A blast from the past.

The other week in my honors seminar on superheroes, we watched an episode of the old Batman TV series. Man did that bring back memories! I remember watching the old Batman movies over and over again with my dad and brothers. So much good, cheesy fun.

"Holy forgotten memories, Batman!"

So, I was cleaning up my room at my mom's house over Spring Break, and found a picture from a couple years in the past. It brought a flood of great memories. 

It's only been two years, but it's almost sad how quickly I've forgotten my life when I was in high school. I remember my friends, of course, but sometimes I forget exactly how close we all were.

Most of my friends were fantastic artists. It must have been one of those funny things, like how now I'm an English major and yet have a bazillion friends in engineering.  Anyhow, I think it was the summer before my senior year, I got this drawing for my Birthday.

Team Awesome Forever! #tbt

Isn't it so cute!

My friend Greer drew it for me (she's the red-head on the left). She drew the three of us (I'm in the middle, and my best friend, Laura,  is the blonde on the right), and included our favorite mythological creatures, of course, in our favorite colors.  The red dragon, the purple pegasus, and the green gryphon. Pretty fitting.

We were going to be team awesome forever! We still get together over breaks, and have tons of fun together, but then we go back to our separate universities and don't talk to each other for another couple months. The same things happens with my other close groups of friends.

We knew each other so well that a few months or years doesn't change us enough so that we can't enjoy jumping right back into having fun together. But, I'm not sure how much longer that will last, and that is a bit scary. I love my friends, and although I continue making fantastic new friends as I move through life, I definitely don't want to lose my old friends.

I guess it's a bit of a balancing act. I don't want to stay stuck in the past, but I don't want to be looking so far into the future that I forget who I used to be.

That's why I'm glad we have little things like this drawing to bring up these memories, even if only for a few days. So, I posted this drawing on "throwback Thursday" and shared the memories with my friends.

I plan to try to find something like that to share each week, if I can. Spending a few minutes remembering the past can only help me stay grounded in the past as I keep moving forward.

Enjoying fun memories,
The Purple Writer



I now own a humidifier.

I had never really expected to say/type that sentence in my life, but there it is. I remember my parents having humidifiers for us to have in our rooms when we got sick, but I never really remembered them being especially helpful or cool or anything.

But then I got sick this past week. It was "just" a cold, but it wasn't any fun. Especially when I would try to sleep and wake up completely dehydrated and stuffed up and feeling miserable. I get sick a lot, but that doesn't mean that I don't still feel awful every time.

A visualization of the virus attacking me

Anyhow, I was talking to my awesome friend Emily, from English classes, and she suggested that I go get a humidifier. I think she had also gotten one not too long ago, so she told me I could get one for $16 at Walgreens, and I thought "why not?" I drove over to Walgreens before my SigTD meeting and picked one up. It wasn't like it could hurt, and $16 isn't that much for a potential help.

Let me just say, humidifiers can be a giant help! Maybe it's more noticeable because I currently live in Lubbock, which is usually very, very dry.

I filled up and plugged in the humidifier, and then I slept soundly, all night long. Which is unusual, especially when I'm sick.
There was no tossing, turning, or waking up because there is no more moisture in my body. Instead, I woke up completely refreshed and ready to face the world (although my congestion came back pretty quickly throughout the day, as I was away from my humidifier).

Thank you humidifier, for clearing up my day

So, yes, I am still slightly sick, and have an ugly-sounding cough. But really, each morning after I run my humidifier, I feel 100% better, just because I was able to get a good night's sleep. Never underestimate the power of sleep (and humidifiers in a desert)!

Glad you can't hear my cough as you read this,

The Purple Writer