Follow Up Friday

T.G.I.F!! I don’t know about you, but for me this week went by so s l o w l y. I don’t know if it was just because I had to get back into the swing of things after having a week off for Thanksgiving break last week, or what. It just seemed unusually hard to wake up in the mornings.

I’ve decided that on Fridays I’m going to start what I call “Follow Up Friday” where I can reflect on the past week and maybe preview the upcoming week.

Since I really like to keep things organized in lists, here goes:

• What’s Been On My Nails This Week: Essie Sable Collar (I’ll swatch it at some point)
• What I’ve Been Reading This Week: The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers for my English class. I actually just finished it.
• Biggest Indulgence: My friend and I went out to lunch and instead of getting real food, we went out to Oberweis and ordered Peppermint Fudge Brownie Sundaes. As good as it was, I’m now going to have to run an hour tomorrow morning to feel a little bit better about myself…
• Biggest Annoyance: Having to wait weeks and weeks and weeks to hear back from the schools I applied to. Especially this one school, which sends decisions every Friday evening between 7-8 p.m. So after constantly refreshing my email inbox and admission portal earlier this evening, I disappointingly find that tonight is not the night.
• Biggest Accomplishment of the Week: Helping my Parents set up the Christmas tree and hanging up all of the decorations. It’s my family’s tradition to do this the Sunday after Thanksgiving, so we had our annual tree-trimming party complete with cookies and hot chocolate. It was sort of bittersweet for me this year since depending upon where I end up going for college next year, I might not be able to be home for this family tradition…
• Scariest Realization: Only 6 more months left until graduation…

Even though I’m so ready to be done with high school already, I don’t know if I am ready quite yet to go off to college, so that last bullet point scares me a little.

On the bright side, only 2 more weeks until winter break, which seems so close yet so far away because from now until then, I still have some much to do. From multiple tests coming up, to an orchestra concert, to a couple of violin gigs I’ll be playing in, to FOR SURE hearing back from a couple of schools, these are going to be a packed couple of weeks.

Stay tuned,