1/31/25

Last day of January I guess. I've kind of grown to love January because it always feels like the longest month. I like taking it slow, the other months seem to go to fast. But this has felt like a long month. Anyways, I pulled an all-nighter last night to "study" for the HESI retake I was doing today. I didn't end up studying much, I was really addicted to TikTok last night. Maybe it should've gotten banned. So yeah it became morning and I studied a little more, got ready, brushed my teeth, that stuff. My mom got up after I got up and made me this really good breakfast sandwich that I ate on the way to SEMO. So I left at like, 8:15.

I got to SEMO, studied a bit more in my car, and walked to the testing place in the library basement. I was kinda stressed for this exam when I first started it. I did the personality stuff first because that stuff doesn't matter. Then I did the Critical Thinking section, the part that I had to pass. I got a 730 on it my first time and I need a 750 to pass. So I did it and recognized most of the questions from my studying. So I got a 980 on it this time, WHOOP. I also improved my math from an 88 to a 90. And everything else I think I did worse on because I was kinda rushing and ready to get it done with. But that doesn't matter because they keep the best score from the two tests. I overall I improved everything.

I was done by noon so I went to my lecture. So I did end up missing the lab and there was supposed to be a lab quiz today, but I emailed the professor yesterday and she said there will be a retake day on Sunday, so I'll have to go to that. Lecture was alright. Don't really remember what happened.

Okay so I wrote the first part the day of, but now it's been a couple of weeks so I'm trying to remember. I know I went to Nana's for several hours. I was there until almost 7 according to Google Maps timeline. I probably slept and watched YouTube.

Then I left at 7 to go workout because I thought HealthPoint was open until 9. Turns out they close at 8 on Fridays and I felt bad going in with them closing within the hour because they were probably trying to shut down, so I sat in the parking lot for a bit deciding what to do with my time. I was doing that because I was supposed to be meeting at Bryce's house at 8:30. Yeah, that's right, Bryce Thompson, from high school. Eli invited me yesterday to their hangout, so that's where I was planning on going tonight. I wasn't too excited about it, but it has been a while so that's why I decided to go. I ended up going grocery shopping for a while because I had to waste time. So I got some canned stuff like corned beef hash, red beans and rice, and chili, and penguin crackers, peanut butter trail mix, juice, rice, wet wipes, sponges, and probably something else. I couldn't get anything frozen since I wasn't going straight home. Then I filled up with gas and sat in some bank parking lot until it was around time to go to his house.

I drove to the house and waited out in my car for a bit before finally deciding to go up to the door. So I did and I knocked and nobody answered. Then after like a minute, Eli pulled up in his car with Jarrett and Bryce, too. So they saw me knocking on the door to an empty house. How embarrassing. Then I said, "Noah?!" because I thought Eli was his brother, Noah, who I was lowkey a bit closer to than Eli, but no, it was just Eli who had changed his hair to look a bit like Noah's. So that was also kinda awkward. But we went in, awkwardly stood around and talked a bit, and then played BS, the card game. We played like, 6 rounds of that until this guy, Blake, shows up. He apparently went to Notre Dame, I don't know how he became friends with them, but he was. Then we started playing poker, and I was actually doing pretty good, I won several hands. After a couple rounds of that, Zach showed up. Apparently he was at his house and had a girl over. And he got his first kiss that night. Wow Zach, congratulations. I'm still working on that. FUCK. I'm not even worried about that anymore. That'll happen when it happens. Once Zach got there we started playing Secret Hitler. They love that damn game, that's what we played last year when I hung out with them. I'm not too big of a fan. I was Hitler three times in a row and that's my least favorite role. That's basically all that happened. I didn't talk much to them during the game because it's just awkward. I don't know them anymore. They talked about going bowling but they didn't end up doing that. Then at the end some people left, and I stuck around for a bit. But then Eli, Bryce, and Blake, the ones who were still there, started making their little Superbowl plans and not including me, so that's when I left.

Wow so fun. It wasn't that fun. At least I can say I hung out with them recently. We didn't even really get to catch up. I was planning on telling them about my HESI and stuff, but they don't really talk about that kinda stuff. So I went back to my 

1/30/25

Exam over horses and dairy cows, was at Nana's most of the day, went to the basketball game at Show Me Center that night.

1/29/25

Guest speaker in Finland class.

1/28/25

Went to animal science class for review day, got fifth in Kahoot

1/27/25

Got sick during lab, rescheduled HESI, felt really sick, threw up, watched Requiem for a Dream, felt depressed.

