I’m totally stressing. I had a completely horrible week/day. But I will talk about the positives after my rant.

My SO and I have been pissing each other off lately for the past few days. I think it’s because we just had a visit. Now we’re adjusting back to being long distance, although only for six more days because of Christmas break, thankfully. It’s just been adding to my stress. We’ve been bickering and not talking as much. That seemed to end today though which is good.

My semester is winding down. I submitted a ethnography paper tonight. I have to watch a movie this weekend for my South Africa history class, which is an interesting class but a lot of work. I have two exams next Tuesday. I have a paper on teenage pregnancy due on Wednesday for sociology class. My last assignment is a paper/presentation/poster on selective mutism due Wednesday as well. Then I’m done. I’m very happy for that.

My belly button piercing rejected which makes me upset. Hopefully it will heal and close well and then I can try to get it re-pierced with different style of jewelry or type of metal. It’s very upsetting though because I loved that piercing. Now my belly button looks so lonely and not pretty :/

And on top of all that stress, my stupid cell phone is broken. It won’t turn on no matter how much I try. My dad ordered me a new battery which hopefully will help. It sucks though because my SO doesn’t have internet on his computer, just his phone, so we can never Skype and now we can’t call either.

So after all that whining, I’ll get to the good stuff. Time to focus on the positives. I fly back to New Jersey on Thursday (12/8) which I’m extremely excited about. I’ll get to see my wonderful SO and spend Christmas with him and his family. It will be our second Christmas together. Then hopefully on New Years Eve we’ll party in the new year… last year I was sick and slept through the celebration! I’m also very excited that I won’t have to do homework all break unlike summer when I have to take three courses online in order to graduate a year early and close the distance (with my SO and my family!) faster. I love being in a tropical location but I don’t think I could live here for good. I’ll be happy to go back to my middle of nowhere, drive hours to get to anywhere good, sleepy little town.