Saturday, 30th January 2021
What's popping? This is a draft from last year, you'll find out towards the end of this post why it ended up in my drafts, and out of there after more than a year.
Have you also had one of those days where you wake up and suddenly you can tell that it's going to be a bad day? Or, not necessarily a bad day, but you start off the day by falling out of bed and then you have this gut feeling that falling out of bed wasnt the last bad thing that would be happening to you that day? Well, today was that day. And for the record, I didn't fall out of bed but my teddy bear did and that usually indicates a messy day!
I planned to go to town after I was done doing my Saturday chores, and so I woke up a bit earlier and started cleaning. The one thing I noticed was that it has been easier to get out of bed lately, and then I realised it's because it's been getting lighter outisde and the sun isn't here yet, but one can already tell the dark winter is slowly fading. I like that. Shows you how there is a season for everything, a time to be sad and a time to be happy, including a time to be unlucky.
Around a few minutes to one o'clock, I said goodbye to my host parents and set out. I had my favorite yellow sweater with my fancy black pants on, so I was in quite a mood. As soon as I stepped out the door and tried to make my way down the front door stairs, I lost my balance (it was slippery due to ice), and I fell all the way down to the ground. I felt my butt slide down the five stairs at the front door and with each one, my pants got covered with snow and my phone fell out. To make things worse, my phone's back cover fell out too, followed by the battery and everything, so that was one fall I wouldn't want to experience again. I guess it had to come because I always walk around thinking how I haven't fallen down in a while.
After that epic fall, I cursed a little and stood up, hoping that none of my neighbors saw me rubbing snow off my black plants. After fixing the phone and everything, I realised that I had less than 7 minutes to get to the bus stop, and usually it takes me around ten minutes or a little more to get there. I started running as fast as I could, a sharp pain shooting up in my heel for some reason. I had no idea. I ran as I tried connecting my headsets to my phone and also finding the bus ticket app because my phone tends to freeze at times and I can't access anything. Imagine how dumb it would be if I showed up at the bus stop and had to miss the bus because I couldn't show the ticket.
I ran as fast as I could, by now I was sweating and panting, running my soul out. I used to train everyday before school started again. Why won't my body react to that?
I was about hundred metres away when I saw the bus pull up and so I decided to run faster, luckily the bus driver saw me and that although that was a good thing, it made me nervous so I had to run faster under pressure. I showed my ticket and ran into the bus, taking my jacket off because I was really hot- that hot.
That's when I realised that my phone had less than fifty percent battery power. I didn't want to not listen to music, so I shrugged it off and smiled and hoped it was okay and that nothing would go wrong. What could possibly go wrong?
I reached town after a few minutes and got off at the main square, right into AMFI. I wanted to be outside and I wanted to buy some earings too, so that was killing two birds with one stone.
The following happend in order and I wanted to share them one by one, tell a good old story like I think I usually do. But I just realised that something isn't right with this, with my blog and most probably with me. Is this what blogs are meant to be? Writing about your life? Being so selfish that each second word is 'I'? I hate it. I scanned through the text so far and I hated seeing I,I,I everywhere. Make it stop. So selfish. This is not what I want the blog to be. And I am okay with sharing stuff, but seeing me talk about myself like this pains me. It really does. Maybe I should talk about me in third person. You know what? I have an idea, I'll upgrade this.
Weird update: I hate how this goes from telling a really nice story to just beiing depressive and boring. Do you notice that change too?
As I was saying, this happened in town today:
1. I bought some balloons for my birthday
2. Went to another store and bought earings (main reason I was in town)
3. Stopped by Cubus to just check stuff out, to pass time
4. Walked to Fretex to check out more earings because I know they have good stuff and its really cheap
5. Found just the earings I was looking for at Fretex with some rings
6. Took out my bank card to pay and realised that I had lost it
7. Told the cashier I would be back and then ran back to AMFI to look for it
8. Received a message saying that somebody had found my card and that they could leave it at one of the stores
9. I called the number immediately and saw the woman a few metres away
10. She gave me the card and we laughed about it, talking how stressful it can be to lose a card and all that. I told her that it was a new card, just got it last week, so it was quite stressful to think that I had lost it again.
11. Went back to Fretex and paid for my earings and rings
12. Got happy and started dancing on the way
13. Suddenly my headsets lost connection and the music stopped, I thought that was weird and decided to check my phone
14. Only to realise that there was no phone in my pocket and that it must have fallen out while I was dancing in the road
15. I ran down the hill and found my phone, lying in the snow, battery out and everything
16. I was mad, and so I picked it up and went forward
17. Suddenly I stopped dead in my tracks when I realised that my bank card was not in my pocket
18. Was this even possible?
19. I ran downhill again, looking at all the places I had been to and back to the store too.
20. Spent about fifteen minutes going back and forth, looking for my card
21. By this time, my battery was on three percent and the nearest bus stop was still some time away
22. I decided to hurry up and go to the bus stop, accepting that I had lost my card again, for good this time.
23. I had something else to worry about now, how would I show the ticket if my phone shut down?
24. I ran to the bus stop and realised that it was another fifteen minutes before the next bus came
25. In the mean time, I just had to stand there and not do anything, not even move because I didn't want my battery to be affected in any way
26. The bus finally showed up while my phone was down to two percent and that is when I knew that I was sort of save
27. The bank card couldn't get to me because I used the bus WiFi and blocked it and then was able to listen to music all the way, I was surprised because the battery lasted for another good half an hour actually and I listened to music all the way back home.
Incomplete draft, might as well put it out there and let somebody read it. Notice how unlucky I am in almost everything that I do, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. If you were to ask somebody who knows me well, they would probably mention that I'm forgetful and a little careless. Clumsy too.
I am working on alll this, just give me time.
love, Queen
#diary #january #clumsy