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1) This year feels different.

2) By the time I'm done my 365 days project...I'll be in my second semester of college.

How insane is that?

3) I wonder where I will stand with all my friends. Old ones? New ones? Will I have cut my hair?

4) I wonder how many of my NYRs I will have stuck to? So far I'm doing well on the ones that require daily effort...I have yet to start exercising (ha), but I'm determined to begin right after midterms end. Which is now Monday, not Friday...sad face, but I'm still thankful for the break I had today.

5) Random thought. I have this fix for fashion; more so I follow dozens of blogs, less so that I actually buy the clothes myself. But does it encourage materialism? Yes. Is that a bad thing? Yes. Is there a way to make it something God-honoring and not a money sucker? I hope...

Going to take today's 365 photos, shower, and study for Statistics. Oh, and I did take a nap--I can't help myself with this sleep thing. Thankfully I don't have a headache, which I expected.

Nevertheless, to homework and studying and the last stretch of my high school years!

rainy days

white nollie vneck

grey banana republic tights

floral louis vuitton scarf

One in every eight school days, I get to come home early--before lunch! Thanks to our new demi-block scheduling system, and my luck of getting a fixed study hall during the alternating lunch periods, I have my lab aid class last on "A" days and thus, with the permission of my wonderful moderator, am home before the school day has even started.

This is all the more exciting when it rains (today). I love the pitter-patter of precipitation on the roof...I could sleep for hours without end, lulled by the hypnotic and ever-steady rhythm of water droplets. After writing, I'm going to eat lunch and take a well-deserved nap (college applications and the color-page yearbook deadlines have been keeping me up every night...I'm now constantly plagued by these killer headaches, despite how much I might sleep to try and compensate).

But more importantly: it's chap-stick and scarf season again (yessssss!).

I rarely pull out this scarf, though it's one of my absolute favorites. Gifted by my aunt and supposedly Louis Vuitton (my aunt never buys fake and picks up designer bags for my mom and I once in a while, but I doubt its authenticity), it is by far thee largest scarf I have ever own...but also the softest. It could almost double as a pashmina, and I raved over it to pieces when I first received it, but the only problem with it is that there's just SO MUCH fabric. As a light scarf (despite its size), I attempted to wear it in the summer, but to no avail...it just ate me up, and I saw no point in trying to wear it with 90 degree weather.

However, now that temperatures are dropping and daylight savings starts in just a few short days, I see the benefits of having a scarf of this size. Unlike the crocheted and thick scarves I usually port around during the winter, this one is entirely different due to both the fabric and warmth it produces without weighing me down.

And I love it.

So, I expect to start wearing it more. I'm glad I grabbed it to wear today, though it ate up my school uniform and got a bit wet :(. And now I'm really hungry...I don't think I've ever done a clothing post of this sort before. I avidly used to follow fashion blogs (stopped once summer rolled around I was forbidden in Canada), and have just begun to pick it up again. This was something I've always wanted to try out, but I think I'm way too conservative in my clothing choice and a bit too shy to go for it...maybe when I have more freedom in what I wear (i.e. not a uniform).

fresh

I'm seriously considering starting a food blog. How much fun would that be??? I don't cook, but I love eating. I think it would work out. The problem is maintaining something like that...I've been slowing down with blog entries ever since I quit Xanga, which is a blessing in disguise (I thought about this on the car; writing blogs and editing them and taking care of a personal page uses a lot of time. Not that I didn't know this, but it recently became so much more blatant to me), so the chances that I would keep up with a food blog are slim to none. However, it wouldn't be so demanding and need not be updated on a very regular basis...and I also have many, many old photos I could work with as filler entries?

But then, if a food blog, I'm going to want to start all kinds of other random category-specific blogs. I originally ignored the idea (I wanted to start a clothing-record type thing for myself) because I wear a uniform to school and wouldn't have much to work with for a fashion blog, a long-time thought of mine...so what would stop me if I started a food blog? And then I'll find myself lost in a sea of blogs again, which I desperately want to avoid :(.

I also want to try out Wordpress. Secretly. I am very satisfied with Blogger, however...but I like Wordpress' layout and it is simply more aesthetically attractive to me. But Blogger = Google and I have loyalty issues. And subscriptions here. I need to catch up on all my subscriptions...