Procrastinating on LJ because I should be doing my take-home exam

Tag meme from azotame because she tagged me:

A) Each player starts with eight random facts/habits/statements about themselves.
B) People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things as well as post these rules.
C) At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.

1) I like to sing loudly and off-tune while doing the dishes.
2) I've grown to dread my birthdays.
3) I am attracted to strong women and weak men.
4) I'm going to hug Lyan to death when I go to Boston, because we both miss being hugged.
5) I worry that if I keep pretending to be straight, I'll eventually end up married to a guy. 
6) My PvP arena team (Squishies Inc) has lost every single battle it's been in so far.
7) My life would be a lot lonelier without my little sister.
8) I'm not actually addicted to World of Warcraft.  It's just a convenient excuse for not having a social life.  :-p

Tag:  broken_faerie, chilipeppasbaby, deutschebahn, froggimus_rex, kyanited, koshernurse, penstarr, ralst

Yea and Nay

So, the angst from a few days ago was largely (but not completely) from my stress levels going up and down.  The planned trip to America was only going to work if a whole lot of things worked out:

I would be able to go if:
1) My parents successfully sell their business.
2) Their new employers actually let them go on holiday so soon.
3) My Dad gets his visa application approved.
4) We're able to get plane tickets so late, and for a reasonable price.

In addition, I'd only be able to meet my friends if:
5) We leave early enough that the timing is right.
6) My parents actually agree to go down to Florida since that wasn't originally part of the plan.

As each one of those conditions looked like it wasn't going to work out, my stress level would peak... and then it would come crashing back.  Only to rise again at the next obstacle. It was like a nightmarish roller-coaster ride on a cosine curve.  >.<

I thought the worst was when our plane tickets accidentally got cancelled... but no, there was more to come.  Dad managed to get new ones BUT WITH THE WRONG DATES.  -.-   He'd already paid for them and he hadn't even checked the dates.  I was soooo angry with him for being so careless.  And I'd already booked the connecting flights so that would have been $800 down the drain if we couldn't fix the dates. But somehow it got fixed and it's all magically fallen into place, again.  Hopefully I didn't just jinx myself by saying that.

Anyway.

The alternating levels of euphoria and stress that have been flooding my system has left me slightly splatdead.  Not to mention the sleep and food deprivation as I feverishly levelled to 70 on WoW.  But fear not... I return to the land of the sane because Ingrid and Karine have already left for the US and so I have nobody to make me croissants.  (If that sentence made no sense... don't worry.  I haven't gone nutty - it's a WoW thing).

Oh, and the plane ticket fiasco has made a few changes to the Run Amok Around America Like A Crazed Hamster schedule: 
1) We'll be leaving from NY instead of LA so we won't be visiting the West coast anymore.
2) A lot more time in NJ/NY, and a lot less time in the air.
3) Trip no longer resembles a crazed hamster running amok.  This is a good thing.

Bedtime.  *splat*