I see it's been a whole five days since my last post. So much for my goal of posting every day. So, I suppose I'll try to think of what has happened in these last few days that is worth repeating.
For the last week or so I've had various relatives come visit, which is much of what has occupied my time. First, my 9 and 11 year-old cousins from Napa Valley came and stayed with my grandparents in town but visited often. A few days later, my 10 and 12 year-old cousins came from San Luis Obispo area. Then, my uncle (dad of the first set of cousins) came. Now my 20 year old cousin who goes to UC Davis is here, staying with us because there's no vacancy at Grandma and Grandpa Inn. So I guess this paragraph alone kind of explains why I haven't posted. I've been entertaining wild, screaming kids. But it's ok, because they entertained me as much as I entertained them, especially when I was still out of it after surgery.
I've really noticed in the last few days how much of a social experience eating is. I still can't eat anything of substance, so I've missed out on family dinners, bbqs with extended family, and events with friends. I mean, I've tried to still be at these kind of things, just not eat, but you do not understand how hard that is. I try to eat a lot before I get in a situation like this, so that I'm not hungry when they're eating. But then I just sit there awkwardly while they eat, and the food still looks good, even to a full (on liquids) stomach. But I'm banking on the fact that on Friday (about 40 hours away) my doctor will give me the ok to go on to mushy foods, which sounds absolutely fabulous!
Monday Hannah came over to start the scrapbooking project that she and I have been planning for a while now. We both want to make a scrapbook of our high school years. We bought all the stuff, sat down to do it, then realized that it takes creativity to do something like that. Neither of us are the most artistic, but we're stumbling through it. We've decided that a long time from now we won't care if the layout and all of the accessories of the page are perfect. We're just going to want to see the people and remember the experience. So we're having fun, and I think that we're both going to be really glad we did it a few years down the road.
Yesterday I made my first excursion to a true social event since my surgery. I went to Music on the Halfshell. But when I say "social event," I say that lightly because I went with my parents and cousin, and stayed with them most of the time. But I did hang out with some good friends. I wasn't extremely eager to go talking to people that I'm friends with, but not that good of friends, as I'm still a little swollen and can't talk very well. I've also decided lately that summer's the time when you really see who your good friends are. The only people I really see that much are people that are my really good friends, the ones I wouldn't want to go very long without seeing (except for my friends in Germany with GAPP, of course I miss them, but I don't really have a choice about that one). It's not that I don't want to see any of my other friends, but that's what events like Music on the Halfshell and the Fair are about, to see all of them. Plus the other random times that you run into them somewhere as a friend of a friend or something.
Today was not a good day AT ALL in one sense. About TWO MONTHS AGO I pre-ordered "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" at WaldenBooks. Kerry and I have been planning for at least that long to go there at midnight Friday to get the books (even though she's coming home from Germany earlier that evening). But I'd heard of some people that have gotten a call to remind them about it, and I never got one. So I had my mom (my translator since I think anyone who picked up the phone to me would hang up to my mumbling) call them to verify that they had my order, and THEY DIDN'T!!! She said that the person told them that a lot of people that work there didn't know how to do the whole pre-ordering thing at first. I was soooo mad!! Supposedly my mom just needs to call and talk to the manager tomorrow. If they don't work it out, I am going to be LIVID! They should give me a freakin' book, and they should give it to me free after making me go through all of this stress! Any non-Harry Potter fan (how dare they!): yes, I really am going through stress about this! I have been waiting for this day for months, years!
Well, I'm sure that you're all getting tired of my ranting and raving. This has really just been a "catching up" post. Tomorrow I'm heading up to Eugene with my cousin to visit my sister. Should be quite the excursion. I'll have to make a post as to what exciting adventures we come across. It will be sooner than 5 days away, I promise. I can't promise, however, how often I'll post after 12 AM on July 16, assuming that I DO GET MY BOOK!
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