I really really failed. After so many days of doing 365 shots, I forgot yesterday. But I have a reason, and wonder if I can’t just pick up from today and keep going since technically this year has an extra day anyway. What do you think? I think I’ll do it, why not, right? Ugh. Still makes me feel like a bit of a failure though. On to the reason…

I intended to take the shot after I had my blood work done - a photo of my little band-aid on my arm saying that I finally had my immigration medical and there weren’t many steps left for me to do. Except I didn’t have all of it. As it turns out, the physical is done one place, and the place where they’re going to do the other tests (blood test, urine test, chest x-ray) is the hospital, and they’re only open from 8:30 - 2. Matt’s going to have to take a morning off to take me in for those. I suppose he could take me in early in the morning, have some lunch with me if it takes too long, and then drop me off at the bus station and go over the bridge to work. I just feel bad that I have to inconvenience him for it. There’s no way I’m going alone, though. No way at all.

The physical went well, though. It was good to have a doctor NOT mention my weight. Usually they do, and say “Oh, well you know you’re obese” and give you a hard time while you try to tell them that you have tried to lose weight and that it’s just going slower than you’d like. Not this guy, he didn’t say a thing! He was really friendly and we were cracking jokes back and forth. Like when he listened to my heart, he said “Sounds good!” and I looked at Matt and said “Hey, I have a heart!” The doctor responded with “Oh, and here I’d thought you’d given it to this young man!” Cracked me up, I tell you.

Oh, and I fasted yesterday, because I thought I had to, and nope. Even if the blood test had to be done, it’s a non-fasting blood test. They’re apparently testing for TB and… er… something else that I can’t think of. Oh, well. I know I don’t have any infectious diseases and since they don’t care about things that aren’t going to put the Canadian public at risk, I’m good to go. Plus he said he’d get ahold of me if anything was seriously wrong. It’s very weird that they don’t send the results TO me, though. They courier them over to the physical doctor guy, and he couriers them over to immigration in Ottawa,

I’m very hungry right now, so I think I’m going to have some toast and if I can find the stuff, maybe a cup of tea. Watching shows where they drink a lot of tea has gotten to me! Maybe some orange juice instead though, who knows. And I might boil an egg - a boiled egg sounds good! I’m craving such weird things lately. And no, before you wonder, I’m not pregnant. Though just about everyone else is!

I was so excited for dinner tonight. I cooked spaghetti noodles and had some more of my mother’s wonderful spaghetti sauce ready and heated up. I put it in the bowl, top it with some parmesan cheese, and start walking back to my bedroom, as I was supposed to go to ZA tonight and had to be at my computer. I timed it perfectly. Except…

As I was about to walk into my door, I burned my finger on the bottom of the bowl. Instant reaction? “It’s hot! Let go!” Before I could tell my brain to shut up and hold on to it, the bowl had flown out of my hands and landed on the floor… face down. Spaghetti sauce, all over our light grey carpet.

Thank goodness that when I logged in to World of Warcraft I found out that half the raid (okay, three people) had decided not to come that night, because I spent the next two hours scrubbing the carpet. Thank goodness for Shout Ultra Gel because otherwise I’d probably be scrubbing it out with my tears around now. I’d tried everything before that worked. Club soda. Cold water. Shout vacuum stuff. A tiny bit of Peroxide. I read online and tried to do every single thing I could find, and only as a last resort did I grab the Ultra Gel, and it worked wonders. It’s almost completely gone now, and tomorrow once the carpet dries from my torture and my fingers return to their non-raw state (not chemical burns, just really really dry from the cleaning products and soap), I’ll be using the vacuum stuff again to get the last bit of stain off of the carpet.

Needless to say, I didn’t have any spaghetti. There’s some left, but am I really to trust myself with it? There’s only so much carpet in the apartment to ruin, what’s next, my clothes?

I’m so hungry. I don’t even know why, as I’ve eaten two meals today and probably more than my share of snacks. I could go boil some noodles to go with my spaghetti sauce, but I’m not feeling wonderful and don’t want to be on my feet for even that long. Maybe a bit later tonight.

First of all, did you know today was the invention of the first laser? Pretty nifty, if you ask me! Everyone get out your laser pointers and tease a cat. That’s an order!

