Leah's Lovely Christmas Break

1. My grandmother is feeling so sorry for herself that she keeps asking "Aren't you just ashamed of your grandmother?" and "It's not like going to grandma's anymore. I'm so sorry"  She doesn't realize that we love her because she's Grandma Ree, not because she made delicious food and whoop our tails in a game of cards.  She's gotten so much better in the past year and a half--but at the same time she's gotten worse.

2. I had a killer flu the day after Christmas. Seriously it was horrible. I ended up going to the hospital. That took about a week 1/2 to get over. I hardly ate a thing and i got exhuasted very easily. Today was the first day that i felt completely normal .... That is until i went to the dentist...which brings us to number 3:

3. At the dentist i was surprised that scraping the tarter ickiness off my teeth took waaay less time than usual. I felt pretty proud of myself! .... Til Dr. Baily came in and was like "Hmm yea lets go fill that in, it keeps getting worse, oh and on the other side, yea i don't want to neglect that and have it get worse lets fill that in as well. So my pride bubble was burst -- I was always so proud that I've only had one cavity and that wasnt the last few months of braces in 9th grade. So yea.. I had 2 cavities filled one on each side on the top. So I went through the rest of the next 7 hours with a numb face. Actually now, 12 hours later, my right side is kind of tender. bah!

4. My dry hands that i had for the last two months of last semester not only continued once i got home...nay, it got worse. In fact the top of my right hand is totally chapped. It hurts. It's just around 3 knuckles and a large spot on my wrist.  I just started using neutrogena hand cream that was apparently invented by norwegian fisherman and "just a dab heeals dry skin" I've used a little bit more than a dab ...twice today. We'll see how it works out..

Merry Christmas!

It was great. Except for after Christmas. Yea. I woke up Wed. morning throwing up and other things. It was great. Not really. I went to the ER later that night at like 10:30 and got fluids and meds and i finally drank a whole cup of water and ate the ice chips in it. That was exciting. I hadnt kept a thing down all day. Thursday was a little better though my stomach still hurt. but i ate a fair amount of crackers and almost an entire cup of jello. and jsut a few spoonfuls of soup.

So far, today I had a piece of toast and half a banana.  Perhaps i wont be able to go out to eat with some old family friends =o( or perhaps i will go... i just wont eat much ha!

I'm going to go downstairs now and see if my brother is watching something more exciting than football.

In Christ

Leah

Dear

Dear Xanga,

My Semester from hell is over.

Hallelujah.

Love,

Leah

P.S. I'm home in NE and its freaking cold with lots of snow.

The End

Romanian Orphans

What I have learned in my Human Development Through the Lifespan class:

I'm going to adopt every child in a Romanian orphanage if I want kids.