Happy new year!
So it’s now 2024, which is cool. The end of the year and beginning of this year has been super busy, which is why I haven’t blogged. I was home with my family for a bit to celebrate an early Christmas and then I headed back to Morgantown to then get on a plane to Chicago, for the midwest clinic. The clinic was…fine…I honestly was working our booth for the most part. When I did have time to do things, I basically spent it in Chinatown, which I really enjoyed. I got to go to a cute boba place, eat some amazing food, and spend too much money at a kpop store. I also just walked around Chinatown a lot, even though it was wet and rainy. It was fun. I did get to see the President’s Own in concert, which was really really cool. They were super good and I’m glad I was able to see them perform. The hotel we stayed at also was real nice and the view was great. I remember texting my sibling though, telling them that I have never related more to Bang Chan than I did in that hotel room, as instead of doing anything else, I chose to set up a mini studio and work on Fomalhaut, my new mini album coming out (AHHH). But it was fun regardless.
After the clinic, I was in town for Christmas, which kinda sucked, but it also just didn’t feel like Christmas, so it was fine. The reason being was the 26 I had to get on a bus with the marching and to head to Charlotte for a bowl game. I couldn’t have cared less about the game honestly. The trip was semi disastrous, but we all got back in one piece and our team did win, so that’s cool. I didn’t take any pictures whatsoever because I didn’t really do anything other than what I had to for the game and then slept lol.
Then I was home for about a week, celebrating new years eve with my family. Then I unfortunately had to come back to school for auditions and the actual start of school. I’ve had a week of school so far, I’m ready to be done, but I do think this semester will be nice. My class load is pretty easy, and I’ve almost had too much free time…that may or may not have been spent on composing more 🙂 .
Speaking of composing…Fomalhaut is going to be out in like 12 days….which is terrifying. But I’m also counting down the days because I’m excited. I’m really proud that I actually have made this happen and all of the work I’ve done for it. Again, maybe no one will even care or listen, but I can pretend.
That’s been about everything since I last blogged, lots of traveling. Mentally, I’ve been doing actually really well. I’m not sure if it’s because of my medication working now, or it’s an effect of having “free time” that I can spend doing things that I enjoy and taking care of myself. Probably a mixture of both though. Hopefully it’ll stay mostly like this though. I’m obviously not like incredibly happy all the time, I still have hours or days where my anxiety/depression kicks me, but it’s more manageable. That’s all I got, so enjoy this last pic of Piper enjoying her new bed my mom got her for Christmas 🙂
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