Anyway… Yesterday was fairly eventful, but not up until around 5 pm! I emailed back and forth with my mom at work all morning, which was nice. I enjoy talking to her. After that, I played Scattergories with Matt’s mom’s friends. We played two games, both of which my team won. Then we ate a delicious corned beef and cabbage dinner. I say delicious, but if there was a better word, I’d use that! I love corned beef and cabbage. I have no idea why. It’s sweet, flavourful, simple… wonderful! After dinner, we had some fruit for dessert. Yum! I love bananas and strawberries. Pineapple, not so much. Then we played a game of Scene It, and I won. I’m seeing a trend - I think I’m good at board games. I told my mom last night that I’d need to make a board game robot to play all the time with me simply because I can’t play alone. But I couldn’t make it too smart or I’d probably start hating board games!

The quote in the title is fitting for me. Do you ever get the feeling that you wasted the whole summer? I have, the past few years. This year will be different for me, though! I’ll go places, do things… I’ll do what I want, even if it means facing some fears to get there. Why waste the summer when most people would kill for the opportunity to do what they want, when they want?

In WoW news, my guild is moving along quite nicely. We’d gotten Kaz’rogal down last week, and Azgalor to 5%. This week was BT week. Tuesday we had our first kill on Naj’entus (Yay for trying new strategies!) and then last night we downed Supremus (1-shot!) and Shade of Akama. Took two tries on Shade because we were a bit… strange. We were still discussing strategy while we ran around killing things and ended up with half of the group not paying attention and dying in the fire. Whoops. Rule #1 of WoW: Don’t stand in the fire! Anyway, we went on to fight Teron Gorefiend, and probably would have killed him on our first try, except someone misheard something and didn’t realize they had the debuff, and ended up dying right IN the raid, so there were constructs everywhere. We were going to attempt again, except someone pulled, twice, while we were rezzing, and then someone managed to live long enough to get the debuff again, and then they died, so their constructs were running all around the Black Temple. Half the raid was rezzed, alive, safe, inside Teron’s room, and the other half was at the entrance from zoning in, so we just gave up for the night since it was late anyway. We had him to 50%, though, so I’m sure we would have gotten him!

* Quote by Henry Clay

I have five days until my 23rd birthday. Weird, I know, that I’m counting down the way I am, like a kid waiting for their tenth birthday. But it’s one thing I get to count down to, even if it is insignificant and just another day to everyone else in the world! Matt works all day that day, so I’m hoping to find something else to do. I could do ZA with my team but I feel like my birthday should be something special. Jane’s told me that we’ll do something and she’s not quite sure what yet, so I’m waiting to see. It should be interesting, at least!

Walked to the gym today and did a Body Attack. Decided to forgo the weights and the Body Flow today because I wasn’t feeling very well - it’s good that I went at all! Matt came and picked me up from the gym because I bought a bunch of groceries to last us for the week or longer and was in no shape to walk home with them. We had a lovely dinner of lasagna (frozen, obviously) and garlic bread. Yum!

Found out some good news yesterday that started out sounding like bad news. My Grandma called me and sounded awful - she had no voice and sounded very tearful. She said “Hi Ang, it’s Grandma” and the first words out of my mouth weren’t “hello” but instead “Are you okay? What’s wrong?” because she had me so worried. She told me she just had a bad cold, which is much better news than the bad news I thought it was going to be. Anyway, she went on to tell me that she and my Grandpa might be coming up to visit me in a couple weeks and she wanted to know of the best route to get here and what are some hotels near my apartment. I’m so excited, because this will be the first visit I’ve had from anyone since I’ve lived here! It’ll be nice to show someone around on what’s now “my turf” or something.

I was hoping a bit that the next time I saw my family, that I’d be thinner than I am, but it’s okay. I’m honestly getting more comfortable with myself as I work out more. It’s about quality of life, not the amount of weight on my body, I think. I’m discovering that I’m looking better than when I started at the gym, amazingly. I looked at myself in the mirror at the gym today and thought “Wow, I don’t look as bad as I used to!” Though I think they may have magically-flattering mirrors or something. Who knows! Anyway, I’m doing more than I ever thought I could. Now, on a normal day, I can walk to the gym, work out, and walk home. I’m lifting crazy amounts of weights when I do my weight circuit. I walk up and down stairs without wanting to pass out. It’s exciting!

I have been trying to figure out a version of a song that they use in my Body Attack class, and I can’t find it anywhere! It seems to be a cover of Wham!’s “Freedom” but it’s a female singing it and it’s much more upbeat and modern. It’s driving me bananas!