i've been pretty productive today. i set an appointment for monday to get my MMR vaccine. my county had its first case of measles since 2017, and since there's been a rise in measles i'm not risking it. i've never had a shot before, so this will be interesting. my parents were not happy, but i just ignored them. i don't know if they'll be taking me to the appointment, but i'll call grandpa to see if he can since it's during my dad working. i also have to get my transcripts, and i wanted to see if i can get them today, but my parents said we'd go tomorrow, even though that also goes against my dad's schedule. i wish i had my own car so this wasn't a problem.
i also went driving and shopping for a little while, we went to walmart and mernard's. little bro was acting up for a bunch of dumb reasons, and my mom was being kind of annoying, so that gave me a bit of a headache but i feel pretty fine now.
i got a hazelnut oatmilk shaken espresso and i kind of didn't like it but it tastes better after it's watered down. i think if i get it again i'll ask for more hazelnut because the flavor wasn't very strong, and i love hazelnut!! i want to taste the NUT. also got a spicy chicken taquito and pizza combos, haven't eaten the latter yet.
i haven't updated since before i went on my daytrip. the trip was... okay. i thought i would remember a lot more stuff, and feel all the nostalgic feelings, especially when i looked at my old houses and playgrounds, but i just felt like... like i was visiting some random town. i have many memories there, but i didn't really get all the feelings i thought i would. all of the playgrounds were completely redone, except for 2 which i didn't really like either of them as a kid. that kind of sucked. there was just nothing there that made me think, oh wow! this is that thing i saw or the place i lived.
we also visited the library. we would go there frequently as a kid, because i guess we didn't have internet sometimes, so i had to go there to do schoolwork as i was online schooled. when i first walked in, the entrance way before you entered the building smelled exactly like i remembered, and i looked forward to going inside. but it was just so... EMPTY. there were people, the amount of people wasn't the problem, but there was so much stuff missing. one half of the building was the kids and teen section, there used to be a circle table of desktops with colorful keyboards, but they were totally gone. in the corner, there were these little touch screen things for the kids, and probably other stuff i can't remember, but they were all gone! there was just 2 big blue bean bags and some normal chairs and whatever. i think there was more kids stuff in the lower level, but i didn't know if it would be weird for me to go, so i didn't, and maybe there was more kids stuff there but i don't know so what i saw was my impression, and it just made me feel bad. the teen section was much smaller, it was small when i was a kid but i swear it looked worse.
the other side of the building is more adult, and just walking around, i didn't recognize any of the furniture. the smell of the building was also different, i don't remember it but it just wasn't the same. i recognized the stools, and in the far corner was a single table with 2 chairs that i remember as a child. i sat there, after i'd walked around the building, and just kind of briefly pondered about something i don't really remember. there used to be dvd/blurays right by the entrance but those were gone. it just felt like there was so little. i don't know why, but that made me feel the worst.
we just kind of left the town after being there for a few hours, not eventful going or leaving. could have gone anywhere else. i did remember the cow smell that would go through the town every now and then. also it was hot that day so that was annoying. we went to an ice cream shop before we left and i guess the owners changed because i'm pretty sure the old owners were asian and now they're mexican, there was just 1 awkward mexican guy working, but i got some coconut ice cream and it was pretty good (too much for me though, and expensive for that and some chips...)
i was just disappointed i guess. we did go through my old neighborhoods which was neat, but i didn't really FEEL like i thought i would.
when i talked about it to my friends, i felt emotional when i brought up the library. i don't know WHY that bothered me the most. my favorite playground was completely changed, my old houses were the same but i didn't really care about them, but the library was what made me feel bad. i muted myself just to cry about it, i don't know why. we didn't visit the museum because it's not free for us since we don't live there, but i wanted to go. the other place i remember a lot is this trail that's a little out of the town, but i didn't walk on the trail because it's literally just a field with a couple things to read, however the signs at the beginning of the trail were damaged so that was weird. i didn't like visiting that because it just reminded me of a bad childhood memory. also, at the park there was a zoo (which is the only one in the town), and we couldn't visit because they're fixing it up! that's good but bad timing for us. the waterpark was also there, but since it's not waterpark season it was totally closed, not that i was expecting to go lol. we'd probably visit again just to go there, our city does technically have a waterpark, but i don't like it very much, and i want to see the old one because it's actually pretty cool that such a small town has a waterpark at all (i remember when we first moved there that we saw the construction). i guess the other place i remember is the gas station that's a little outside of town that we'd always go to when we'd go on a trip that was in that direction. i don't think i've seen that gas station anywhere else so i'm unsure if it's a chain or standalone. didn't feel much being in there either since i didn't really remember the place when i was inside.
overall, i almost wish i didn't go.
oh, in other news, my grandma called me? i didn't think she could, her phone has never been able to reach me all the way here. i actually had to call her back because i guess i just didn't notice it ring or it didn't ring, even though i was on it. she didn't have much to say or any updates aside from the dentist, but wanted me to visit. i told her i miss her and have wanted to visit, so hopefully i'll see my grandparents sometime again. i haven't been to their house in many years, it would hopefully feel nice... even if i don't really like my grandparents on my mom's side. my grandma just feels like all the bad parts of my mother. they would always argue when we'd sleepover, and over the years i just sort of felt more awkward with my grandma cuz it feels like she guilts me and it's hard to know what to say or talk about. ehhh
i'm pretty jittery from the coffee. i've left my friends hanging while writing this so i'm gonna go do that. and use the bathroom.