•september brought a nice weather pattern, it was very cool and fall-like at night. Now it's October and we're back in the 90-100s. Our teacher keeps the classroom nice and cold though, I just have to remember to bring something with sleeves ( Read more... )

Hm. I did pretty well last month when I wrote bullets on a sticky note about what I wanted to write here, I should make that a regular thing ( Read more... )

•Twister(s): the first movie, with Helen Hunt is my JAM. I love disaster movies. I'm disappointed that I didn't get to see it on opening night but I'm still psyched to see it ( Read more... )

But I guess, as they say, "none" news is Good News ( Read more... )

New Things•new song obsession: "Jupiter" by Gustav Holst. I was watching youtube shorts; in one, they interviewed figure skaters about music they wished they could use for a program, and one said “Jupiter” from the ‘Planets’… symphony(?)(idk what it’d be called but there’s 9 parts to it, one for each planet). I listened to it (only Jupiter, but I ( Read more... )

•it was only for like, 5-10 minutes. When it came back on I immediately got a notification from our porch camera; apparently while it was dark, our neighborhood possum took the opportunity to come out unwatched ( Read more... )

•car problems: the axle on our car BROKE APART one night while mom and I were running errands! At the absolute most basic definition, an axle is a bar your two front wheels or two back wheels sit on underneath the car. Fortunately, we were close to home when it happened, and while mom was on the phone with a tow company, the police came and pushed ( Read more... )

Halloween: my church did a trunk-r-treat. My mom *was* going to volunteer our car, but then mid-month she had a change of mind, and backtracked (the church my family originally started at taught that halloween was the devil's holiday and discouraged ANY participation. So that night, our church would hold a bible-themed pizza and games night.) ( Read more... )

•my niece went on bed rest back in late August, expecting New Baby to come within that first week of September. But I guess she was pretty comfortable in her mom's belly, she didn't come until my dad's birthday (mid-month ( Read more... )

I've been so Hype™ for the Barbie movie that I almost completely forgot about Spiderverse 2! Fortunately, they've been replaying the first one on TV, so it reminded me. Every time I see that movie, I try to catch something new. This time, I realized that Aaron knew about their secret graffiti spot because "he did a job near there" means when he did ( Read more... )