Lost in the Woods!

So today, my friend Maria, her brother Alberto, me, and my exchange student Felix, went on an adventure.
And what an adventure it was!

First we made homemade pizza with Italian style dough-
quite a scrumptious treat.
It had thin, crispy crust, spices, sauce, fresh Parmesan and mozzarella,and then toppings!
We topped some with pineapple, some with sausage, and some with pepperoni, and some with combinations!
Then we baked it and eat it.
With such thin, crispy crust, we had to eat it with a fork and knife!
It was the best pizza I had ever eaten! ^_^
We also drank sparking cider, apple favored and apple-grape flavored.
Those were really yummi, too!

We then went to Cattus Island park, where we visited the nature center first.
Alberto and Felix, though 16, had a ton of fun fiddling with the learning activities and toys meant for the younger kids.
It was really cute!
The we went hiking.
We followed the trails and stuff, but didn't bring a map, so we didn't knw which ones went where!
It was also snowy on the trails, but that was okay. We took reeds with fuzzy ends and used them as 'weapons'- for ticking!
We had fights with them, chasing each other all over.
A ton of fun!
Eventually, we found our way back, after an hour or so, and after some near misses with falling in ponds covered in ice.
It was so much fun, and we were all laughing most the journey!

Finally, we went back to Maria's and ended the day with cherry pie, hot chocolate, and many games of "Catch-Phrase".

It was the best time I had all year, possibly the best time I've had in the past decade! ^__^

Going to a park with friends creates some of the best times ever!
Everyone should do it!

Another New Year

Yep. Another New year is here.
It's a whole new decade, as well.
For some reason, these things just...
don't seem quite as exciting as they used to.
Christmas doesn't seem as special anymore, either.
In fact, none of the holidays really do.
Have they just become so predictable that they seem dead?
They certainly no longer have much of an air of excitement and surprise.
Lack of such things do tend to lead to predictability,
which in turn seems to lead to an air of apathy towards a subject.
Or maybe it just seems this way to me,
and normal people still feel perfectly at home during the holidays.
I haven't been very normal lately, after all.

Anyway, I do have a few new years resolutions, in the end.
If I post them here, i may feel more obliged to stick to them.
Just maybe. Small chance, but it's there.

1. Lose more weight! I know, pretty common resolution, but at least I stuck to it last year- only one I did, but hey, that's something. I lost thirty pounds so far. Still need to lose more, though. I used to be extremely 'pudgy'. Okay, fine. i was outright fat. there, i said it. Doesn't matter now, though; I'm more of a normal weight now. A bit ironic, though. What I gained in normality appearance-wise I've seemed to have lost mentality-wise.

2. Work on my blogs more often, particularly the G-pig one. that one can wait, though. I'll post on that some other day. Soon, though. Maybe. I really should stop procrastinating it...

3. Hm, let's see... ah, screw it. I'll keep it to those two resolutions. maybe with less, I'll actually be able to go through with ALL of them this year.

So, yeah, that's pretty much it. My thoughts on the new year, and resolutions. It's not that special. I'm not that special. I hate that people keep expecting so much of me. "Genius" does not mean "excelling at everything." I just want to be treated like normal, okay? Normal expectations, and stuff like that. Oh, shoot, I just went on a mini-rant there. Anyway, new Year, new decade. Nothing too special, just another day on the calendar, as far as I'm concerned.

It was nice having two weeks off from school, though.