Jan 12 - Jan 18 2025

 Sunday, I cleaned my room and ran errands with my parents. Most of the errands we ran was going to meet a dog at the local humane society. My older brother’s friend had the dog’s sister and mom. The dog had been living with a truck driver but since he wasn’t around like ever, he decided it would be better for the dog to be re-homed. At least that’s the story we were told.  At he was really friendly. He was a very big dog though. At one point my dad was petting him and the dog started like growling and ended up jumping at him. It was really weird since the dog had been friendly the entire time up to that point. My dad jumped away and was fine but the dog growled at him a lot. I’m sure there was more to the dog’s story, since dogs don’t act like that for no reason. I feel bad for the dude.

So I had run out of contacts last Friday, and it was like fine throughout the weekend but Monday was ROUGH. I had an eye doctor appointment after school and would be able to get more contacts but I had to get through the day without them. It was kinda rough, just like raw-dogging vision but I did it. After school I went to the eye doctors and my prescription hasn’t changed. When I was done at the optometrists my mom asked me to go to this sprint class at the gym with her. It’s a class with stationary bike, and the instructor has you stand up and sit down on the bike, sometimes in rapid succession. Which would have been fine, if it weren’t for the fact there was a tiny hole on the butt of my pants, I had noticed it earlier in the day but I wear big hoodies so it was covered and I figured I’d fix it when I got home. Well the seat of the bike caught it and ripped it way bigger. It was near the end of the class so I just stopped standing up and waited. My school requires us to wear IDs, and I keep a safety pin on my lanyard, to be safe. So I was able to go to the bathroom and fix it a bit. I went home and sewed it to the best of my abilities. I don’t actually know how to sew though and I managed to bend the needle. 

On Tuesday, the school day was pretty uneventful. My theater director was sick so rehearsal was canceled. I went to Interp practice and performed in front of my coach. After Interp, I went to my school’s basketball game since my Bluey was performing with pep band and invited me. A bunch of our friends were there and it was pretty fun. We mostly sat in the commons since non of us actually give a shit about basketball. Instead of paying to get in just to watch the band performance, my friend handed me his flute, held his empty case, and we just walked in. It was really funny actually.

On Wednesday, my theater director was back and I needed to drop off a travel form for a drama club thing on Saturday. So before lunch I stopped by her room and dropped that off. In my advocate, we played these “about me” kahoots our teacher had us make for a grade. They needed to have atleast 10 questions. Literally no one wanted to do it so they were all really low effort. So really boring day. I went to theater, it was fine. Apollo didn’t have to go to youth group this week so neither did I. I went over to Gracie’s so we could work on our interp pieces. We just ended up watching Tv and playing a game called leg wars, I lost every time. It was really fun, I haven’t gotten to spend as much time with her as I usually do. We usually have Interp practice together on Mondays and Wednesdays, but with theater I can only go to the practices on Tuesday, which are the days she goes to Show Choir instead of interp. So it was nice getting to spend some more time with her.

Our first interp competition since state was on Friday, so I spent Thursday getting all my shit in order. Got my homework for Friday finished and such. I also did a competency test in my Intro to Vehicle System and Maintenance class. Found the lift points on a truck, lifted it with a two-post. Checked its balance. Lifted it onto the locks, lowered it onto the locks. All that jazz. Other than that, the day was pretty boring. 

On Friday, I went to first block, then after that we left for our comp. It went fine, I really just need to work on memorizing my new script. Gracie really wasn’t feeling well so she ended up not participating. I felt really bad for her, cause she was feeling like really miserable. The comp was like 3 hours away from where we live so she just had to thug it out. On the bus ride back, I had to pee, but we had already had our one stop, so I just had to thug it out for like 2 hours. We were scheduled to get home at like 2am, and my mom promised that she’d set alarms and stuff so she’d be able to wake up and come and get me. I texted and called her and my father multiple times, but they didn’t wake up. My friend took me home after I went to the bathroom at my school. Plus I had to shower since 3 hours on a bus in a suit as a sweaty 15yr old doesn’t end well. So I went to bed at like 3am.

On Saturday, I woke up at 6:30 in the morning and got ready for the drama club thing. We were going to a play in the same town I had my comp on Friday. I got dressed in nice cloths, not interp comp nice, but like nice sweater and dress pants. I got to the school at like 7:50ish and we loaded into two vans at 8. Pineapple and Strawberry were both in my van, so was the one other two interp kids who went to both the comp and the play. I took a nap in the van since I was still pretty tired. We stopped at a gas station, I got a bag of Cheez-it and a peach monster. A while later we stopped at Applebees, I sat at a table with one of my friends from theater, and two of his friends who I didn’t really know too well. I had an awesome time though, they were both really funny, I laughed so hard. One of them made me laugh when I was taking a drink and I could feel the Dr. Pepper in my nose. When we finally got the play, me and this girl who’s friends with Pineapple, we’ll call her Kiwi, both went to the bathroom. We got kinda lost on our way back though. We found our class and were fine, it was kinda scary for a second though. The play was AWESOME!!! I don’t know if I should say which play it was cause like privacy, but it was great! On the way back, we stopped at a gas station that was right next to a McDonalds, our theater director told us we could go to whichever. I got a happy meal, sadly got the tails toy and not shadow, pineapple watched me tell my friend that if he got the shadow toy and I didn’t I’d cried. She looked concerned. My friend also got me a monster. Since my seat is like right next to the door I was last when we were loading into the van. So I had been sent to run some trash to the trash can. I was running back since it was cold and Strawberry hoped out of the van and I like almost ran into him. I have a habit of calling people “brother” (like the “what’s up brother” thing) so when he hoped out of the van I went, “oh hello brother😥” he like giggled at that, which made me feel better about almost tanking him down. When we were all loaded into the van our teacher asked if everyone was in the van, and this girl says “Casper the ghost isn’t here” and she’d been making this joke everytime the teacher asked that. So I told her I ate him. She was like “😨”, then pineapple was like “oh yeah I killed him for her” and one of the other Interp kids (Leo he/him) was like “oh yeah I hid the evidence” and another was like “I prepped him for her”. The lore of that just kinda built from there. Like a game of fucking clue. I have like ghost eating lore now.

Sorry that this post is like 2 days late. I know no one actually reads these, but sorry anyways.