I just realized, I haven't written an actual journal in about three months so, lets see... exciting things going on in my life that you guys might actually care about XD...

umm... well I entered a craft show a while ago. I was selling magnets and fleece hats (I'll be posting pictures on here if anyone's interested in buying something). ~scarecrow5 went with me, but we didn't sell very much. I think we were trying to sell to the wrong people XD I want to try to get a table in artist alley at a con or two in the spring, but that's still a long ways away.

Last night was interesting (terrifying). ~a-broken-soul came over yesterday after church and got on dA and my computer was being all glitchy, but it was just kind of annoying, so I didn't think it was anything serious. Later that night, I was talking to ~scarecrow5 on aim and my computer started to completely freak out. It was kicking me out of programs, opening new ones, and kept changing my desktop picture. So I ran upstairs and got my dad, because I had no freaking idea what I should do, and he ran a program to find all the viruses and stuff that were on my computer. It found 358 of them! But we didn't have a program to remove them, so my mom's gonna buy something on Tuesday. So hopefully by Tuesday night I'll have a computer again (assuming it's not completely dead by then). But that was nothing compared to today XD

I found out last week that my sister had her blood tested to see if she was healthy enough to have surgury, and they found a mutated gene in her blood. It's called Factor 5, is hereditary, causes blood clots when mixed with birth control, and could cause death during childbirth. My mom wants my other sister and I to get tested because there's a really big chance that we could have it. Well, I had my doctor's appointment today, and after that, my mom took me to the hospital for the bloodwork. Anyone who knows me even a little, knows how much I hate blood... and needles, but as long as I don't look at, I can get through shots and stuff pretty easily. So I sit down by the nurse, she ties the band around my arm, tells me to make a fist, I can feel the needle go in, she tells me to relax my hand... and then my mom (who was supposed to be out in the waiting room) is leaning over me trying to get me to wake up. I had no idea where I was, I could barely see or hear anything, and was on the verge of hyperventilating. They gave me about five minutes to calm down, but I still couldn't really see or hear. And then the nurse said that she still needed a little more blood. So she stabbed my OTHER arm! I finally got my senses back as we were walking out of the hospital, and then I realized that everyone in the waiting room heard me freaking out XD My mom took me to go get food, and said that I shouldn't drive for a while, so I'm hanging out at her office right now. I'm still a little lightheaded, and my arms are both pretty sore, but other than that I feel fine. My mom said that my right arm (the second one she took blood from) will probably feel fine by tomorrow, but my left one'll probably have a really big bruise on it because the nurse had to catch me when I passed out and the needle was still in my arm.

Oh, and one more thing... because we've been dating for a little over two months, and I've always wanted to do this...



... yeah, I know, I'm dumb XD