so how long has it been ?

hey everyone !! it's really been a hot second since i wrote a blog post, so i thought i'd (try to) start it back up again. i was reading through my past posts and i realized that in most of them i'm just listing things i like about different topics, not actually engaging in any interesting or intriguing stories. so, from now on, i am going to try to make these posts more lively and entertaining for your reading pleasures. it took me a while, but i finally realize that listing everything i LoVe aBoUt sUmMeR is not very interesting! lol. well, i don't exactly know if this topic i'm about to bring up will interest anyone, but i guess i'll go for it. recently, i've realized that i may have an obsession with bubble tea. if you don't know, bubble tea is a type of tea which has tapioca had the bottom, and it is literally so good. we only have one bubble tea shop nearby but it's a really cutesy place with couches and everything. my friends and i always go there together just to talk and hang out, and to obviously get bubble tea! i'm actually going there this thursday to meet up with a few of my friends who i haven't seen in a hOt sEcOnD so i'm #excited. actually, since i've been gone from this blog for a while, i should probably update all of you on what i like to call my brand. my 'brand' consists of hashtags and the many phrases i use on the daily, like "seems like a personal problem", "kinda sus", "yikes", etc. i really exaggerate having a 'brand' , because it's fun to annoy some of my friends with it. there are always gonna be haters who say that hAsHtAgS aRe nOt a bRaNd and yOu dIdNt mAkE tHosE pHrAsEs uP (ik from personal experience) but you know what you just have to learn to ignore them and to #cuttoxicpeopleoutofyourlifein2019. anywho, i guess that will wrap up my (yearly) blog post today. sorry if it wasn't interesting or intriguing. i'm new at this concept okay. well, tune in for next year's post ! hahaha jk i'm funny k bye 

-nikki <3

summer time!!!

hey everyone!! summer time is one of my favorite times of the year, mostly because, well, there is NO SCHOOL for starters!!! there is also no homework (well, minus summer reading) , you can literally do anything you want everyday, you don't have to set any alarms to wake up, which also means you can go to sleep whenever you want, and you can have tons of fun with your best friends and your fam!! as you can probably tell, i'm really happy that i'm on summer vacation right now. i am looking forward to so many things this summer, such as our yearly trip to a mountain resort, which is in 2 weeks!! like i said before, we go to this mountain resort every year, and we always go with close family friends, and we always have SO much fun. so, i'm really excited about that. also, me and three of my best friends want to all go to an amusement park together this summer, which we all agreed would be a blast considering that we all love hanging out together and the roller coasters would make it even more fun. we still have to settle on a date and decide who would be taking us, but i think there is a really good chance we'll be able to go. i also really want to go to the beach with two of my best friends, which all 3 of us think would be really fun, and we all agreed that we could get really cute pics there! ;) i know i've said the word "fun" in this post like 17 times, but isn't that what summer is all about?

some updates on me!

eyo! so.. i don't reallyyy know what this post will be about, but all i really wanted to do was write something for my blog.  so, i'll just give you updates on what's happening in my life i guess! recently, theater has been taking up almost ALL of my time. if you don't already know, i participate in the school play, and we are 2 weeks away from all our official performances (even though we do have some performances this week) and my schedule has just been crazy. like for example, today i had an 8 AM to 3 PM play rehearsal! that is honestly as long as a normal school day, so you can probably understand that i was very tired out after that!! hmm, what else? I don't really have much time to hang out with friends because of theater, but sometimes on the weekends i find time to finally wind down with my besties. like today, when after play i hung out with some of best friends, katie and allie. (who are also coincidentally my neighbors) i love that my best friends are only two doors down, because if we ever want to hang out on short notice, i don't even need a ride, because i can literally just walk there! amazing. let's see.. am i missing anything else? ooh, so i'm doing this thing this month where i take at least one picture or video per day for everyday of february, then i'm going to put it altogether in a slideshow, with music of course (i'm using the song "dumb love" by sean kingston because february has valentine's day in it!) so far i've followed through with it (suprisingly!) and i actually only have 4 more days to go! wow! february actually went by quicker than i thought! well, those are some updates about my life right now! hope you found it ~somewhat~ interesting! byee<33

-nikki:))

snow days!!

hey everyone!! i think it's safe to say that 2018 is off to a good start. for this whole week, i've only had two days of school in all!!!! that is just amazing to me. on monday, it was january 1st, and my school always has to give us off that day (because everyone stays up till midnight the night before to this the ball drop, and the clock reach midnight, etc) , then on tuesday and wednesday i had school, but, yesterday and today i had no school, because we had.. SNOW DAYS!!!! i absolutely love snow days. i love when you wake up early in the morning, thinking you have to go to school, but then you check the school website and see those beautiful red letters stating that there's no school, and you get to go back to sleep. it's really a magical experience. you might think i'm a teensy bit overreacting, but i'm really not. that's just how much i love snow days i guess! ;p today i didn't do thattttt much, but i did do quite a few things. other than relaxing at home, i got to get my eyebrows done with my sis and my nails done with my sis. livin lavish is our style i guess! that is just one of the reasons i love snow days. you get to do whatever you want that you didn't expect you'd be able to do that day. snow days to me represent the week tellin you "you did good this week, you deserve a day off" (or in this case, two days off:)))) ) also, because i had yesterday and today off (thursday and friday) i basically am getting a 4 day weekend!! and to make circumstances even better, next weekend i get a 3 day weekend because of martin luther king jr day!!! could this get any better?! well, thanks for listening to my rant (and me slightly bragging) about snow days. but hey, you gotta love 'em!