1/26/25

Feeling kinda sick, skipped chapter

1/25/25

Jim and Sarah, Nana's birthday, no Nana

1/24/25

Today I woke up at around 7 AM and I got my microbiology lab assignment done. I was going to do it last night when I woke up, but I decided to wait until the morning. So I finished that and went upstairs. My dad was the only one who was up and here so I talked to him for a bit. I don't know if he knew about last night or not. Didn't seem like it.

I left to go to my class at 9:30 and I had the lab today. We started off by finishing last week's lab, so we had to look at our little circle things with bacteria in them. After that we started on a new lab where we were staining microscope slides with bacteria on them. It took kind of a long time because the sinks were full and people were going slow. The lab instructor was going a bit crazy today. She called me a goober for accidentally putting water on my slide for the broth bacteria, because it didn't need water since it was already a liquid. My bad. But yeah that was that.

Then I went to the lecture after lab. The professor was kinda all over the place with this, too. I guess we were mainly going over biotechnology, like PCR machines and insulin, but I was mainly making these posts. That class always feels like it takes forever.

After class I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was planning on going to the gym, but didn’t feel like doing that RIGHT NOW, so instead I went to McDonald’s. Such a healthy decision. I got a large sweet tea, no ice, and a free large fry, #deal. Then I went home.

1/23/25

Today I guess I woke up around 7 or 7:30. Then I just kinda laid around until I eventually went upstairs and realized my mom was home. My dad was too, but my mom normally isn't. They were cleaning because apparently Sarah is coming over on Friday. I guess they're planning on letting her stay in the bonus room, but it's like 30 degrees in there, so they might be a bit cold. So I got ready, played piano a bit, talked to Janell some cause she eventually got up, and then I left.

I had animal science class again today. It was alright. We went over dairy cows today. Or should I say cattle, because a cow is just a female. That's literally all that happened in that class, notes. And it was over by 11:45. So I went to Scully and started this post after that. Janell also called me and told me she almost hit and killed someone with her car because she thought she was being followed by a dude in a white SUV. So then I went and sat in Janell's car for a little bit because she was in the Scully parking lot now. Then she dropped me off at my car in the Magill parking lot.

After that I drove to my grandma's house, made some ravioli, watched some Slushy Noobz, that kinda stuff. Then my dad got there and he was kind of upset because I didn't straighten up Nana when I came in. My bad, she didn't look like she was leaning that much. So he had me do that. He also had me go look at my car because he thought it was leaking oil, but it turned out fine, it still had enough oil. So I don't know what my car has been leaking.

I eventually left Nana's and went home shortly after my dad did. At home I watched The Walking Dead and ate some white cheddar Cheetos. My mom also got home and Janell was home. I was home for a couple hours, but left at 5:30 because the invite-only dinner for TKE was tonight.

So I got to 333 a little before 6 o'clock but everyone was leaving, and Asian Nathan told me they were going to the restaurant right now. So I went there. It was at El Torero's and they had a big table towards the back of the restaurant. I had to sit next to Kevin, Romell, and Darrion, which was a weird group because I don't really know any of them. Then they all started ordering drinks, and I just got a water at first, but then Kevin kinda convinced me to order a margarita. They were half off, so I got a jumbo frozen strawberry margarita for 5 bucks. So I had downed that by about 7:30 or so. It wasn't really that big and I definitely didn't get drunk off of it. I didn't even end up getting any food there, so I was going to go to Taco Bell and get a burrito, but Taco Bell was really busy, so I left there and went back to the TKE house. Yes, I drove, everybody who was there drove. I was under the legal limit for sure.

Back at the TKE house, I do think I made a mistake. Nathan invited me to smoke, so I did. I only had two hits, but they kinda hit me like a truck. I went back inside and just sat in a chair in the living room for like, 45 minutes. There were a lot of people in the living room and they had a phone hooked up to the TV and were looking through pictures sent in our group chat. So I was just sitting there while they were doing that, and I started feeling like I was falling asleep, and then my vision started to get weird. Like I was seeing checkerboard pattern. So then I went and used the bathroom and splashed some water in my face. Then I sat in the living room for a bit longer. Then I got the sensation that I had to go number two after a bit, so I went back to the bathroom. Didn't end up having to go. But I did sit on the toilet for a bit. I looked really pale in the mirror. So then I decided to go home. It had already been an hour since I smoked so I figured I'd be good. And I was good. I made it home fine, I remember all of it, all is well. But then Janell started saying I was drunk once I got home, but by the time I got home I felt fine, so I don't know what she was going on about. But I went upstairs and fell asleep listening to some music in my headphones. I also woke up at like, 3 AM and went downstairs to work on my microbiology lab assignment that's due tomorrow. And by this time I was completely fine. And then I fell asleep downstairs after that again.

