Hallo jeder!

Ich bin sehr krank heute, und ich möchte schlafen alle Tag. Auch, ich bin sehr mude.

Okay- that's about it for now. I know neither past tense nor half the verbs I'd like to, so I cannot provide as much blogging-in-German as I'd like to. Oh well. I am COMPLETELY sick today. I haven't felt this crappy in a long time. My throat feels all swollen and scratchy, and my body aches. I came home after teaching last night, and went to bed at 8pm, and fell asleep at 8:30. I woke up at 3:30 this morning, and then forced myself to sleep until 7. Then I called my mom (on my new paid-for-by-my-parents cell phone) and was nearly crying because I felt like crap. I called my grandma afterwards, and she gave me a "recipe" for something that would make my throat feel better, and it worked. As I laid there for the next hour or so, I couldn't help but feel entirely guilty and unproductive. So I pulled myself out of bed, cleaned my room (mostly), did some homework, and forced myself to come down the comm center to do some laundry and online homework. Gee- that more productive than I've been all week. But I can't help it- I feel totally guilty if I'm just laying there not doing anything. Character fault- I am not to blame.

Anyway, other than being sick, everything seems to be going quite well for me. I'm quite excited. Family relations are at an all time great, I have been paid for teaching and now have enough money for groceries, German is coming along better, and the only thing that could be better is music. Its actually fine, but I missed my lesson last Tuesday and haven't practice much, both because I have not felt well. Hopefully this little cold will go away soon. I don't want it to affect me at all this next week.

I feel SO bad for not writing Sean more often. I actually have a letter all written and ready to mail, but I have just kept forgetting to buy stamps. I'm so terrible! :(  I have to write him more often, or he's going to hate me and not want to have anything to do with me. And we all know that I don't want that. Next paragraph.'

Now I just need to rant and rave about how great the band "Rammstein" is. I have been TOTALLY obsessed with them lately, and I'm excited that I get do my semester project for German on them. Totally cool. They just have such a great powerful sound. I kind of realized this morning that I'm completely (over-) obsessed with European music, whether its classical or rock or whatever. Europeans just do it better. Rammstein rules!

Well, Valentine's Day is Monday and I will, again, be alone. How depressing. It will be a chick-flick kind of night for Laurie. Unless by some miracle someone asks me to go on a date on Monday. I sure hope so, but I won't get my hopes up. About the only thing I have to look forward to next week is the arrival of a Rammstein CD I bought online last week. That should freaking rock. That, and I just found out that The Killers are coming here on tour again in a month or so. I am SO going to see them... if I can find someone to go with. Oh please! Bis spaeter.

Auf Wiedersehen.