It's my fucking birthday!!

That's right, I turned 21 last Tuesday. It wasn't too shabby of a birthday either :). I woke up and was surprised when one of my roommates told me happy birthday- I had forgotten already haha. I didn't have anything to do until 4:30, and it was gorgeous outside, so I decided to hi the beach for a few hours. Katie joined me, and we both talked a little about our rough life haha. I wasn't really hungry at all even though I hadn't eaten yet, but it was past lunch time and I had decided yesterday I wanted to get fish and chips at the little place near City Beach, so I did, and ended up giving most of it to Katie.

Went home, showered, decided it was within my 21st birthday rights to skip my tutorial (honestly, I didn't miss a thing). In my defense though I spent the time being pretty productive. It also turned out to be a good thing since I was the only person home when flowers from my parents came :). They were gorgeous native Australian flowers that I've never seen anything like before. Some of them were so soft and fuzzy they almost felt like stuffed animals! For dinner we went out to the Outback Steakhouse. It just cracks me up that they exist here, especially since they were started by two Americans from Florida... I ordered the Wallaby Darned cocktail, because honestly, who can not have a drink on their 21st, even if they are in a foreign country? I weirdly still wasn't hungry at all, which was a bummer since I was all psyched about splurging on a really good meal. I still ordered a salad and brought it home for later. It was the five of us from the PH, plus Heather and one of Ashley's friends who I can't remember the name of :/. Jason had given me this ribbon thing to wear that said "It's my fucking birthday" that I was proudly sporting all night haha. They also ordered me a delicious brownie/ice cream dessert (that yes, I did find a little bit of space for a few bites haha). When we got home I discovered the cake they had made for me earlier too. I admittedly knew they were up to something in the kitchen, but I like surprises so I hadn't investigated until we came back lol. It was simple but yummy :) I just wish I had been hungry that day...

So I had a quiet but pretty good birthday, I felt loved :D. I found out why I hadn't been hungry all day though - that night when I went to bed I came down with a super random high fever until early morning. I thought it was just a freak thing and tried to go to my classes the next morning, but ended up coming home early when it came back. I took it as a bad sign that everyone in the class was sweating in the room as I chattered my teeth in jeans and a hoodie clutched around me. I slept for like 4 hours that day and just generally felt awful. That kept up for another 2 days, and Friday I spent almost all of in bed. Finally Saturday I felt a little better and actually had a late lunch - I had been going on 5 days of not eating by then. Since then I've felt a bit off, but that was really all it was - fever and lack of appetite. Really weird.

Monday was a national holiday so we had no classes, which was nice. Other than that the week has been pretty normal. yay for finally catching this blog up with real life! lol