So this evening wasn't that fun, I probably shouldn't have done that. But it all worked out. 6/10 day.

1/22/25

Today I woke up around 5 AM and my right ear felt really muffled so that kind of scared me. It eventually cleared up after a couple of hours. I put some ear drops in it to. Don't know what that was about. But yeah I watched some more Walking Dead. It's not even that interesting anymore. I've been watching the last four episodes of season 10 for the past couple of days and apparently those episodes are known to be boring because they were like, bonus episodes. I played more deadshot.io too. It's really addictive, okay? That was the first part of my morning. Then I went upstairs and took a shower, trimmed my beard and armpits and stuff, that was getting a little overdue. Just a little Tuesday reset. Then I went downstairs and saw that my mom was home? That was new. She had to work at like, 9:30 today, I don't know why it was later today.

But I left at around 11:25 to go to my transcultural class. I got to Dempster kinda early so I sat in the parking lot drinking my V8 energy drink and listening to some alternative 90s music until it was closer to time. The actual class today was kinda weird. We weren't learning about Finland or our travels at all, we were learning about ethics and values and stuff. We watched a clip from Les Misérables and had to figure out the most despicable person in an Alligator River story. I said it was Sinbad. That stuff was kind of interesting but it would've been cool to get into groups again, because I'm kind of tryna get to know some of the people that I'm gonna be traveling across the world with. But apparently we aren't doing that. So that class was interesting.

After that I went to the Dempster basement because I was going to go to the bathroom, but I saw Ethan from Chi Alpha sitting down there and I really didn't wanna have to go through him, so I went to the bathroom upstairs. Then I drove to Kent Library to write out some blog posts and I sat in a new location on the fourth floor. Kinda different.

Then I moved down to the bottom floor after an hour or so just for another change of scenery. And then I was reading through a forum for blogging and some dude asked a question on it, so I went to his account and found his blog and it was really interesting, to say the least. It was called A Slightly Unorthodox Look at my Life. It was set up kinda like mine, like a journal, but he had some really interesting stories in his. Really weird stories. Like the Barnes and Noble story. And he has years worth of posts, like posting weekly for nine years. But yeah he seems interesting.

Then I left the library and ordered Subway on the app. I went there to pick it up at 3:30 and ate half of it in the store. It was so good. It was a Cold Cut Combo with baja chipotle sauce, pickles, onions, spinach, lettuce, green peppers, and probably some other stuff. Then I drove to a parking lot behind the court house and sat in my backseat watching The Walking Dead until 5 o'clock. I just did that to waste time. I also ended up eating the other half of my sub in my car.

At five, I went to the TKE house because they were voting on the PNMs. So they had a little slideshow and everything of the potential people. I almost accidentally stole Romell's chair, so I then sat next to Indian Nathan. Afterwards, Zach said he wanted to make an anime TikTok with me, but then changed his mind. Too bad, I was kinda excited for it.

Then I left at around 6 and went home. I played piano for a bit until my mom got home. She brought Culver's, so I ate my ice cream and fries, but saved my chicken for later, since I did just have a foot long sub a couple of hours ago.

Then I fell asleep for a while and woke up later when Janell was back. I guess she had a Tri Delta thing tonight and they did a little ritual or something. I also checked my phone and saw that I had a notification saying I would be sober driving for the party this Friday and I was kinda pissed. Because I just sober drove for a party last week, like what? But then I checked Discord and didn't see the message. Kinda weird, I thought I dreamed it. But then someone else sent a message trying to get rid of their shift, so I guess it's real, but I don't know where. I better not have to drive for a long, long time after this.

Then I fell asleep again pretty early for real this time. And that was my day. I basically just waited around in town all day until 5, so it was kinda boring. But Subway was good. 6/10.

1/21/25

Today started the second week of spring semester. I was already up pretty early because I fell asleep crazy early last night (pre 7 PM). So I just watched some YouTube and stuff until 10:00 when I actually got out of bed and got a shower and got ready. When I got out of the shower, it was actually snowing at my house, which was a surprise. So I decided to leave a little early in case the roads were slick. Unfortunately the snow seemed pretty localized to only our house because there wasn't even snow on 177. So it was a pretty safe drive to SEMO.

I went to the computer lab first because I got there a little too early, and started on some older blog posts because I'm getting behind. Then I went to my animal science class, where I felt a little too self-aware for some reason. I just felt awkward and uncomfortable. My hands felt dry and that annoyed me. But in class we just took notes over horses. What they're used for, different diseases they can get, how to care for them, that kinda stuff. And it was done by noon.

