It Feels Good to Read

I promised I'd blog by today.

but... >_____> I'm unbearably busy with that whole "becoming a better person" thing. It's more work than I thought at first xD;;. It should've been obvious that this wouldn't be easy, but I suppose I have a real bad habit of not thinking things through enough ^ ^;. Anyways, I've been doing good for the start of May (the time I'm supposed to start). I sort of gave up on the photoshop thing. I'm going to wait until the summer since photoshop takes up a lot of time apparently, and time is something I don't' have ;A;. But no worries! I have been learning new vocabulary... and guess what? //snicker snicker x3 I've been ....*drum roll plz~* ..reading!! ^3^ aren't you proud? Haha, I may ramble on about what a nerd I can be sometimes, but I really don't read as much as I should. The other day I went to the library with Choco-chan. And let me tell you this, it felt pretty darn good to go into a library again since I haven't done so in about a year.

shhh... I'm about to tell you a secret here now. Three or so years back, before I came to New York, I... *looks around cautiously* was a studious bookworm. LOL xD hard to believe, eh? None of meh friends can believe it so, either. I mean, I am the lazy one of the group who finds breathing to be a chore in itself, let alone the work it takes to read!

Something happened since three years back 'till now. I don't know what, but I just couldn't find the time to read. When I was young and living back in the suburban area, I had nothing to do but read. You need a car in order to go somewhere, and I wasn't old enough to go on my own, let alone drive. So what does a young lil' girl do when she has nothing else to do? read, of course xD. I'm not going to say anything crazy like "books where the adventures I wasn't allowed to experience as a kid." But what I will say is that it feels good to read; like really read for my own pleasure, and not for some school assignment xP. Made me feel smarter than the other lil' kiddies at my school xD. I get to learn stuff that schools don't always teach you. Reading about other people's experiences makes me feel like I'm experience them too. It's like I learned the same life lesson as the characters did in the story. Maybe I only learned a quarter of the intended lesson, but that's good enough for me. As long as I learn something, ne? xD. Haha, reading is m~a~g~i~c~a~l~ 8D *rainbow affect*.

Anyways, when I went to the library with Choco-chan, it was fun! :D or at least as fun as it can get at a library xD. I grabbed about six fat books off the shelf, all of which I want to read very much! LOL I must've annoyed Choco-chan a lot though xD. She reads a whole lot, and was suggesting books to me. But you see, I have this weird issue. I never read books that people suggest to me. I don't know why o___o. Like if you were to hand me a book, saying something like, "Emiko, you should read ___(instert foreign book name here)__. It's a really cool book :D." I'll be like "uh...sure. //secretly puts book back." ^ ^;; it's not that I don't trust other people's opinions. It's just a book looks so much more unappealing once someone suggests it to you. I guess I like feeling as if I'm the first to explore the book (even though I know some other random stranger probably did before me). Don't ask me why. It's just how things are xD.

Haha, but anyways, reading books will help me to become a smarter, better person. With this thought, I am going to read all the books I got at the library in a timely fashion. Usually, I get lazy, and take like three weeks to read one book. This time, I'm planning on reading two books in one weekend ^ ^. So I should finish all six books in a total of three weeks :). Choco-chan said she'll reward me with my favorite snack (that only she owns xD) if I can complete this task :D //is highly motivated!! Rin-chan doesn't believe I can do it ;A;. She has no faith in me whatsoever. Which makes me very sad D': ...and all the more determined to prove her wrong! XD. LOL I dunno why, but out of all the people in my group, I love annoying her most. She's just so much fun to pick on ^3^.

How I'm going to work exercising into my schedule is still a mystery, but I'll work it out somehow! XD. Haha, but in general, I've been more active in gym, and whatnot as well :D. And cutting back on the number of snacks I eat XD. LOL so I'm working hard ^ ^. Hopefully, I can achieve my goal :)