long time no see...

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh hey!

I know, I know, it's been FIVEever since I've given y'all an update, and I am so so sorry! I've barely been home cause I've spent so much time travelling and hanging out with my pals (which I'm going to tell you all about in just a minute)! Anyways, I hope you guys are all doing well and are ready to hear all about the past two weeks!

May 19-24th:

I spent Monday-Thursday doing just about nothing. I hung out with Aiden on Monday and Thursday. On Monday, we just watched movies and laid around. On Thursday, we hung out at his house for a while, went to my best friend's violin recital, and then went to Walmart. It was really awesome because we got out of the house and just had fun together in the most random ways.

Friday morning, I had to get up super early. My speech coach, one of my teammates, my dad, and I all met up at my school so we could travel to a national speech competition! The competition was in Chicago, which is like a 6-hour drive from where I live. The drive there was unbearably long, but I felt better once we got to the hotel. After hanging out at the hotel for about an hour, we all walked to see the Bean and then got some food. The Bean was cool, and the food was just alright. Anyways, I went to bed pretty early Friday night because I had to get up early once again to compete.

Saturday was the first day of competition. Basically, everyone competed in four rounds against random competitors in their event (there were like 10 events, I think). Then, at like 10 pm, there was a party where they announced who made it onto the second day of competition. There were like 250 people in my event, and only the top 48 made it to the second day, so I knew I wasn't going to make it, but I still went to the party and had fun. Like I predicted, I did not make it to the next day, so I got to stay up a little later and talk to my bf!

May 25th-31st:

Sunday morning, I got up a little late since I didn't have to compete. I spent the first half of my day packing my stuff up and waiting around. Then, once we found out my coach didn't have to judge any more events, we got to go home!! The drive back home felt even longer than it did the first time (probably because I felt like I had to pee for like 3 hours). Anyways, once we got home, I took a fat nap and just recharged from my exhausting weekend. I learned later that night that I actually didn't do too bad in the competition, and placed in the top 50% of my event! 

I hung out with Aiden and his family on Monday. We watched two movies (which was awful for me because I HATE movies) and his parents made a big, yummy dinner. After the second movie, Aiden's brother and sister in law went back to their house, so Aiden and I decided to just hang out in his room until he had to take me home.

On Tuesday, I hung out with two of my other friends at random points (it was not planned ahead of time whatsoever). The first friend and I went to get food at a local cafe because it was their birthday, and then we went to Walmart and just walked around. Then, once they left, my other friend stopped by! We got some drinks from Sonic, walked around the park, and then hung out at my house for an hour or so!! It was a very chill day, but I had a good time!

On Wednesday, I hung out with my pal Hannah. We went to the mall in the town over, had lunch, and then filmed some mini-vlogs (Hannah is considering starting a YouTube channel and thought it would be fun to do some shopping hauls and such). I spent the night at her house on Wednesday, and we just gossiped and told secrets until we went to bed.

Thursday, I hung out with Aiden again. We went to the park near his house and played around there for about an hour. It was really silly, but I had a lot of fun just messing around with him. After that, we drove around for a little bit before going to his house. Then we watched a movie and some TV before he had to take me home.

I didn't do anything on Friday because my best friend had to reschedule our plans (we're gonna hang out tomorrow). On Saturday, I went to the lake with Aiden and some of his family. We ate some food at this restaurant near a boat dock, watched some boats come in from a race, and then walked the dock to look closer at some of the cool boats. Then we went back to Aiden's house. I don't know if there was something in the air or what, but we lowkey just spent an hour laughing at each other like lunatics because everything was just so funny. In all honesty, after that, we just made out for like an hour, and then Aiden drove me home.

Today: 

I chose to be a little productive today! I'm writing this blog post, obviously, but I also have been working on a little gift for Aiden and making a list of stuff I have to bring to my summer camp with me (I'm going on a three-week summer camp in July). Anyways, I'm going to call my best friend tonight and play roblox with him, but aside from that, I don't have many other plans!

I know that was a shit ton of stuff but I feel like I just had so much to tell you guys!! If you've made it all the way here, thank you for reading!!! I hope to write more again soon!!! Toodles!