So after that I went to the Cape Public Library, because it's kinda fun to go there and I went there last week. And I just caught up on some blog posts there. I also ended up applying for another lab job on the Mercy website. Just for the fun of it, y'know. But seriously, I need a job. It feels like ages since I worked at Red Lobster. Like it feels like a fever dream, me working there.

Anyways after that I think I went to McDonald's and got a 5 dollar McDouble deal. Those are too good. I used my gift card with 40 cents on it to pay for part of it.

Then I went to my grandma's house to kinda just chill. Morgan was there when I got there and her husband was out in her car, even in the cold. But I guess I'd rather him be out there than inside. But I waved to him like I always do. I went in and ate my McDonald's in there while watching The Walking Dead. Then I played some deadshot.io and made some beef and cheese ravioli, because the McDonald's just wasn't enough. I've been so hungry lately. Like I feel like I could eat forever. There was also a dead mouse in the trap, so I disposed of him outside.

Then I decided to go home. I looked on Find My and it looked like everyone was there. Also, I don't think I had anything going on tonight. I didn't really do much at home. Janell had to leave to go to a Tri Delta thing and was gone until 7:30. My mom made this new meal which was chicken with melted cheese and bacon on top of it. Definitely interesting, not really my thing. But it wasn't bad. We also had thin these udon noodles and apples and orange slices. Pretty interesting supper. Then Janell got home and had a long talk about Trump with my dad that I wasn't really a part of, but was listening. And my dad pulled this video up on TV of this black dude saying a prayer at the inauguration and my dad was like, intrigued by it while Janell was kinda shocked. But yeah. Then I watched more Walking Dead and then I fell asleep downstairs at around midnight. That is all.

5/10 day. Pretty boring. Library was kinda cool, McDonald's was good.

1/20/25

Today was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, so yay, no classes. I went to bed kinda early yesterday, it was like 10:30. So then I woke up at like 4 AM. I don't even remember what I did at this time, but I know a little after I woke up, probably around 6 or whatever, I started playing Minecraft and I actually beat the ender dragon. That's the first time I've ever done that in survival before. So that was pretty cool. And then I went ahead and found an end city and got an elytra. Also my first time doing that. So it was 10:00 AM when I was done playing that. Then I went upstairs and made some Hamburger Helper on the stove. That was pretty good. I honestly didn't do very much for the rest of the day. I watched several episodes of The Walking Dead, I played with the dogs a bit, that kinda stuff. I barely even went outside yesterday. It was really cold though and I didn't feel like dressing up to go outside, so that's why. My mom got home from work eventually and she brought me Popeye's (YUM), so that was good. Really good. Janell had to leave after my mom got home to go to a Tri Delta thing. I was supposed to have some TKE things today but I really didn't feel like going. There was supposed to be a darty at 2 and a PNM cookout thing later but I was tired. So tired that I fell asleep before 7 PM. And then I woke up at 5 AM, was up for a bit, and then fell asleep again at like 8 o'clock probably. And that was that whole day.

4/10. Popeyes was good, beating Minecraft was good, but I just didn't feel like doing anything else. Definitely a lazy day.

1/19/25

So today I woke up at around noon because last night after the party I really couldn't sleep, so I went to bed pretty late, I don't remember what time. Probably like 6 AM. But I was up by noon and didn't really do anything for the day because I was just gonna stay at my grandma's house until 3:30 when I would leave for chapter. So ate some of the cold pizza rolls that I made last night, got a shower, all that stuff. Then I just watched YouTube on my phone until 3:30. Also TikTok was back this morning, so I probably watched that a little bit, too. I knew it wasn't gonna be gone.

Chapter was kinda boring. I was made fun of for talking to Keely at the party last night because apparently they think I can do better than her. But I was literally just talking to her for fun last night. To have someone to talk to. So I was put on the Ryker of the Week list for that. I was also put on the Teke of the Week list and I ended up winning that position. I am not going to say what that was for, but it was for admitting that my secret Santa gift got some use. Dang it. That was basically all that chapter was. The rest was just talking about finances and potential new members and stuff.

After chapter I went to the house to clean because Mason and Colin asked if I was going, and I couldn't just say no. But if they wouldn't have asked I would not have gone. But I wasn't there for that long and we were just picking up cans from the basement. Then I took both Indian and Asian Nathan home after that because they didn't have rides. But that was actually kind of nice because I got to talk to them for a bit.

