So I had a lovely birthday at home (fantastic dinner at the Ravenous Pig that evening), had a wonderful last Sunday with an afternoon braai and a good book, and left Orlando early Monday morning. Spent nearly 11 hours on the road (for a 9 hour 30 minute drive) and went straight to Cochon (apparently this means pig) and had a LOVELY dinner of rabbit and dumplings.
For the record, my last day in Orlando was 84F. When I parked my car in New Orleans and walked the two blocks to Cochon, it was 28F, plus windchill. (When I got to College Station it was 46F.) Then I went to my motel and curled up in bed and tried to ignore the people thumping and bumping upstairs (I swear it sounded like they were practicing for the circus).
Next morning I woke up at 7 am on the dot, and was on the road at 7:40 am. It took me nearly half an hour to get gasoline and I liberally cursed everyone and their antecedents for parking in front of all the gas pumps AND THEN LEAVING THEIR CARS ALONE. I had to stop for McDonald's for lunch because it was pretty much my only option for where I was (it was attached to a gas station that did indeed turn out to be the last one for miles) and the bloody woman wouldn't give me my water cup for about five minutes after I'd gotten my food. REALLY?
Then my GPS took me through all these backroads, which did save me 70 miles or so, but getting constantly stuck behind horse trailers, having to go from 75 mph to 0 mph for sundry red lights or morons, and having a sheriff tail me for nearly 20 minutes nearly gave me a nervous breakdown and I nearly cried when I finally pulled into my apartment complex at 3 pm Tuesday afternoon.
By 4 pm all my stuff was upstairs and I'd set up my TV (hooray!)
Then I went to Wal Mart (towels and hangers) and Target (just looked at the DVD players) and HEB (got my groceries for the week).
Came home, put everything away, made dinner
(sigh...I am going to miss carbs - although even though I'm giving up bread, rice and potatoes, I'm keeping my pasta dammit!)
and then I settled down to a nice evening watching tv. I looked on Amazon at DVD players and after a phone call home, I went back to Target and bought a Philips DVD player (and my tv is a Philips too lol - I swear that wasn't intentional) and managed to get my tv set up on the cable (I originally hadn't realized I would need to reprogram the cable, the way it scanned originally the first time we turned it on), and use the red/yellow/white cords to attach my DVD player. Then I went on Amazon and ordered an HDMI cable (for a faster, clearer, better picture) for the DVD player and the first season of Allo Allo (this is all thanks to my aunts and uncle who gave me Amazon and Target gift cards...definitely couldn't have done this without their generosity!) which should arrive sometime today.
Wednesday I woke up at 7 but felt pretty cruddy and it was nearly 10:30 by the time I got to campus. I stayed in lab until 4:30 and came home, and spent my evening eating, reading, and watching my awesome new tv.
I went to bed at 11:30 (very early for me) and woke up at 7 am SICK AS A DOG. Snot was bubbling like a witch's cauldron...you don't want to know the details. I stayed in bed for two hours, hoping it would pass off, which it did not. So I got up, brushed my teeth, washed my face, removed my pillow and comforter to the couch and attempted to boil some water for a cup of noodles. 40 minutes later, after some cursing and freaking out, I moved the frying pan to the smaller burner, where it finally heated the water and I could make my noodles and tea.
I have sent in a maintenance request, but considering not only is my water in the shower still cold (even after I run it for 20 minutes) and the light over my front door (outside) still out, when I sent in those requests TWO WEEKS ago, I think I might be screwed. These people don't seem to want me to renew my damn lease. I'm too sick to go apartment hunting right now. Maybe in a few days.
I feel like I should be working from home but I just feel too awful. I need to get better so I can go in tomorrow. So I think I'll take today easy. Hope it works.
Think it might be time for more tea...good thing Mom gave me a box before I left!
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