life continues, but this blog sure isn't continuing much. Happy cold rainy weather at the end of April.

update

Got another ear infection! And I think it's gone again. Other ear, this time. Maybe pink eye, too. Gone now, too. My eyes now look like each other and look "normal."

Winter! Suddenly it's dark, even though it isn't quite evening yet!

I'm taken to painting and to putting stickers on things. It's very entertaining.

I might possibly make myself use sign language with other people who know sign language in the near future. It's been a LONG time. I don't remember quite so well now. So maybe you should pray for whoever gets stuck talking to me. Or pray for me, that I'd be bold enough to talk (sign). Or pray that I'd remember enough to get by. Or think of all the funny scenerios you've ever had or heard of with people mixing up embarrissingly in their second or third or seventh language.

My favorite personal example to share is when I confused "novio" (boyfriend) and "nieve" (snow). I tried to say that there was lots of snow in my backyard. I'm not sure what actually came accross. But such language mixups are pretty much inevitable when learning a new language. Option 1: maintain silence (and motionless hands). Option 2: risk making goofy mistakes (or worse) but progress in learning and using a language. I think those are the two options.

I got an ear infection. Yes, that is the really important news of the day. It is my excuse for sleeping in, for laying around, for being tired after an 11 hour night, for any grumpiness in my mood, for looking tired and sick when I was at the bank, and for why I'm not shoveling more than my side of the driveway. Even if I don't tell you, it is still my excuse.

It is also why I'm going to spend half a million (no, wait, I think it's closer to 40) dollars on antiallergy medication soon. Because I can argue that I don't need it anymore if I don't have a sinus infection or ear infection, but since I have at least one of those, my argument doesn't even work for me and I'm going to get the medication. Well, if they have it ready for me, at least.

I have a "new" hobby of watching movies. It's an important job, you know. Better than laying in bed all day. Maybe I'll even try to take my guinnea pig out to watch part of one. But maybe not. One time when I did that, he made me wet.

I might at some point return to working on some sort of craft, but my attention span is a bit short right now and I haven't come up with a craft that I want to do enough to actually do it. Maybe I will clean my room. That could go on my list of tasks for the day so that I can check it off tonight.

the house decorating continues

sandpaper, soon to become other things. :)

Friedrik

My landlord gave me permission to have a guinnea pig, so here he is! He's about three months old and my very own dearly loved pet. :)

I own a house - not that it cuts any off of my monthly rent

Like any good home owner, I've used part of my long Labor Day weekend to work on my house. Specifically, I put on roofing.
I got a relatively good deal on it: I'm thinking it cost under 10 dollars. Not that I bought anything I used for the direct purpose of roofing my house. I used scissors, kid's glue, and a cereal box. :) Yay for cheap recreation.
Here you can see more of my painting efforts from the past week. Thanks to my mother for loaning me paints and paintbrushes, this has been economical for me as well. I did buy one thing of white paint, but it was in the one dollar range. Mixing grey with dark color of choice just doesn't work the same as adding white. But it does produce interesting colors.

Here is a picture from an earlier Saturday. I went sailing with siblings. It was neat watching my brother direct the sailing of the sailboat.