Then I went home and there wasn't anything made for supper so I made some ravioli. Then Janell wanted to go to Betty's home (that's a surprise) because apparently there had been basset hounds on our road today and Betty had one that was in her garage. Janell had like, stopped on the road next to Betty's house earlier and the dog got into her car or something, but then I guess she just put it out and left it there. I don't know what happened earlier, but she wanted to go see them again. She made my dad go too, because it would be pretty awkward if it was just Janell confronting Betty. But I also went, obviously.

When we first pulled up to Betty's the dog came out of her garage. It was a short basset hound that looked kind of old and had some pretty long nipples. So she was definitely a mama. Janell and I pet it for a bit, but then Betty called all of us in and had us sit down. She talked to us all for a while and said some kinda crazy stuff. Some out of pocket things, you might say. First off, she said that the dog outside was a puppy. And Janell's like, "I think that's a mom." And she said, "Nope that one's a puppy. The mom's bigger and I haven't seen it since a few hours ago," or something. Janell got annoyed at that but I thought that was funny. Then she said if you see some of the cats on the road that are always on the road, just go ahead and hit them.

1/18/25

party

1/17/25

saw dana schwieger

sober drove

1/16/25

Yesterday I woke up at 2 AM after falling asleep at 9 PM. I've been doing this thing where I fall asleep a lot earlier than normal but then wake up really early. It also means I don't get as much sleep as I probably need. So I was up by then and I started studying because I was going to take the HESI today. So I found some quizlets on Reddit and used those. In between studying I also watched The Walking Dead and probably played a little bit of Minecraft too. How long have I been watching The Walking Dead now? I'm on Season 10 now but I feel like I've been watching this show forever. I think I started this run in November. Anyways, yeah I studied quizlets and I actually thought my exam was at 9 AM, but it was really at noon, so good thing I checked that. So I had some more time to study. Then I got a shower, got ready and left at 11 o'clock.

There wasn't much parking around Kent Library, so I had to park a street over from Normal St. We were supposed to get there 20 minutes early and that's about when I got there, so I went to the study part of the library basement and there were already lots of people waiting there. I also saw Grant and his girlfriend outside of the library because I think they were getting textbooks. 

1/15/25

Transcultural class

1/14/25

Second day back to SEMO, I was even more late. I had Animal Science today and I was up early but then fell back asleep. Janell woke me up at like, 10:40 and my class was at 11. So I rushed off and ended up getting there 5 minutes late. I only really missed the syllabus. I made it in time to introduce myself and tell everyone that I liked travelling and went to Honduras last summer. That class was over like, 10 minutes after I got there, so was it worth going all that way for a fifteen minutes class? Not really. But whatever.

I don't remember what I did in between times, I probably went to Nana's. But later that evening I went to the TKE house for a rush event. It was supposed to be a game night, but it was just the guys playing Quiplash or whatever on the TV, and it was so awkward because I was just sitting in the back of the living room. I did get my online criminal justice assignments done, so that was good.

That's all I remember of today. 4/10.

1/13/25

Today was the first day back at SEMO. I am writing this over a week later so I'm just gonna touch on the important stuff that happened. I got up early but was still late getting to class.

My very first class of the semester was my microbiology lab and I walked in there a couple a minutes late. But I think it was okay. I sat at the first table with two girls and a guy at it. We just kinda went over microscopes today and we got to look through them and stuff. I was accidentally looking at a hair instead of the bacteria. But it was kinda fun. Our lab instructor is pretty young and it's her first time teaching a class so hopefully that goes well.

My next class was at 12:00 and it was my microbiology lecture in Johnson. I sat near the same guy who was at my table in lab and I had to end up introducing myself to him and stuff because we were supposed to get to know the people near us. He was a little weird I think. His name was Mason. I do like our professor for lecture though. She seems pretty engaging. But not much happened today. Just introductions and syllabus stuff.

After classes I went to some stores because I wanted to see if any of them had any of the new Lego Minifigures. I wanted the wolf guy but he was supposed to be pretty popular and Walmart, Target, nor Barnes and Noble had him. I did end up getting a different little jetpack guy from Barnes and Noble. That may or may not have been legal. If it was the wolf I would have paid, and if they didn't blur the QR codes of a whole box of figures I would have paid. But it's like they want you to get ones you don't want when they do that.

Actually I forgot something. Before I went to those stores, I went to HealthPoint. I got my little workout done in there, so that adds a little something to the day, right?

Don't remember what else I did today, so I'm just gonna end it here. It was like a 6.5-10. It was a pretty full day but nothing really happened.

