a sick day

My throat has been hurting for a couple of days and this morning my mother decided that I should go to the doctor and not to school because I wouldn't want to infect other people if I had strep throat. So I went to the doctor this morning and I did the strep tests where they stick those sticks down into your throat--it is not fun--but I still haven't found out whether I have it or not but I am at home right now, wasting the day away. I am pretty sure I am perfectly fine but you know mothers, those paranoid creatures. :3 I just realized how rambling and incoherent these sentences are--maybe I am sick after all, and it has invaded my brain. Here is a picture to break up all the text, 'cause that's what I do best. {What?!} Oh and don't say flowers are boring! They are beautiful.

 So. I've been really wanting to bake something {red velvet cupcakes, anyone?} but my mother says that sick people should not bake lest their germs somehow spread...yeah, anyway. So I'm sitting here in this house with all these productive things I could do only I can't do them. So instead I've basically just been sitting here all day, browsing tumblr and looking at pictures of food {mostly breakfast and dessert 'cause those are the prettiest: see here and here for some lovelies} and waiting for someone on blogger to post to distract me. Post today and I swear I'll comment. Probably. :P

Here's my own lame addition to the food photo frenzy {what can I say? I like alliteration}:

{Yeah, I did randomly decide to make all the photos in this post have rounded corners. Don't ask why.}

More food. Ish. A lime that I picked up and took a picture of, because I felt like it.

So, how has your day been, dear reader/follower/commenter/random internet person? I'm pretty bored, so somebody do something to entertain me.

Or, in the words of my friend, "Somebody say something stupid. I want to laugh."

~Starr

awkward + awesome thursday

I'm linking up with Sydney {hey, that's one of my best friend's names!} at the Daybook today, for Awkward and Awesome Thursday. Those are certainly two words to describe my day...

Awkward:

-Feeling kind of sick (on and off headache, sore throat, hot and then cold) but still having to go to school, because I already missed two days last week.

-Wearing safety goggles in biology. Enough said.

-Getting the hiccups. Twice. In one day.

-The negligible amount of time I've spent practicing my guitar in the past week or two.

-Major procrastination on a paper that is due tomorrow. I should, er, start that... {Don't worry, it's only one page.}

Awesome:

-Getting warm chocolate chip cookies in first period. :)

-Re-reading "The Book Thief" in its entirety on Tuesday. Love that book.

-Coming home and finding brownies.

-Spring break is in one week and one day. My cousins are coming down and we're going to San Antonio for a couple of days. I'm pumped!

-And only one more day until the weekend. Can never get here soon enough...

-Spring! I'm loving all this green grass, sunshine and flowers. :)

-All of you followers!

How was your Thursday? Awkward? Awesome? Do tell.

~Starr

hello, march

Once again, it is a new month, full of promise and possibility. Thirty-one {well, now thirty} days lying ahead on my calendar, waiting to be filled. New months are glorious. Welcome, March!

March means a new header {look up!}, a new desktop background for my computer {this one! from free people}, and a new season ushered in {spring! <3}.

Here is a springtime poem to get you in the mood. It's from my story I wrote for Nanowrimo back in November. The story was divided into four parts, one for each season, and each part started off with a poem in this format. This, obviously, is the one for spring. :)  

SPRING

springtime

how fresh and peaceful

new and uplifting and graceful

it is white sheets on laundry lines

billowing like windblown vines

it is bouquets of blossoming flowers

petals wet from mid-morning showers

it is baby animals opening their eyes

birds' and bunnies' first cries

it is green trees and meadows of grass

water in brooks falls like shards of glass

it is kite tails and butterflies

rising higher through blue skies

thus ends winter's strife

here comes the joyful renewal of life

springtime

I almost forgot! Today is someone very special's birthday...No, not Justin Bieber. Don't be silly! It's Ron Weasley's birthday! Happy birthday to him! :D  Hope your first day of March was spectacular! {Whoa, that is a lot of exclamation points there.}

~Starr 

P.S. This is my forty-first post and as of this writing, I have forty-one followers. I love all of the universe's little coincidences. :)