CHANGES!!

Well I feel like it is about time for an update!! If anyone out there is still worried about my deathly sore throat, no worries, I'm finally feeling better!! It was really bad all day Thursday, and I didn't start feeling better until Monday! My mom and I finally figured out it must of been an allergic reaction the the poison the fumigator sprayed in my room for the cockroaches. I'm just glad I'm over it, because I'm leaving tomorrow morning for USHUAIA!!!!!!!

Well I mentioned in my last post that I was looking forward to some big changes after my trip, well my big change happened before!! So last week after a little bit of drama where I was living I finally decided I was so over everything I had been putting up with!! Before this bit of drama I was putting up with a lot of little annoyances... but after what happened Monday night I was so over living where I was. So I immediately started looks for a new place to live! All last week I was wandering all around Buenos Aires to find the right apartment for me! After a lot of looking and weighing the pros and cons, I finally settled on one in the Congress area of Buenos Aires, it is a nice area, and it is fairly close to where I work and where I was living before. Even though I had drama with the family doesn't mean I don't want to stay friends, so it is nice to know I'm still close.

Well I wasn't going to move until after Ushuaia, I couldn't really justify paying for a week when I wouldn't even be there, but they guy I'm renting from offered me the place now for the same price, so I jumped at the chance to get all settled in before leaving, so I don't have to worry about doing it when I get home!!

So yesterday I told the family that I was moving and packed my things and left, Kevin helped me move all my stuff, he is awesome, he went shopping with me to get a few of the things that I needed and carried all my stuff and helped me with all my luggage, he was such a big help I couldn't have done it with out him!! Well after he left to go home I was left all alone in my little place. It was very exciting!! I watched tv which is something I haven't done in FOREVER!! And I talked to my mom, and cooked myself dinner, and went to bed at a decent hour (11:30) and was able to sleep so well and woke up at 8:30. This may not seem like a big deal to most of you, but it is huge to me!! I haven't had a good nights sleep since I left the States. The bed I was sleeping on before was so uncomfortable that I never slept well, and the schedules here are so different that I wasn't going to bed until way too late and waking up way too late. I'm so glad I can get back on a normal healthy schedule!!

So anyways that is what happened, I'm now living all by myself, for the first time ever, which is very exciting!! I'm going to put pics of my new place!! It is very green!!

Sick

So this morning I woke up feeling like my throat glands were 500lbs... which means I couldn't swallow or hardly breathe!!! It really isn't a very comfortable feeling! In fact I woke up a little panicked since I didn't know why I couldn't swallow or breathe, once I figured it out, I tried to think of ways to fix it, I took some Tylenol cold pills, but my only symptom is my throat, and well it was REALLY hard to swallow those 2 pills!! I talked to my sister in law, and she gave me some ideas such as gargling salt water, and drinking lemonade, with honey. Well I started with the salt water, which was GROSS!! Then because I live in Argentina, and everything is so close I just ran outside really quick and crossed the street where there is a small grocery store, and bought lemons and honey, then next door was a pharmacy where I bought throat drops. So today has been spent in bed drinking fresh squeezed lemonade sweetened with honey (really it isn't that great, it sort of makes me gag) and gargling salt water, and sucking on those throat drops!! I ate 2 rolls earlier, but it was so hard to eat, that I guess I'm just going to stick to liquids for now!! I hate being sick!

Other than being sick things are pretty good... I'm leaving for Ushuaia in a week from today!!! I'm so stinking EXCITED!!!! Then after Ushuaia, looks like there are going to be some big changes, I sure hope so anyways!!

Welp I'm gonna go back to gargling my warm salt water... yum!!

Park Drama

Well its been a little while since I've written in my blog. I've been really busy, but also its because I have been just plain lazy!!

Life is still pretty good, I'm really excited that in 2 weeks I will be in USHUAIA!!! I should be in Uruguay right now, but things didn't work out for Monica to go this weekend, so after a couple of miracles we were able to change our tickets for next month, so in March I will be going to the temple with Monica.

But since I didn't go to Uruguay this weekend I stayed home here with Joaquin and papa Feresin. I was told yesterday by mama Feresin that Joaquin wasn't allowed to go anywhere by himself, that if he wanted to go anywhere I would need to go with him, which I understand because he is young (only 12). Well this afternoon after eating lunch he said I want to go to the park, I'm gonna call my dad and see if he will let me, I told him what his mom told me and he said yeah I don't care I'm still going to call my dad. So he called his dad and his dad said he wanted to talk to me, Joaquin wasn't too happy about that. Anyways papa Feresin asked me to go with Joaquin to the park and stay there with him, which I was fine with... I thought about just taking my book and reading while Joaquin did whatever he wanted, no big deal. Well I went and got ready, and as we were walking out the door Joaquin asked what I was going to do, I told him I was going to stay at the park, he got mad and said he didn't want to go anymore, I told him I was just doing what both his parents asked me to do, and I wouldn't be near him, that I was just going to sit somewhere are read. He still got mad and called his friend, and told him he wasn't going anymore. All because I was going to be in the same open air vicinity as him!!

So here we both are sitting in the same house, he isn't talking to me, well he never really talks to me... he is the one I have the least of a relationship with, and I get the feeling he doesn't really like me... (even before this episode today). It doesn't really bother me... but it made me wonder, what was he planning on doing at the park with his friends that I couldn't even be any where near. Because trust me I wasn't planning on watching him, or "babysitting" him, I was going to just sit somewhere are read... no big deal, but whatever... 12 year old boys are so weird!!!