1/12/25

Today was kind of a weird day. I was going to pull an all-nighter last night, but fell asleep at like, 8 AM. 

1/11/25

1/10/25

Snow day

1/9/25

Today was my mom's birthday, so last night I stayed up and made a card. I also stayed up studying chemistry and playing Minecraft. Heavy emphasis on the Minecraft, Janell and I played until like, 4 AM. And then after that I ended up not sleeping. I was just on my phone until morning. At 6:30 I started watching a movie on YouTube called Watership Down because I saw people talk about it on a Reddit thread. I didn't end up finishing it, but it was pretty interesting. Poor bunnies. But yeah I eventually got up and I got ready because I was gonna go with my mom and sister to town for some stuff.

Janell had to drop her car off at the GMC/Buick place for an oil change at 10:00 so that's where we went first. That actually took forever, it was 11:50 by the time we left. We were in a full waiting room when we got there so I had to sit at this separate desk while Janell and my mom sat together, so I was a little loner. But I was fine with that, I wrote some blog posts and added pictures. Eventually it cleared out a bit so I got some snacks they had on the counter and moved next to them. I fully took advantage of their snacks, I had a Coke, an Oreo pack, a bag of chocolate chip cookies, and some peanut butter crackers. My mom tried to get them to put heavier oil in Janell's car because that's what my dad wanted, but I don't think they did that. They said Janell has to come back every 1000 miles so that they can check her oil. Seems a bit excessive. So that was all that happened there.

After that we went to Culver's and ate in there. I just got a chicken tender kids meal. I was kinda paranoid in there, I kept thinking I would see someone I know in there, like a Teke. But the only person I saw that I knew was Matthew Theiss. Kinda crazy he still works there. But that was a good lunch.

Then we went to Menards, Kohls, and Schnuck's. I don't think too much happened at any of those places. I saw the other Bronson at Schnuck's again but didn't say hi to him this time. In Menard's I walked around on my own most of the time. I was trying to find a knife like the one that June brought to Christmas bingo, the one that Kyle stole from me. We were at Kohls forever because all their Christmas stuff was like, 75 percent off and Janell and my mom were going crazy for some of those deals, mainly looking at candles and scent things. But I kinda like being in Kohls with them because it's pretty nostalgic. Oh yeah, Anna Mueller and her boyfriend were also in Kohls, but luckily they didn't see us. So that was a little throwback.

Then we picked up Imo's pizza for supper, went to Scooter's so my mom could get her free birthday coffee and then we went home. We ate some pizza and then sang happy birthday to my mom. My grandma had also brought a sunshine cake the day before, so we ate some of that, too.

After we ate Janell and I played Minecraft for a bit more and then we went downstairs and watched this movie called The Forge with my mom and dad. It was a Christian movie about a kid shaping his future and being mentored and stuff. It was pretty good but it definitely could've been better, too. But my mom and dad really liked it. Maybe too much. The boy in the movie was really into playing video games and they acted like that was one of his biggest sins in the movie and part of his redemption was throwing them all away, so hopefully my parents don't get too inspired. But I'm not that addicted, sooo. But yeah it was a pretty good movie. The ending could've been better, too. It all led up to them having to fulfill an order to a client so that they didn't lose them. Like, that's the best ending you can think of? It was like a 6/10 movie. Janell slept through it.

And that was basically the day. I went to sleep shortly after that I'm pretty sure. So I hope my mom had a good birthday. It was a pretty good day for me, at least it was a packed day. Probably a 7/10.

1/8/25

Today I was up pretty early because I went to bed at like, 11 PM, then woke up at 3 AM and couldn’t fall back asleep. So I got up at 3 AM, studied some chemistry on NurseHub, and ended up playing Stardew Valley for the rest of the morning until everyone else was up. Then I went up to the kitchen and made a new little dish. Scrambled eggs with cheese and gochujang, that part’s not new, but then I added ground taco meat and barbecue sauce. It was definitely unique. And pretty fire.

Then I went back to studying chemistry for a bit. I also played quite a bit of deadshot.io. That game is addicting. And I did that until around noon. My mom was also making Korean bao buns today because she said she’d make those if I studied. So I ate a couple of those at lunch because they were ready by then. 

1/7/25

Woke up at 3 o’clock, played Stardew Valley, did chickens and wood stove, played Minecraft, had a Thanksgiving meal, mom watched a slave/war movie. That’s the general gist of the day. So yeah I kinda relapsed on the whole waking up early thing. Also I went outside for a bit.

