Amidst
everything that has been going on lately on this blog, suddenly posting again, the New Years posts |x|x|. As well as outside of the blog, homework,
and life in general, I forgot to explain the reason why there was a giant break
between July and December. And it’s simply because I didn't feel like posting
much.
Plus, a lot
of things got in my way. Reaching senior year of high school certainly was one
of them. With three AP classes, one concurrent enrollment class,
a ballroom class, and a few other classes, it required a lot of my attention
when it came to homework. Plus there were club meetings that I had to attend
during lunch and after school.
And when the
beginning of December came two giant projects took up much of my time. The first
was the winter dance concert, which required after school dance rehearsals
three days before the actual concert. The second was an AP Statistics project,
which required a school wide survey and graphs that weren’t easy to make on
Microsoft Excel, plus a few other items. And there were college applications to
be dealt with. Which got in my way when doing Nanowrimo this year.
However I still won with 50,825 words out of
50,000.
Outside of
school, there was a bit of family turmoil going on. However, that is now fixed.
With a lot of lessons learned along the way. I also found myself occasionally
working out, for no particular reason at all. And it was fun, though not enough
for me to survive the Hunger Games or a zombie apocalypse. However, in all
truth, I don’t think I will ever survive either of those two events.
Also crushes
on people who I know will never work out, caught my mind once or twice. But
like a match that has been barely lit but quickly blown out by the wind, my
crushes on them was gone within the next day or so. That helped me learn a lot
about myself though. Like how I might be more asexual than I thought I
was. And how I might be a teensy bit interested in girls, making me a bit
bi-romantic. As well as a bit more sensual.
Note: I am still trying to figure out what identities fit me, as I change throughout the years. So, don't expect me to stick with one identity just yet.
When winter
break came, and the stress of school dwindled down to nothing more but an ever
present candlelight in the distance, I found myself doing last minute Christmas
shopping with my siblings in tow. This meant getting distracted by pretty
clothes, the deliciousness of Godiva chocolate, a candy store that sold foreign
candies including green tea kitkats, and getting stuck in a beauty store with
annoying salesmen who failed desperately in trying to sell their fancier
products to my older sister.
The last
minute Christmas shopping wasn’t the only last minute thing we did this year.
We finally set up the Christmas tree on December 23, two days before Christmas.
We could have done it earlier, but with the stress of tests and homework that
school liked to pile onto us before winter break started, it was hard to find
time to actually set up the Christmas tree. So it was easier to do it during
the break when there was more free time.
And since
there was more free time, I found myself making holiday theme popup cards and
giving it too everyone this year. That took a lot of time, because glitter glue
took a long time to dry. But, with a blow dryer on hand it was easy to speed up
the process.
Christmas
was a simpler time this year. Not as many gifts. No pictures were taken. And no
fancy dinner. Just movies, good food, and peaceful togetherness that was filled
with a lot of talking. In honesty, it was one of my favorite Christmases.
Afterwards
my siblings and I went to an indoor children’s playground that was filled with
a small rock climbing wall, a grocery store with overpriced groceries, a house
with a decent library, a farm with cute hens and fat bees, a pipe system, and
other various things that was designed to ignite the fiery imagination that
every child has. Once that was all over with, came my always favorite part, the
trip to Barnes and Noble. Which as usual took forever because I had to choose the
perfect books to bring home with me on the budget of a $25 gift card. However,
instead of it ending when I finally got the second books to complete my
collection of the The Grisha series by Leigh Bardugo and The Raven Cycle
series by Maggie Stiefvater. It ended when my brother received his first ever
computer programming book. Which has a very small chance of it actually being
read.
A few days
after that adventure came the trip to the finally finished, renovated aquarium.
It involved going into all the different sections the place had to offer.
Developing a very short crush on a kind of cute aquarium worker. Seeing the
even cuter penguins that either laid on their stomachs, stood around and
pretended to be models, swam, or was fed. Learn how ferocious otters can
actually be, but still aww as the three otter brothers swam around in their
exhibit. Witness a shark feeding that involved an unfair game about sharks
between the adults and the kids. Eating a delicious cookie snack at the
aquarium café. Watching my older sister be a little kid again as she played in
the indoor playground amongst the other little kids. Getting sprayed by water
as I watched a movie about the coral reefs, as part of the 4D experience it
offered. And crossing a rope bridge to nowhere in particular. And it was an
even better trip to the aquarium because it was now bigger and it offered a lot
of things that the previous location couldn’t exactly offer.
That part of
winter break eventually faded into more movies, and me trying to finish the book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel
García Márquez. However, I kept on getting distracted by youtube, tumblr, the
games dots and two dots, and now blogging. Which
means a lot of trouble for me because I am now scrambling to finish the book
before tomorrow, as well as finish the rest of my homework. But I will find some miracle to
finish on time. Even if it means sacrificing sleep. Which is not unusual for
the end of term.
And now the
weather:
~ Stacy N.
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