I turned 22 to Taylor Swift's 22 (even during Taylor Swift's Version Red era!) (sort of a lie, I fell asleep but played it the morning of)
Honestly I don't have anything much for this post except to time capsule a moment for myself and leave it here. I'm 22 and the new year is on my heels (my ongoing joke is that I'm a day older than every year), but for now I enjoy the moment and not spending nearly enough time touching up this post before midnight. I can always fix it or add to it later, I highly doubt anyone would be surprised.
Correct date Dec. 30, 2021
Candle broke so my sister mini blow-torched it back together
The rock hard ice cream tub my sister stuck in the (not on, but warm) oven after my not serious and joking suggestion. Surprisingly it wasn't a completely terrible idea
There are f-bombs in the song. Just as a forewarning. This, the Marie Antoinette soundtrack (2006), Taylor Swift, and Lord Huron in general have sort of been by music soundtrack for the last few days
I've always wanted to try suck the helium out of a balloon to see if it actually works
(it does! for a few seconds but it's worth it)
When my mom had asked me if I had any plans for my birthday making
half my family high on helium wasn't exactly on the list.
Some rather obvious advice that I didn't think of at the time, maybe don't do this after doing helium. Edit: Turns out I forgot that Helium isn't flammable
So here's to the dumb but chaotic birthday I wanted. You're only 22 once. Why not explode like that one alcoholic Dickens character accidently. I am an idiot goblin and I had a fantastic time.
So in November I had some help dying blue streaks in my hair. I've wanted to dye my hair for years but I never have; so my all or nothing tendency is to go from nothing to literal blue. Anyways, short story shorter, the streaks faded out and I ended up dying all of my hair blue. While I've been wanting to dye it blue long before, rewatching Pacific Rim really did something to me. I wasn't going to do a post about it but I had gotten my sister to help me dye my hair and neither of us knew what we were doing so her expressions are hilarious and I (with her permission) wanted to share them because they are just too good to bury in my photo history.
Before
Before at the back
This is about the point where my mom pointed out that my sister was missing some of my hair at the front and she went 'oh!' and then went to fix it and I was telling her 'oh!' in response to 'you're missing some of the hair' is not what I want to hear when you're dying my hair. this whole process was janky and chaotic and I loved every second
There is a meme for this face
I don't like this photo but it was so on point to the whole process our comb is really cheap and my hair is hard to brush through when it's wet or whatever you'd consider dye in your hair
If this face doesn't sum up my life I don't know what does
Blue hair is so hard to have show up on camera but my sister and I did our best.
I flipping love my hair.
I wouldn't have traded anything for the absolutely unprepared, broken clipped, slightly unhinged process that we had.
I was nervous about this fall. I was worried I was going to miss it and the thing is I've needed this fall. I was feeling overwhelmed and I wasn't sure I was going to be able to slow my mind down enough to be able to enjoy it. Sure it was incredibly busy, I mean life has been insane. It always is, but chaos in my family seems to come in two's and three's and the crises never seem to be little things. I really didn't think i was going to get it and I needed this fall. Anyways, I had a few things I wanted to do and for the most part I did it. I even did more than I thought I could've hoped to get to.
1. Carved Pumpkins And Wore A Pumpkin Head In The Woods.
Pumpkin heads are really heavy. No one talks about that. It sounds really aesthetic but dang I had a tender spot on my head for days. Glad I finally got to do it though.
You can barely tell but I used a pink shower cap underneath which is the funniest unaesthetic thing to put with a jack-o-lantern and I low-key love it
2. Smashed Pumpkins In The Woods With Some Siblings
Setting them up like this reminded me of a boyband and I still think it's a lot funnier than it actually is
3. Fall Books I Read (to be fair, I started some early)
The Secret History by Donna Tart
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
I reread a good chunk of Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
I've been reading the Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
I've been reading Lore by Allen Menke
While it doesn't feel like enough to count, I read the first couple chapters of The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. I'll probably have to return it to the library and recheck it out but sometimes I need to remind myself of the books or I'll forget about them later
To be honest I didn't think I was going to get through The Secret History before October was over so the amount I got to even if some of the books were small or I've only read bits of them is an accomplishment.
