I want to sincerely apologize. I have been absolutely terrible lately... I haven't posted in a week. The boredom must have been killing you, and I agree with the fact that I have been super lame about it. But, I have some really good news to go along with the fact that I haven't been blogging for a while. So hopefully I can redeem myself with the fact that my absence does not go without reason. And to make it up to you, I will try to make this post as lengthy as possible to recap all of the exciting things that I have done recently. So... here goes!
I'll begin with my explanation for why I haven't been blogging. To be perfectly honest, it because I couldn't find anything interesting to talk about. Nothing that has been going on has been interesting enough to write about, and (here comes the news... you ready for it!?!) I no longer have any emotional rants to go on about because I am pretty much completely over that kid whose name shall never be mentioned on this blog. That's right, I have finally been able to shift away from all that nonsense and free myself. So you can all rejoice because you will never again have to deal with the hopeless rants of this once heartbroken 17 year old girl. I'm not exactly sure what caused this change of mind-set, it sort of just happened. I'm glad though, it makes things a lot easier, even if I do still have to deal with all of his friends being super obnoxious about it all. Anyway, I'm done with this topic for good, so let's move on to much more fun stuff. Awesome :)
So last Friday was the Sequoia vs. Carlmont football game. I went, didn't have as much fun as I had hoped for 3 reasons: 1) It was absolutely freezing and since I had been sitting outside in the cold since 3:30 that afternoon with no jacket, I was beginning to develop a slight concern that I could be contracting some sort of sickness. 2) Most of my friends didn't go, so I felt like a third wheel the entire time to one of my friends and his girlfriend who were huddled together next to me and 3) I couldn't even get into the game because we were so far ahead and they weren't even putting up much of a fight that I couldn't even find entertainment in watching it anymore. But we are going to the playoffs, our first game being tomorrow against M.A. Crossing my fingers that we do really well again!
On Saturday morning I was volunteering at the local Second Harvest food bank for Jr. Fair Board. I was put on duty for sorting through all of the donated items to make sure they were ok and safe for consumption. I had no idea that people donate so much JUNK. It was almost sad how much food we had to throw away because it had either expired, been pre-opened, was perishable, or the container had been damaged. And you have to understand, the expiration dates on most things aren't exactly accurate and you can still use them up to 3 years after the date on the container, and even with that criteria there were a significant amount of items that had expired as early as 2002 that we had found. It became really entertaining to see who could find the weirdest things. Some of my favorites, both good and bad were the expired pre-cooked canned snails that were imported from France, the multitudes of Spam, a stack of opened adult diapers that had turned grey, funnel cake batter and a pouring spout to go with it, luxury olive oils, opened jars of peanut butter, and a rotten banana. I think I sorted through a couple thousand cans at the table I was at alone... it was the craziest 3 hours of my life and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Later that night my family and I went up to the Cow Palace for a SF Bulls hockey game. It was nice to be able to go and watch hockey again since the NHL is on lockout right now (I'm super depressed about that) but given the fact that they are a brand new team and thus aren't doing so well... the energy just isn't anywhere near what I'm used to. Plus I miss my San Jose Sharks </3, my school year just isn't the same without them. I did have a lot of fun though, and will most definitely go to more games this year.
On Sunday, I spent the day in San Fransisco with my family to celebrate the long weekend. We decided to do all of the touristy things since that's not normally something we do. We went to pier 39, I got a Left-Handed notebook at the Lefty's store (I can't even begin to describe how wonderful it is to not have to write over that stupid spiral spring wire thing anymore.) and we got clam chowder in a bread bowl at our favorite restaurant down there. We also went to both the Wax Museum and Ripley's Believe it or Not. We then walked down to Fisherman's wharf and went to go see the Balclutha (its an old sailing ship) so my dad and I could relive some old memories from when we went on a historical field trip thing on it when I was in 4th grade. And of course, we had to stop at Ghirardelli Square. So much chocolate, it was wonderful. And we got home early enough that we decided to watch Beetlejuice and relax. It was great, I was super happy and full of sourdough and chocolate.
Finally, the last super cool thing that I did this week happened yesterday. So my friend Dani has been inviting me to go to her church's Youth Group meetings for a while now and they either get cancelled or I'm not able to go. But last night I was finally able to and had so much fun. I met so many new people and they were all super friendly, it was super great. I would talk about it more but a lot of what happened was really personal and prayer oriented, but in just one night I got so much closer to Dani and I can't even begin to explain how perfect that night was and how much I needed that. I'd go into it more, but since I know some people get uncomfortable with it and I want to respect that, I'm trying to leave all the spiritual aspects out. But I am most definitely going to be going a lot more in the future.
So yeah, that's what I have been doing the past week in a nutshell. Hope it wasn't to sporadic or anything. And I'll try to get back to my normal schedule and blog a lot more again. Thanks for holding out for me!
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