brrly babbles about whatever she feels like (christmas eve edition)

hello guys and welcome back to another brrly babbles blog post!! i havent posted in around 5 months i think. did you guys know im really good at estimating times and distances and measurements like i dont know why but im just really good at it. let me check how long its been since i last posted so i can boost my self-confidence in my ability to estimate measurements

OKAY WHAT THE HELL GUYS its been 2 im so embarrassed but its felt so long since i last posted. what is going on with me guys. okay whatever im usually very good at estimating measurements i SWEAR!!! IM NOT A LIAR! anyways guys its currently christmas eve and im in bed and not partying and not opening gifts because i already got my gifts early ACTUALLY WAIT there was supposed to be a package that arrived today let me check where it is

HEY GUYS so i just unboxed my last gift!! let me list the things i got for christmas this year!! i also had a secret santa recently with my friends and got a few gifts from that too

from the secret santa i got:

• gudetama tumbler (i use it everyday)
• ariana grande cloud perfume IT SMELLS SO GOOD AHHHh and its so cute too i love putting it on my shelf
• a bunch of snacks
• calpico
• pocky
• pizza breadstick snack thing
• ramune

from my family i got:

• 100 dollars
• a raspberry pi kit
• a raspberry pi 4
• an arduino uno r3 kit (the most complete starter kit from elegoo)
• a sensor kit with 37 different sensors
• dahlia lotion and perfume (bath n body works)
• champagne toast lotion and body wash (also from bath n body works)
• love and affection 😆

i am so very happy that i got the raspberry pi and arduino kits because ive been wanting to get into electronics for the past year and it kept slipping my mind until i joined this club at my school and we competed in a robotics competition and we had to use an arduino to power the motors of the robot and it was so FUN and i cant wait to keep working with electronics!!!! i think i want to major in electrical engineering or something related to engineering in the future because its so fun guys

also the champagne toast scent from bath n body works smells so good i cant believe something can smell so good!!! it smells like fruit and candy and UGHHOQIWJOI i love it so much!! also ive been getting more into like perfume stuff kind of cus ive never owned perfume or body mist before until this month! its kind of fun to collect the different scents. i think bath n body works might just be one of my new favorite stores to shop from. OMG also i bought a laundry scented candle and it SMELLS SO GOOD like wow laundry is such a nice scent. it helps me focus on school work and coding as well!! thats also another pro to bath n body works! they have a bunch of good smelling candles and you can collect so many. i cant wait to go there again and spend another 50 bucks on scents 😆

anyways let's recapitulate on me having a life (the topic from my last blog post) and ill update you guys with the new stuff! so pretty much i was stressed from school since the contrast between middle school and highschool is incredibly vast and i could not handle the transition on top of the many extracurriculars that i had AS WELL AS worrying about having to make an impact on my community and also about networking and having to professionally communicate. 

also i used the word recapitulate so that you guys would think i'm smart 

well guess what guys! the stress is KIND OF dying down now that i'm on winter break but also because i've been adapting to the lifestyle that i will be having for the next 3 years and it's honestly not as bad as i thought it was! i'm able to get my work done on time (except for english.. that will be another topic for another day 😁) and i've also been able to work on my extracurriculars!! like i got back into guitar and honestly i think i'm better than i was before!! i am so proud of myself guys 

OKAY but in track i'm kind of slow ("kind of" is an understatement) and it's kind of eating at my ego ("kind of" is an understatement) but it's okay! at least i'm not in pe and honestly track has given me a lot of muscle and if it weren't for being in track i'd be extremely unathletic and my mile time would be 20 minutes. thats an overstatement actually, itd be 12 minutes!! my mile time is actually 9 minutes but when i was unathletic it was 12!! well 9 minutes is still kind of slow BUT IM WORKING ON IT. STOP JUDGING! and i havent even timed my mile since like may so its not even accurate!!!! 

anyways i'm also working on a cancer campaign and it's not as stressful as i thought it would be so YAY!! the only thing that's really been stressful is ENGLISH. it's been my worst subject since elementary and it doesn't help that i got the hardest honors english teacher. it's okay though because everything else in my life is going great and i'm not going to let english take me down! in fact i'm going to use this blog as a way to improve my english skills because i'm kind of bad at writing essays and describing things and if you guys couldn't tell by my limited use of vocabulary i'm not very good with words. also some of my sentences aren't grammatically correct and are run-on sentences but that's simply because of the way i talk, not because i'm bad at english!! also my vocabulary isn't likeeeee BAD it's just that i don't use a big range of words in everyday conversations so i end up forgetting the words that i know therefore making it seem like i have a limited range of vocabulary 

maybe i should get back into reading but i also research ways on how to get a bigger range of vocabulary and how to improve writing skills because i've been struggling with writing since elementary like i'm not even kidding i thought i had a mental disability that didn't allow me to write out my thoughts properly but i think the way my brain works just doesn't fit with the cognitive processes needed for verbal expression as well as art and music because i'm also kind of bad at those things! like with guitar i can't improvise a solo on the spot and with art i need a reference to go off of! well i'm not super bad at music and art i just need to practice more but my need for structure and organization makes it difficult for me to "go with the flow" yk. anyways when i was researching i found that reading magazines helps with writing!! with books, i feel like im reading a really long story and most of the time you can't use the language that they use in books (especially fictional ones) in essays. however, in magazines and articles, the language used is mostly practical and formal and by consuming this type of media frequently, you can incorporate it into your essays as well as your everyday conversations which would also essentially make writing essays less difficult since you don't have to switch on an entirely new persona to write! you could simply just talk and it'd be considered an essay! WOW!!!!

the best part is that i have a bunch of science magazines so not only is the language that is used practical for essays and academic, i'd also learn a bunch of new science stuff and that could lead me down a bunch of rabbit holes where i can learn even MORE science stuff and then i'd find more stuff that i'd want to major in!!! YIPPEE!!

okay guys i'm getting a little bored of writing this blog and i want to watch the cs50 week 10 lecture WHICH IS THE LAST LECTURE BY THE WAY!! i finished cs50 week 9 today and that honestly took me the longest time to finish. usually on other weeks i can just lock in for a couple of hours and finish, but with this problem set i had to split the work between two days because 1. i couldn't focus and 2. it was taking a really long time and that's why i lost focus. but anyways i'm glad i finished week 9 and there were a bunch of errors BUT I DEBUGGED ALL MY CODE ughh i love the feeling of debugging code and then finally finishing like i love seeing all the green check marks and then seeing the 100% in my cs50 gradebook but anyways im going to watch the cs50 week 10 lecture and hopefully i'll be able to finish my final project in less than 1 week because i have less than 1 week to finish! YAY!! BYE GUYS thanks for listening to me babble again

i dont have a thumbnail for this post right now but when i do i will upload it and you guys will have NO IDEA that i didn't have a thumbnail before (nobody reads my blog posts so it doesn't matter anyways)