adventures of a typical high school student

Hello everyone!

Now that I’ve been back into the swing of daily posting for a week, I wanted to address the two-weekish break that I took from this blog. As I’ve mentioned in my latest posts and my original explanation post about where I’d been, the month of November was an overwhelmingly busy one.

The month started with a three-day weekend and my first official Youth and Government conference, which I originally planned on covering and doing daily posts for just like I did with cheer camp, yearbook camp, and my Europe trip, etc. It ended up being way too busy and hands-on for me to do that, with the days starting at 6am and ending at 11pm.

During the conference/towards the end of the conference, I started to get sick. I had a lot going on at school that week and I assumed it was just a cold, so I tried to power through it and I started the week off like a normal week at school. I kept feeling worse and worse and almost falling asleep in class, taking naps as soon as I got home before I would even start my homework. Naturally, I wasn’t able to blog during this time either. That Thursday, I realized I had a fever and went to the doctor suspecting I had the flu. I tested negative- I just had some random virus and had to rest and wait it out.

I stayed home that Friday and was in bed the whole day. I technically could’ve blogged, but I had to makeup all my schoolwork and homework from the day (which was a LOT because I hadn’t finished my Thursday homework either) and inbetween that, I was just sleeping. My fever finally broke the next morning, so I convinced my mom to follow through with our plans to go to the Post Malone concert. I’m glad I did since it was amazing to see him, but I probably shouldn’t have since I started feeling horrible early into the concert, and we ended up leaving early- go check out my post on that if you want to hear more about it.

I used the next day to recover and returned to school that Monday. I tried to take it easy while still making up the numerous tests and assignments I missed, hoping I would be fully better by the time I left for Seattle that Saturday. I still had remnants of a cough and a runny nose, but I was in good shape when the week was over and my mom and I left on our trip. From the first day of Thanksgiving break until the day after Thanksgiving/the next Friday, my mom and I were in Seattle. I’ve posted a couple times about the trip, you should go check them out if you’re interested! We did everything in the city, from checking out the Pike Place Market and seeing the Space Needle, to touring the University of Washington and taking a ferry to Canada for a day.

We were in Seattle for a full week and each day was jam-packed with a full agenda of sightseeing, good eats, and exploring; I wrote some drafts of blog posts each night and within the plane and ferry rides, but I also had homework to do and nothing ever ended up getting posted during the trip. I had an amazing time and I’m glad I got to be fairly carefree during the week, but I came home to a daunting list of responsibilities and work to do. Beyond that list, I knew I really wanted to finally get back on my blogging game.

I know this sounds like a long list of excuses, but here’s where the apology comes in. I am so sorry for dropping the ball when it comes to producing new content, especially considering all of these things that “prevented” me from posting were and still are exciting and interesting things to write about. I tried to make up for it by reviewing the concert and posting a couple times about Seattle, but I know there’s a few subjects of post ideas that it’s too late to write about now.

I’m not sure why everything came down so hard on me in November, especially because I was convinced it was going to be an amazing month with all the things I had planned (it still was great, don’t get me wrong), but I let myself down and this blog down when it all came down to it. I’m really working on my time management at the moment since I know crazy times like this are bound to happen again in the near future, but I’m glad to get back into the blogging rhythm for now.

Christmas break is only a couple weeks away, and I’ll hopefully have tons of time to write new and exciting posts then! I hope you all accept this apology and understand where I’m coming from. I’m going to give my best effort at not disappearing again and if it’s completely necessary, at least having some measures of being able to put something up in the meantime for you guys.

-Brooke