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I just went to see my school’s production of A Christmas Story: The Musical!

‘Twas quite good. Maybe I should try to be in a play…

Two things:

1: Yesterday I got 4 cavity fillings with no numbing shot. (It didn’t hurt, thankfully)

2: My dad tested positive for COVID today so I have to stay home from school tomorrow and I hate missing school and I’ll likely have to miss more because I might have it because we live in the same house but I’m hoping that if I retain the mental state of denial I can get the Placebo effect to kick in to keep the symptoms at bay for as long as possible and I think I might be getting a little stressed out…

But other than that, life’s good!

My younger brother is a scudding super-genius! He came up to my dad with his Periodic Table of Elements book and had my dad read him off the symbols one by one and he would say what element it was. Out of 118 elements, he got 115 with ease and 2 with a few hints, and only one we needed to tell him. Also, he’s in the sixth grade. What sixth-grader can list pretty much every element when just given it’s symbol? I honestly think he should skip a few grades. Or maybe all of them.

Anybody else not have enough time for the shard for about a week and come back and find out everyone has been having fun without you?

This happens to me all the time.

Also, sidenote- What is the time period to respond to status updates for you people? I usually only reply if the last comment on the update is within about a day.

HA guess what I just did!!!

Stake dances are fun. And loud.

I feel overwhelmed with homework. bleurgh.

Umm...

Oops...

A lot has happened today.

First, happy birthday to Nacho! He’s now one year old!

He was so little when we got him and now he’s a big fluff muffin 

The second thing that happened was that after my PE class (which is right before lunch) I had a vertigo episode so I got picked up early and now I have a bunch of homework from all my missed classes.

The third thing that happened was that I got a bunch of matching jewelry from Amazon (including a tiara, of course) that I can wear to my school’s Sadie Hawkins dance with the theme ‘dipped in gold’. I also went shopping with my mom and I got a new ballet leotard and some fleece fabric to make super fluffy pajama pants.

I’m going to go to the library tomorrow-are there any books I should get to read over Christmas break?

I’m going to my first school dance today!

(it’s at an alternate school for mega-nerds that a lot of my friends went to instead of the regular high school- I didn’t go because they don’t really have any fine art classes)

I’m so exciteddddddddd!!!!

Whelp.
I’m having an arranged marriage.

So… Looks like I disappeared again!

For like five weeks.

Um.

Whoops.

Well, life happens, I guess!

Some things that happened while I was away:

• I had a really bad day consisting of things like being out of butter for my toast, being late to school, a fake fire alarm, having to miss 95% of my 6th period class because a girl decided it was a good idea to vape in the locker room, and hectic after-school activities.
• WE GOT AN OCULUS!
• I went to see a play put on by the high school my brother goes to and it was awesome. (It was based on the CLUE board game/movie, I think?)
• I read the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini and I thought it was amazing, though some of my cousins thought that series was a snooze-fest. I honestly don’t see why, but I guess my opinion backs my theory that I don’t often see the flaws in things unless they’re blatantly obvious or someone else points them out. (Why be negative when you can be positive, after all?) (Also side note about the Inheritance Cycle: I highly suggest reading it if you haven’t already. The world-building is near Sanderson level in depth and there are DRAGONS.)
• One day in church, I realized that Kaladin and the Joseph story in Genesis in the Bible have frighteningly similar stories. Just think about it for a minute.
• I co-wrote a story with an AI. Well, I started one, that is. I think that I might post it on here when I finish with the first draft or so.
• Wicked (the musical) came to my city and my family went and HOLY COW WAS IT GOOD EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE IT IF YOU HAVE THE CHANCE AND THE SONGS HAVE BEEN STUCK IN MY HEAD 24/7 AND IT’S JUST SO GOOD! My favorite song from it is probably Popular because it’s so fun to sing
• I was diagnosed with Brandofandonitis and ordered the highest dosage of Quadrovela because of how severe my condition is.
• For spirit week at my school, there was a ‘fandom’ day and I dressed as a Mistborn and was constantly saying “We Mistborn need not make sense. It is beneath us.” My friend dressed as Spensa (to the best of her abilities) and I even brought my Doomslug plushie for her to carry around.
• While watching General Conference, I colored some coloring pages with dragons on them and ate Girl Scout cookies. It was very enjoyable.
• I re-read Cytonic and we finally bought the Reckoners series for me to re-read. We found a hardcover box set on Amazon for really cheap, which was awesome.
• It’s spring break! Yay! I finally got my room clean and today we went to a trampoline park. It was super fun.
• The Skyward Flight collection came!!! Signed and numbered: #1864!

Now if you’ll excuse me while I go through my 180 notifications.

Tonight I had a Young Women youth activity that was a sort of get-to-know-you game night. Everyone brought an object they felt represented them and then we played games.

As the dedicated Sanderson fan I am, I brought Skyward.

And Starsight.

And Cytonic.

And my Doomslug plushie.

And my M-bot pin.

