Two Whole Months

It's funny that I think most while I'm in the shower, and while showering just then, I was thinking about how refreshing this shower was.  Then I realised that I didn't need to be refreshed if I just stopped acting like a slob.

It's been a little over two months since I last made a blog post.  I sat my mock exams, graduated, sat my WACE exams, then I turned 17 yesterday (and of course, in the wizarding world 17 is the equivalent to 18).  When I showering just then, I knew that this is the right time to change, start the rest of my life.  I'm not going to make an excuse and wait until New Year, or wait until tomorrow because just one more day won't hurt.

This time last week I was sitting my final WACE exam, and while I was focussing on the paper in front of me, I was thinking in the back of my head that after this is the real world, and while I will have more freedom with my high school studies being over, I everything will change and become more serious.

That means I need to change and become more serious.

I don't mean that I'm going to become an uptight girl who never likes to have fun.  it just means that I have to start thinking about the future, because soon I'm going to be living it.

That means no more money splurges, no more deliberately missing calls from work, no more sitting around and watching TV.  It's time for house work, doing more shifts at work to earn more money, learning how to do the washing, cook, clean and do the ironing.

Soon I'll be 18, meaning I will have responsibility for myself, and this is the year for me to practise.

And I'm sitting in my messy room, just showered, freshly painted nails, not feeling as disgusting as I felt 20 minutes ago.  It's time to change.  It's time to grow up.  It's time to face my future.