Homesick and All-Around Just Sick & Tired

I'm homesick. There, I said it. Not that I'm ashamed of it or anything. Yes, my family is only 2 1/2 hours away (on a day with good traffic, which is rare through the Denver area), so it's not like I'm across the country from them, but sometimes it sure seems like it.
The stress around here is building, just like that annoying zit that pops up when you've got a first date with a hot guy that night and no time to make it disappear. It's mostly due to finals, which for me start in exactly a week. Gulp! Oh, and it also has to do with the tension that just seems to be increasing between me and my roommate. It only seems to be me that's annoyed, though, which is just so convenient. Of course, I'm not the one bursting into the room not even ten minutes after she's gone to sleep or the one who spends many waking hours completely plugged into the computer, ignoring the rest of the world. Or the one that refuses to wash my sheets. I know, I've mentioned these problems before but it doesn't look like they're going away any time soon, at least not for 9 or 10 days when I get to (finally!) go home. I don't care how bored I get during the month I have off, I'm not taking it for granted because I know that if I weren't there, I'd be somewhere much, much worse (such as my dorm room).
So hopefully you can understand why I'm homesick. Not to mention, I've always been close to my family (not much teenage rebellion around here) so being this far away for this long (a little over two weeks, but I've made it through three weeks before, so I can do this) makes me miss them. Oh, and with Christmas in a little more than 2 weeks (!), I'm not really feeling too much in the holiday spirit, since I'm not enjoying the season with my family. I'm planning on making up for it in the week I have at home before Christmas, though. So it's been hard, and end-of-the-semester stressage hasn't been helping.
I'm trying not to wallow in it, though. I've been doing some things to get my mind off my anger, stress and little bits of sadness. Like tonight, me and a few of the other girls from my floor went to a hall program, where we made Christmas cards for kids in the hospital and watched The Santa Clause. Oh, and all the glitter was just an added bonus! I'm not sure I'll ever get it all out of my clothes! On Thursday, me and a close friend from just down the hall are planning on going out to eat. We do this a lot on Thursdays and it just really helps to get away from the dorms for an hour or so and enjoy some good food for a change (not that microwaved meals and cereal aren't good, they just aren't doable every day). Yesterday, I stopped by my campus's student center after my first class and picked up lunch: vegetarian bean chili with a side of foccaccia bread. It was really good and a nice change from my usual lunches, which are pretty much whatever I can scrounge up from stuff in my room, since the dining halls have weird hours and long lines. I'm planning on getting dinner tomorrow from the same place--it's convenient that I can get fast casual food only a few minutes away from my classes and it's a nice treat.
So I'm gonna try my best to make it through this week, do something a little special every day and continue to count down the days til I can go home again!

Rain+November+Colorado?

According to my Facebook news feed last night, it seemed like it snowed everywhere. Everyone's status was about how much they love snow, how it was so great that it finally snowed, blah, blah, blah.
Why was I mad? Do I hate snow? No, actually, I've been looking forward to snow since October, the first month when in usually snows in Colorado. No, I was mad because in Fort Collins (where my college is), it decided to rain. HARD! And of course, I wasn't expecting this so when I get out of my wildlife ecology class and see that it's pouring, I get a little upset. Because I have to walk halfway across campus to take a math quiz and then walk all the way back to my dorm. Did I mention I was wearing just a button-down shirt with a bandeau top underneath, jeans and leather platform shoes?
So basically, I got soaked. All in the name of math.
Later that afternoon, when I had to go to my math class, I was smart enough to actually put on a jacket. Suprisingly, it stopped raining but it was still freezing. (Here's my question, though: since it was below 40 degrees all day, how could it have possibly been raining, instead of snowing? Just asking.) By the time my math class got done at a quarter to 5, it was nearly dark and colder than ever. This is why I hate daylight savings time.
When I logged onto my Facebook page back at my cozy dorm, I was shocked at how many people's statuses involved snow. Most of my FB friends live somewhere in Colorado, and from Denver to the Springs to Boulder there was snow. But not in good old FoCo. In fact, most of my FB friends who also attend CSU has posts complaining about the lack of snow. So I wasn't alone.
Basically, I want it to snow. Really, really bad. I'm hoping that when I go back home to the Springs for Thanksgiving break that it actually snows. Which it probably will, since my house is in an area of Colorado Springs where it snows pretty much twice as much as anywhere else. I think I've got a pretty good chance of a white Thanksgiving.