And all my Cytonic stickers. *[Related tangent in spoiler box below]*

And a Cytonic bookmark.

And a "Merry Christmas from Detritus" drawing I made as a Secret Santa gift for Ookla the Theoretical.

I think I got the point across that I like books.

After everyone shared their items, I played a game called "Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza" with two other girls and two leaders. 'Twas fun.

*Tangent:

:)

Bleh.

Being sick is fuuuuunnnnn

I finished my poem!

My friend (who is a Sanderfan) and I were talking about what roles Cosmere characters would take on in a high school setting and it was really fun and maybe I’ll make a thread about it if I feel motivated enough.

So I’m not even going to try to catch up on all my notifications.

if anything super important or life-changing happened, I’ll look at it if you tell me where to find it. I’ll try to catch up on (some) of the RPs I’m in, but I just want to be present again (especially now that Mini-Mini-Enter has joined)! You people are storming awesome and I’ve missed being here!

So a quick overview of what’s happened on my end:

I started high school!

We got another kitty! (Her name is Pepper and she’s a teeny tortoiseshell)

We got a puppy! (Her name is Poppy and she’s a teeny cavapoo)

I’m learning to sew!

I met another Sanderfan!

I’m in a DnD club!

I’m in a club that is basically off-season colorguard!

I have little to no free time each week and that free time is spent reading or procrastinating, but I hope to procrastinate by coming on here instead of doing something like watching YouTube.

I had a goal to rereread the entire Mistborn and W&W seriess before tLM came out but I underestimated how much time high school takes up, especially with having one or two after-school things 4/5 days of the week. I’m currently on HoA and am trying to read faster so I can get to tLM!

(oh also I’m sleep deprived :D)

I just found out that my cousin has cancer.

Really, really bad cancer.

If you’re the praying type, please keep him in your prayers that the doctors can find the right treatments and medications for him, and that he can be able to live a long, happy life.

Thank you.

I was calling my cousin while shoveling the driveway when our conversation went a little something like this:

Cousin (C): Hey, I got a new book from the library and it’s really good.

Me (E): Cool, what is it?

C: Let me read you the first paragraph. [Gets book] Only fools climb to the surfa-

E: I KNOW WHAT IT IS, I KNOW WHAT IT IS!!!

C: What is it, then?

E: Skyward, by Brandon Sanderson!!!

She said she really likes it so far and I’m sooo glad my constant talk about how Brandon Sanderson books are amazing finally paid off!

I just got a spam call and I was like, Ooh, maybe it’s a call center and I can mess with them! It was, indeed, a spam call center. I made my voice sound old and went through all the pleasantries, then the guy on the other line said, “I understand you’re looking for the best Medicare plan.” And I said, (still in my old lady voice), “Well, I’m 14 so my parents take care of everything.” There was a pause. “Hello?” I asked.

”Shut up, [b-word],” the guy replied.

Commence immediate laughter from my sister and I and a hanging up of the phone.

Sigh.

I'm tired.

Wanna know why? Three reasons:

1. School.
2. Lack of sleep.
3. My younger sister constantly arguing with everything and whining and being like a stereotypical teenager even though she's still in elementary school. (I love her, but she's the one person on this planet who can infuriate me.)

Also yesterday my dad put me in charge of all my siblings (Even Enter, who's older than me), and in charge of making sure my mom doesn't give in to my sister's whining and begging. Because my mom is too nice and needs to use her mom voice once and a while.

Being responsible can kinda suck at times.

(Also, random question, what do normal people do when they invite friends over when your friend has only read one Sanderson book, and that was because we had to read it at school?)

I have some very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very VERY exiting news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A couple of weeks ago, I found out that we are doing a class read of a novel in third period with two other classes. There were three candidates: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien, and [Drumroll please...]

...

SKYWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For the next while, I brought my copy of Skyward to school, shared hilarious Spensa quotes, and made people vote for Skyward. When my teacher put out the Google Form for the vote, I was really exited. I kept recruiting people to my side, and the winner was finally released.

The winner is...

!!!!!

The winner was released on Friday or Thursday last week, and me and my family went on a vacation to visit family over Memorial Day weekend, but we had to (sadly) miss school (Where they would start reading the book) yesterday in account for us driving back home. I brought Skyward with me so I could read it on our drive.

BUT

When we were packing to go home, I could not find Skyward anywhere.

This really scared me because, in my opinion, books have the equivalent worth to diamonds.

When we got home and eating dinner, I suddenly remembered something. Sometime during our trip, I put my book in the front pocket of my backpack. I tried not to get my hopes up, but when I opened my backpack, there it was.

Today at school, three classes read part of Skyward and was introduced to the wonderful world of Sanderson books.

I'm just so elated.

I got a Doomslug plushie for Christmas- and a Boomslug sticker! They’re definitely my favorite gifts out of what I got.

I babysat Kaladin and Elend.

Are y’all excited for the first dose of Quadrovela to arrive? I know I am - my brandofandonitis has been flaring up lately