I think it’s something the old President George W. Bush said, but I may have mistakenly attributed to him. Anyhow, I heard that he said this on his 60th birthday when he was still in office. If more people thought like that, you wouldn’t be hearing a lot of them complaining about their grey hairs and back pain and how their kids are growing up too quickly or how they want to retire but they need to make more money… Blah blah blah. If only we could all be a little more positive and think, sure, this means another year of my life, and that’s tiresome, but there are good things and memories to be made every year along with the bad things. Sometimes you might not realize right away, but you could be having the time of your life.
The reason why I started off my post like this is because my age just changed yesterday. Yep, it was my birthday. More specifically, the 13th one. I hope that age really is just a number since I don’t want this to be an unlucky year for me. Judging from my school schedule, which I was able to see from Pinnacle Internet Viewer (thanks Shirayuki no Kimi or I wouldn’t have known), it seems they plan to put me in village K. I don’t really know the 8th grade teachers, so I’m kind of nervous. I’ve been looking on a site where you can rate teachers, and it seems my French teacher and science teacher are the ones that the students like the least…I hope it won’t be a rough year, then. At least you have a chance of changing PE teachers. My intended PE periods are 6th, 3rd, and 3rd. I like 3rd period PE, so that’s good to hear. But it seems like I always get 6th period PE sometime in the year. (Oh, well. I’m glad I don’t have 5th period PE. Then I wouldn’t even have time to digest my lunch)
Today my mom actually did Wii Fit. In fact, a lot of it. I’m sure it was at least more than half an hour. It’s been so long since she did Wii Fit, she seems to have forgotten how to do some of the exercises (like Advanced Step, which is in a way a different kind of DDR) but I hope she’ll make a habit out of exercising so she can build some muscle. No offense intended to her, but she’s not much of an athlete. She could use it. My dad has not used Wii Fit ever since we came home from vacation a few days ago. It’s hard for us to get back into the groove after being away for a while.
For this week my mom has been taking time off work and staying at home, so she can pretend she’s still in Australia and get some more relaxation time before she must go back to work and get bombarded by unanswered emails and projects and things like that. It’s nice to have someone around so you won’t feel too lonesome. (Maybe it’s just me who gets lonely. I’d actually gotten used to it in sixth grade, after a good friend of mine moved away in fifth, I think, but eventually I started wanting to socialize again.) During school it isn’t so much of a matter but when you’re by yourself, or/and something bad happens, you feel like this.
Kagaribito / カガリビト 
