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  • I was so lonely today. Eagleheart and Stoattail were both sick today. I had other friends but they were hanging out with THEIR other friends. At lunch I went to a club but it ended early so I just sat next to my locker with nobody. I’m fine if it is just for a day, but it seems to be happening again tomorrow since I got a text from Eagleheart saying that she will be absent tomorrow. Stoattail was showing the same symptoms as Eagleheart at the same time, so I am guessing he will be gone too. On top of this we have Canadian Thanksgiving off (Friday and Monday) but I am taking two more days off to spend time with my family, specifically my grandma that I don’t get to see that often )which I am excited as HECC about) but that means I wouldn’t see my friends for about a week to begin with, plus 2 extra days now. On top of all this, my mom says since I was around my sick friends a ot, I will probably catch what they have over the weekend, WHEN I AM WITH MY GRANDMA WHY MUST EVERYTHING GO WRONG??!!!

  • okayyy so I heard from a bunch of people that Stormpaw wasn’t going to sit with us at lunch on Monday and that she was going to sit with the popular girls because one of them is apparently friends with her now (all the other popular girls I talked to were really annoyed because all of them hate her but the one lol). and I was pretty happy because Moonpaw and I had been talking about leaving the group because of all the drama that’s going on in ours and if Stormpaw was gone, we might stay with the rest of our friends. BUT then Stormpaw joined us?? I was pretty annoyed because I was excited to be free of Stormpaw for at least a single lunch period. Sooo I decided to sit with Birchpaw, Shadepaw, Skypaw, and Sandpaw yesterday. I thought Moonpaw was joining me, since Silverpaw’s now accusing her of replacing her with Shellpaw, but I guess they kinda made up??? idk. but I was really awkward and nervous and stuff and I don’t know why. I’m pretty close with the four of them, I can be myself around them and stuff, but I’ve never sat with them at lunch before and I don’t know if they have any special etiquette or inside jokes or whatever that I should know about. All morning today, I was really nervous and not sure what to do at lunch because I didn’t want to be anywhere near Stormpaw again but I don’t know if Birchpaw, Shadepaw, Skypaw, and Sandpaw are actually genuinely cool with me sitting with them or they’re just saying that so I don’t feel bad. We had a Beta Club meeting at lunch so that solved the problem for today, since we all ate lunch together in my social studies teacher’s classroom.
    idkkkk what the point of this comment was other than to ask for advice for what I should do?? because I feel like I can’t talk with any of my friends in my group (the only one I’ve been talking to a lot recently is Moonpaw because all the others are pretending like the whole Stormpaw situation didn’t happen and are acting like she’s our friend now, but I’m scared I’ve been annoying her by complaining about all my problems involving this whole thing to her) and like I said before I’m scared Birchpaw, Shadepaw, Skypaw, and Sandpaw don’t actually want me to be sitting with them and if I ask they’ll just say they’re fine with it so I don’t feel bad. it’s really hard to ignore Stormpaw now because she keeps randomly bringing me up in conversations and I don’t want to talk to her. Should I sit with Birchpaw and her group or sit with my group and just try very hard to ignore Stormpaw?
    also this is completely unrelated but for the past few weeks I’ve felt tired all the time and even after chugging a mug of caffeinated tangerine tea I still feel tired and just unmotivated to do anything but I’ve been complaining to my friends sooo much recently so I want to give them a break from that. (I mean, it may be that I usually get to bed between 11 pm and 12 am and wake up at 6 am, but I absolutely wrecked my sleep schedule over the summer and only really feel tired enough to sleep around 12 or later) but uhhh any ideas on how to not feel utterly exhausted every day or fix my sleep schedule??

    • I would try sitting with Birchpaw and her group, give yourself some space until the stuff with Stormpaw cools off. Soon she’ll get bored gossiping about someone who isn’t even there. I’m sure they’re fine with you sitting there, if they give you weird looks or look annoyed when you talk, just say, “You guys said it was fine if I sat here. Your loss” and leave. Maybe after a while try sitting with your group and see if the whole Stormpaw thing has settled down.

