've had a sore throat since Monday of last week. I'm tired of it. Tomorrow I shall make an appointment to go to student death and get myself looked at. I'm starting to wonder if it's strep. I guess I'll find out in a couple of days. This is kind of a big deal for me. I don't go to doctors. I've never been to student death. The last time I went to the doctor was when I dislocated my knee in 2003. Even then, I waited a day before I went.

And now for something completely different.

At the beginning of February, my investments class picked 5 stocks to buy with about $11000 of my professor's own money. Since then, the value of the portfolio has gone up almost $3000. What happens to the profit? I'm glad you asked. 2/3 of it goes to the United Way. The other 1/3 goes to the class as a "management fee". This means that I'll walk out of class next Tuesday night with about $60 in cash. Our class will also be sending a check for almost $2000 to the United Way. This is pretty much the coolest thing I've ever done in a class. Not to mention we made a 25% return on investment in less than 3 months.

I wish all classes were that fun...

nifty

When I got my computer last fall, one of it's cooler features was that the monitor rotated 90 degrees so the screen was taller and less wide. Today I figured out how to rotate the image on the screen so I could actually read it when it was turned. It's pretty darn cool.

a lesson learned

I never would have guessed you could get a sunburn so bad that it swelled. My face is proof that it can happen. Ow.

ETA: My nose decided it wanted to blister. eew.

ugh

Well, I'm still alive...but barely.

Things got sketchy after all the good stuff earlier in the week. I now have three tests and a quiz under my belt. I'm glad that's over.

I've been sick all week. I've had a sore throat and stuffy head since Monday. I even skipped two classes, which is a lot for me. I've taken about 9 hours worth of naps since Tuesday, also a lot for me. Right now I'm at work and I want a nap, but no such luck for another 4 hours.

Fez had to go down the tunnel of no return this morning. The poor little guy had been sick since November. His little fishy gills just couldn't handle it anymore. *sniff*

Tomorrow I'm supposed to play oozeball. I don't know how I feel about it. It's SO fun, but I don't want to play and get any sicker than I already am. If I don't play, I leave my team a player short. It's a crapchute.

This weekend I also have to get to work on that stupid paper that I've been putting off. I'll be glad when that sucker is done. Then I can start working on the next one.

2.5 weeks until this semester is over. May 10th will be a very good day.

ETA: My favorite anti-bacterial lotion that I use at work is almost gone and I can only get the scent around christmas. Stupid seasonal lotion.

relief

I just realized that prescreen for my next death paper isn't until the 26th. That's seven more days than I thought I had. I'll probably put the paper off for at least 5 more of those days. The delay couldn't have come at a better time since I'm facing 3 tests and a quiz this week.

Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket. I've had some pretty good luck lately.