Thanksgiving break

-

 


    Thanksgiving break came faster than I could even begin to process, 2021 has felt like the fastest year of my life. Maybe it was because 2020 felt almost neverending, making 2021 feel like it was over before it even began. With the semester almost over and final deadlines emerging quickly, I felt myself stressing this Thanksgiving break. Yet I still made sure, even though the stress, to make time for my family and to relax over the break. And I hope everyone else was able to do the same. 

   Usually, Thanksgiving is a big event, in my family, with my whole family coming together to celebrate the holiday at my Tia's house. Although this year it was only my immediate family, we still were able to spend the holiday the way it was meant to. With family. We have a thanksgiving tradition and that is to watch the movie Planes Trains and Automobiles. We kept the tradition going for this year and watched one of the only Thanksgiving movies. 

Also over the break, I worked my first Black Friday at Bath and Body Works. And in all honestly, it was not as bad as I expected. The early mornings weren't fun, but I was expecting a lot worse, and that is cause I really believe Black Friday is a thing of the past. In the past, there would be lines down the street for stores like Target and Walmart. Although there were people in lines, it wasn't nearly as much compared to how it used to be. Whether this is because of COVID or the rise of online shopping and Cyber Monday. However, I am not mad that it wasn't crazy, if anything I am relieved. But I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving break! 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

19

-
       On Friday, November 12, I turned 19 years old. My birthday crept up on me this year, with me not thinking about it until my mom asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday. And as I turn 19 it is still weird to think about me being out of my teens, even if I still have a year left. Yet instead of talking about my 19th birthday, I find myself thinking more about my 18th birthday. Like most people (unless your birthday is before March) my 2020 birthday was a bit of a bummer. Due to the pandemic, I and the rest of my family wanted to keep each other safe. Meaning that I didn't get to spend my birthday with the people who had been there since I was a baby or my closest friends. There is one special moment from my 18th birthday, that I will never take for granted.      My grandpa, who had been exposed to COVID, drove past my house to see me for my birthday. He wasn't sick with COVID at the time and drove past my house with my cousin to say happy bir...
Read more

My favorite book.

-
Image
      I  have read countless books throughout my 18 years, but it was only this year when I came across the author Taylor Jenkins Reid. She is most notable for writing the smash 2017 book titled 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.' Her follow-up 'Daisy Jones & The Six' follows a rock band throughout the 70s through their rise to fame and subsequent breakup on July 12, 1979. The book is written as a transcript, as a journalist decades after their break-up speaks with the members. In an attempt to see what it was like being in the biggest rock band of the 70s. Now when reading this post you might ask yourself " Why have I never heard of this band? " That's the thing, they don't exist. In both books (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six) you follow these made-up celebrities, yet they feel so real! There were instances where I found myself looking up members of Daisy Jones & The Six because I simply forgot they weren'...
Read more

Holy Hell Thoughts

-
Image
The movie I watched this week was Holy Hell (2014) dir. Will Allen. This film was about the time Will Allen spent with a spiritual group called the Buddhafest. I think the scene that caught me off guard was a scene where a member of the group recounts one of the experiences she had. She recalls the months where her father was dying and how the leader of the group Michel Rostand forbid her from seeing her father. She talks about how she would buy her plane ticket to go see him, then she would cry for hours and hours, before ultimately canceling her flight. This scene in particular made me feel just so heartbroken for her. This situation had happened decades before and yet you can see how it still affects her to this day. To the point where she had to stop talking to let herself cry. You can see firsthand how she still feels the guilt of this, years after. And that is truly heartbreaking.  Something in Holy Hell that caught me off guard was the scene where they talk about “ The Kno...
Read more