-nikki:)

new year, an improved me!

hey everyone! i can't believe it's already 2018, time sure does fly when you're havin' fun!! i think, and i hope, that 2018 will be an amazing year, and i know it'll at least be better than 2017. yeah, 2017 didn't turn out to be the bestttt year for me, despite the post i wrote at the beginning of 2017 saying that it was gonna be the best year ever.. but anyways, lets not focus on 2017 anymore, i left that year in the past :p instead, lets talk about the new year of 2018!! i really do have a good feeling about 2018. i've already made and initiated tons of new year's resolutions that will help me to lead a healthy lifestyle. one of my resolutions is for this year is to eat healthier. i know that resolution is one of the most common resolutions you hear, but i really think that i am capable of following through with this goal. i've never been tooo much of a junk food lover, and given that i like healthy things like fruit and salads, this resolution might be one of my easy ones. my overall goal for this resolution is that at the end of the year, if i'm faced with the decision to get either chick-fil a or saladworks for dinner, i'll be able to choose saladworks. another one of my resolutions mostly just applies to summer, but i want to start waking up earlier in the summertime (by 'early' i mean at like 9 AM) and going on morning runs. I love going on runs in summer, and i really think that getting up in the morning, putting on my music, having some me time, and going on runs would be a really refreshing start to my day. i also want to start getting in the habit of taking showers in the morning instead of the night, because i started taking morning showers in my recent winter break, and i came to the realization that i like morning showers a lot more than i like night showers. i've always thought that i was a night person, and i could only take showers in the night, but when i tried morning showers, i really liked it, and overall i just loved the refreshing feeling it left me with for the day. another one of my resolutions (i warned you that there would be a lot) is to plan some 'me time' on schooldays. whether its 10 minutes or an hour, i want to have a set time just for myself to do whatever i want. i've realized that i'm constantly thinking and stressing about this or that, whether it's my grades or just some dumb drama, but the point is, i'm constantly doing something on school days. so, i realized i should have some time just to wind down and do something relaxing. that 'something' could be coloring in an adult coloring book, or writing my blog, just something away from my phone! my last resolution that i'll talk about in this extremely long post (even though i could go on for pages and pages) is my most important resolution. that resolution is just to be myself, and to be happy. i'm constantly overthinking things and worrying what people think of me, but i've realized that life is too short to care what people think, and so this year, i just want to be happy and do whatever makes me happy. they'll always be someone who disagrees with you, or tries to bring you down, so you just have to eliminate those toxic people from your life who don't bring you joy, and move on. i'm only going to be a kid once, so i wanna make the most of it. welp, those are my handful, no.. bucketful of resolutions for 2018!!! i hopefully will follow through with them!! (or at least some of them?!) byee!! <333

-nikki:)

My Crazy Family! Vol. 2

Heyy peeps! So as you know, my family is pretty crazy. I did a blog post a few years ago on my crazy family, but because a lot has changed since then, I thought to share some updates on my family! In case you forgot, my there are 5 people in my family; my mom, my dad, my brother, my sister, and me. My brother,Vineet, is in college, he has quick wit and is a lot like me. (and he calls me 'Dubby' for some reason.. I don't know how he came up with that or what it means, but the nickname stuck. And now my dad calls me that also, even in public which I specifically told him not to do!! Anyways..) My sister, Neha, just graduated from high school and is starting college in August. She is also pretty funny and both my brother and sister are a lot of fun to hang out with. And as for my mom and my dad, they haven't really changed much since my last family post! ;p Let's see.. a funny story that happened a few years ago that Vineet never forgets to bring up to this day, was when Neha was making pancakes for herself. She finished making one pancake and it looked perfectly cooked and she was super excited to eat it, exclaiming that 'it would taste soo good'. So, she took a bite into it, and it turned out she didn't cook it all the way because uncooked pancake batter started to ooze out of the middle!! With the confused and disgusted look on her face, and Vineet standing right there watching her the entire time, he began hysterically laughing at the top of his lungs and to this day, he always brings it up as one of the funniest things Neha has ever done!! Lets see, what else? Oh yeah, my brother is coming home really soon to visit from his internship which will be exciting! We might go out to dinner to The Cheesecake Factory when he comes back, to celebrate my sister's graduation. And, evidently, since it's her graduation, she got to choose the place we went to eat. I've never been to The Cheesecake Factory before, but I heard it's pretty good. I always love going out to eat with my whole family, because we rarely are able to do it. With my brother and sister's hectic schedules, and let alone my parent's hectic schedules, we rarely are able to go out to dinner, all 5 of us. So, whenever we are able to, I always look forward to it! Well, I hope you enjoyed learning more about my crazy family!! If you want me to write more about them, feel free to comment!! byee💝

-nikki:)

Socrates

Today in school, I learned about a guy named Socrates. He was a Greek Philosopher back in ancient Greek. He had the idea that the Greek gods weren't responsible for everything. He often questioned people's knowledge by asking them questions and narrowing down what they actually knew, besides what they were just told to believe. People started getting angry that he was proving that they were wrong or incorrect. Later on, because he was blamed for disobeying the gods and ruining the minds of young people that he had taught, he was sentenced to die. When I thought about this, I began to think how unfair that is. Just because he expressed his own view of life, they killed him. And I thought that Athens, (Where Socrates lived) had democracy. In democracy, people rule themselves, and they are free to do anything. But when Socrates only just questioned people's beliefs and shared what he thought, he got killed? That doesn't sound like democracy to me. Socrates thought that some people in ancient Greece believed in the Greek Gods and goddesses because that's what they were told to believe. He was convinced that they didn't actually have the freedom to believe in what they wanted to, because they were only taught to believe in Greek gods, because that's what everyone else believed in. When I think of the world today, I'm reminded of our freedom to do or believe in anything we want to, and I will always be thankful for that freedom.