Ah, 6:49am. The time of keeners, go-getters, and a Fru who gave her boyfriend a ride to work today.
I like being up early, actually. I don't have to be at work until 10am today, so that means I still have two whole hours to (hopefully) study or (hopefully not) play Hearthstone!
So, I've actually written two whole posts for this blog already, but I decided I didn't like the tone they had. I'm not sure if it's a result of me trying to be amusing or clever, but they sounded too negative for what I want to get out of this blog. It seems like trying to be clever leads me to write snarky comments about society in general. So! I've hidden them for now. What I'd really like to do is write some boring posts about my everyday life. Those are the kinds of blogs I like reading, and they say you should write what you want to read (do they say that?). A peek into someone else's life.
Maybe I was avoiding doing that because I'm shy or afraid to expose myself (heh) online... so I was hiding behind snarky words and negative views of society? I don't know. What am I, a psychiatrist?!
Anyway, going to try and avoid that for now, at least. Time to tell my non-existent readers about the life of Fru!
The past month has been a challenge in terms of health for me and the boyfriend (I'll just call him the Fox from now on). Personally, I have contracted three different diseases in as many weeks. Right now I have the common cold; before that it was "Mexican bum flu," or some sort of stomach bug that was brought back from Mexico by my tiny second cousin and lovingly shared with the whole family at Easter (now I know what bile looks like when forcibly ejected from one's own innards! very educational); and before that it was the common flu (you know, the one with the aches and the pains and the chills and the headaches).
The Fox has had all these and more as well. He's suffering from some sort of unknown ailment at the moment, for which he had a bunch of tests done the other day, so hopefully that'll provide some clue, or it will clear up on its own.
So not the healthiest. However! Once this cold is done (and it's getting better), I am determined to remain healthy for at least a month or two, to make up for it. I've had to miss a couple days of work (one for each sickness, actually, and two for the Mexican one), which isn't that big a deal I suppose, but I don't like to inconvenience the bakery department, because there is only one other who works in it and if I miss a day it usually means that she doesn't get her 2 days off.
Anyway! That's been unusual for me; I don't tend to get sick very often (knocks on wood). So hopefully it's just because of a bunch of contagion and not because my immune system has weakened terribly.
In other news, the Fox and I are planning a camping trip coming up this weekend. So exciting! I love camping, and haven't been for ages. We're making a trip to the island to attend the nursing graduation ceremony of a good friend of mine, and decided to make a mini-holiday of it. Now that we have a car, we can do these things. I just dropped a bunch of money yesterday (argh, my wallet) on some camping supplies, including folding chairs and marshmallow roasting sticks (you know, the necessities). I have my fingers crossed that it won't pour with rain the whole time. It is supposed to rain for some of the days, but only lightly. With any luck. We'll be in a tent, so... yeah. But! Even if it does, it's still going to be awesome because camping.
I love sitting around a fire with people. It's one of my favourite things. I always find that staring into a fire provokes good conversation. I wonder if that's one of the things that started humankind on its way to language and complex social structure. A bunch of early people sitting around the fire that they had newly discovered how to build, looking for something to do other than stare at each other. Maybe they started by pantomiming and it built from there.
Anyway. Camping! Yay!
Even though I've made a checklist and tried to get as prepared as possible, I still feel like a kid who doesn't actually know what she's doing. I guess since I've almost always gone camping with my parents or a larger group of friends, it feels like there are others there who know better than me how to camp properly, so the pressure's off. But this time, it's just the two of us (and I'm the one who has done much of the planning, somehow...!). So there's no one else who is bringing things that I may have forgotten, or has thought of something totally obvious that I haven't thought of. It's all up to us!
But, I guess no one really knows what they're doing. We're all just taking a stab at life in general, right? That's how I try to view things, because otherwise it means that everyone else totally has it together at all times and I'm just a confused little creature who is trying to look like she has some semblance of organization.
What was I even talking about? I'm not sure how I get onto these things.
Anyway, that's the excitement of the moment. After the trip I need to staple my wallet shut and keep my head down for a while, because no money. And also, I am taking an online course (Biology 12! take it while you're in high school, kids!) which needs to be complete by June 8th or something, so I need to really buckle down on that. I should have enough time to complete it, providing I avoid Hearthstone and Facebook and DeviantArt and all those lovely time-wasters. (I just discovered the wonder of Hearthstone, and I'm surprisingly good at it for whatever reason, so it's a dangerous thing right now. I'm trying to avoid it by listening to the soundtrack instead, because that way I can study.)
The Biology 12 is a prerequisite, by the way. After being unsuccessful in the graphic design world (by choice, mind you) I am heading into the wonderful world of laboratory tech! My goal is to first become a medical lab assistant (because the program is quick and fairly cheap), and use that as a stepping stone to perhaps become a medical lab technician.
I could write many posts about that whole area of life, but that's for another day. For now let's just say that I haven't "given up" on art; I've re-thought what I want to do with it. And that doesn't include using my creative skill to make advertisements or packaging design for other people's dumb stuff. Way back before all the art school, I made art for myself because I enjoyed it. My goal now is to get back to that, after my creative motivation was lost through a combination of my own blunders or maybe my own laziness, and the doctrines of commercial art school.
Follow your dreams, kids, but be careful of well-meaning people telling you to "do something" with your talent! Do it for yourself first, and for other purposes second. This is my sage advice for the day. (bows)
Anyway, best go make more tea and then study neurons! Thanks for reading, ghosts, and have yourselves a lovely day.
