january recap
posted january 28, 2024hello and welcome to my AWESOME recap of january 2024 and my second update of the year !! a lot of exciting things have happened so far already.
first things first, i bounded STRAIGHT into the new year by having an issue with my car (that was fixed today, actually!! yippee). this caused a whole lot of anxiety going into my new year but hopefully i can stop worrying about it now. the issue was that a nut came loose off of my tire and was making an awful noise. initially it was thought that it was my engine, and then my wheel bearing (which technically it was but whatever) and now it's fixed!
besides my awesome adventures into mechanics, i participated in my second-ever bowling sectionals and got 4th! this is pretty big for me, since i found out i really liked bowling last season when my school brought a team over to my school. last year was meh, but this year i got serious. i ended up being shy of 3rd by 1 spare. hopefully next year i can finally commit to it and make it into the next round.
something that i DID advance in, though, was solo and ensemble! i competed yesterday (the 27th) with Andante et Allegro on my trumpet. this is a group one piece and i got a gold! this means that in february i get to go up to my state capital and compete in front of collegiate judges. this is also really exciting because i can look at music-centered colleges and see what all they have to offer.
the day BEFORE solo and ensemble i was in my school's homecoming court with my partner. it was a super surreal experience (mainly because i asked my peers to vote for us kind of as a joke, like a "wouldn't this be funny guys" kind of thing) and i'm so happy that i got to do something like that with someone that i love so dearly.
as for the more material things, i started and finished the first season of Sword Art Online and PROMPTLY fell in love with Kirito and Asuna. they literally had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. i'm not entirely sure if i'm going to go into the next seasons mainly because i think they wrapped it up pretty good in the first, but maybe if i get bored i'll go back into it. other than that, i finally bought OneShot (thanks to wolfsite!) and played it all the way through in the span of a couple of days. oh my god absolutely everyone needs to play this game immediately. i can't say anything because i don't want to spoil (and you should totally go into this game totally blind!!) but it is. a masterpiece and i have a problem with latching onto fictional characters so if you have that problem too you NEED to get this game.
okay time to wrap up! my top three songs for january are:
if you think my listening habits are cool MAYBE i'll hand out my spotify eventually. okay bye guys !!!!