My absolute least favorite part about spring is the allergies. When I was little, pollen and all the spring-time allergies never affected me. However, this year, they've been awful.
About a week ago, I came down with a fever. At first, my eyes were just watery and my nose was runny, but then it turned into a sinus infection. By the end of the day, my face was pink and my temperature was going sky-high. I woke up three times that night — once at midnight, once at three-thirty, once at five-thirty.
After a few days, my fever subsided and my nose returned back to normal. I was hoping that, maybe, the allergies were gone (most of the trees were turning from pink to green, so there was less pollen in the air). But lately, I've been having to blow my nose an awful lot.
One of my friends also is affected by allergies. She normally wears contacts, but she's been switching to glasses lately because her eyes felt really uncomfortable.
But I've realized that even though the allergies affect almost everyone, they seem to affect me the most.
It's probably because I have a very low immune system. Since I'm vegetarian, I don't get enough protein in my system. My immune system is affected by that. (At least, that's what my mom says.)
What I want to know is this:
How does spring affect you?
Posted May 8, 2008. Filed under Misc, Personal. 3 comments.
I was writing in my diary yesterday when I realized that I was just rambling on, not talking about anything of significance. It just occurred to me that for a while now, nothing interesting has happened to me.
Whenever I sit down and load up FanUpdate, I sit there with a blank mind. There's nothing sensible I can think to write about, so there hasn't been any blogs lately. Which really, really makes me sad. (Part of this reason is also that I haven't been on the computer as much recently; I've had a homework overload and many activities/things to do.)
Whenever I talk to my friends and they ask me what I'm doing, my answer always is along the lines of "doing homework and being bored". I never seem to have any interesting story to talk about.
That's when I started to wonder (or worry) about whether or not I was boring. All the facts seem to point in the direction of yes, but I'm trying to be optimistic.
If it's just a phase (or something) that I'm going through, sure. But what if I, really and truly, am boring?
So my question to you is:
Am I boring?
Posted May 1, 2008. Filed under Misc, Personal. 4 comments.
There are many pros and cons to having a sister, especially one that's close to your age. My sister, Leah, is 13 (going on 14) years old. It goes without saying that we argue — a lot. There are also times where we get along perfectly (this doesn't happen too often, though).
Because our ages are so close together, my mom started us with everything at the same time. Piano class, Chinese school, martial arts, ballet. Therefore, we are in all the same classes/levels for those subjects.
Obviously, there are other students in those classes. And obviously, they know both of us and the fact that we're sisters. (We're about the same height, so people who don't know us occasionally think we're twins. We're not.) Since we're related, when people think of one of us, they almost immediately think of the other. So we're always called "Lily and Leah". (Sometimes, "Leah and Lily"). Which may seem fine, but it gets really annoying after a while.
And since we're the same height, for all height-related things, we're almost always paired up together. You may think it's fun to work with your sister all the time, and sometimes it is, but too much is just that: too much.
The annoying thing is, some people (who don't know us well) confuse us with the other. Which I don't understand, since we look completely different. But what ever.
I was thinking about this because my sister and I (yes, together) assist our ballet teacher with a lower-level class (mainly kindergarten through second graders — they're absolutely darling). There are two little twin girls (who also happen to be Chinese) that are the exact same height (and they both also happen to be the shortest in their class) and they look alike. Everyone refers to them as "Sinan and Siping" — always together, and always in that order. (I feel special, though, because I can tell them apart. Yay me!) Since they're the shortest in their class, they're paired up with each other for any partnering in the dances.
Always always always.
Posted Apr 15, 2008. Filed under Opinions and Rants, Personal. 1265 comments.