Such a Treat

My mom really is my best friend. No, we don't have the perfect relationship, and of course we fight, but 99% of the time we get along (especially now that I'm out of the house!) smashingly. So getting to spend about 24 hours with her by myself and not in a hospital was an amazing treat. I guess God knew I was homesick and needed a pick-me-up, huh? ;)

We stayed up late talking last night, even though most of it was that we couldn't get comfortable sharing a double bed. LOL! We slept late and then got up and went to this tiny little Italian restaurant. It took us a little while to find it because my mom couldn't remember where she saw it yesterday, but when we finally did, it was so good. Then, we went to the hospital to pick up a copy of my CT scan from last week so we can take it to my ENT on Friday. After that, we went to Walmart and Mom bought some baby stuff for Chelsea's shower next weekend, and I bought a little bit of food, two magazines, a pool cue, and some chalk and tips. We put a new tip on the dorm's cue, and then played two games. Oh my! It is so much easier to make shots when the cue ball actually goes where you aim for it to because the ball won't roll off the tip. Yes, my mom won both games since she was playing with a good stick, but she didn't beat me by much! Oh, and I got Girl Scout Cookies! MMMMMMMMM.

She left at 4:30 and I've just been hanging out since. I'm currently watching The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement to pass the time.

I found out my ENT appointment is at 3:30 on Friday, and Holly is going to come pick me up and we'll meet my mom in Kinston. This means I can take my French test on time and have one less thing to make up between missing that day and the following Monday. That was good news.

I feel like I'm about to enter finals week. I have a Western Civ quiz on Monday, a Government test on Wednesday, an Economics test on Thursday, that French test on Friday, and a Western Civ test the following Monday (which I will be taking Tuesday). Crazy. I should probably be studying or reading for some of that, but I just don't want to. There is tomorrow. ;)

Stupid dryers still aren't fixed.

6 days to home!
28 days to Charlotte!

Best Surprise EVER!

Guess who showed up at my dorm today...

My mommy!

:)  She came to eat dinner with me on her way home from her workshop and decided to spend the night because it started snowing.  SO COOL.  We played pool for three hours.  We're going to buy me a real pool cue tomorrow because I'm semi-good now, but the pool cue that's here sucks royally.

Something else cool was we met a girl, Rebekah, in the lobby while we were playing, and she and her friend started telling me about Pep Band, and I think I'm going to start playing the trombone again and join next year.  She said that they really need trombone players, and that the band director will let me rent out a trombone so I can get used to playing again.  And then we realized how small of a world it is....Rebecca is from New Bern, where my mom teaches.  Her brother was in my mom's class last semester, as was her best friend the year before.  She came to my high school for a band competition years ago, and she's seen Matt at various college band things.  How weird!  We ended up talking to her for two hours.  It's crazy what God can do, huh?

Okay, I'm really tired.  Thank God it's Friday.

Note to self: I am terrible at pool.

The good news is that I have a friend who is as bad at it as I am who will play with me. We're learning together.

Kind of.

I've done absolutely nothing today except sleep, play on the computer, play pool with Kari (previously mentioned friend), eat, do my laundry, talk to my mom, take a nice and long and hot shower, and shave. It was lovely.

But don't you worry - this good little college student will be doing lots of schoolwork tomorrow. I just really needed a lazy day break from it all. Kind of sad that I need a break this quickly, huh? Oh well. Since I can't go home, not that I'd want to go home right now since my house is infected with swine flu, I have no choice but to give myself these breaks.

And no better time than a weekend, huh?

This place is pretty much dead on the weekends, anyway. I even told my mom that there are a lot of people who go home every weekend, so me asking to go home one weekend outside of holidays is not that big of a deal, but she doesn't buy it. Hahaha. Oh well.

Oh, and good news, when I talked to my mom today she said she's feeling a bit better than yesterday, so she thinks she's turned the corner, and Chelsea has so far avoided getting the flu from her. So yay for that and praise the Lord! I was having bad dreams last night about them getting really bad because I've heard how many people have died from it, so this was a huge relief to me. :)

It's late. I'm tired. Good night!