Only three more weeks of school... and I think we're all seeing the major effects of this... lots of stress, lots of things due... and lots of low immune systems...
I got sick this past week. It's not going away. I may actually have to go to the doctors for this one. Bleh.
Even so, I did have quite a nice weekend. I ended up going to NH for my grandma's 80th birthday, which really just became a huge family reunion (ie: I met people related to me that I didn't realize were related to me. Hoorah for that.) I also got to catch up with some of the cousins I haven't seen in a long time-- such as my cousin Josh who has somehow managed to grow like a foot in a half in the past year. Yikes.
Or the other Josh who has lived in NYC for so many years, and then moved to Portland, ME that I seriously had to do a double take to see if he was actually related to me or had just married someone. Haha.
It was a surprise birthday party, and by some miracle, managed to continue to be a surprise birthday party (there are a lot of people in my family, which means a lot more people who might accidentally spill the beans). Here's my grandma's "surprise face."
We ended up having the party at the Puritan, which is this excellent restaurant in Manchester. I guess my grandma goes there sometimes with my aunt, so my grandma didn't realize that it was a big thing until she actually got there. YAY.
Naturally, we had to take pictures of all the guests...(oh, and a kudos to my cousin David for taking most of these pictures with his fancy camera...)
And then some close-ups on the cute kids...
Here's my second cousin once removed:
Here's my nephew:
Here's my hero of an aunt (re: sweetest person in the world) holding my nephew:
And of course, my grandmother holding her latest great grandchild (I think William makes five... but I could be wrong... I have a lot of cousins to keep track of).
Overall, it was a great time. Good food, good people, good conversations... Good time.
I also got the opportunity to go to the Spring Concert here at GMC this weekend. It was fantastic. Here is the website to the band-- Toots and the Maytals. They've been credited with inventing the word reggae, which is pretty cool, if you think about it. It was a jammin' band and Toots had the entire audience dancing by the end of it. This is honestly the first Spring Concert I've been to at GMC (I personally haven't been interested in the other bands that have played, but I've been told that the past concerts were a lot of fun.) It was especially neat this year because the tickets were free for GMC students and only $5 for anyone else--pretty inexpensive for a couple hours of good music!
Anyway, that was pretty much my weekend. Now time to slowly but surely get my homework done without over stressing myself. This whole sickness thing is making it hard to sleep at night, which means I'm just exhausted and constantly napping during the day. Not so good, especially when said naps lead to weird dreams where one of your good friends is a vampire that has died from Ebola. Is that even possible in any of the vampire mythologies? Jeeze.
Until next time...