Ah, springtime. Beautiful flowers, lovely weather, and oh…what’s
this yellow stuff on the ground that makes MORE flowers as time goes by? It
gets on your car, in your hair, on your clothes, and just about everything, and
if you don’t take car to get it all OFF of you before you go to bed….*evil
laugh* you’re in for a world of hurt.
POLLEN. UGH. I hate allergies. I wasn’t allergic to
pollen before coming to the States, you know. It started when I was in the 4th
grade, I suddenly found that my nose would itch, the roof of my mouth would
itch, and my eyes started swelling like crazy. Kind of pink eye (or is it red
eye???) ish, without actually having that in my system. Anyway, to make matters
worse, I went camping with a bunch of girls from church as a girls’ night out
thing that the church organized, was exposed to billows of smoke from the
campfire (no way to avoid it because there was so much of it everywhere), and
was crying in pain, unable to breathe properly or sleep, and miserable for
hours. One of the girls’ moms had to take me home, a 2 hour drive, at 2am. I
felt so bad for her…
Anyway, here I am as an adult and allergies still make me
miserable. It’s not fun having to turn down friends who want to go hiking or
just “enjoy the weather outside” and go for a walk because I can’t breathe. I’m
also much more sensitive to insect bites as compared to the average person;
they swell up a good 2x larger than most. It’s annoying and quite frankly, I
don’t enjoy having to take allergy meds all through the year because believe it
or not, even in summer, fall, or winter, if I don’t take meds for a couple of
days, I won’t be able to breathe…
If you’re allergy free…count yourself blessed, because
having allergies SERIOUSLY SUCKS. I think I’ll make a YouTube video about it…yeah. That
sounds like fun :P If you haven't subscribed yet, here's the link.
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MOVING ON!~
Have you ever seen “haul” videos on YouTube? You know,
the ones that start out with a line like “What’s in my bag?” where the person
CLEARLY went on a shopping spree that you’re jealous they had the money for and
are now displaying all the lovely things they bought in one shot?
I love shopping sprees. I’m also slightly bad in the
sense that all of the ones for clothing seem to end up with me returning 60% of
it back to the store because after a second glance, away from the initial
excitement of buying things, I don’t look great in it. (graphic chart of my
thought process coming soon when I have time haha XD)
Unsurprisingly, given how crafty I am, I don’t quite
follow a coherent thought process when buying crafts. It’s ESPECIALLY dangerous
when I have money to spend, and quite frankly, one of the prime reasons I’m not
as rich as I could and should be.
But one of my favorite things to do is buy stuff from
artists I like, particularly if I like the artists themselves as people. I have
a select few that I care about enough to support on a regular basis.
I’m going to do a short series of artists I support in
the following categories: art, crafts, and music.
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AND SO!! This has led me to make the following decision
in which I once again shoot myself in the foot by giving myself more work, but
given that I can schedule posts ahead of time, this shouldn’t be too bad (said
Moana before her boat capsized…). I’m splitting off posts into more categories,
which would allow me to share more!
They are: Music Monday (#musicmonday), Weekly Wednesday
(#weeklywednesday), and Feature Friday (#featurefriday). Really, Ariel? Matching
first letters? Really?…yeah. I don’t remember what that’s called. So much for
English class lol XD
Music Monday:
I share a song I’ve been obsessed with, YouTube link and all, as well as a
quick opinion of what I like or don’t like about the song, and maybe how bad
this obsession is. Have I been singing it for weeks? Whistling occasionally?
Full out random breaking into song? That kind of thing. :)
Weekly Wednesday:
my weekly update, what I’ve been up to, essentially what I’m been posting thus
far.
Feature Friday:
I can share the works of another artist that I love, which will hopefully 1)
demonstrate how much I love them XD and 2) share with you the many things that
the talented people I know are doing.
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That's all for this week! Next Wednesday, you'll see our Resurrection Sunday celebration, a little...something something from me that I'm very excited about, and photos from the event! Music Monday and Feature Friday will be in full-swing next week as well, with a YouTube video going up for the Feature Friday! :D
Comment below and because I'm terrible at remembering who I've told what, SUBSCRIBE for more updates (somewhere
to the top right, I think?).
Have a great weekend, everyone! Enjoy this season to be with your families and remember what, who, and why we're celebrating this weekend! (I'll talk about it more in the next post)
Love ya! :D
