Holy crap, guys! When I talk about life speeding up as you get older... I'm not kidding. It's been about two weeks since I've had time to sit and do some writing (possibly more, but let's not discuss that) and life has been keeping me busy as sin. I started driver's ed about a week and a half ago, and the homework, classwork, and driving time from that has been keeping me quite occupied. When I'm not busy with driver's ed, I'm wrestling with my schoolwork and trying to keep all of my instructors satisfied. So far, my lowest grade is a 96 or 97- so I think I'm keeping track of that decently. At this rate, I'm more concerned with speeding up my pace. I'm going to have a very busy December, since everything should slow up a bit then. I'll finish driver's ed, but I'll also earn my Sensei title and won't have to worry about keeping dojo hours up as much.
This week, I'm aiming to catch up on some of my schoolwork that I missed doing last week. There was a power/internet outage due to a heavy rainstorm that took down wires all throughout my town for 3 or 4 days, and that affected my work-flow since my dad and I both had to travel a town over to use library wifi. To my credit, I did write a 3-page essay for my Biology class that I scored a 100% on... so there's something to be said about changing your environment around if you have the opportunity to when you work. I think that if I was less stressed about the internet/power situation, I would've been able to accomplish even more while at the library. It's a comfortable (and mostly quiet) environment that I wouldn't mind working in again. That aside, today I was able to have some much-needed "me time". Funny words from a 16 year old, right? My hair has been needing a trim for awhile now, as the ends were damaged from the bleaching I did last year to achieve my blue and purple hair. Since the girl who does my nails for me is also a hairdresser, I booked the two appointments for the same day and ended up at the salon from 12:00pm until about 2:15. My hair is now trimmed with no more split ends and dead tips, and my nails got patched up and re-done with a beautiful red color (pictured below). While my nails were being painted, Shelby (the nail tech) and I ended up talking about different methods of brow-care- and I found out that she could wax my brows, too. After a 30 minute pep-talk, she was able to convince me and I decided that I'd give waxing a try. Keep in mind, I've been told horror stories about waxing before. Some of my friends have incredibly low pain tolerance, so they had warned me against doing it because it was apparently excruciatingly painful. I tend to have a high pain tolerance, so I didn't think the experience would be unbearable... and it wasn't. I'd compare it to ripping a bandaid off of your arm. The pain was barely there, and a cooling gel got applied after the fact to soothe my skin a little. For the small, tiny amount of pain that there was, my brows are now tidy and look better than they ever have. The small under-hairs have always really bothered me, so looking at myself in the mirror and having them absent is truly refreshing to me. I got home about an hour or so ago, and wound up using one of my charcoal face masks with my little sister to completely freshen my skin up. I don't use them often- maybe once a month, so it was nice to steam my face and then let the mask soften my skin. I use a bubble mask, which puffs up and washes away easily without any pain. My sister likes it because it tickles as it works and doesn't peel off like most of my other masks do. I must say, it does painlessly have the same effect as the masks that cling into your pores. My skin is now baby soft, and an additional bonus is that I got to spend time with my sister making a late lunch and talking while our masks dried. Once everything was washed off and lunch was finished, Ashleigh went back to do her schoolwork and I came upstairs to write this post... and there really isn't much more to this update than that! I'm sure my sister's writing about various subjects has been keeping you at least mildly entertained while my dad and I are caught up with life and absent from the blog. I'm going to be trying for at least 2 posts a week from here on out. Writing on a daily basis is refreshing- but currently hard to maintain for me as I come closer to some large milestones in my life. Thank you for bearing with me during this time. - Maddie P.S. - My nails are done by Shelby Racine at the Added Touch Salon in Rindge, NH. She's one of the nicest and most bubbly people I know, and she does INCREDIBLE nail art. I strongly recommend her if you're in the area :)
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