Regression

So, you know you’ve been blog-slacking when your mother calls you in Dubai to tell you that your 76 75 year-old great aunt (EDIT: UPDATED TO REFLECT EMAIL AGE CORRECTION I IMMEDIATELY RECEIVED FROM SAID AUNT) in Ohio is raging because she goes to your page every day in search of an update and she’s “sick of seeing that picture of Alex’s big face!”

Sorry, Aunt Lu…

Anyhow, if you’ve ever had a blog I’m sure you can relate to the fact that blogging is a great circle o’ life - sometimes I feel compelled to share every detail of my mundane existence with the interwebs, and other times - like recently - I’m all “OH HAIL NO!”

Regardless, the circle o’ life is but a distraction from the more important reason for my blabsence (blog absence), which is that a strange confluence of circumstances has led me to devote approximately 100% of my free time over the past week to pursuing the passions of my 11 year-old self.

Yep, that’s right: making friendship bracelets…

… and reading young adult fiction.

Now, in my defense, the friendship-bracelet project was instigated by my friend Amy, who preyed upon my love for the current stacking-bracelet trend by taking me supply shopping in the Indian bead shops and Filipino ribbon stores of Satwa (or as she brilliantly calls it, the ‘twa), hence enabling my addiction.

(And yes, despite my well-documented love for MANY SHINY THINGS, I promise I am not actually wearing all the bracelets all at once.)

As for The Hunger Games… whatever, the trilogy is super critically acclaimed, even if it is targeted at adolescents, right? At least that’s what I keep telling myself every time Alex makes a drippingly sarcastic comment to the effect of “Wow babe, you’re really making progress in those children’s books!” Seriously though, I bought the first one as a quick beach read and never got around to it on holiday, but I cannot recommend it highly enough… the intrigue! The adventure! The epic girl-awesomeness that is Katniss!

So clearly, my regression projects have stood in the way of blogging, but I’ll be back with an actual post soon… right after I finish my homework and watch an episode of Clarissa Explains It All.

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