A day completely at home

Today I stayed home for the entire day, it was an entire day with only video games. Over the entire course of winter break, my mom has brought my sisters and I to Barnes & Noble, and on this weekend my sisters went skiing on Xmas Eve and we played board games on Sunday. So today, I spent the first half of the day doing my school projects and the second half staying put and wasting time. That is, on my computer. At 5:30 we ate dinner, and my dad told me to write blog.  So I wrote this, looking back on this day, I felt it went successfully because I finished a lot of school stuff, and I managed not to procrastinate further. In the future, my family will be going on vacation this break, with a broken arm I spent a lot of time at home, but I'm proud of completing my tasks.

The Dinner

Today was both my mom's and my dad's birthdays, so to celebrate, we went to a restaurant. Which is nothing new, except that the restaurant was empty, I was really surprised, but there was no line and the food didn't take so long, which was probably was what made me feel so good about it. It was a Chinese restaurant, AKA where my parents complain that I don't eat anything but fried rice & dumplings, so I decided to challenge myself and try at least one piece of every dish ordered, and I succeeded except for one dish, and then I was full. The food was mostly meat. Interestingly, my sisters and I didn't beg for desserts after the dinner. Once done, we went to buy a strawberry mousse cake, which my sisters were horrified to discover that it was actually vanilla cake covered in strawberry filling. My mom was saying that she loved the cake and would buy it again.

The Gifts

Today my family went Christmas Shopping, but there are so many restrictions. When my mom us that the price did not matter, us kids still felt a need to minimize the price, and we weren't allowed to ask for video games, I managed to negotiate for one though. Mostly I wasn't that interested, reading some books at the store. I just felt that nothing was appealing, the board games I would get bored of and lose most of the parts, the toys I would lose and get bored of, and I was afraid if I bought a card game my little brother might rip them apart, so nothing I really wanted. 

7 hours of stuff

Today was the first day of my school's winter break. I thought that I would be able to just play on the computer all day, that's what I really wanted to do, but I had to go somewhere, because my mom didn't want us inside all of the time. So I went out to Barnes & Nobles for the day. We were there for seven hours, but the new book that I had wanted to read wasn't released yet, so I basically just read old books that I've already read and guides that always call themselves "The Official Guide to..." or "The Essential Guide to ...", but they're kind of interesting, because they have illustrations. When I got home, it was almost 6,  we had dinner and I now am writing a blog on those 7 hours. So I'll just go back to the fun stuff now.

Journalism Club

At School, I have go to this after school club called journalism club. This year, the first year of the club, I decided to become an editor. Historically, the school magazine was written by the school PTA, but this year they let students have a shot at writing articles, taking pictures, and even add comic strips. It was really fun to be able to do try out this, because I feel about what I could do would be so much better than past editions, it always is fun to do that.