Eh.

I don't know what I'm about to say, it just feels like I haven't said anything on here for a while.
Let's seeeee.
I suppose I'll just start at the beginning of this week and work forward, and maybe something at least semi-interesting will come out of it.

Monday: ....was all a blur because I pulled an all-nighter Sunday night to finish reading a book for a test on Monday morning that turned out to be a take home test anyway. That was just super awesome.

Tuesday: Oh! I'm in a homeschool co-op at my church on Tuesdays, and right now we're studying (I like to use the word "studying" in reference to co-op because it makes it sound like we're actually doing real school-type things) astronomy. We watched this video about the universe and ya know what, typically when I think about the "universe," I'm really just picturing our solar system. And I mean, just our solar system alone is pretty massive. It's got a lot of big planets and some little ones and a crap load of stars. But when you zoom out to our whole galaxy, you can't even pick out our solar system. It's microscopic in comparison to the whole Milky Way. So then I thought, "Dang, the Milky Way is freaking enormous." But THEN the video zoomed out again, and as the camera slowly pans out, the Milky Way disappears within the first like two seconds of the panning. By the time we're looking at the entire universe, we're seeing trillions and trillions of little glowing specks that are all of our galaxies. And that's only what we can see with our telescopes or whatever. Who knows how much is actually out there beyond that. So basically, here I am, one person out of billions on the planet, which is just one planet out of hundreds in the solar systems, which is just one solar system out of trillions in the galaxy, which is just one galaxy out of the gazillions in the universe. Needless to say, I left co-op feeling outrageously insignificant.

But then I got thinking, I mean, okay, there's literally an infinite amount of stuff out there that we can't even see. Why would God create something so incredibly boundless if it all revolved around tiny Earth? Was He just bored? I mean, I suppose it's possible that He just did it so we could marvel and all that... but my brain wanted to have a little more fun than that, so it started sparking ideas that what iffffff.... IFFFF... life did exist on other planets? Not that I believe in little, green martians or anything, but what if there's another, or even several other planets on which humans live? I used to think that idea was ridiculous, purely because I figured God would tell us in the Bible if He had made a bunch more life-bearing planets or not. Buuut I mean, the Bible is the history of the earth, right? So what IF there is another planet with their own Bible about their own story and God's unique work there, too? And THEN my brain got thinking that IF this were the case, how crazy would those worlds look? I mean, God's so creative that I don't feel like He'd make a bunch of identical worlds. Like, we have mountains and rivers and jungles and all that, but what kinds of terrain could exist on other worlds that we can't even wrap our puny minds around? The options are literally endless.

I've done quite a bit of pondering on this idea. I promise I'm really not a freak or anything, but I like to think that it's at least a possibility.

Wednesday: One of my best friends, Kaitlyn, spent the night (go here if you wanna read about the last time she and I hung out). I accidentally almost broke her up with her boyfriend all night. But it's really not my fault that he couldn't take a joke. We also tried to make pancakes....

As you can see, it turned out really well. We did get it mostly right by the third try, though.

Thursday: It was mine and Shawn's sixth month anniversary of dating (aka 18 years and/or INFINITY in Bri-dating time). He wouldn't tell me where we were going, just that it was about an hour and a half away. So we drove to Indiana, and low and behold....

 

You might not understand the significance of Chick-fil-A, but to me it is pretty much a little chunk of Colorado/Heaven, and this was the closest one within 150 miles of Kalamazoo. Basically I have the best boyfriend ever. He also bought me a Star Wars shirt that I've been begging for for like a thousand centuries. Then I got home and my mom gave me my laptop for an early birthday present. It was a good day.

Friday: Oh hey, that's today. At my church, we do this annual Spaghetti Dinner/Variety Show as a fund raiser for mission trips. That was tonight. Nothing particularly blog-worthy happened there. I mean I dropped the punch ladle in the punch and had to fish it out with tiny coffee-stirrers, but that was pretty much the peak of excitement.

In two days (well, tomorrow, if you count right now as Saturday) I will be an adult. I can't wait to buy lottery tickets and get tattoos and smoke and go to jail and get into events without needing a parent or guardian's signature!

That was my way of saying that I'm pretty sure the only significance of turning 18 is that you are granted a lot more freedom to screw up. Not that that fact takes any ounce of excitement out of my system, though.

In other news, here is a picture chart (pictures and charts are two of my favorite things in the whole wide world) off of Hyperboleandahalf that describes the system of my life perfectly.

I need to blow this picture up and tape it to my whole ceiling so when I'm laying in bed at night thinking about how pathetic my attempts at a "normal life" are, I can at least laugh. This picture is from the hyperboleandahalf post titled, "This Is Why I'll Never Be An Adult." Yeah. Refer to my pie charts in the last post if you want to know how I'm still feeling about thaat.

Well, I suppose that's all.

I am mildly disappointed with this post, because I really don't feel that it lived up to the whole "Shenanigan" theme whatsoever. So, I'm sorry that this is so real-life-ish and not very funny or interesting. Mehhh.

 Here, watch this if you want to laugh. Or at least want to know what makes me laugh, if you don't end up laughing.