Spring Yay!

March 25th, 2026

It's Springtime YAAAY! My favorite time of the year is the awkward transitory period between Winter and Spring where the sun is shining but there's still a sharpness in the air, and where things still seem bleak but if you look close enough, you can see the initial bloomings of life within the natural world. This year, however, it went from 80 degrees one day to snowing the next, then the next back to sunshine and warmth.

It's around this time of the year when I scavenge my yard for wildflowers, berries, and fungi. There are some that never return, and some that return each year. My favorite regulars are Spiderwort, Violets, Lantanas, Honeysuckle, and white Azaleas. Some years, I find and cook up green onions or Dandelion greens. It helps me to feel more grounded.

I had my senior prom a few days ago, and I'm planning on posting pictures from there once I get the pictures back! The next day, I went on a 3-day long trip with my partner to the college they go to, which is also the one I plan on going to in the fall. It was a very pleasant experience! I tend to struggle with eating enough, I love eating and I feel perfectly secure in my body and everything, I just have an appetite that matches my motivation to get up and cook and I HATE cooking. But... you HAVE to buy a meal plan at the college I'm going to for your first year. So I'm probably going to buy the unlimited meal plan so that I'm able to eat whenever I want!! A big reason cooking sucks for me is because of my OCD. Washing dishes takes me forEVER and I'm so particular about food safety when dealing with raw meat, I tend to wash my hands about 20 times while making one meal, and I think I just overall hate cooking. And baking. Making food is not my thing, unfortunately, because I LOVE food.

I truly can't wait to move out. I love my family, but they are SO messy and dirty and nasty. And for the most part, I'm the only one that really cleans. It stresses me out a LOT, and triggers my OCD really bad, every day. When I move out, I bet that my life and mental health will rise exponentially. I'm going to be moving out sometime in mid-August, and the current date I believe will be August 17th. 145 days left!!

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