Hello all!
I disappeared for a bit there and I’m trying to find my way back. A lot has been happening in my life and I just haven’t been focused on writing.
First I went on a road trip. I helped my friend move and it was about an 18 hour drive over two days. Then I got to the airport by 4am and got home by 9am. I was TIRED.
Next I had two days of finals. One practical and two written finals. The practical did not go well. The written finals did. I was MORE TIRED.
Then I don’t even remember what happened for a few days. I know at some point I went home for Memorial Day. I went into the city a couple times. I wrote a little. I read A LOT.
I’ve been working through the Mortal Instruments series. I’ve heard terrible things about it, but I decided to read it anyway and I… don’t hate it. At some point I’ll do a full review of the series, but all I can say for now is that it’s not as bad as I was anticipating. I gave the first two books 4 stars and I’m working on reading the third right now. Hopefully in a little bit I’ll be taking a bath with a Whole Foods froth bomb while drinking chai and reading a book, but for now I need to learn about 600 flash cards.
That’s the other thing. School starts back up tomorrow. And honestly? I’m excited. I don’t know how to live without any kind of structure. I can provide structure to myself and be fine (otherwise writing would be a terrible idea), but that hasn’t been going very well the past couple weeks. I’ve been laying around a lot and spending most of my days reading and binging the Jenna and Julien Podcast. Which is completely fine if you’re having a good time and for the first week I was. But by the second week I was bored most of the time.
Yesterday I did probably the most important thing I could’ve done for myself: I deep cleaned my apartment. I live in a studio so it doesn’t sound like much but wow was it a lot. I cleaned all of the burned bits off of my stove which was a lot of work and cleaned soooo much fur off of every service of my apartment. My lovely Kaz is a very hairy guy and also, conveniently, hates being brushed so spring did a number on… everything I own. I’m also currently watching my new silverware organizer be delivered and I’m very excited to go grab it in a couple minutes and clean up the mess that is my kitchen drawer.
Something about living in a clean and organized space is extremely important for me. I feel so much better and get so much more done when everything is a little more organized. Which is unfortunately not really what I aspire to so it’s hard to force myself to clean up a little. But, honestly once I did I felt so much better and I’ve felt way more productive.
Today I also took a big step and I went to get a haircut. I know that sounds a little crazy, but I have pretty bad social anxiety. I haven’t gotten a haircut by myself in 3 years and even then I was getting it cut by the same person I’ve gotten it cut by since I was 5. So going to get it cut today was a big deal and took a lot of courage. And honestly it sucked and I immediately went out a bought hair scissors in the hopes I don’t have to go back. But I feel a lot cleaner now and generally just better and I’m hoping to keep that going.
With all of this, I’m really hoping to get back to writing consistently, tweeting consistently, and keeping up with my blog more. With school and my mental health and everything it’s kind of hard to keep up with the things I want to accomplish but I’m trying to make it a little easier for myself and hopefully I’ll get better at it.
Now time to go learn 600 flash cards!
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