The past few months have been pretty crazy. This one week alone was very crazy. I'm not going to talk too much about politics, but I want to mention it a little.
So to get it out of the way, we all witnessed Donald Trump winning the electoral votes to become the next president of the United States of America. I don't talk about politics. For one, I am ignorant to how things exactly work in our government and the people within it. And the other is that I simply don't have much interest in learning about it. But with this presidential run, I have talked more about politics than I could ever remember doing. I think that happened to a lot of people in our nation this past year. A lot more people will want to educate themselves about politics and be more involved in the next presidential run. There were a lot of concerns for how the people would react after Trump's victory (of which many came true: racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc.), public outcry and riots, economic stability, international relations, etc. The future of our world, not just America, seems terrifying. All we can do now is bare through it and work together as a nation to make sure things don't go to ruins. I rather not go into details on this subject matter any further, so I'll stop there.
So in October, I was suffering from headaches. They were pretty bad. I had pain in the back of the head, side, sometimes right where my eye brows were. My mom mentioned my neck possibly not getting good support while sleeping or that it was bent at too much of an angle. I slept a few nights without a pillow and the headaches stopped. But it caused other problems. It was hard to fall asleep, I would wake up in the middle of the night more frequently, I would feel dizzy in the morning, and I was suffering upper back pains. Eventually, I replaced my mattress with a new one because my old mattress has been used for 16 years and concave inwards. It fixed my upper back pains and I was able to sleep on a pillow again. During the time I had the headaches, my vision started going blurry. I noticed that my left eye was very blurry while my right eye was quite sharp. Then it got to a point where both my eyes felt blurry. Now that I've been sleeping better, my vision went semi-normal again. My left eye is still sees things a bit blurry when they're at a fair distance.
Just last Saturday, I seemed to have caught a minor cold. I had a scratchy throat and near evening time I started feeling body pains all over my muscles and joints. It didn't seem that bad and I didn't really complain. But then the next day, allergies hit me hard and I started going through the same symptoms as usual: Itchy eyes, itchy nose, itchy ears, watery eyes, stuffy/runny nose, sneezing and to add to all that I had a bad cough. I continued having a bad cough throughout the rest of the week which left me with chest and upper back pains. The cough is mostly gone now, but I've been suffering from headaches again the past 2-3 days. Despite all these ailments, good things were also happening that really cheered me up. On Sunday, my parents went with me to Costco and bought me a full 88-key music keyboard to practice piano and record music with. On Tuesday, my dad asked me if I "wanted a macbook" all of a sudden and I said I wouldn't want an apple computer. He offered to buy me a new laptop and give my current one to him and my mom to use. I'm waiting for it to arrive in the mail right now and am really excited since there are a lot of games I'm not able to play that I've tried this year. And to put the cherry on top, my dad came home with a Playstation 4 on Thursday night because it was a great deal ($289 for 500 GB slim with an extra controller and a copy of Uncharted 4). He said he bought it for himself to play Plants vs. Zombies 2, but then I looked it up and realized he was looking at Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2. So I bought some games including the newly released Final Fantasy XV and am hoping to enjoy playing them for the rest of the month as soon as I get the rest of my work done. I'm organizing my computer files to transfer to the new laptop and I also want to finish a few more remixes before the year ends. Here's hoping that the rest of the month will be great and leave a good impression for the year for me and that 2017 will truly be better than this year (I said that last year and this year was pretty awful). Happy Holidays~
