So I go online & wonder about how everyone's all distracted & not updating their blogs... and then I think about it some more and yeah I haven't updated since Tuesday and yes'm.

Michael left for the Philippines yesterday. Over two weeks without my Michael... hardly any phone calls or emails too. I know that this is good for us, for where our relationship is right now... and I know that on January fourth I will be the happiest I'll ever be in a long while.

Guna came over last night. We exchanged presents, watched a movie, and talked about EVERYTHING (not so much about "everyone"... arck we're growing up & talking about... well not so much the high school things, you know?)... I haven't talked that much to anyone in so long it was so refreshing and... nice. Yes. Nice. Guna was right in that letter she sent that almost made me cry... how we can go awhile w/out seeing or talking to each other but we always pick up right wherever we leave off. It's relationships like that that reaffirm my belief that quality over quantity matters most to me.

Is no one online because everyone's boycotting the non Ethernet connection?

Jenn Bacaltos & Luana... I'm having that "health" problem again... on & off. UGH. The discomfort.

Today... the absence of Tony's was noticeable, rice krispy treats need sprinkles, and Fresh Ink cards combined with Lillix in the background make for an interesting family holiday preparation day.

My parents are getting me McDonalds. So excited. =) Joy in the small things, people. I miss Michael. (it's going to get SO bad during these two weeks)

Hello! I woke up so nicely today... cept I realize when I do wake up when I'm like half awake, I'll be hella hella grumpy... it's funny when I'm fully awake and think about it...

Then I wandered the streets of San Francisco. Did some Christmas shopping. I need to stop looking for and buying multiple presents for people.

Studying French. Too many verb tenses. Conditional and future have to have an 'r' somewhere. Subjunctive looks like present, cept the nous & vous forms look like the imperfect.

Guna, as an homage to our fourth period days (and to my hunger and distaste for cafeteria food), I purchased & am currently heating a TV dinner. It's a gigantic Hungry Man one with a pound of food! For $2.50!! Those self-checkout counters are the coolest things... once again the joy in the small things.

Empty MUNI buses in the middle of the day rock. It's funny when old ladies & other females sit next to me because they know I'm "safe" to sit next to, i.e. won't try to grope or steal from them. Good stuff.

Last final tomorrow... & then my mom's going to crash... I'm letting her in my room when I'm not around!! I better hide that new naval ring Michael got me for Christmas.

I hope I don't set off the fire alarm tonight with this TV dinner. It's all talking about setting it on high and medium power... uhmmm it doesn't have those buttons... =(. Fire is bad. Loud alarms are bad. Cookies with chocolate chips and macadamia nuts are good. Mushrooms are good. $2.50 for over a pound of food is good. Fifty four percent sodium is not good. Well, sometimes it is...

Why is it that I study more for the things that I like and are easier for me rather than what I don't know and don't get? That will ultimately be my downfall.

Woke up the earliest I've ever had to in my "college career" thus far for my Politics final this morning... ate some breakfast, watched Saved By the Bell, and promptly returned to slumber. Slumber. That's a funny word now that I write it. Slumber. Why does it remind me of that rabbit in Bambi, Thumper... Slumber. It's kind of a messy word, not so peaceful or simple or flowy like as like... tranquility... slumber... it's messy! I don't like it... it's like trying too hard to be a peaceful word when it's NOT!

It's strange how everyone is home and I'm not... usually it's the other way around... and now no one's online anymore... cept for people who are studying...

I love having free days between my finals. Tomorrow will consist of returning merchandise and buying soft baked cookies. And some French for the last final. Ohh those are nice words. Merchandise. Cookies. Last final. Beautiful.

It's nice to find a little happiness in the small things.

Almost finished my Christmas shopping... Michael crossed and recrossed the bridge to bring me to IKEA.. what does IKEA stand for?... & we enjoyed some Q Cup as well... yay Q Cup... then we just got bloated from eating a lot. Then he let me sleep while he did his paper. Awesome. Apple pie a la mode with regular coffee at Mel's is awesome too. Sean Slim got me to say awesome, it's so not awesome.

I need to dust. And throw away a lot of stuff.

I must now go get cash for books. Maybe coffee. Maybe try to replenish my checking account. More soap operas. Try not to sleep again. Study avoir & etre, the conditional, imperfect, and future tense. Eat that duck that I've had since Sunday but have somehow managed not to devour. Gym? Nahh... the diet starts January 1st. Size fourteen in little girls, I shall return to you.

I have a champagne bottle that has apple juice in it. & it's still got some in it but it's kinda gross & I don't like it... how do I dispose of it without people thinking I'm hardcore dancing around with a lampshade on my head type of gal?