Down in the Megrims?

Today's word of the day, from dicitonary.com,  is megrim \MEE-grim\ meaning:
"1.  A migraine
2.  A fancy; a whim.
3.  In the plural: lowness of spirits -- often with 'the'"

How ironic that today (in addition to the past few weeks) I've been feeling a bit down in the meegrims.  While I am sure that the major reason for this is the amount of stress I have recently experienced with Mom's breast cancer and Dad's massive heart attack its become a normal daily feeling.  Especially since I feel like I am in fact 12 years old again.  It amazes me that when I was 17, it was no problem to leave me alone on the farm and to move to another town 40 miles away; yet, today at 23 its a struggle to let me out of the house.  I truly feel like a prisoner, especially for someone that cannot stand being cooped up in the house!  Anyways, both of my parents are doing much better now and I am hoping to go home next week.  I can't wait.

Since I have been here so long with little to do I found myself spending an exceptional amount of time on Facebook.  I really didn't have much else to do.  Especially with T.V. being the bore that it is, there really aren't many options when you are in Iowa during the cold winter, and most of your friends are still in college or moved away.  I hope to never see another episode of CSI or Law n Order btw!  But anyways, yesterday I decided to deactivate my Facebook account.  Its been pretty weird the past 24 hours...I've actually been  productive.  I got up this morning at 8am (something I haven't done the whole time I've been here) and went and got my new social security card, NIACC transcripts sent so I can go to UWF, and a handicapped parking permit for my dad all before 11.  Not to mention I made it to Dad's appointment in Clarion, went with my aunt to buy a new t.v. for Dad, grocery shopping, and helped cook dinner.  Not much for the typical mom, but for me especially compared to the past two months it was quite a bit and I'm exhausted!  I hope to be able to get that much done as well as work and go to school when I get home.  Keeping busy like that will probably help me tolerate Matt's crazy schedule that drives me absolutely insane.  Oh and in addition to all that I read 150 pages of a biography about Leonardo da Vinci!

I also continued my goal of reading 3 news articles each day.  Compared to my amount of current event exposure and absorption in college that is nothing!  I'm quite unsure about B.O.'s Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia.  In fact it makes me quite uneasy -- I have a sneaking suspicion that it was simply a political move and that neither party will comply AND/OR both parties have developed technology far more disastrous than such.

Also Spirit airlines is going to begin charging a $45 fee for carry-on luggage!  I've never actually heard of this airline, but that's also why it is going to be an interesting move.  The logic behind doing so makes perfect sense:  since airlines currently charge a fee to check luggage, many people carry as much as possible themselves onto the plane making overhead compartments cramped and delaying boarding and deboarding.  The $45 fee is actually more than what it costs to check luggage, so for this particular airline may actually be beneficial.  Its only a matter of time until we see other airlines following suit.

Anyways, it seems that my body has some kind of limit in which it allows itself to be awake.  I'm feeling pretty exhausted so I'm going to read me some da Vinci and fall asleep...