I have lots of excuses, honest!

I even made the excuses for my ridiculously long absence in a nice, tidy little list that I can show you and elaborate on each point! After you see this, there's no way you can be mad at my disappearance. I hope.

Reasons I've been severely neglecting my lovely blog

1) Reddit
I discovered and gained a full on addiction to reddit. I had heard of the site through two people that usually tend to know things I'll get addicted to, and I actually listened to the second one when he told me I should start going on it. Now that I've started, I can't stop. There are subreddits for EVERYTHING I love - the Slytherin subreddit is full of ridiculously nice snake-type people, for example. Also lots of funny pictures. I'm also not afraid to deny that reddit has COMPLETELY replaced tumblr as my place to waste time.

2) Making a Steam account
Another one of those things that some of my best friends have been after me to do for awhile now. I finally decided to listen to them. I will admit I only have... 8 games right now, but having more games I can waste time on is definitely a bonus, and Steam rocks because it means I can more easily play the games with people. AND ACHIEVEMENTS. I love achievements for no real reason other than they make me happy.
(speaking of steam accounts, if anyone wants to add me, my steam name thing is bumblelikeabee, just let me know if you're adding me before you do!)

3) Skyrim
Sort of a subsection of the "making a Steam account" but has consumed my life this week so much, I felt it deserved its own point. Skyrim is an absolutely fantastic lovely game that I had no intention of playing. I had been listening to my friend go on and on about how excited he was for it to come out for months, and then November 11th rolled around, and he was just playing it and everyone else in the world was playing it and I felt left out. So naturally, I whined to my mother to buy it for me. She did a few days later, and in the 6 days I've had it, I've played 32 hours. I'm doing better than one of my friends - he's played over 100 hours. There is so much to do in this game. I could write a whole blog post about it. Hell, I could write a whole series of blog posts. SUCH A GOOD GAME.

4) Actually doing schoolwork
I know, shocking. I'm actually doing relatively well - my disgusting history essay got a 90%, and most of my midterms ended up in the 80% range. I've actually been putting a little bit of effort into my grades for the first time since like, the 7th grade. Feels weird.


That's about it. I know it doesn't seem like much to anybody else, considering that it's just the normal stuff most people do minus any socializing (I literally don't know anybody in Lethbridge besides my older sister). To me that is a lot of stuff to do all at once, especially considering how much time I love wasting on video games... and reddit.

I actually have another blog post I've been half writing and half deleting for about a month now. I know I consider this to be my place to write down anything and everything that I'm feeling, but this one is just hard to write. It's even harder to imagine posting. One of these days I'll finish it, but since it's me we're talking about, it might now be for another month or two. Sorry about that.

I also considered doing NaNoWriMo this month, until I remembered how ridiculously busy my schoolwork was. Really, I had my essay, a midterm, and 2 assignments I had to do, and by the time I was finished with those, I was too exhausted to imagine trying to work on any of my novel ideas. I know that's a terrible excuse, but I can't handle intense amounts of stress.

I promise I'll try to update sooner guys. I missed this!