Not really.

It’s the season again and although it seemingly just started, I’m already aggrivated. I hate allergies. It’s the same every year: all throughout fall, winter and most of spring I tend to forget about how annoying they truly are and then there’s one day, usually in May, where all hell breaks loose and I can’t even get up because my eyes are all swollen and itchy, my throat itches, my nose is drippy, and I’m in a general state of, SOMEONE PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY! That day is today.

I’m supposed to go to my aunt’s birthday party today. So now on top of not wanting to go, anyway, I have to deal with the allergies.

I hate going out when they’re this bad because I just look all deformed and tired and I’m really uncomfortable. My brother said he’d only make a quick stop there tonight so maybe instead of sitting there all night long, I may just go with him instead.

I hate any sort of medication but my mom managed to convince me to take a pill every night for the allergies which I’ve been doing since the beginning of May and I thought everything was fine because I, then, didn’t have any major problems anymore.

Turns out that, evidently, the season actually just started today.

I love summer. Not.

In all seriousness, I CANNOT WAIT FOR CHRISTMAS.

If there is a kind of American candy that I miss, it’s definitely Reese’s peanutbutter cups. I don’t like peanutbutter as its inventor wanted it to be enjoyed (most likely on a peanutbutter and - ew! - jelly sandwich) and I certainly don’t like that sorry, crumbly, overly sweet yet somehow strangely bitter mass that’s being sold as chocolate over there.

But man, do I love a combination of both!

My loved-ones from Kentucky sent me a little thank you card for the Christmas gifts I had sent and they sent the peanutbutter cups right along side with it. They are so good, I wanna cry. Seriously, I had forgotten just how good they taste!

I miss America.

Just when I started to feel like crying my eyes out, though, another package arrived: from my dear friend Linn from Norway. She is the most outgoing person you will ever meet. With her, even I enjoy crashing a party! She is so funny and beautiful and smart and perfect, it’s intimidating.

We met in Kentucky, she was another exchange student there that stayed in the same neighborhood I stayed in and we became best friends. We hadn’t talked in forever and she hadn’t replied to the last texts I sent her or the emails I wrote.

But today this really sweet letter arrived. She also sent a hand-made necklace with it which I love.

It’s perfect to wear in spring and summer. I was so happy to hear from her again! I honestly was afraid that she wasn’t interested in keeping in touch anymore but, apparently, - and thankfully! - I seem to have been wrong about that. Oh, and Kati is my nickname, by the way. Everybody calls me that. I actually like it better than my whole name but I just never thought of using it online.

I was so completely and entirely happy today that I actually ended up doing my French homework, although I only need it until next Tuesday. I don’t think that has ever happened before, ha!

It’s a paper on WW2, the Germans’ invasion of France. And it was not easy to write it all down in French. I’m glad I got it done. And I’m glad that I could treat myself with a handful of peantbutter cups afterwards.

Lesson of the day: having friends all over the world definitely pays of. Always.

As mentioned before, I took a bath today and boy, do baths ever do wonders to one’s mood! There’s something about baths - about long showers, too - that completely soothes me and no matter how cranky I may have been, it’ll turn me into a completely different person.

So. I took a bath, using new bath salts I had bought yesterday and reading Gossip Girl. My day couldn’t have possibly started any better. I was kind of dreading the fact that I had to meet with a couple of girls from school, N and K, to work on our Senior Book later during the day. But It was still a pretty good morning which is a relief because recent mornings always sucked as I can’t seem to fall asleep as quickly as I used to and then always wake up with a headache and annoying pains in several other body parts.

It also annoys me that Christmas is over already. Look at this pretty candle decoration which sits in the middle of our dining room table. It’s so pretty, with (above) and without flash (below), and I don’t want it to wander back in the attic, buried under tons of other Christmas decoration.

Our little get-together for the Senior Book went just fine, though. And I’m sure if a certain someone hadn’t been there we also wouldn’t have had to move from the little café where we had met to my house because it took us so long. Yes, cafés have to close sometime, moron!

Anyway, moving on. Tomorrow will be filled with shopping and exchanging Christmas presents and using gift cards and other fun activities that involve purchasing in any way, shape or form.
I love shopping; sadly, new things make me happy. I know that it only makes me happy for an instant and neither my bank account nor my parents approve of spending so much money all the time. But seriously, I’d rather be happy for an instant than unhappy forever.

God, I’m so bitter these days. That, too, annoys me.