1/6/25

Today I woke up at 8 AM, which was really surprising because I went to bed at like, 4:30. I also woke up at probably around 5 or 6 because the power came back on and my lamp and LED lights came on and that woke me up. So I woke up, I was the first one up, and my dad was still at my grandma’s, so I firstly ate some leftover tourtière, then I played piano, and while I was doing that my mom came downstairs and I heard her end a recording, so I think she was recording me play the piano. But maybe that’s good, if I’m good enough to record. Then I bundled up and went out to turn on the chicken’s heat and fill up their water. I also filled the wood stove up. Then I walked around outside a bit with the dogs and I let Orange Man into the building and fed him because he was out all night, poor guy. Then I went back up to the house and kinda just chilled, I guess. Later that evening my dad got home and we ate the supper that Janell made, a Korean beef, boiled egg, and spinach meal. It was pretty great. Also I helped my dad change his car battery and clear the ashes out of the wood stove before we ate.

Then after all that my dad left again to spend the night at my grandma’s again, and my mom, Janell, and I played two games of Sorry. I won the first and Janell won the second, so poor mom. But it was really fun. Then I tried signing up for a HESI date but they weren’t available yet I guess. Then Janell and I played Minecraft FOREVER. We made this really cool new world called “beef and cheese” (Janell made green name) and we played until 3 AM. Really fun. I ate even more leftover tourtière during that time. Today was a good day.

1/5/25

Today I pulled an all-nighter so I was up early. And luckily I didn’t fall asleep early in the morning and sleep till afternoon. I had a Christmas Alani and a V-8 energy so that probably helped. I literally watched The Walking Dead all night, it was so fun. I finally finished up season 8, too. At like 9 o’clock I heard people up so I played the piano some. Then I went upstairs, talked to my dad some because he was the only other person up, and I prepared my spice mix for my tourtière that I was planning on making today. Then my dad left to go outside or go to Nana’s I don’t remember. And eventually my mom got up, too, and I actually started making my meal. Got the potatoes boiled and mashed, cooked my onions, browned the ground beef and pork, and loaded it all into a pie crust to go in the oven. It was like 2 o’clock by now. Also Janell was in bed until this time. Then I went downstairs and fell asleep after I took my thing outta the oven. I woke up around 4 to my dad laying on the bean bag thing with me and my mom watching a movie in the living room, where I was. So I left that room with an “ew” because that was too much for me. I went up and had the first slice of my delicious, delicious, tourtière. So good. 

1/4/25

Okay so today I was back to waking up late. I think it was almost 1 PM when I got up. So I still need to work on that. I didn’t have much time to do anything before Janell called me and said she wanted me to bring her iPad to Addie’s house, because apparently Janell had gone to Addie’s house earlier this morning. Then Janell also said I could stay there a bit and play Minecraft with them because that’s what they were doing. So I got her iPad and charger and my laptop and mouse and I left. I got to the Thomason’s house and it was kinda fun. Andrea was there at first so Janell and I talked to her until Addie got out of the shower and then we played Minecraft on a world called “jabron”. Addie’s cousin, Jacob, also joined us later. And her brother, Josiah, was there but he didn’t play. Then Addie had to go to work so Janell and I left at around 5. I went home and Janell went to Target.

1/3/25

Last night I actually went to bed a little earlier! It was around 3:30 instead of 6 AM. So that means I got up at 11:00 instead of 12:30. Then I made some chicken Alfredo Velveeta stuff with some leftover chicken. After we ate Janell and I played some Minecraft because that’s kinda been the vibe lately. Then I went outside with Chowder and the animals and I don’t remember what else.

1/2/25

Well since last night, it was 6 AM and I still hadn’t gone to sleep, I was just gonna pull an all nighter. According to my watch, I fell asleep at 6:27. And then I woke up around 12:30 today. My dad woke me up in a really annoying way again. He does this thing where he talks to my Alexa in a really annoying way again, but I keep my noise cancelling headphones by my bed now so I don’t have to listen to that. So I listened to 10 minutes of Adagio for Strings until he left. Then I got up, got a shower, brushed my teeth, and left, because I had to get my car serviced and oiled at 2.

So I drove to Morlan Dodge and stuff where I get my car serviced and they checked me in. They thought my name was Dan for some reason and I just went with it. I had a peppermint in the waiting room. After about thirty minutes they said it was done, so I signed some papers and I was done. Then the guy asked if I actually use the skeleton key on my keychain, and I said yeah it's for my grandma's house. He was like, amazed by that.

Then, I drove to Menard's because I wanted to look for some pocket knives like the ones Kyle stole from me at Christmas bingo. I didn't find them but I found a bag of bird food for five bucks so I got that for my bird feeder.

