Instead of working on a school project, I have decided to write to you, blog. I’m feeling better than I was on Monday. I still don’t feel 100% like me, though that could be blamed on the illness that is working its way around my body.

Yesterday was interesting. I woke up feeling like Grade A shit, so I go back to sleep for a few hours. I wake up with a text from my brother informing me he’s in the ER with severe abdominal pain and that it might be appendicitis. I go downstairs to inform my mom, who then tells me that she needs to go to the ER too. She was having horrible feverish chills and vomiting, so she was probably dehydrated too. My sister picks her up and takes her to the hospital, then my brother goes into surgery to have his appendix removed. So, I stay at home with a free afternoon and an empty house. I originally planned to spend my day in bed, working on the aforementioned school project, but with this turn of events I decided against it, and instead I cranked up the Modest Mouse and cleaned the house. I cleared my mom’s bedroom of all the trash and boxes still leftover from moving in August, and made her a nice place to recover. I cleaned up the kitchen and living room and took out the trash around the house. To reward myself, I ordered some pizza.

I went to St. Thomas at 8 to pick up my mom, but instead we stayed to see my brother come out of surgery. It was so strange to see my big brother in that hospital bed, helpless and in pain. He can put up such a tough exterior that it’s hard to forget that he’s just a mortal like me. He was in good spirits, and my mom was feeling better after having some IV fluids, so we sat in his hospital room and watched him make eyes at his girlfriend and joke around with his best friend, pausing every once in a while to wince in pain. We went home and I immediately went upstairs to relax. I shouldn’t have cleaned yesterday, I think both it and stress exacerbated my sniffle into a full blown sickness. Oh well, at least it gives me time to work on that project…

I’m realizing now that I never really talked about the move. I’ll have to write a post about that now. Okay–sure, I don’t have to–I just really want any reason to NOT work on this project.