      I know you don’t exactly feel tired enough until 12, but just laying in your bed earlier will let your body rest. Just lie there, listen to music, and audiobook, or just plain silence until you slowly start to fall asleep.

      I hope this helps, Darkie <3

    • Yes Darkpaw, I would try to sit with Birchpaw. Maybe you can ask the rest of your friends to sit with them as well! My sister was betrayed by her friend group when she was being dumped by her boyfriend, but she found new friends and she was still happy for her senior and junior year. But if you do really miss Moonpaw and Shellpaw and your other friends, maybe you can tell them to sit somewhere else tomorrow, so Stormpaw can’t find you! (but that would be kind of mean)

      I had trouble sleeping before, but if you try to project the color black into your head and just think about the color black and nothing else, that will help! At least it helped me.

    • I hope the drama ends.
      Also, what’s beta club? I don’t know much about middle school clubs because I don’t have enough time to do clubs and play my violin.

  • I feel ignored at BlogClan.
    Am I even a good writer anymore? Do I have good stories? Everytime I post my fanfiction everyone comments on everyone elses’ fanfics, but i think no one sees mine. It’s stupid, but i feel kind of down when I go here.

  • I’m very worried about my friend.

    She says that she literally cries every day to relieve stress, and while I can understand the relieving stress part, it’s still very concerning. She also has these mood swings, and I never know if I’ve done anything wrong or not. She’s also been having big family issues lately, and I’m very worried. I’m too scared to ask her about it because she likes to keep her life private (totally understandable) and she will kind of close off if you ask.

    Please send hugs for her ❤️
    I love her a lot and I’m very worried ❤️

  • So for those of you who don’t know, all of my relatives live back in Ohio (and some of them live in Michigan). I live all the way in Missouri, and we usually go to Ohio (and we always stay at my aunt and uncle’s house) during the summer and Christmas time (although we did visit during spring break in March to see my oldest cousin’s new baby).

    Anyway, back to who I actually want to talk about-my grandma. I haven’t seen her since spring break due to some drama stuff. I remember during the summer in Ohio, I had seen a print-out of an email that my grandma sent to all of my adult relatives on the counter. It was talking about this diet my grandma has been on for quite some time now. I guess she’s just behaving differently than normal. I got a lot of this from snippets of conversations that I’ve heard from my mom and other relatives, so it might sound a bit choppy. So back in spring break while we were in Ohio, before I actually saw my grandma, my mom’s aunt and uncle came over. We all had dinner together and we broke out a bunch of this sweet stuff. While all of us were downstairs, I overheard my mom’s aunt and my mom talking about how my grandma hasn’t acknowledged the fact that my cousin’s baby has been born, and how my mom’s aunt and my grandma saw each other at a YMCA and gave each other evil eyes or something. And my grandma apparently has been posting mean comments on everyone’s Facebook pages (everyone being all of our relatives that have Facebook). Then a couple days later, my brothers and I spent the night at my grandma’s house. My brothers had started talking to my grandma about my cousin’s baby, and I managed to silence them because I knew that my grandma hadn’t acknowledged the fact that my cousin’s baby has been born, and I didn’t want her to get jealous or start sending more hate messages or anything like that. The next day after breakfast, my grandma started asking me about our trip so far. When she asked me who we’ve seen so far, I tried to avoid talking about my mom’s aunt and uncle because I thought that my grandma had grudges on them or something, judging by when my mom’s aunt and my grandma saw each other at the YMCA. But I said it anyway, and I definitely noticed my grandma’s expression change. And then over the summer, I never saw my grandma, and I bet my mom spend about half of the time in Ohio talking to my relatives about her.

