D'Izzy Words

The last time I posted on LiveJournal/InsaneJournal was August 7th, Sunday. Later, at around midnight after I broke fast and continued snacking and drinking water - ever since I was little I've thought of water as the elixir of life and when you're fasting/dehydrated it absolutely is - Matt and I found a scale in their house and I weighed myself. I was a little less than the absolute limit we set up a few years ago when I tried fasting, so I went "Oh, well! I should stop fasting!" Looking back I think I was a little too cavalier, and gave up too easily. Especially after I found an article about a high school American football player in Florida who continues to go to practices in full gear while fasting. It's good for him his coaches watch him for symptoms of heat stroke/heat exhaustion and the practices were moved to 7am in hopes it'd help the player avoid the heat. Though their games are still in the afternoon, I believe. I was talking about it to Matt and mentioned the football player was 265lbs after losing 10lbs after 9 or so days of fasting and Matt said "He must be a linebacker!" I have no idea what a linebacker is or any football positions but I guess they're the ones who attack the opposing players. I know more about European football than American football. So I went back to the apartment and was happy to be able to eat food and drink water whenever I wanted. And eat my ice cream. I celebrated by buying ice cream, yeah. :P I don't remember what I did the days I was back in the apartment, though I think I started feeling like I wanted to be alone... I did visit Matt the following Friday - he picked me up - and we watched two movies that evening with his family/some of them.

( Source Code, Adjustment Bureau, relationships )

( Museum visit, migraine, Paprika movie )

Then the next Sunday we had a brief driving lesson in a smallish high school parking lot. :( We were out at noon or something so that was understandable we couldn't find a more deserted area. I still didn't get on the road, and acceleration was scary... I think I went up to 8mph...

The work week was a little WTF and multiple breakdowns.

Saturday - there was free medical check up, dental (extraction, cleaning, filling) and vision (prescription, pressure check, dilation check, glaucoma, free frames - you get free complete glasses with prescription lenses if you got there early enough) offered by Remote Area Medical. Matt and I got there around 5:45am after waking up at 4am for shower (him) and breakfast and to drive there. Doors open at 5:30am. My number was 503. Apparently they started handing out numbers at 3:30am! I got into the building at 10am. I got into vision at 10:30am and was done around 1:15pm. I waited for dental but within being 20 people of getting in they started turning people away who had already gotten something else done. :-( SO CLOSE! I left around 5pm and got back to Matt's at 6pm. More than 12 hours of waiting - Matt had to leave around 9am because he had to help his brother move furniture - with about 4 hours of sleep. I still haven't slept long and well since Friday night. A lot of the people there were also students. I had both an optometry student and an optometrist inspect my eyes. My vision sucks.

Today I primed for the first time! And swung on a rope. And played Mario Galaxy. We had a full day of eating, too. Sausages, eggs, watermelon, musk melon, chicken cajun-cheese-mayo sandwich, more watermelon, musk, mango, chicken enchilada, lettuce, salsa, watermelon, musk, mango. YUMMY. Oh and there's corn leftovers. ♥

Thanks, too, to people I talked to amidst crises moments, who put aside time to talk to me/call. ♥

Around 12:15 am on Thursday April 5, 2007, Kyle and I watched the Thai horror film Shutter.

Reading the sypnosis, it states:

Late one night on a country road, Tun and Jane accidentally run down a mysterious pedestrian. Fleeing the scene, they return to their lives in Bangkok, but soon discover their life has returned to anything but normal. Nightmares haunt Jane's dreams while Tun, a photographer, notices odd spectral figures begin to appear in his work. Returning to investigate the site of the accident, they can find neither rumor nor report of the victim. But when one by one, Tun's closest friends begin to die, he and Jane know they must unravel this mystery before it unravels their very lives.

Yep, I know it sounds like a mixture of The Ring (American version, since I've never seen the original Japanese one) and I Know What You Did Last Summer, but trust me - or rather, trust Kyle - that this movie is way better than those two. I admit to being derisive of the movie at first since it seemed really slow and blah blah and superstitious, but when it finally gained momentum, it was pretty awesome. (I was curious enough about it to buy it off Amazon.com last week.) There's a nice twist in the end that really...well...wraps it up quite nicely.

I was also somewhat scornful and saying "I don't get scared easily." I screamed. Twice. *laughs* Apparently I scared the shit out of Kyle. Thankfully, the people in Chapin never noticed my screams. (Actually, I'd be a little worried about that...Hmmm...)

So warning: If I'm watching a scary flick in your room, make sure your roommate doesn't mind random screams (if you have one, anyway), or that your floormates won't mind them, if the walls are super thin.

Other news....Hmmmm.... I got back a calc test I was struggling over and received 29/30 out of it. Sweet! And then I picked my room lottery number. *smirks* I got 552, the second lowest number for my year-group. Sweet!!!

And then I fell asleep in FYI around the half-way point, and an hour nap after that so I was semi-awake for RLST 105. *sigh* And then the rest of tonight was spent talking, laughing, screaming, dancing. It was a pretty great day overall! I was smiling a lot during dinner and afterwards. It was awesome.

So yeah, Izzy's happy. There. Happy. A bit confused about some things she's going to do and what she should do, but otherwise, she's pretty content. Yay!