Storytime: My mom found her Christmas present

With Christmas time approaching, I thought of this one time when my mom found a present I meant to give her. I actually remember this quite often, so it's time I share it.

This all happened about 10 years ago. At that time I was still in elementary school, being around 11 years old. Money wise, my mom was giving me money for school and I usually had enough for some sandwich, chips or chocolate. I didn't need more. But as I had that kind of income, buying presents for holidays was very hard. (If any kid is reading this, I want you to know Santa does exist, but I wanted to make my family even happier!) I was buying some small stuff whenever I got the chance to go to the store. So this one year, I bought my mom a candle holder in the shape of Santa's head (creepy?). He had golden hat with glitter all over it. I thought it was so cute and it was about $1 or $2 so that was a perfect price. I got it, came home, put it in the back of the cupboard in my room and waited for an opportunity to wrap it up. As usual, my mom decided to clean the house right before Christmas. I have no idea why was she in the back of my cupboard, but she found the candle holder. As usual, if she cleans while I'm not home, she puts all stuff she doesn't know where to put on my bed. I came home and saw Santa on the bed. I immediately freaked out that I left it there for some unknown reason, but then she came and told me everything. She gave a lecture about keeping stuff in order and how could I just put it there and why I haven't told her that I bought something. I was crushed. This was my ultimate cute and cheap idea for a present and she found it. She found it just few days before Christmas. So I had no time and no money. I took a dollar from my brother, I had 2 of my own, and I went to the store searching for a replacement. I eventually found a small sculpture of 2 turtle doves. I can't express how worried and sad I was. Imagine a broke kid who just wants to give some presents, but can't. To this day, when I remember that, I feel so very sad. Also, to this day, she doesn't know the story.

The lesson behind this story: Parents please don't do through your kid's stuff. If you do find anything, just put it back and never mention it.

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Do you have some similar experiences?

Do you even like "storytime" posts?

Movie review: Need for speed

Note: As usual, head down to recommendations if you want to watch it without me spoiling it to you. You could probably read my impressions too... You decide...

Update on life: pre-Christmas mood

Hello! I actually always feel like I haven't written anything in ages and then I look and it's been around 10 days since the last post. Weird?

So... Although most of people have hopped on the train for Christmas, I have a rule that Christmas time does not begin before the 1st of December. So I'm not there yet, but I do have some other stuff going on in my life. For the last few weeks I've been feeling a bit down, a bit lost. My college is not going as I hoped, I missed on a great opportunity, my friend started ignoring me and I basically don't have time for anything but college which makes me very sad. I'll start with my friend ignoring me as there's not much to say about that. At one point he just stopped answering the texts, stopped answering his phone. I have no idea what's actually happening, but I can't reach him. That's that. As for my college, I have a really messed up schedule and I literally don't have time for anything productive all week. I had so much plans for this year and I don't think I'll be able to do any of those. Also, I started thinking about my future job and it really scares me. I'm not sure where I'll end up. I guess it's all just a teen-life crisis (?) and I know all young people go through this so I'm not that worried, but I'm just feeling a bit down. Also, as every young person, I struggle with money since I can't get a job and my parents aren't loaded with money. And there's that... Out of all of these, I think the lack of time is my biggest concern. Yes, it's not my friend because I did all I could and he shut me out. I do feel bad and I want to know what happened, but obviously he doesn't so... Anyway, I want to start going jogging, I want to blog more and maybe start YouTube, I want to learn few new languages, I want to go out more, I want to live a full young life. But that will turn around, right? Yeah.
So, what is happening in your life? Any problems? Any advice?

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Bring it on!

Today: 10.11.2016.

Doing: a bit of studying, a bit of shopping, a bit of relaxing, watching TV, reading a book, planning my holiday trip, planning my blog posts,... there really was a bit of everything

Mood: with all said above, my day went really well - but I'm a bit tired now

Favorite person: my mom

Thinking about: is this holiday trip, which I'm so excited about, actually going to happen or not

Missing: going out more with my friends, field trips I did in elementary and high school

Loving: the fact that I have all Christmas presents planned out - my whole family and friends are getting some awesome presents

Hating: that it's going to rain for next three days when I have days off and I could actually go somewhere, but I hate hate hate going anywhere when it's raining

New discovery: Donald Trump was in Home Alone 2 (?!?!?!) - link here

Listening to: Culture Club - Do you really want to hurt me

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How is your day going by? :)

Stop it with the healthy! (part 2)

Those of you who are loyal readers of my blog know that I've already used this title and I wrote about how people mostly pretend to care about health, when it's usually all about the looks. Open this link if you wanna read this first part.

Now, I'm going a bit further with this as I'm constantly seeing one thing on the Internet (usually social media) and it drives me crazy! I'm talking about "eating cake and I don't even feel sorry" or "having chocolate for dinner, don't care" posts. I've been seeing a lot of people (I'm gonna talk about girls cause that's what I know) talking about food; how "food is life" or wanting some big burger or anything as a joke. Because it's popular these days. Then you have people who take their "guilty pleasures" and take pictures to post them only to receive likes and approval from people. In most cases this is posted by fit or skinny girls, but there are also larger girls who seek reply messages and comments like "what do you care?" or "you go girl". OK, so here is what I think. I don't need to know what you're eating, but if I do see it, I don't need to feel like it's wrong what you do, but I still have to send positive and approving messages. Example. A girl posts "having sweets for dinner" at 10 p.m. In healthy, "we all need to be perfect by general standards" world, this is wrong. It's bad for your health, your sleep and, of course, your figure. Then again, I can't comment that because that would sound bitchy (and I honestly don't care and I do it too). I have to say, previously said, "what do you care?", "enjoy" or "so jealous". It's like you know it's wrong (by general standards), but you do it anyway. And you should! Because if I want to eat cake, chips or popcorn for breakfast, lunch and dinner, that's my thing! As I'm writing this, I'm eating cookies. I didn't have breakfast nor lunch and it's 8 p.m. I don't need someone telling me it's bad, because I kinda know it. And I don't care. And the reason why I'm doing this shouldn't concern you either. Don't get me wrong, I have pictures of food uploaded on my social media, but they were never posted so people could see that I had one mistake in my, usually, perfect diet. There are some people who take their diet (too) seriously, but I believe there's a majority of people eating normal and junk food whenever they wish to. They just don't post it anywhere because they don't need approval or turning this "mistake" into a joke to feel better.

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