Hot Summer Nights

Ugh.  Well, I’m sick again.  Somehow I caught a cold last week.  Wednesday was about when I started feeling it.  I’m pretty bummed – I really think that since Nov. 1 I have spent more time sick than healthy.  It’s so frustrating because I keep trying to get into a schedule of running and surfing because I want to get into better shape.  I know I’m in relatively good shape but I just like knowing that I’m being active.  I like feeling super in-shape rather than just passably in-shape.

Bear Mountain, CA

I went snowboarding with Val and Alexis on Saturday.  I had a lot of fun but unfortunately I was a bit in a daze the whole time since the cold was just taking it out of me.  I also couldn’t talk!  I sounded like a strung-out sorority girl who had too much Vodka the night before.  However I think I boarded pretty well, and it was my first time at Bear Mountain here in California.  Val was able to get us free lift tickets too, which was awesome!  Even though it was crowded and the snow quality was so-so, I really liked Bear.  I think it’s because it has a lot of smaller jumps that I can go off without being too scared.  I really want to get better at going off jumps – it’s really exhilarating!

Last night a bunch of us watched the Oscars at Megan’s house in Solana Beach.  It was fun to actually do that – I love watching the Oscars but it’s so hard to find people who also like to watch them!  So we had dinner, wine and cheese, and commented on the show.  I really had a good time.  I love movies and the film industry, so that’s my thing.  I also saw quite a few of the movies that were nominated so I felt like I had a better feel for who should have won.  I was psyched that Katherine Bigelow won for best director – the first woman to win a best director nod.  Has it really taken that long?  I’m not an ultra feminist or anything, but seriously.  Also, the fact that she directed the war movie “The Hurt Locker” is awesome.  Just goes to show that us girls actually CAN direct a serious action movie, not just romantic fluff.  Bigelow also directed Point Break and K-19 The Widowmaker.

Grumpy Clooney

I didn’t think that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were that funny though.  And what was up with George Clooney!??  He looked like he had a stick up his rear end every time they showed him on camera.  After doing some research it was supposed to be part of the gag, but I totally did NOT get it.  I really thought Mr. Clooney was angry, and it was kind of uncomfortable.  Lots of other people had no idea what was going on either.  Check this link for more info.

In other news I’ve been reading a book called “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.”  I really like it so far.   I’m about 130 pages in, and it’s a mystery/suspense/political intrigue kind of book.  I’m not quite sure how to describe it.  It takes place in Sweden, which is a really neat setting.  I’ve always been interested in places like Sweden and Finland and Norway.  You just don’t hear about them that often and I’m curious about their culture.  I think they’re pretty modern and Westernized.  I’d love to go travel there someday.

Also, I changed the theme back for you, mom.  For now. 

I really don’t like taking antibiotics but I’m so glad they exist.  Unfortunately that cold that I caught while I was in Whistler turned into a sinus infection somehow.  It was going on 10-11 days and I just wasn’t getting any better.  So much congestion, coughing, post nasal drip.  I had to go back do the doctor because I couldn’t take it anymore.  The odd thing was that the doc barely even examined me.  I hate that.  I mean come on I’m paying you like $70, I don’t go just to tell you I think I have a sinus infection and have you agree with me.  He only looked in my throat.  HOW can you diagnose a sinus infection by looking in my throat?  Either way, I told him all my symptoms and he agreed with me and gave me Zithromax.  I love this antibiotic because it’s only 5 days.  I had Cipro for the last infection a month ago and it was awful…had to take it twice a day for 10 days, and you couldn’t eat any sort of dairy or anything that has been fortified with calcium with the antibiotic.  Needless to say it really limited my food choices.  I mean, even eggo waffles are foritifed with calcium.  EVERYTHING seems to be fortified with calcium these days, it’s pretty crazy.  I bet my milk is calcium fortified.  It seems like everything I wanted to eat had some sort of cheese or dairy in it, or else it had calcium.  I got so frustrated!

Anyway.  I’m on day 4 of Zithromax and my nose is FINALLY not all clogged up and I’ve got my sense of smell back.  My right ear is still making the occasional crackling noise, but I think I’m pretty much getting better.  Finally.  Maybe this will be the last of these stupid sicknesses.  I feel like I’ve been sick 90% of the time since I arrived in California at the end of October, and I’m NOT exaggerating.  I think I’ve only had about 2 weeks of clean health since then.  This is really unlike me – I used to get sick a lot with strep throat/colds/sinus issues when I was a kid, but since college I’ve been pretty healthy.  My friends here must think I’m some sickly person.

In other news, it seems that San Diego (actually all of California) is in the crosshairs of a pretty heavy storm system.  It’s going to deluge rain for the next 5 days, and it’s going to be really windy.  I just hope we don’t get a lot of flooding.  What is annoying is that I won’t be able to surf for at least a week.  After it rains around here you should wait a few days for the runoff to dissipate.  It all runs into the ocean taking all the pollutants and some sewage with it.  That’s all I need – another sinus infection.

The good thing about these storms is that they will hopefully dump a lot of snow in the mountains here in California, and that means some good snowboarding!  Even if my friends can’t go I might make a solo shot to Mountain High or something, especially if I can’t surf for a few days after all this rain.