3. Scary Movie Night/Fallish or Halloween Movies in General/Music
I more or less did this one. I do still want to do a proper one but I still could. There's really nothing stopping me.
I did movies in general quite a lot. I didn't really have a list I was following so I watched whatever I wanted to watch and I've had the realization confirmed (once again) that everything can be a fall movie if you want it to be.
Stardust and Interview With A Vampire were ones that I was not expecting to have as much fun watching as I did. My unintentional vibe for this fall was a combination of sad girl autumn and 80's fantasy movie aesthetic. Whether I accomplished that or not I don't know but I've had fun. It's probably been more of a slightly 2000's vibe in all honesty
4. Did A Corn Maze/Ate Mini-Donuts
Went to a zombie themed corn maze that had 4 different trails you could pick from. I loved it, I was nervous about the clowns but eventually when you and pretty much everyone in the maze is all standing there trying to find out from the clowns how you leave because no one could find their way out was kind of hilarious and honestly it was the best one of the mazes. After the first maze all the other mazes the zombies just sort of stayed in their designated attractions. I never thought I would say there was a surprising lack of zombies at a zombie centric maze. It made me happy though. The corn was tall, the music was very creepily whimsical, the moon was out and I loved all of it.
My sister and I
My spirit animal/creature. I don't actually know what this was supposed to be but I love it
5. Baking (Cheater's Edition)
So I really wanted to do some fall baking particularly bat cookies and cinnamon rolls. I was either too busy or too tired to actually do any baking but I bought cinnamon rolls later and I found this box of bat brownies which wasn't good but they were shaped like bats and that's all I really cared about.
Not related to baking but I got to eat some plums and concord grapes. I'm always excited for concord grapes every time fall comes around
6. My Fall Mementos
A crow
A cat cup
A notebook with constellations all over the cover
This looks like I'm hoarding sparklers, which I do, but in this case I was lighting them and handing them out
7. Fall Walks (Particularly at Night)
Honestly this is the reason why I feel like I got fall. I was so concerned about doing things that felt fall and then I went for a quick fall walk one day on my path in the woods gave me every emotion and fall feeling that I've been so anxious to capture. It's such a small thing but it was somehow possibly my favourite thing this fall. I don't how I would have been without them.
8. Razor Ride And Hitting Puddles
I feel like this one needs very little explanation. Except all of us in the razor got very soaked, cold, and covered in mud. It was amazing.
9. Got A Starbucks Fall Drink And Tim Horton's Peach Quenchers
The quenchers were supposed to just be a summer item on their menu but it must have done so well they're still selling it and I'm incredibly happy about it.
10. Saw A Sketchy Animal Skeleton (there's a photo)
On one razor ride I was on, all of us in the razor passed a skeleton of some animal that looked burnt and was just very clearly sketchily put there by a human. It's gone now and now there's a toolbox there, but it was in such a weird place to just leave an animal. So who knows what that means exactly. To be fair, it might have been covered in mud but I still think it was burnt.
The top part looks like a head in the photo but that's really the back end of whatever this animal is. Where it's head or legs are we have no idea.
11. Did A Sort of College and Career Scavenger Hunt Thing
Essentially all the groups got the same list pf things you were supposed to take a picture with or take back with you.
A Tim Horton's cup
A stop sign
Newspaper with today's date
Hang on the monkey bars
Find an acorn (nobody could find one)
Take a photo with a person walking their dog (the random stranger we asked was so nice about it. Shockingly it's not the first time she's been asked by groups doing something like this)
Because you got extra points for creativity my group all posed like dogs peeing on a fire hydrant. So that's a thing that exists on someone's phone.
We had an hour and a half and a list of like 40 things to hit and whichever group got more things won. My group sadly lost but it was really fun. Definitely recommend frantically running to locations in the dark with a group of friends/people that you feel pretty safe with and looking crazy.
12.Looking At Stars
This is connected to the fall walks one, but it deserves it's own thing.
Not the stars obviously but still
13. Looking At Trailers
This is a personal thing. My sister and I are looking at cheap trailers and it's been a big thing we've been doing for awhile so I'm adding it.
And the thing is, fall isn't over. October might be, as sad as I am about that, but I don't have to have missed anything. I got, and still have, my fall.
For the fall I feel like I fought for a little in my own melodramatic way
