We're baaaaack! You didn't think some little technical difficulties would take your favorite Amoebas down, did you?
Well, it's our first day at our new address, everything seems to be working fine, and we're are ready for action.
First, though, I just need to say that I probably won't be posting much this month. There's so much going on - I'm trying to get a job and my driver's license, starting my senior year of high school, turning eighteen in about a month and a half, starting an LGBTQIA Spectrum Club, re-taking the ACT, and getting ready for college.
I got my schedule, and all my classes sound fine. Algebra 2, pathology, forensics, world religions, literature of the strange and mysterious, Spanish 4. Seniors at my school get first pick in scheduling, so I got everything I asked for. The only classes I really need to take, to do anything besides earn credits (which I could have done with, like, art or guitar), are math, language arts, and gym (which I have next semester).
When it comes to college and getting a job, I've never had a paying job before. But I'm starting off at community college to save money, and I have a lot of volunteer work racked up which will help my resume. I still need a scholarship, but the volunteer work, my extracurriculars, the fact that teachers generally like me (which probably has more to do with white privilege than anything I've done, tbh), and my queer activism should help with that. And my ACT score, once I re-take it...my score from my first time was a 25, but I'll probably need higher in order to get scholarship money.
Apparently, Yankee Candle will be hiring soon, and that sounds like a good place to work. That, or Starbucks or the local poolhouse (it's indoors, and open year-round). At this point, though, I'm willing to take pretty much anything. And, while it certainly won't replace a steady job and would just give me a little extra money, I can also sell things on Etsy.
I've started looking up recipes on Tumblr and saving them to make getting a healthy dinner a little easier. So far, the recipe for roasted vegetables in olive oil has come in handy most often - I've made roasted cauliflower, roasted soybeans, roasted carrots. And I made about a month's supply of egg muffins - essentially scrambled eggs in muffin form - that are now individually wrapped in plastic and stockpiled in my freezer, to be reheated later. What with how hectic everything is and how much more hectic it will be soon, I don't really have time to cook. Things like stockpiled frozen egg muffins and quick, healthy recipes are a necessity.
There's a lot of class privilege tied up in there, given that I don't usually need to rely on burger places for my food. That's why, as soon as I get the chance, I'm going to post a masterlist of cheap, healthy recipes for people to use.
Okay...what else is new? I dyed my hair red, went to the library this week for new books, used an Old Navy gift card from my eighteenth birthday party to buy new clothes (including a sweatshirt that I like to think makes my chest almost look flat), researched how to get a chest binder without your parents knowing what it is (evidently, you can make one out of a pair of control-top women's underwear. I doubt that will work at my chest size, but it's worth a shot.)...and that's it, honestly. Nothing really interesting.
Oh, wait - my mom's old friend Brad from high school stopped by last night. My parents and Brad stayed up talking for awhile, and I think they forgot I was there because they didn't really try to be quiet at all (we fixed up a little cottage, and that's where I am now). I never have an easy time getting to sleep under even the best circumstances, so I knew that all I could really do was stay up and listen in.
Things I learned:
I have a great-uncle who's gay. I'd suspected that already, given that he was the only uncle who didn't join in when the other men in my family were talking about women, but he has a partner now and I hadn't known about that. (To be fair, I'm just straight-up awful at figuring out when people are dating. I can't really interpret social cues, and I don't understand romance and flirting.) So I'm happy for him.
I have another great-uncle (this one's dead, though) who's a Jehovah's Witness. The great-uncles in my family are apparently quite diverse.
My mom hates the Duggars as much as I do, and is actually slightly more interesting when she's had wine. She's still very white feminist, but it's a start. I'll take it.
I figure this is enough for one post. I'll include the About the Amoebas page today, the link to the coming out resources masterlist, and the link to the home page at our old URL.
Well, it's our first day at our new address, everything seems to be working fine, and we're are ready for action.
First, though, I just need to say that I probably won't be posting much this month. There's so much going on - I'm trying to get a job and my driver's license, starting my senior year of high school, turning eighteen in about a month and a half, starting an LGBTQIA Spectrum Club, re-taking the ACT, and getting ready for college.
I got my schedule, and all my classes sound fine. Algebra 2, pathology, forensics, world religions, literature of the strange and mysterious, Spanish 4. Seniors at my school get first pick in scheduling, so I got everything I asked for. The only classes I really need to take, to do anything besides earn credits (which I could have done with, like, art or guitar), are math, language arts, and gym (which I have next semester).
When it comes to college and getting a job, I've never had a paying job before. But I'm starting off at community college to save money, and I have a lot of volunteer work racked up which will help my resume. I still need a scholarship, but the volunteer work, my extracurriculars, the fact that teachers generally like me (which probably has more to do with white privilege than anything I've done, tbh), and my queer activism should help with that. And my ACT score, once I re-take it...my score from my first time was a 25, but I'll probably need higher in order to get scholarship money.
Apparently, Yankee Candle will be hiring soon, and that sounds like a good place to work. That, or Starbucks or the local poolhouse (it's indoors, and open year-round). At this point, though, I'm willing to take pretty much anything. And, while it certainly won't replace a steady job and would just give me a little extra money, I can also sell things on Etsy.
I've started looking up recipes on Tumblr and saving them to make getting a healthy dinner a little easier. So far, the recipe for roasted vegetables in olive oil has come in handy most often - I've made roasted cauliflower, roasted soybeans, roasted carrots. And I made about a month's supply of egg muffins - essentially scrambled eggs in muffin form - that are now individually wrapped in plastic and stockpiled in my freezer, to be reheated later. What with how hectic everything is and how much more hectic it will be soon, I don't really have time to cook. Things like stockpiled frozen egg muffins and quick, healthy recipes are a necessity.
There's a lot of class privilege tied up in there, given that I don't usually need to rely on burger places for my food. That's why, as soon as I get the chance, I'm going to post a masterlist of cheap, healthy recipes for people to use.
Okay...what else is new? I dyed my hair red, went to the library this week for new books, used an Old Navy gift card from my eighteenth birthday party to buy new clothes (including a sweatshirt that I like to think makes my chest almost look flat), researched how to get a chest binder without your parents knowing what it is (evidently, you can make one out of a pair of control-top women's underwear. I doubt that will work at my chest size, but it's worth a shot.)...and that's it, honestly. Nothing really interesting.
Oh, wait - my mom's old friend Brad from high school stopped by last night. My parents and Brad stayed up talking for awhile, and I think they forgot I was there because they didn't really try to be quiet at all (we fixed up a little cottage, and that's where I am now). I never have an easy time getting to sleep under even the best circumstances, so I knew that all I could really do was stay up and listen in.
Things I learned:
I have a great-uncle who's gay. I'd suspected that already, given that he was the only uncle who didn't join in when the other men in my family were talking about women, but he has a partner now and I hadn't known about that. (To be fair, I'm just straight-up awful at figuring out when people are dating. I can't really interpret social cues, and I don't understand romance and flirting.) So I'm happy for him.
I have another great-uncle (this one's dead, though) who's a Jehovah's Witness. The great-uncles in my family are apparently quite diverse.
My mom hates the Duggars as much as I do, and is actually slightly more interesting when she's had wine. She's still very white feminist, but it's a start. I'll take it.
I figure this is enough for one post. I'll include the About the Amoebas page today, the link to the coming out resources masterlist, and the link to the home page at our old URL.
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