November

Hello friends! Yes, I know it's been a month. I'm sorry, but I've been super busy, I promise. I had my birthday since the last time I've written. I don't feel any different, and sometimes I still call myself fifteen before backtracking and reminding myself that I'm now sixteen. Although I'm sixteen, I didn't do anything like a "typical" sixteenth birthday would be. I didn't go and get my license because when I moved here, my Texas driver's ed didn't count a diddily squat, so I have to restart it all here. So for my birthday, I got driver's ed. It's a super generous gift, don't get me wrong, but when I already did most of driver's ed back home, it's kind of annoying having to relearn things. Also, I didn't have a giant "Sweet Sixteenth" party, in fact, I didn't have a party at all. I've still yet to find a decent human being here, so no friends equals no party. I'm not that disappointed about not having a party though, as I still got lots of money. Something that my mom did (without my knowledge) was that she had asked some of my friends and other people back home to send me a card for my birthday. I got so many sweet cards, and that meant so much more to me than a party right now. Although it wasn't my favorite birthday, it definitely wasn't too terrible.

The day after my birthday, I had to take the PSAT, but I was actually kind of excited. I signed up and wanted to do it. It was easier than I thought. I went in with the mindset that I wasn't going to know it all and that it would be super difficult and that's totally okay. The English portion wasn't too bad, I only didn't know a few of the things, and the math portion was okay too. Since the math portion went to the end of Algebra 2, I didn't know how to do everything, so I didn't answer a lot of the questions, but they said that whatever you don't answer doesn't count against you. Overall, I hope I did pretty well, and if not, then there's always next year.

Other than that, I can't really remember much else of what I've done in the past month. My memory is so weird. I'll have the hardest time remembering what I did the other day, or what I've said, but I can remember things from months or years ago perfectly. It's weird I tell you.

Oh yeah, Halloween was a thing that happened since I've last written! I didn't go trick or treating, but I did stay in my room and watch YouTube videos and watch everyone tweet things about Halloween. So it was a pretty good night, if I do say so myself. It was also pretty funny watching everyone's Twitter layouts going from Halloween to Christmas the minute it was November. That's a thing I'm excited for- Christmas. I love Christmas so much, I'm not even going to try to hide it. Between candy canes, two weeks off of school, eggnog, cocoa, warm jammies, fuzzy socks, fires, and presents, there is absolutely nothing wring with Christmas. And don't forget about Christmas music. I love Christmas music, in fact, I'm listening to some right now (the Pentatonix Christmas album- literally go listen to it right now, I am obsessed).

I have a few ideas floating around my head for future blog posts, and I hope to write some of them out and save them as drafts or something so I have something to post for those weeks when I'm super busy, but no promises. Talk to you next time!

~Maddison