To be clichéd, Happy New Year!

Hmmm, what has happened this year?

• Musical: January to April preparing for 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' It was a good time, I met a lot of fun people and I temporarily improved my coordination issues. 
• My first job: Remember, future me; a summer student job at a church=doing everything no one else wants to do. Heck, I was really overworked, but I made money, enjoyed myself occasionally, had great coworkers, I'm not scared of kids anymore and found out my mad skills with a paper cutter.
• Eleventh grade: I've gotten a lot closer to my classmates. We have good times, I like my classes and I see an eventual end to high school. I've also joined choir which has been quite enjoyable. I finally feel comfortable in high school. 

What to look forward to this year:

• Another musical, Miss Saigon. 
• My IB French exam. *insert look of terror.*
• Summer and whatever happens then.
• The beginning of my 12th grade year. 

Goals:

• Pick up guitar again. I've slacked since summer.
• Read Lord of the Rings. 
• Take French seriously to avert disaster.

Tonight I get trek over to a hall in the sticks for the youth New Year's all-nighter. There shall be nachos, a bonfire on the beach, movies and me getting grumpy somewhere between 12 and 2 and going to bed. It'll be fun.
Love,
-J-

And one pasta with meatless balls?

I guess I've settled into a nice little place where I'm perfectly content doing nothing. I'll get to a point in the next few days that I might call someone and see if they want to hang out, but I just need a short break from life. People, activity, school work, whatever. I want to go on Tumblr, youtube, try cooking stuff, read books and watch musicals without having to care what other people are doing.

Monday until Wednesday I visited family. We went to the sticks to visit my dad's side of the family, the regular sitting around for a few hours after eating large portions of food. That evening we went to Hillsborough, possibly the most boring town on the face of the earth, the kind of town that shuns you if you weren't born there. There I saw all these people that I've never seen before in my life and ate terrible casseroles that all included way too much potato. I amused myself by chasing around my one and a half year old 1st cousin (my cousin's kid), Kari, making sure she didn't get lost. She's so adorable.

We stayed in the rather empty town of Sackville with my grandparents, didn't do much on Tuesday, and Wednesday visited my now split mom's parents in Shediac for several hours of slightly awkward conversation. 

*start small rant*
Through all these days of visiting, I realized that my relatives on my dad's side view me as the one who will succeed out of my cousins. I have three cousins older than me, only one of whom graduated from high school, but immediately got pregnant afterwards. It looks like I not only will graduate from high school, but I'm going to go to university, I don't get around and I'm responsible. Damn, my family has hopes for me. AHHH. PRESSURE.
*finish small rant*

Now I shall eat carrot soup. 
Love,
-J-

Merry Christmas lovely people of the blogsphere.

Merry Christmas you lovely people, and to celebrate, here is a rather downlifting Christmas video, if, you know, the holiday season has been too happy for you:

I'm getting ready to watch the Doctor Who Christmas special. Actually, I lied, I've already watched 20 minutes of it. I'm saving some for later.

Some of my gifts of today include a TI-Nspire CX (graphing calculator), which I do not feel worthy of. It's a bit overkill for what I need it for. I also have candy (SO MUCH) and pjs. Nothing really too grand this year because I made my big purchases I wanted this summer while I had a job.

Tomorrow I'm off to the family visiting circuit. Yesterday I had a rather interesting game of Apples to Apples with my mom's family.

And a slightly happier video:

Love,
-J-

Sweater madness.

 This morning I got a text while waiting for my extremely late bus:

Noah: Ugly sweater day made me think of you :) and made me realize that the 'ugly' can be replaced by 'hipster' :P
Me: Aww. How thoughtful.
10 minutes later...
Noah: Well this is awkward, ugly sweater day is tomorrow.

Kind of made my day. Why did that kid have to move away?
Love,
-J-