Today is one of those days I talked about where I have absolutely no inspiration whatsoever. I'm already incredibly late in writing this and my mind is full of nothing. I'm going to think of this as a writing exercise. The next 3 things that come into my head are the 4 main topics of this post.

Sleep. For something that is supposed to be a natural human process, it doesn't really seem to come natural to me. Some people blame it on the fact that I stay up all night on the internet but, without my laptop, I'd still be lying awake. At least now, I have something to do. A distraction of sorts. I don't how many sleep remedies I've tried at this point but, no matter what, I haven't fallen asleep before 1am in at least 4 months. I guess it could have something to do with me being a teenager and my biological clock being all screwed up, but I really don't think it is. Living in a boarding house, I'm surrounded by people my age who can't stay up any later than 11pm and I don't know if there's something wrong with me or with them or whatever. Maybe it's got something to do with the fact that most other people my age have to stay up this late if they're going to parties and such but by now, my body should have realised that this chick isn't exactly a party animal. Just let me sleep!

Emptiness. Not like emotionally or whatever but genuine physical emptiness. We're currently mid-move and the only things in my bedroom right now are my bed, a desk and a small box full of my clothes. I think I prefer it this way too. I'm not a great lover of clutter and I spent with nothing in my bedroom but a mattress. Don't worry, I wasn't squatting or anything. Let me explain. When I lived in Canada, I got to live in the basement while my sister lived with us. I thought this was going to be great because, as the younger sibling, I always got stuck with the smaller room. Now, because my sister only had a year left of school and was moving out soon, I got first choice of rooms. However, when sister dearest left, mum didn't think I was safe on my own down in the basement and told me I was to move upstairs to my sister's old bedroom. I wasn't complaining because, when you live in Calgary, winters living in a basement were freeeeeezing. So we moved my desk and everything upstairs into the office and I et up all my belongings there. When it came time to move my bedroom furniture, I was lazy and the frame of my bed weighs an absolute tonne. So I told my mum we'd move the mattress up for now and that we'd wait for my sister's boyfriend to come and help us with the frame. To cut an even longer story short. The frame never got moved up and I just kind of got used to sleeping on the mattress. It was a little weird at first but when we moved here and I was forced to sleep in a an actual bed again, it felt strange. I missed the emptiness of my old room. It's a lot higher maintenance having to tidy a fully furnished bedroom every day. At least when there was just a mattress, I could just throw everything on it and blame my lack of furniture for the mess.


Setttlers of Catan. Now, I know what you're thinking. What could I possibly have to say about a board game but I know that about 50% of you already know where I'm going with this. I used to spend a lot of time with a group of friends back when I lived in Canada. I have so many fond memories of each and every person in that group and all the crazy things we got up to. One of my favourite memories was that on my final day in the country, our group of friends all went to one guy's house and played Settlers of Catan. In a world full of video games, it's very strange to see a group of teenagers sitting down together to play a board game, but that's what we ended up doing. This was the first time I ever played the games so I really wasn't sure what to expect. Not to mention the fact that the pinnacle of my board game knowledge was half a game of monopoly with my sister that we gave up on to go play on our Gameboys. Despite the fact that the game ended with a metaphorical (and possibly physical) table flip, I had so much fun spending the last few hours I had with my friends playing this game. It took a while to catch on to the aim of the game and, even then, we all weren't particularly focused on winning. We all just wanted to sit down and have fun and that's what we didn't. That game bring backs some fond memories and I really do hope to make it a tradition among friends.