    And another issue that is in our family is my uncle (another one, not the one who’s house we stay in). I’m still not sure if him and my aunt have divorced with each other yet. I do remember that last Christmas, my cousin (15 years old), aunt, and uncle came over to my aunt’s house (the one we stay in). My other cousin (who was around 21 at the time) was also there, too, and so was my oldest cousin (the one with the baby). My dad, my 21 year old cousin, and my brothers were playing pool together. My dad told me to go find my 15 year old cousin. So I went upstairs, and as I was, I started hearing some arguing. Sure enough, I see my aunts, uncles, my oldest cousin (who is a girl just so you know), and my mom arguing with each other. I tried to ask them where my 15 year old cousin was, and my oldest cousin screamed in my face, “Go away! We’re having an adult conversation right now!” But my mom didn’t notice that, and if she did, she would’ve gotten SO mad at my oldest cousin. But apparently, everyone was so busy arguing with each other that no one noticed. So I ran back downstairs, and started screaming in my pillow. No one downstairs noticed me doing that. Eventually though, my 15 year old cousin came back from the bathroom and we watched YouTube with my brothers, which distracted me from all the commotion upstairs.

    Then the next summer, one night when I should’ve been in bed, I decided to have some fun and listen in to what my mom, aunt, uncle, and 21 year old cousin were talking about upstairs. I heard my mom talk about what exactly happened that night during Christmas when my oldest cousin screamed at me. Apparently, my uncle (the one who might divorce with my aunt) had gotten drunk and he brought out all of these trash bags filled with his things from his car. It was the stuff that my uncle was going to take with him to his new apartment he would be moving in (which I’m not sure if he actually has yet). And a couple days before I was listening to their conversation, we visited my mom’s aunt’s cottage on the lake for a couple of days. While I was listening to the conversation, I heard my mom say that my 15 year old cousin was ignoring me there, which I can agree with. Back then, the two of us would always to fun things together and stick with each other. But now, of course he’s growing up, and he’s just becoming ignorant to almost everyone. My aunt even thinks he has hearing problems, it’s that bad. And my 21 year old cousin said that he had said something mean about my uncle to my 15 year old cousin for some reason. And he started rambling on about how my 15 year old cousin would most likely forget about it.

    What’s even worse about all of this madness is that I feel like I can’t become involved. ALL of my cousins are older than me, and they’re all in this. Well, my 14 year old cousin doesn’t really care that much, but I do. I’m grown up enough to be involved in this! I know how it can feel! Heck, if I step in, this all might end! Everyone is just treating me like a little kid. All of the adults talk literally right in front of me about all of this drama, feeding me with more and more information.

    Help plz.

    • I’m sorry Forestpool💚😕
      Family drama IS THE WORSE. Especially when everyone talks about it in front of you. It’s best you probably try to stay out of it…
      Is there any other family members you can hang out with or talk to that aren’t in the drama that much?
      Can you try texting your friends and see how they’re doing? Or go and have some you time, just yourself?

      Like i said, it’s probably best you keep your distance. You can have one bite of the cake mix, but don’t have too much or you’ll have a stomach ache from the raw egg. Terrible metaphor😂 but keep your distance, have one ‘bite’ of the ‘cake mix’.
      Talk to your family about some positive things, keep the subject off if people are talking to you.

      And maybe sit in your room or the room you’re staying in and read a book, draw, do whatever you like! If you brought something you like, why don’t you do it in your room and have time to breathe?
      In these situations, it’s good to distance yourself.
      Just remember that this drama will never involve you and you won’t get too deep in it.
      People usually are mean or argue because of their own fears.

      What I like to do is visualize a fence that is around me. If you’re in your own garden, they are the wounded dogs outside barking at each other. You see them, you see that they’re fighting, they’re wounded; but you have a boundary!
      Boundaries. Just put down your boundaries.
      Don’t put a wall where you ignore them, but a fence.
      You see them, but you’re not in the same garden as them.

      *huggles* Hope things get better with your family❤️

  • Arg I despise my brother’s friends.

    So my brother, Fluffkit (his Oc’s Fluffpelt) has friends over 3-4 times a week. They are loud, and I generally don’t love loud little boys. So, here’s our cast: Bossykit, Loudkit, Sneakykit, and Newkit. Loudkit is loud, but overall my favorite of the bunch because he’s actually kinda sweet when he’s not yelling.

