Le sigh....

Well today didn't go quite as planned.

I went to the doctor to try and get switched off my medications that I'm currently on for the headaches I've been having for the last year or so and the doctor (well technically nurse practitioner) that I saw told me that I've basically done everything I can and I should try Botox or acupuncture. Ever since I started down this road of trying to figure out what is causing these headaches, I've felt like one big medical question that no one can figure out, but at least they've tried. Now I'm being told that there is nothing anyone can do for me and that I can either live with the headaches or I can start doing these unusual remedies. Honestly, I'm not asking for a miracle, I just want my head to stop hurting for days at a time. At least this new doctor put me back on birth control (there was a worry that my birth control could be contributing to my headaches), but this doctor doesn't seem to think so, she thinks I'm suffering from so many side effects because when I went off my birth control, it caused a hormone imbalance, but going back on it should hopefully even things out.

Another slightly annoying thing that has happened recently has to do with money (or lack of it.) I'm currently an un-paid intern at an art gallery in a city about 45 minutes away which, don't get me wrong, I love doing, but like I said, its un-paid. I don't mind driving or anything like that, I don't really even mind not getting paid, I just love getting out of the house, but driving 45 minutes one way every day gets costly in a hurry (and lets not forget I have 4 more months of loan-free months before the government starts breathing down my neck.) BUT the point of all this is, my lovely boss decided to go out of her way and try to get me an AmeriCorps grant from the government for $800/month plus a $5500 education bonus at the end of the year that can be put towards more education or towards my loans. I am so grateful that she decided to do this for me and I was so excited to find out that the money should be in my bank account by August. Well, the grant was sent out and now we're just waiting on the government to figure out their budget and send me to training in Atlanta for a weekend. The bad news is, the government has been taking longer than planned and if they don't decide on their budget in the next few weeks, I'll miss the August training. I'll be able to do the September or October training, but I can't get paid until I do the training, so I could be waiting until October to get paid. I'm torn because I don't want to get a job (read: paying job) for the next two months to just hold me over because I LOVE my job at the gallery and I am so thankful for everything my boss has done for me, but I have to put into perspective driving all that way every week and the fact that I basically owe the government my first born child.

These last few days have been full of some annoyances, but hopefully the rest of the week will be better, and Saturday is my 22nd birthday, so we'll see what Keegan (who totally passed out next to me at 7) has up his sleeve.

~Aislinn