An Un-bloggable Week.

I always have SOMETHING to say! At least I believe I am pretty good at finding something to talk about…especially since I am living in this crazy, crazy country! Something bizarre and different happens everyday and I don’t have to look hard for an adventure to blog about! Even if nothing significant occurs at all, I am able to find the positive, the cute, the silly, or the “absolutely-have-to-tell-you”. Well – it was all GONE the past week. Or perhaps it was just masked by………(insert scary Halloween music here)…..the CHICKEN POX!

I’m sure you already know that I had the chicken pox (my whining MUST have reached Canada because I’m certain I filled up the “whine space” in Egypt). I was miserable for too many days in a row. I was itchy, feverish, headachy, lonely, exhausted………SAD (upgrade that to super sad), MAD (come on LIFE – I have already had them AND I am almost 23 years old!), but mostly, I was incredibly homesick. It was my first serious bout of homesickness since coming to Cairo and I did not like it’s coexistence with the chicken pox. Being quarantined in my apartment all day long, I felt no urge to blog……my life was completely UN-bloggable….

Here is some insight into my un-bloggable week:

6:00 A.M. – Wake up. Remember that I have the chicken pox. Feel Itchy. Scratch. Cry because I know the scratching is rebellious.

6:15 A.M. - Get homesick.

6:30 A.M. – Eat breakfast with my roommates. Watch my roommates so luckily depart for school. Sit on the couch and think, “now what?”. So I scratched.

7:00 A.M. - Wait the 8 or 9 hours necessary to call my Dad at a reasonable hour (watch BBC, CNN, or Dubai One…..sleep……scratch….sleep…scratch….cry).

3:00 P.M. - Talk to Dad. Feel better during the phone call, but much worse after. (Daddy – I cried after every skype tea party…I MISS YOU!).

4:30 P.M. – Roommates come home. Eat dinner. Scratch. Cry because I’m itchy (sorry ELK Lodge – you put up with a lot of outrageous WHINING.)

8:30 P.M. – Go to bed. Or try to. Scratch, scratch, scratch.

See - no adventures. No fabulous tales from Egypt. Just ridiculous realsick/homesick behaviour. And so, I apologize for the MIA I left on sprinklesfromlindsay. I am better now……..and ready to reunite with the BLOGGABLE life that I love :)