I'm kinda sick today; didn't even make it through all of church. My dad and I ended up leaving early to get some sick supplies, mostly for my sister. It looks like she might have the flu all over again...
On the bright side, I sound like a dude. And, according to my dad, I also sound a little drunk. That means, when I haven't been feeling super tired and gross, I've been laughing at my own voice.
Okay, there are a few things that I desperately wanna share! That's for a little later, though, since I'm gonna try to go in chronological order.
Two weeks ago, I mentioned a leather bracelet, but kept forgetting to take a picture of it! I'm finally gonna get myself to do that now:
Look at that majestic beauty.
I can thank something that happened last summer, actually, for managing to do pretty dang decent with this. I think I mentioned that they were doing little fairs every weekend in my city? In the first one we went to, there was a stand where you could try out stamping leather. I believe I'd kept a scrap from there, but found it very difficult to make anything out of it. Now, though, it's already in form. Considering it's close to my normal skin color, I don't think I'm going to wear it much, but I'm still proud of my work.
(In case you can't really see what it has, it's butterflies, "Lily", and a cat with flowers. That's... pretty much it.)
As expected, my English essay's now 7 full pages. I still have some work to do on it, but I think it looks better now. In other news, the essay for the scholarship feels like it might be too short, but I'm really unsure what to do to make it better. Grr.
My dad got a job offer this week, but- surprise- it's in Texas. The thing, though, is that this isn't like all the other times he got another job, where we would all just go with him, because next year is going to be college, not K-12. I know I'd been considering colleges in other states earlier, but... I think I'd feel better staying at the U, anyways, even if my family's not going to be there with me. My parents said I could go with them and attend the University of Texas, but that feels a little weirder to me. That also means, though, that I have to stay at a dorm if I stay here, which, admittedly, might cost more than if I go stay with them. Maybe. I'm not sure how I feel about all of this.
So yeah. My dad's gonna go to Texas next week, the rest of us are staying at the mom-and-daughter family friends until I finish school and my sis moves into Captain's parents' guesthouse. I guess when my mom will go depends on whether I get the scholarship or not, since the scholarship would mean that I start at the U in the summer, not the fall. I don't think she plans on staying for the whole first semester anymore, but just until I'm settled into my dorm.
I realized pretty fast that all this insanity was gonna affect a friend- namely, Carter. Are the prom plans going to be more complicated now that we won't even be living independently? And living further from the school and downtown? Due to thinking about this, I gave Carter the rundown on the situation a few days ago. He said that he was still willing to come, thank goodness. I'm hoping we can do some real planning for prom once we move out of here and move in with the friends.
Before I told him this stuff, though, he'd sent me the final episode of the current RWBY season. DUDE. (I always had a feeling Ren's backstory, once they finally showed it, might make me cry. Confirmed.)
Remember how I mentioned something big was going to happen this week in the last post? Weeeeell~ it happened! 20 kids at my school were honored for finishing their high school credits early, and had a whole graduation ceremony during a school assembly. And guess what? I was one of them!
It was... weird. So weird. It's not every day you graduate, even if it isn't really your real graduation. (All of us are still around doing concurrent classes till the end of the year, so we're going to be in the normal graduation ceremony, too.) It was still neat, though, to see some of the people I'd be standing with for real graduation, and see all of us in the caps (but not the gowns), and see my mom, dad, and sister there in the front row. I feel like I grew a little closer with the fellow juniors and seniors, too, experiencing this with them. (Yes, there really were juniors up there, too! I'm friends with one of them.) So... I'd say this might actually make the real graduation more meaningful, even if it's basically doing what we just did a second time through with a lot more people.
As I mentioned a long time ago, my sister probably wouldn't be able to be there for my graduation in June. And now we know my dad probably won't, either. I'm very relieved that I could be in the early graduation ceremony, and they could be here for it, due to those facts.
After we were awarded our blank diplomas (because this wasn't our real graduation), some kids in the school's Senate gave us little baskets with some school supplies (and a packet of ramen), along with long candy necklaces (made of cellophane wrap, stuffed with random fun-sized candies like Twix and Twizzlers). They'd also asked us for favorite quotes and pictures of ourselves so they could make posters. (I'd thought that they might let other people see the posters before giving them to us, but that didn't really happen? I was curious about what everyone else had on theirs...) One of my teachers had written something really sweet on my poster, so I'm hoping to transcribe it into the next post (and maybe also put in a picture of the cap?).
