Documented Dance

12/24-31?/21

I'm going to try to add to this entry every once and a while until the end of the month so I can just post it in early January. So hi, and welcome to what I think is the last real entry in this...thing.
Alrighty, let's start!

Just as a general thing, I'm starting to eat less food again because with school and after-school activities, it's really easy to skip meals and say that I ate. Like, I never eat breakfast or lunch anymore but I always have dinner because my family eats dinner together almost very night so I can't really skip. My friend says that I have an ed but idk because I don't want to self-diagnose or anything and it's not like I'm doing anything really harmful because I always eat, usaully more than I probably should.

Anywho...
During dance last week, my teacher had everyone put on our costumes and recorded most of the winter showcase, minus finale or anything where more than one class preformed at once. They edited everything together and sent out a YouTube link to it the following week so everyone could watch it which was really nice. My grandparents couldn't figure out which person was me until my mom sent them screenshots of the video with me circled so that's fun I suppose. My dad also made a lot of "jokes" about how skinny some of us our while we watched the video together and omg I hated it so much but I don't think anything I said would have gone over well so I just smiled and kept watching the cringy ass video of me dancing (in which I think I look god-awful but whatever).

I went to see the Nutcracker with my bff and it was great. There were some mishaps with pointe shoes and tripping but it was their first show and was honestly just amazing. A kid I work with at Hebrew School was Clara and is just so skilled for a 10 year old I just don't understand. Party scene (the first scene, if you're not familiar with the show) gave me a bit of anxiety because they got behind the music somehow but couldn't speed up to get back on time because of the littles on stage who would be super confused. But they got it together before any important solos so it ended up being fine. Near the end of the act, there are mice who scare Clara. Because our studio is mostly younger kids, we have "baby mice" and "adult mice"; the babies are like 3-5 years old and the alduts are 7-8 so it was all really cute and they kept looking off stage for directions. I caught up/got caught up on life stuff with my friend during intermission (their parent dropped us off and left so it was just us) and it was super cool just hanging out again. Before act 2 started though, I interjected in a conversation that was happening in the row behind us and I talked with them until the lights went down while my friend pretended like they didn't know me.
Act 2 was even better than the first act! All my friends who were in the show were leads/ soloists and it was amazing to see what they had been working so hard on for the past couple months.
After the show, I talked nonstop and gave flowers out to all of my friends as they came out of the dressing rooms before having some homemade pizza with my firend at my house.

Bad news, my friends had a cold and I think they gave it to me because I felt really crappy a couple days later.  My parents already planned to pull me  out of school on our last day before break because we weren't going to do anything and we were planning to visit my grandparents for Christmas. But on Thursday (2 days before Christmas) I sounded really terrible so my dad took me to get a rapid test and ended up getting one for everyone else too. My dad also started feeling terrible the next day. Test results still hadn't come back on Friday so instead of driving over to my grandparents' house, Dad and I stayed in the basment and watched Netflix while the other family members watched Holiday specials and kept Zelda occupied. Note to everyone reading, Locke & Key is a great TV show, I've added the graphic novel series to my reading list. I still feel really guilty for unintensionally postponing the Holidays for my family but I guess there's not a whole lot I can do.

On the 30th, the test results still hadn't shown up but everyone was feeling fine and I had stayed in the basemnt for the mandated 5 days so my family packed up our things, Includuing Zelda's crate and stuff and drove up to my grandparents' house to pretend like it was Christmas Eve. I slept over in my mom's old room with my brother and got like 4 hours of sleep because their bed is not at all comfortable. My brother made some really good eggs the next morning and then we opened presents and took pictures like it wasn't New Years Eve.
Then we all drove up to my uncle's house to open more presents. Tobi (their dog) is super cute but not the biggest fan of Zelda so I didn't really get to say hi to her a lot but I was followed by/caring one of my cousins the entire time. He's two and just starting to talk so it's super cute when he tries to say stuff like "presents" and just says "pwayts" instead. I've seen him so much lately that he's really learning my name and I can actually understand a good chunk of his babbling. my other cousin from that part of the family is four but blind and deaf so sometimes he'll grab my hand or hit my ankle but that's really it.
I was kind of fighting myself the enitre time food wise but I ened up eating a lot more than I would have expected because I'm putting myself to some strict resolutions for the New Year that might actually stick!
My Christmas haul ended up being a lot better than I was expecting! I got some clothes that I actually asked for and a ton of makeup from the beauty company my aunt works at. I also got a Harry Potter time turner which I'm really excited about and some dessert decorating tips that I'm totally going to use next time I bake stuff.

I'm planning to have one more "chapter" on this thing before I mark it as completed but I still can't beleive that I kept this thing alive for a full year!
Happy New Year you guys and be sure to enjoy yourselves!