I’m exhausted. I don’t know why. I think the seasons changing along with my brutal cold are doing me in. All I want to do is sleep but then I wake up with a pressure headache and it’s like I wasted all that rest.

I’ve been playing around on the WoW beta recently, and I’m looking forward to the expansion. Current WoW is boring to me lately. I don’t get in on some of the smaller raids that I want to (long story for another time, or no time at all) and Hyjal makes me gag just looking at it. I don’t mind fishing, though. That’s one thing I do daily without stressing. It’s almost like real-life fishing. You just go, cast your line, and wait for the bite. I’ve been tracking certain things about it lately (I’m fishing with a goal in mind) so that puts my inner number-cruncher at ease. I figure that being in the beta gives me a good head-start on figuring out what I want to do before Wrath, so I know what I need to accomplish first, before it comes out.

I feel this need to write, but nothing to write about. It’s awful. I’ve been lazy with a lot of things lately. I haven’t been taking my 2000 steps every day. I haven’t been writing as much as I want to. I haven’t been cleaning as much as I want to, and I have a mountain of laundry waiting to be tackled that I’m too tired to even look at. I really just want to sleep, and then feel all better when I wake up.

I am so fatigued lately. It’s not just tired - I know it’s not a lack of sleep because I’m on a more regular sleeping schedule lately than I have been in years. I’m just worn out. I haven’t been to the gym in a few days, but even Matt hasn’t given me a hard time because I’ve felt so miserable.

I’ve been working on my immigration forms and will be mailing them out this week. What should make me nervous feels like a big sigh of relief just on the horizon. Preparing to send them is stressing me out to my limits - “What if I forget something?” “What if this isn’t enough?” “What if something goes wrong?” - but I think once I mail them, I’ll be good. I keep hearing that after they’re sent is the easy part, so I’ll trust in that. I just go along with my life, one day at a time, and wait. I don’t have to do anything but wait. No more blaming myself for procrastination or for anxiety attacks. No more waking up in the middle of the night thinking “Oh my goodness, I’m going to be kicked out of the country for no reason”, just… relaxing. Living. That’ll be a nice change of pace.

Matt’s mom is home for the next two days. She’s been here since last week sometime, and while I don’t mind having her here, I am looking forward to her going back on vacation. There’s something about readjusting to not being the woman of the house that always stresses me out. I don’t feel like leaving my room and I end up feeling claustrophobic and lazy.

I’ve been sick the past few days too. Last night I left my raid early, after killing Archimonde for the first time, my raid group was heading over to Black Temple, but I was so sick. I had chest pains and an upset stomach and my third migraine in as many days. Lately my head just feels cloudy, like I’m walking around in a fog. I’m exhausted (like I said) and just… blah. I’m hoping this weekend will cure that. I’m house-sitting for Matt’s sister next week and am looking forward to a few days out in the middle of nowhere. I could use the silence.

Title quote from Benjamin Franklin

I’m pretty much back from my mini-break already. I dunno, maybe I just needed a “me” day. Either way, I think I’m pretty much feeling better.

First of all, I’ll start with a modified version of something that I wrote at one of my SparkPeople teams last night. Only because I’m too lazy to think it all up again, of course!

Hey everyone! I am in such a fantastic mood today. I have a splitting headache right now but even that can’t keep me down! I went grocery shopping with my husband and picked up three fantastic things for me aside from regular food.

- Crest Whitestrips: I decided that I would change my reward for this month to whitening my teeth instead. Hair is after I lose 20 pounds. I’ll get it cut, styled and get new shampoo and styling products. It’s a bigger reward and I can fix my teeth right now!

- Pumpkin Spice Candles: I have been CRAVING these for ages! And now I have some! Yay!

- Cheddar & Sour Cream Ruffles: I know these aren’t the healthiest snack ever, but I actually have not had these in years. Literally. They don’t usually have this flavour up here in Canada! So when I saw them in the aisle, I was so excited I couldn’t believe it. I bought the baked kind, because I didn’t want to entirely ruin my diet!

Last but not least, I saw spoilers for the Sex and the City movie today. I am SO excited for it. Honestly, I’m in a place in my life, both physically and metaphorically, where I don’t have many friends - so those girls are like my close friends when I watch the show! Okay, so I’m a loser. But you all love me, right?

Anyway, I’m done babbling. I just had to say something before I burst from the happiness!

So yeah, happy times! I’m so excited about the Sex and the City movie that I could just scream! Especially after reading all the spoilers that I read and looking at the current cast list. Excuse me while I go squeal for a while!

Today’s breakfast is a good one, too. Apple & Cinnamon Oatmeal with a cup of Red Rose tea. Yum! I’m feeling pretty icky because of all the exercise I did yesterday and because I think I’m getting a cold, so comfort food is a must!

Today was an interesting day. I woke up feeling like crap - I got up, checked my email, and then went right back to bed to watch _____’s Next Top Model. I say “_____” because I watched America’s Next Top Model, Canada’s Next Top Model and Britain’s Next Top Model. I like those shows for some reason - a lot.

And speaking of shows I like a lot, Tonight was the season premiere of Grey’s Anatomy. It was every bit as fantastic as I’d hoped! As I told Amy, whose house I was at when I watched it, the ending made my brain want to explode. So many questions! So few answers! I want more! Next Thursday, please hurry!

In weight-related news, I’m down to 6/10 of a pound from my goal weight for October 1st. I intend to watch everything very closely for the next couple days and do lots of exercise. Keep your fingers crossed, okay?

If I were to look online at some of the adults currently wandering around the internet, I would guess that they didn’t pass their fifth-grade grammar classes. I don’t see what’s so hard about basic concepts. I really don’t.

Run-on sentences are bad news, people. Use punctuation. Punctuation is your friend.

Well, punctuation is your friend, unless you haven’t figured where to put that stray semicolon. News flash: they don’t just fit in wherever you feel like putting them. Don’t even think of using them in doubles. Use one when necessary and fitting, while saving the other for another time.

Oh! Were you aware of the fact
that writing this way makes
people stop at the end of each line?
This looks absolutely
awful, so please
stop
doing it. Now.

Last in this rant, but certainly not the last rant I have in my head, please learn the difference between there and their. It actually hurts my brain to comprehend your sentences when you’ve got random words just tossed about. Look it up if you’re confused. Heck, ask me if you’re unsure!

And with that, I do believe this is enough grammar snobbishness for one night. I should be sleeping, once my sinuses clear up enough for me to breathe.