It's been so long, I think it's time I updated you on my current situations and such.

First and foremost, I currently have 18 days (counting today) of classes left in the semester! Unfortunately I'm already mentally checked out of this semester so finishing is going to be difficult :')

And I have some bad news. Some of you may have known this, but I was on track to graduate a semester early. HOWEVER, in order to take all the classes necessary to meet my major requirements, the rest of my semesters would have to be full load, 18 credit hours.

And... I'm just not doing that again. It's not healthy for me mentally, emotionally, or even physically, as this heavy class load has impeded on my gym time. So I decided I'm willing to graduate on a normal track if it means I'm not dying the last half of undergrad.

This summer, I need to do shadowing for two PT places. And these next two semesters, I need to pick two professors I really like and get close to them so they can write a letter of recommendation for me. I need at least two: one from a professor and one from literally anyone else, but I can have up to four, so ideally I want two professors, a PT I shadowed for, and either a relative or a old soccer coach. My application needs to be top of the line if I want to get into PT school without any extracurricular activities like being a TA or helping with research.

Which, idk how other students do that stuff and keep up on the necessary requirements, but flex away, my friends, flex away.

After all that, I have to take my GRE and... well, apply to PT school next summer.

Yikes. It's scary how close I am to actually becoming a PT. If only high school freshman Shelby could see me now.

She would be disappointed that I wasn't going to UofM, but besides that, I think she'd be happy. Besides, high school Shelby didn't realize until junior year how big class sizes were at UofM, so honestly, I saved her life by picking OU.

Anyways, moving on from academics. Work is... still a mess, but not as much of a mess? Does that make sense? We've had three different managers in the span of three months, and our current manager is about to step down, and so we'll have to add a fourth manager :)

But we're not understaffed anymore. It'll certainly help even more when I'm able to work 5 days (probably not 40 hours yet tho, cause I'll only be able to come in later on the weekdays cause of shadowing).

What else...

I've been struggling to go to the gym this semester. It's really hard for me to neglect homework to go workout, especially because I fall behind very easily this semester if I slack on homework. I aim for four days a week, but honestly, I average only 2-3 days, and there are definitely weeks where I don't go at all.

That being said, I'm six pounds away from reaching my first goal of being under 200 lbs!

I haven't been under 200 in two years, since I've been in high school. 196 was my weight during my soccer season senior year.

Of course, weight loss doesn't stop after I get out of 200. I'm still technically in the obese BMI range until I'm under, like, 170 or something like that. But I'm hoping that all my shorts from last summer will fit me, and there's a few shirts in my drawer that I want to fit into in particular, so I have a lot of motivation to keep losing.

Also I really want to shock people who haven't seen me in ages :') Hope, Taylor, and Annalise haven't seen me in a year, and last time they saw me, I was at my heaviest ever, about 221 pounds. So hopefully they're sister shook when they see me in August.

I also was hoping to surprise my relatives I haven't seen since Christmas on Easter, but my weight loss is so slow, I don't think they'll notice :p

Anyways, my final topic to address. Wattpad itself.

I am very confident in myself that I'll finish Heroes in a Half Shell before school starts back up in September.

And honestly it's ABOUT DAMN time.

Also, I've decided not to write an AU anymore. And I'm probably going to cancel continuing the Hetalia/musical crossovers. But everything else is still on- TMNT, PJO, SU, Miraculous, my Hetalia fanfic + wrapping up the drabbles, Star Wars, the whole nine yards!

I'm very exited and I hope you are to :)

Anyways, feel free to update me on your guys' lives in the comments. I rant so much in these books but rarely take the opportunity to see how everyone else is holding up. So let me know if you want! I'd love to hear :3