    So, Bossykit is this spoiled little kid who gets whatever he wants and expects that to carry over to our house. He has so much technology, more than any kit needs, and most of the time he just sits there on his phone. He also hates exercise, piano music, and anything outside. If the other kits want to the park, he will refuse to move. Basically, if the other kits try to do anything he doesn’t want to do, he refuses to move. He spoils the fun for everyone, and also doesn’t hold back on his rude comments. (“Oh, I like your new couch. Sort of reminds me of the one we keep down in your basement!” “Oh, Flamecloud, you finally got a phone? Wait, it’s a flip phone? *Rolls eyes* I would think that since your older than me you’d have a better phone.” “Fluffkit, you sleep with a stuffed animal? I stopped doing that a while ago.”)

    Sneakykit seems nice, but he likes to orchestrate trouble. He doesn’t get involved in the arguments, but he bring up topics that make Bossykit mad on purpose. He also tries to get people to pick sides when Bossykit starts argueing with people.

    Newkit thus far is less annoying than Sneakykit and Bossykit, but he likes to argue with Bossykit. He’ll provoke him, and sometimes refuses to do anything Bossykit wants to do. (Bossykit then refuses to do anything Newkit wants to do.)

    They argue constantly, which really stresses my brother out. They’re loud, annoying , and they make my mom cook them tons and tons of snacks because they can’t agree on just one thing. Today Loudkit and Bossykit refused to play with the other three because the game was “too boring” and instead started doing origami, which the other boys hate. (AND IT WAS MY PAPER) When Newkit, Sneakykit, and Loudkit went home, Bossykit wouldn’t stop using up MY paper to play with my brother, and just sat there using up all my paper while Fluffkit looked sad.

    They also blow up each other’s mine craft houses. I don’t know why they’re friends. I wouldn’t stay friends with them.

    (We also have a neighbor, Eggkit, who comes over, demands my mom make him eggs, and watches my brother’s computer time hour then leaves)

  • As for the whole “I’m-being-a-secret-rebel-about-the-blog-but-trying-to-fix-it” situation, it’s not really going well. I told my mom about the blog’s existence, and she said she would “look at it” but hasn’t yet. I told her it was a blog by one of the Warriors authors and the every comment was moderated. But I’m too nervous to ask for it, every time I think I’ll know what they’ll say and get a “speech” ready, I’ll here them say something like: “Can you believe so-and-so? They’re letting their kid on the Internet! ” and I’m just like, who am I kidding they will absolutely kill me if I ask. And even if they said yes, they would probably want to see every comment I make and be like “why don’t you introduced yourself on this “say hi page” here? And obviously I’m not new and even if I put “Hi I’m Moonpaw/stripe” people would be confused. And then there’s the Clanniversary-thing and I just don’t see how it could work and I should probably just go inactive and forget about the Blog.
    I kinda love (and by that I mean I hate) that my parents think that the Internet is so horrible and that every kid that’s on it is being abused and is miserable when what makes me miserable is having to keep it a secret. Never once have a felt threatened on the blog, or even the Internet in general.
    Sorry if this sounds stupid, but I really needed to get this out.

  • To anyone here having a bad day,
    “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
    If someone is making you dumb or inferior, that’s not ok, and you need to express that. Because you are beautiful and nothing anyone can say will change that unless you let it.

  • To all of you who are living in a city where there is a protest…
    Please be careful and safe..
    I was so scared when I was in a train with those people and I was so scared and annoyed because they were blocking the train from moving.

  • I’ve commented here recently, and I’ll probably comment here again sometime in the next few weeks about something that’s been bugging me for a while but for now this is just something that’s physical painful.

    Wonderful, wonderful asthma. Comes when the seasons start to change. The colder it gets, the worse it becomes. Yesterday, I could hardly even breathe. And my inhaler? It makes me dead shaky(hence why this is so hard to type right now) and yesterday I had to sit down before rehearsal because it was hard to stand. And the best is when I do six puffs and I’m still coughing and shaking like crazy. And when my stupid friend says “Stop dying on us!” every time I cough. And on Thursday she did that but not in a joking tone right before I got on to dance and I literally glared at her because it’s not funny anymore. And she did it yesterday and I literally said, “It’s called asthma” just to make her shut up. It hurts, my chest hurts, my throat hurts, right now it’s okay, but sometimes it’s hard to get a breath in and I hate it.

    Right, see y’all later. 😛

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