Today has not been good to me. Slight Ranting may be ahead, so you can ignore if you wish.

This morning was actually the good part. I ate an Easter breakfast with my parents, my sister and her husband, and my two year old nephew. It was quite nice.

Something that's been on my mind recently is the Georgia Renaissance Festival. At first, I planned to go with three of my friends on opening weekend, to cash in on the 2 for 1 ticket deal they offer. However, I remembered how miserable it was last year when we went on the first weekend. We sat in traffic for over an hour just to get into the park, had the car break down in the parking lot at the end of the day, and then still had to wait at least 2 hours before we finally got on the road home. The car we rode in was not mine, and it did not have air conditioning in it. It was dreadful.

So, after contemplating and reassurance from my sister, I decided to switch to going the 2nd weekend. She was not the only reason I chose this though. I only had two friends confirmed on going, meaning that someone would have to pay full price (normally meaning me.) I didn't want that, so I told both of my friends that I wanted to go the second weekend. They both lashed at me, badgering about why I changed my mind and how they wouldn't have any money to go that weekend, due to not having the 2 for 1 deal.

One friend I didn't argue with for long, since I'd only called her on the phone to tell her. However, my other friend and I argued most of the afternoon. It got quite heated, yet it was stupid at the same time. I quickly felt that it would be better if I just went with my sister and didn't go with my friends. I haven't spent time with my sister in a while, so I felt good about that decision. But when I told my friend that, he just argued more. He started saying I didn't understand. It kept going back and forth, until finally he just came out and said he still wanted to go another weekend. I'm not sure about that right now. At the moment I just wanna go the one weekend with my sister.

Onward from that. Another thing that's bothered me alot now is my allergies. I'm miserable here in the south. Allergic to a few trees, cats, dogs, and all the grass pollen within the southeast. It's dreadful in the spring time for me. I can never breathe half the time, my nose runs like a leaky faucet. (yes you can have disturbing images of that now). I've had these most of my life. Allergy shots did not help me at all. I take multiple benadryl a day (at least 6 overall, 2 in the morning, afternoon, and night). It doesn't make me drowsy at all. Neither does nyquil. I feel like I'm immune to them, but they do calm my symptoms. I can also get a cortisone (cortizone?) shot. The problem with those is that it makes me gain about ten pounds that I don't need, and it only lasts a few weeks of the season. I'm at a loss about it all.

Something concerning me yesterday was my dental hygiene. I will admit this, I can't stand brushing my teeth. I knew I need to do it, but it just annoys me for some reason. Well I decided to try and brush them, and my gums bled quite a bit over a few teeth. That concerned me, (and made my mouth hurt like hell). This is the one thing that's okay, because I'm going to stop that. I've brushed my teeth three times today, and it's hurt less each time. Hopefully by next week it'll be alot better.

The last thing that's bugging me right now is something I don't showcase here, but is slightly art related. On another forum, there are quite a few graphic artists who make signatures and avatars and such things. I've been doing some under their wings. I've made some nice ones, but they always tell me that I can improve alot more. I made a sig yesterday that I posted on the site... and they've told me it was my worst. From one point I can see what they are saying, but at the same time it discourages me. They tell me not to get discouraged, but it's not something that's easily done. I don't see how people handle CnC (Compliment and Critique I believe). Though I've gotten better with it, I can't handle it well. Especially when I've worked hard on a sig and it gets put down.

Update: Fuck. Now my friend is more mad at me just because I won't stop what I'm doing and contemplate about going another weekend. I told him I didn't want to discuss the subject anymore today, as it had frustrated me too much. Yet he went on just now about it. And he just told me to fuck it and he wouldn't go. I'm pissed about that. I never said I wouldn't think about it, I just said not today! Ugh! Today is not my day...

Edit: I just remembered about something else. Not as bad as anything else, just a little irk. I have Pokemon Heart Gold. I have a Growlithe in said game. I just obtained a fire stone and evolved him to a Arcanine. However, Growlithe was only at level 33 when I evolved him. He hadn't learned his best moves. But, now that he's an Arcanine, he won't learn those moves. That just doesn't make sense to me. How can he not learn the moves? I remedied it with some TMs, but it is still something that doesn't make sense to me.

/end venting.

This felt good. If you read through it completely, kudos to you for listening to my BS. I normally listen to everyone else, and never have mine listened to.