Then, I went to Walmart to see if they had the new Lego Minifigures that came out yesterday. They didn't, so I left after that. I also went to Goodwill after that for like, five minutes, and they had nothing good so I left.

I got home, talked to Janell some. She said a 27 year old guy tried to get her and Myra's number in St. Louis and she thought she was going to get hotboxed in a sketchy gas station bathroom, so I guess she had a fun time. Then, my mom got home and we made tacos (more like burritos) from leftover chicken from New Year's Eve. It was pretty good.

1/1/25

Today is the first day of the new year, 2025. Honestly, it was a pretty insignificant day. Yesterday, New Year’s Eve, was actually pretty nice. But today not much happened.

I’ll say a little about what happened yesterday since I didn’t make a post. We had people over for my grandma’s 80th birthday, so my grandparents, June, George, Kyle, Keira, Jennifer, David, Mariel, Zack, Pierce, his girl Ava, and Janell’s friend Myra were at our house. I don’t even know when my grandma’s birthday is, I don’t think it’s on the 31st, but that’s when we celebrated it. Also, the Winter Classic was today, and luckily George told me, because I thought it was always on New Year’s Day, not the eve. So I watched the last two periods of that. Then we ate, I had some lil smokies wrapped in bacon, garlic parmesan chicken, green bean casserole, and fruit salad. Eating was kinda awkward, for me at least, because I was sitting at the downstairs table with the couples, Kyle and Pierce and their girls and Mariel and Zack. Plus me. But it wasn’t really that bad. There wasn’t any more room so Janell and Myra had to eat on the couch. After that they kinda just talked, but I was bored and done eating so I went upstairs and started Metro Last Light. I didn’t really want to, I wanted to stay and be social, but I really wasn’t feeling it. So I played a couple of levels of that, then I went back downstairs. Janell and Myra were playing Minecraft on the two iPads and the cousins were trying to start a game of Low Down, which was this card game that Janell, my mom, and I tried playing earlier today in case we wanted to play it tonight. So I joined them in that game and tried to explain the rules, even though I had just learned and it was kinda a confusing game. We ended up playing a lot of rounds of this game and it actually got pretty fun once everyone knew what they were doing. After like the third or fourth round of this, I ended up winning, so I left the game after that because I kinda wanted to play Minecraft. So I joined Janell and Myra’s world from my laptop and built a house, got a pet armadillo, and found some diamonds. Fun stuff. Then they were getting tired of dying so we stopped playing. By this time, the only people left in the basement were Janell, Myra, Kyle, and Keira. So we just talked some until midnight, and then my dad got our guns for us all to shoot. They all shot shotguns and I shot my 9mm that I got for Christmas. It was a pretty good New Year’s Eve, not going to lie.

Moving on to today, I got up at noon, Janell left basically as soon as I got up to go to St. Louis with Myra. At least she had a more eventful first day of the year than me. I ate some breakfast that my mom had made, some breakfast sausage, biscuits and apple butter, and coffee. Then I tried making a little 2024 recap to put on TikTok and I had to do all this stuff because I wanted to use Just Another New Year’s Eve by Barry Manilow, but that full song wasn’t on TikTok so I had to record the song then extract the audio on CapCut, but then none of that mattered because TikTok muted my video right after I posted it because somehow it knew what I did. So that failed. But I still have the video in my camera roll. Then I took down the outside Christmas decorations, like the lights on the house and the little stick lights in the ground. I had to take the pool robot out its box so that I could put those decorations in a box, and my mom wasn’t too happy about that, she loves that robot. Then I played more Last Light and did the theater mission today and at the end of that mission a guy played a really nice tune on the piano, so then I looked it up and tried learning it. It’s literally just the piano version of the Last Light song, but it’s so catchy and fun to play. Then we ate Lambert’s that my mom brought from June’s. We had hog jowl, black eye peas, potatoes, and rolls. Apparently those are New Year’s foods, I didn’t know that until today. It would’ve been more memorable if we actually ate at the Lambert’s restaurant, but whatever. I was going to study for the HESI, but I didn’t really end up doing that. I REALLY need to, though. Then my mom ended up giving me 100 dollars. Well, she rolled it into my account. She said that was for helping around the house and putting Christmas stuff away, but I think it was also because Janell got to go to St. Louis and I didn’t. But I’m fine with that. Then I watched The Walking Dead and couldn’t fall asleep so I also started writing. I’m gonna try and ACTUALLY write every day. I always say it, but I will this time. It’s 5:51 AM. Do I even try going to sleep? Well, Happy New Year, I hope 2025 is a good year.