All Work and No Play.....

....makes Lynsey a dull girl, and posting difficult.

Sorry for the lack of updates for the last month, I've been a little busy. Life has been a frenzy of projects, tests, essays, performances, homework and stress. In this time period I've neglected not only my blog, but also my bedroom-cleaning habits *shudder*, and my social life (not that I ever really had one to begin with....heh). I seem to have finally been blessed with a break from the insanity filled with little homework and many fun opportunities ahead. I think the point of this year for me is to learn to prioritize. I have to figure out what's most important, and put the emphasis on that instead of wasting extra time and energy on the trivial. I need to use time not only to take care of my homework and other responsibilities, but to take care of my physical, spiritual and emotional health, as well as making time for fun and friends.

My first, much-feared, Beaman midterm went pretty well. I escaped with my life, a little arm-crampage and a B+, and I'm pretty happy with that. If all goes as planned, I'll learn from my mistakes and do even better on my final.

A lot goes on in a month. I could write a post about as long as my arm describing the obscene amounts of time I've working on this foiled project and that confounded essay, but I’ll spare you the graphic details and suffice it to say that I've spent a lot of time in the last few weeks working. Thankfully, I have actually had some good fun recently, despite my hectic schedule. An Expressions Halloween party, shopping and a really awesome choir retreat made for a lot of enjoyment, but nothing could really compare to.....

KITTENS!

That's right, after an acceptable time of mourning passed in remembrance of our dearly departed Mittsy we welcomed two new kittens into our home. Their names are Allie and Sadie and they've been a lot of fun. Allie is the shyer of the two, but both enjoy attention and play. Bennett has had a little trouble adjusting to his new housemates, but it's going pretty well. Yesterday, Bennett and Allie were both lying on the floor mere feet away from each other! (If you want to see more kitten pictures, just scroll down the page a little bit.)

Speaking of "new additions", I will soon be welcoming a new member to my technological family. I plan on buying a Nintendo Gamecube within the next few weeks. Mario and Zelda here I come!

This is pretty much the end my post, but I can't sign off without taking time to remember my past, it's (pretty close to) the anniversary of my first post. Happy Bloggiversary to Short Like Me (The artist formerly known as The Lights Are On...But Nobody's Home) and all of my blogging friends out there celebrating their one-year anniversaries!

Sadie and Bennett 

Sadie 

Allie and Bennett 

Allie 

Coming Soon to a Blog Near You....Content!

Yeah, so I'm not dead. I'm going to attempt to provide a "real" post tomorrow-ish detailing the sordid, grotesque events of my stressful and simply horrifying month from....well, you get the idea. Anyway, sorry for the lack of posting; I will be updating on a somewhat regular basis again soon.

Sleep Deprivation and its Effects: An In-Depth Experiment in Fatigue

I've come to the conclusion that "tired" is just not a good enough word. While "exhausted" seems a bit excessive, "tired" just doesn't cut it. When you rather regularly feel as though you’ve been hit by a very large truck of some sort as I often do, the mere word "tired" really doesn't do the feeling justice. Now where did that thesaurus go....?

"If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something" - Murphy’s Laws

You know, I'm generally very optimistic, but recently, that "law" has been proven time and again in my day-to-day life. Last week I was having a pretty good day, and then just as I was heading to my car to go home, I realized that sometime between 0 period that morning and the end of 6th period I has lost my keys. The next day we were able to have the keys replaced (for the low, low price of $88!) so everything turned out fine, but that wasn't the last of my trouble.

This week I was close to getting in a car wreck twice in two days. The first time it was kinda both our faults, and the second time it was pretty much all my fault. I was making a left turn at one of those”left turn yield to oncoming traffic" places, and I thought I could get through before the "oncoming traffic" was too close. Obviously I miscalculated and had to hit the gas pretty hard. That was really scary. But even that isn't my best example of the above law.

By far the most perfect example of the aforementioned law is in my most recent revelation: I am so not normal. It seems like just when I start feeling pretty good about myself and how my life is going, I come to some horrifying revelation. This time I realized something about my social life, it's almost non-existent. After listening to some of my friends talk about their various outings with people, I noticed that I don't think I have ever gone to someone's house just to "hang out". Upon further probing of my memory I realized that in all my time at Reynolds, I have rarely, if ever, associated with any of my friends outside school. Sure, every once in a while I see someone at the library or something, but I really don't socialize with anyone otherwise. Before this rather uncomfortable realization I was living in blissful ignorance, but alas, it didn't last. *sigh*

So, in an effort to dispel my current social conundrum, I ask for advice on how to "get out there". What do the kids like to do these days? Should I just start inviting groups of people to my house to watch movies and "chill" or what?

*ponders*