Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

It's Thanksgiving today! You may have already known that, but it's nice to announce anyway.

(Warning: Much of the rest of this post will be sentimental and will involve my life up to this point along with random memories. Read at your own risk.)

I'm personally thankful for having friends. I've never really had the chance to have friends since I was eight; my parents were constantly on the move, and I was homeschooled. Since I never took roots, and since I was never surrounded by people outside of church, I slowly went away from social-ness and became an introvert. Not that that was a bad thing; I began doing more solitary hobbies such as video games and maze-drawing, which have now become ingrained into my very being.

My parents then adopted my brother (who is actually my cousin) two years later. He's a social flutterby, to put it lightly. We get along for the most part, but he ended up being my only "social" contact. As a result, we have our own little quirks and inside jokes that no one else would understand, which doesn't help with being social. It just creates more of a box.

Then I began going to smart school just last year, which is like college at high school. Jumping from a conservative Christian bubble to a worldly liberal social setting was a stretch at first, but I like having friends now. I click well with my circle of friends, possibly because we're all smart and most of us share similar views. It also helps with being away from home.

Now that I've troubled you with my sentimentality, here's a song for Sonic After the Sequel that sounds like a sugar rush.

http://soundcloud.com/kgzmusic/breakfast-time-horizon-heights

When you're fighting upstream against everyone else, you're probably the one who's wrong.

Overheard from someone at school

Do you follow any other blogs on tumblr, or do you just focus on yours?

I'm an OCD organized person that doesn't want other people's blog posts taking up my dashboard.

I'll go and visit other people's blogs when I have time, but that's not too often. It's the same problem I'm having with... just about everything, recently.

I'm gonna get back to studying for my test tomorrow so I can work on writing my paper.

Beach party, anyone?

It should be mandatory to play this song at least once at every beach party, all summer long.

Don't ask me where the name came from.

I'll let the music speak for itself.

I make mazes.

I made this maze as part of a set of five for the twenty-fifth anniversary of Super Mario Bros. some time ago. I'm hoping to digitize all five, but I'm not entirely sure how long that will take.

Here's a bigger, more officious version.

Mario looks old and wrinkly like this.