Call Me Crazy...

Apparently, this cough I've had for f-ing EVER is just seasonal allergies. Awesome. Looks like I'll continue to sound like a chain smoker in the mornings...gross.

It's 4AM and I can't sleep, so I apologize in advance if this all sounds like a bunch of incoherent crap. Facebook is driving me absolutely crazy, so f that. Doing laundry. Cleaning my room. Thinking a lot. Time to get all this out of my head before I explode from lack of social interaction. Haaaaa...

So there's this guy. And I know I said I had given up on my love life altogether, but...I kinda have a thing for him. I have for a while, not gonna lie. To keep his identity a secret, since I'm fairly sure he's oblivious, we'll call him...Tom. I see him everywhere around campus...he's actually only in two of my classes, but we have the same major and practically do the same things. I actually hang out with him somewhat regularly, but it's always in a group and I'm awkward about stuff so yeah...but he's awesome. His independent thought and awkward charm are the things I find most attractive about him...and it only helps that he's intriguingly handsome and smells nice :]]
I don't have the nerve to tell him how I feel though, because I just feel like it would end up not working out the way I would have hoped...so for now, it's whatever.

I've been at home for about 4 days now, and each day, I am more and more surprised by my own laziness.

On Friday, when I walked in the front door, no one was here, which I anticipated; my sister was in Ames for All State, my dad at work, and my mom...well I honestly had no idea. She doesn't really answer her phone. So I dropped everything and decided to turn on the TV until someone got home. Well. Little did I know I would be sitting there watching Cops for close to 4 hours. 4 hours...wow. I forgot I had the capacity to sit and rot my brain for that length of time. Good work! :]]
Finally, mom comes in. I totally forgot where she said she was, but it's whatever. 2 hours later, dad comes home and Kozo (our Japanese exchange student) comes up from the basement.

I should explain a little about my family...

My mother is a wild, untamed spirit. She likes arts and crafts, shows about murder, scrabble, and playing the tuba. She truly cares about the people in her life, and does her best to show it - she's almost always been really supportive of me and whatever I'm doing, particularly if it's something with my music. However, as much as I love my mom, Her temperament is somewhat...fragile, making her a little difficult to be around sometimes. Only sometimes! One of her favorite pastimes is pestering the people around her. I was sitting on the couch the other day, minding my business, when seemingly out of nowhere a shoe was thrown at me. Then some play-doh. Then the other shoe, along with various other household items. I look down the hall and there's mom, standing there making a face at me, not saying a word. Let me tell you, no matter how many times I threw the things back at her or told her to STOP IT, she persisted until she decided she had to go to the bathroom. Oh mom...
Dad's different, most of the time anyway. He's a software engineer by day, trombonist and Rihanna-lover by night. He enjoys baseball, drum corps, chocolate frosting, beer, the 80's, and my mom :)
In a house with 3 women, he's almost always the mediator (which is a tough position, with the way mom, Lucy and I are sometimes. Especially when we're all PMSing at the same time...OHHH LAWD). He's like that mellow personality in a room full of crazy people, that guy who will listen to your problem and calmly talk it out with you until you simmer. He does tend to forget things...sometimes they happen to be important things. But it's whatever. And when mom likes to mess with people, he'll occasionally go right along with it and maybe even get her. Then they "fight" eachother, and it usually comes to some kind of funny end...cute (and hilarious) as hell :]]
Lucy, my sister. Her hair is the biggest, thickest hair you'll ever encounter. It's close to 2 feet long with enormous waves and bountiful layers of hair bliss. She is like no one I've met in my life. She plays Farmville and the viola, and I'm glad to see she's using more and more of her time for the second one :D
And she's sooo good at it! She's a senior in high school, but already plays in the Coe College orchestra and has had some small gigs around town. Get it girl. And she's SO smart, particularly when it comes to art and Japanese. She also likes nonsense..we still laugh at farts, and we still like to make mischief in public places. That will probably never stop.
And then there's Kozo Kamimura, the 18-year-old boy from Okinawa who's living in our basement for a year. He's quiet, loves meat, sleeps a lot, and recently learned the word "fuck".

Speaking of which, holy God. Tonight after dinner, we played a game of "Fucking Yahtzee". Not just Yahtzee. Fucking Yahtzee. Kozo took a turn, and before he rolled for the last time (going for a Yahtzee), for no reason, he said "FUCK!" He actually got one, prompting mom to re-name the game.

I've found a new addiction - StumbleUpon.com. Hahah!! I can go on there any time of day and just click the "Stumble" button to instantly find something cool. And it never gets old! At least not for me. I was literally on there for three hours once just to pass the time, and boy did the time fly by. Seriously, check it out. I bet you'll find 4 times more awesome things than not awesome things. Go. Do it.

For the record, I did absolutely nothing on Sunday. Win.

Also, I guess my parents want to move again...we're looking at a house tomorrow. It seems like every time we get used to a house, they want to move. I can honestly say I've only ever considered Park Avenue to be my true "home", I mean, we lived there for 11 years...but there have been a lot of different reasons to move since then. My family has moved 4 times in my entire life. If we move again, In the past 5 years alone, we will have moved 4 times. So I suppose it's really nothing new. I just wish they would finally decide on somewhere to live for a long while...I can only hope this is it!

Highlights...

BOHHHH:
~cough = allergies
~Nicki Minaj
~North Korea bombing South Korea - WTF??

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~Thanksgiving Thursday - POTATOES!!!!
~Nutella
~FINALLY seeing HP7 on Wednesday :D