Oh, and after the assembly, there was a lunch set up for us early grads, our families, and the teachers. It reminded me of Thanksgiving.
After that momentous day ended, I began the themed outfits for Valentine's Day, because that's what I do on holidays. While thinking about all the stuff I could wear, I realized I still have a lot of pink clothes. And more red clothes than I used to own. I have materials for two weeks straight, easily, but I'm going to try to limit it to just Thursday to Wednesday. (Valentine's is on Tuesday, so that seemed like a more appropriate time-frame.)
Pretty sure only my mom knows why I wore my Blossom dress yesterday, and a bright red dress today. There are no coincidences with me around!
I'm most excited for Valentine's Day itself, since I plan to wear my Mexican red dress (the one I've been wearing on my birthday the past few years) with the Louise hat. Yep, the light pink bunny-eared hat from Bob's Burgers my dad gave me for Christmas. I've only worn it around the house a few times, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity to bring it to school!
Speaking of clothes, my mom and I actually used Thursday to slim down the size of my collection. I managed to finally let go of some stuff I'd had in there for way too long. Some of that stuff I had around as long as some of my stuffed animals, and we all know how hard it was for me to give away some of them. (I still miss them, sometimes!) It seriously had to be done, though.
By the end, we stood back and realized that we took out much more than expected. My mom estimates that we got rid of about a third of my closet, which is a rather impressive number. We still have other drawers and suitcases and stuff to take care of, but we're certainly doing a lot better on the New Year's Resolution to minimize the amount of clothes I own.
(Meanwhile, there's a few dresses I found on Hot Topic's website that I'm so tempted to ask for...)
I spent my Friday afternoon with just reading a ton of fics and stuff, so I'll skip to Saturday. We went to my grandma and grandpa's house for lunch, with Captain in tow. (It looked like my grandparents and aunts and uncles like him, once they got over how soon the marriage will be.)
Cam and Ash (and their parents) were there, as usual, but I'd forgotten that some of my cousins from Nevada were staying there, as well. They were the ones that I re-met at the Fourth of July family reunion last year. They certainly remembered me this time around, so that was fun. Just like last time, they were way into Youtube, but it looked like they were more focused on stupid memes than Youtube gamers. Since they actually had access to computers and tablets, they were showing me and each other the actual videos. The biggest joke that day that we had was randomly saying "Shine-YEE", or adding "YEE" to other words. (Clearly, my little cousins have very mature, thought-provoking things to say.)
Oh! A few days ago, I'd accidentally discovered that there is going to be a Lego Ninjago movie coming out in September, and it turns out my cousins had seen the news, too. I mean, I was already psyched about seeing The Lego Batman Movie with my dad (which we haven't done yet, but I really hope we can before he goes!), despite not seeing the trailer for it or anything, but I'm even more psyched about Ninjago! Some of my little cousins like that show, as well, and even Cam (who proclaimed to not be much into the show) was very excited about it. We all fangirled a bit together. It is a great day when you manage to fangirl a bit with your little cousins.
I was going to later say to my sis, "See? The stuff that I like isn't all that weird! Our cousins like it too!" but then I remembered... She probably wouldn't be very convinced by knowing that I like some of the same things as 7- to 12-year-old boys.
Other discoveries during our time at Grandma and Grandpa's yesterday include:
- I am the only cousin without a middle name
- Cam shares a middle name with one of our baby cousins in another state (Oops!)
- There's now a Sphinx cat in the house; she's named Chicken Kitty (since they had all apparently decided that her face looks like that of a plucked chicken's)
- Chicken Kitty likes me
- Tay Zonday is a very smiley man
- Some of my cousins are terrible at not spoiling Ninjago episodes I haven't seen yet
- Memes I didn't know existed until now
The mom-and-daughter family friends, plus two others, came for dinner last night. At that point, though, I was feeling kinda pooped out, so I hardly talked to them. The food was quite good, though! (According to Sis, Captain ate three tamales.)
Alrighty-o, I think that's everything. I hope I can finish everything on time, and study a bit more for my first chemistry test tomorrow (Ah!), and get to see The Lego Batman Movie, and do some more writing, and not feel super, duper sucky like I am today! Bye!
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