I think women should have the power to postpone their periods.

Because I DO NO WANT to be PMS-ing as I pack to go back to school and not return home for 3 months. Cause that does not help with the whole homesickness and I'm sad crap. I was going to cry about going back anyway, but now my hormones have decided that crying needs to be kicked up to the next level and turned into plain old suffering!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Gabby

Shh! Don't tell! Its a secret!

I'm sick!

My brother came back from a trip to Europe and got everyone sick. Because dad is lying in a half dead state, mom is in a pissy, sick mood, and my sister is delirious, if I admited that I can barely talk and I want to throw up too, my brother would be left doing everything today. And there's a lot to do today. So I'm lying and saying I feel fine to help him. Am I not amazing?

5 days and counting till returning to the US of A and school. In 3 days I break out the suitcases. My dog flips out around suitcases and will ignore me from then on in anger that I dare to leave him.

Oh and our washing machine broke so we're hand-washing everything.

And we don't have AC right now, which in 100 degree weather (at night!!) is a pain.

But don't forget, our fridge is leaking and food is spoiling. Which actually isn't too bad since there is barely any food in there, hence why my bro and I have to do the grocery shopping. In between dealing the business at the office.

I love summer! You know that time where you get to sleep in (until 5:45 AM for me!) and not work (besides babysitting, office, and college applications) and just chill (I live next to the beach and have been there a grand total of 2 times this summer I'm so damn busy!).

_Gabby

Its down to 8 days until I return to boarding school. Damn summer went fast! I'm still no where near done with summer reading, I admit I've been putting it off hoping in a way that it would some how ward away the school year. Apparently it didn't work.

I feel bad about this summer though. I'm almost closer to my friends when I'm away at school, I email them weekly. When I'm home, I'm just enjoying relaxing so much I sometimes feel like I forget about my friends. And I admit, I don't feel as close to them as before. I doubt I'll ever admit this to my parents, but boarding school has exposed me to a different world and a much better education than I could have gotten here. Don't get me wrong, its not that I feel I'm "smarter" than my friends, but sometimes I feel a bit more mature and just focused. I'm the only one whose looking at colleges seriously and been considering majors and careers. I'm the only one who reads the newspapers and watches the news.

My friends here are the most geniune people around, but in a way, I feel disconnected to them. Which is odd, since at school I get angry at how intellectual and mature everyone acts. It seems like I can't find the right balance for myself.

On the issue of college, there's a problem. I knew my parents were struggling with boarding school fees, but having been surrounded by said boarding school enviroment, its easy to forget about the economic recession, since most kids at school have anything they want. I shocked everyone by saying my family of 7 had one TV. And I love my parents for giving up all they have for my (and my siblings) educations. People have always said I was the smartest of the five children, and while I don't agree with that, I have a feeling I might be settling by going to my brother's college. But its affordable (with scholarships) and the airfare wouldn't be too bad getting there. And any college education is good, right? I don't want to me ungrateful and tell my parents that I want better than that. And that would be insulting to my brother, who is my idol.

I think I could get into some very good schools, maybe not ivy league but close. But in order to afford any of them, I would need a near full scholarship. I'm going to be working, but my parents don't want me to take out loans and want to pay for most of it, like they have for the other kids. But it feels like kind of a waste for them to have sent me away for a better education just to get into a school I could have got into with an education here.

PS: Can I point out that none of my friends here have considered any of these issues?

-Gabby

So I just got back from the movies where I was undoubtedly the youngest there by a good 30-40 years. Bunch of old British people! My sis and I were the only ones dancing along, which in most movies would be wierd, but come on this is freaking ABBA! Its made to be danced along with! Hello Dancing Queen!

An amazing movie. Meryl Streep was awesome, and James Bond sung! Any movie that can have a man most people picture in a suit with a martini and killing people instead be singing and dancing will be an instant classic.

    President of Spain...

OR

  ...Comedy Actor?

Due to the interesting spanish blood on my father's side, I watch a lot of spanish news. This is supposedly so I can get fluent in spanish, but really, I love our President. I think he has no idea what he's doing half the time, his voice annoys me, and he looks kinda evil sometimes....but his nighttime job as a great comedy actor MR. BEAN, makes up for it! Seriously! They're like twins!

I still have a small fever and my glands are swollen, swallowing hurts, eating is nearly impossible. Oh and I'm apparently having a 'bad' reaction to the meds as I spent all morning today and yesterday vomiting.

Did I mention I was supposed to be babysitting while vomitting?

Suprisingly, the two do not get along.

But there was no other options and I do love those kids, so even though I didn't have much of a voice and was hacking the entire time, I've spent two days (and tomorrow) chasing after little children.

And yes, it has occurred to me that maybe the whole running around the two hyper kids may not be helping, but seriously, rest is so overrated!

Just walk it out/off!

As I may have mentioned, I attend boarding school. The greatest downside to boarding school is the thousands upon thousands of forms they send you today that need to be sent back by yesterday. It really is amazing how much effort they put in confusing us. In a delirious and feverish state yesterday, my mom and I were trying to figure out some of them. My mother, the college graduate, slammed the papers down, stood up and walked away saying, "You go to boarding school, you figure it out."

I am walking to fine line between being super happy to go back and insanely, depressingly sad. I finally get into the swing of things here and then its back to a completely different world. At home things are nice and slow, never any rush. I'm not sure if its boarding school, the US, or boarding school in the US, but things are so much faster there. I'm an island gal, I don't move that fast sweetheart!

On a side note, I am feeling a bit better due to the amazingness that is Motrin 800 and the other assorted drugs the doctor gave me. I'm becoming a pill popper. And I'm loving it.

-Gabby