Okay, well, life changed quick here... Last post was May 21st. It is June 9th. I don't think I've ever been so thankful for a day to be over. And it wasn't what happened today, just purely the date itself in reference to the past.
I'm now nineteen, practically senile. I have an extreme lack of hair now as seen in above picture (with Blue Monkey). I have been staying in Colorado Springs since Friday afternoon, and will be here until Saturday when Legolas and I head back to Punkin's.
As was threatened, Saturday was my first CO minimoot. On the thirteenth, it will have been a year since I first came to CO to visit for Moot. It's so hard to believe it's been so long, but it's harder to believe it was only a year ago.
And things have really changed.
There's no roadwork up and down Powers, Academy, Austin Bluffs, or Carefree. You can go from the Panera to Pulpit Rock Church without seeing a single roadwork sign. There's snow on Pikes Peak, making it easy to distinguish the mountain from the hills surrounding when there's haze (hey, I don't ALWAYS wear my glasses like I should), and you can see the road up Pikes Peak from the top of the hill near Pulpit Rock, winding. I was able to point out the ridge where the Elf family's car broke down. I could also see the Incline, which I HAVE TO CLIMB... *is swallowing back drool at that challenge* *whistles innocently* Sorry... it's pure awesomeness. MUST CLIMB...
But to top all of that off? The people...
There were sixteen CPers at the minimoot. I knew ten from the Moot last year, the other six joined in the last year. In the last year: Nia was made Admin of CP, Twinkie is more confident in her abilities, Mangy took control of the Serious Talks forum, MOTS went off to Walt Disney World to work and came home again, Yellow Leader got ridiculously tall, Kryos looks his age, Blue Monkey and Dolphin got way too old, and the six CPers that joined us were: Tony Fritz, Frost, Bree, Anywhere, Celeris and Masque.
As proof that nobody looks the same?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1213256247&v=feed&story_fbid=233661840007#/photo.php?pid=1063095&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=100000018931137&id=1169496687
That is Blue Monkey and I at Moot. Garden of the Gods, June 14th. Compare with the first photo. I have pictures of the others from Moot and from the minimoot if that's not enough proof for you. :P
Strangely enough, I spent most of my time around some of the people I really didn't spend a ton of time with at Moot: Kryos, Yellow Leader, and AngelJ. That was kind of a shock to me to realize I spent a ton of time around them that day, but hey, we had fun. Especially during Freeze. :D
Sunday, Anywhere was with Mangy and I, then she left at about 11:30 that night to head back home.
Monday... Have I mentioned how much I hate June 8th? It wasn't even a particularly distasteful day in the past. It's just one of those days... :P So Mangy and I spent practically all day on the computer, then turned on "The Lost Room" at about 10. We finished the first disc about 1:45 or so, then I came down here to be sure Anywhere and Daeriel had already gone to bed for the night. I give those two more trouble than they give me, granted, but as the oldest, I still check in. :P
It's just terrifying to me at some points how everything has changed... but so little has at the same time...
In order to make up for the lack of actual posts over the last couple months, I'll share the CP vlogs I did in April as well as one I featured in this Sunday evening. :P I hope you'll forgive my lack of activity eventually. My greatest apologies for the lousy sound... our kids camera was a pain to deal with. Not to mention these are my second, third, fourth, and fifth try at vid editing.
In Date Order:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXa1lnDjmM4 = April 8th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLirehtxhhk = April 15th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sosw5MUR7S0 = April 22nd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU2lSTRr_V8 = April 29th
And Mangy's vlog this week!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPe4py3Vrao
So yeah. I'll try to do better about actually getting blog posts up. :P Love y'all!
1st: How am I not following your blog already? That shall be remedied.
ReplyDelete2nd: No roadwork on Powers, Academy, or Austin Bluffs? How will I even recognize it when I go back? :-P
And thinking back to the moot (I'll probably do a blog post on this eventually, actually)... I'm not sure what scares me more: how much has changed or how little has, depending on the way I look at it. In a sense I'm scared to go back to CO Springs in August, mostly because I'm afraid to face my former self and find out I'm still the same person I was then. I don't know. There's my ramble that you probably didn't want to hear for the day.
3rd: I'm glad you get to spend time with people. Cool people. And they're lucky for getting to see you. It's just not fair. ;-)
1st. Not a clue. :P Been following yours for awhile now. Related with the "Why I Should Drink Water" post today. :6:
ReplyDelete2nd. You won't. :ninja:
You're the same human, Raen. I'll be the last to say you're the same person as you were at Moot. *hugs*
3rd: I think I scared a few. :P Again. But I had fun no matter what. :D *hugs* And I get to see you in two months!