the windy city

it's warm in chicago. i came here on sunday (reserved and bought ticket early in the morning) due to family circumstances... there has been a death in the extended family. it feels so weird to say that. i'm praying for the family.

my sister and niece are sick too. anyway i came so i could help out in anyway that i can. but you know, i'm not much help at all. i just load up the dish washer, unload the dishwasher, fetch things, etc. my sister who is still a bit sick is taking care of my niece who is starting to feel better. on sunday night we went to a restaurant and i happened to sit next to my niece. so one would think i helped her so that her parents could eat, right? but no. i was busy eating. i didn't quite know how to help her. i felt the same way when she was younger. my sister would let me feed my niece but i would feel so lost not knowing what to do.

so after the first night of sleep, a long long night of sleep, i got up late and felt practically bed-ridden. i didn't feel awake until about 4 pm while i was at the apple store. i had to make a visit to the apple store because on sunday morning my computer failed me. the screen just went blank and i couldn't get it to start up again. i hit the power button, plugged the computer into a power source, tapped different keys, i thought i tried everything. my appointment at the apple store was at 3:30 pm. they were so busy! so at about 3:30 pm one of the genius guy opens the computer and voila - the computer screen came on! so it turns out nothing is/was wrong with my computer. i thought it was charging through the night before but somehow it wasn't charging so on sunday morning, just before i got on the plane, the computer simply had no battery life left. so why didn't it turn on after i plugged it into an outlet??? instead of feeling stupid, i was just so happy that my computer was fine.

my sister made lunch and dinner. ideally i would be cooking. but i don't really cook. i mean, i know how to cook and things turn out fine. but i just don't do it very often. let's face it. i don't really like doing house work of any kind. guess i'll just have to live with that.