Author: Julian

Always seemingly my least favorite holiday but it always turns out alright. Eventful big parties, everyone comes out, everyone very dressed up. Turned out good this year. Sophia is home, so good to see her and catch up even if it’s just driving to Starbucks and playing ping pong. She’s leaning into Palm Springs with the family which is exciting.

Still working hard. I enjoy the restaurant. It’s an easy way to work hard and focus on something without being overcomplicated. I love the hispanic kitchen and they love me. I really wish I knew better Spanish to communicate with them. We work around it with simple hand gestures and my small spanish vocabulary. By this point I usually know what they want from me or are gonna ask me. I can tell they like when I’m put on shift with them. It feels good to bring them their soda’s. It’ll be hard to leave this job soon whether it’s in time for tennis season, or leaving for college.

I casted my vote for the first time in the presidential election! Mom accompanied me and rode down to the Roswell library. Unsurprisingly, my first time going into my city library as well. Mom said we got lucky with a short line being that I voted early. Waited about 5 minutes in line, stepped up, verified my I.D. and made my choices for the 47th president and other government members. It felt good to take part in my democracy and being able to rep the “I voted” sticker. Today was also my first time wearing contacts. Really a struggle to get them in and out. The payoff was great, I’ve never been able to see the tennis ball so well and lead to me playing the best I have at drills tonight. Returning serves good, predicting the ball, prepping for contact, and being able to see my opponents facial expression after I rip a baseline winner.

The cold has arrived, just as I was starting to think it wasn’t coming. It’s mid October and there’s a million things on my mind as the year is wrapping up. My thoughts and concerns never seem to stay the same. College and school is blowing by quicker than ever. I know big decisions are upon the horizon. I still have my eyes set on Colorado University of Boulder. I’ve only seen the campus once over summer. Is that all it takes? I guess it’s just a leap of faith and feel that’s just supposed to come to me.

I struggle with using my time efficiently, or maybe I’m just doing too much. Am I working too many nights? Should I stop tennis to work hard and make money? Should I stop working to grind tennis in hopes of a successful first and last high school season? Am I at the right job, should I be in a field I’m more interested in like a car dealership? Do I workout enough or is it a waste of time. Do I need to do less therefore sleep more? It’s hard to keep up late night homework sessions but it feels like it’s my only option sometimes. Then again should I be more focused in school and using every minute of the day to knockout work, contrarily I can’t help but take a break and scroll on my phone. Should I be saving my money and investing, or blow it all on a bike or 440i convertible. It’s an endless discussion in my head occurring daily, what should I do next.

In a perfect world, I could wake up have a big breakfast, rip through town in a sweet supercar, maybe a McLaren or something badass. Bounce back and forth all day from tennis to working out, playing basketball, skateboarding, eating, sweating, being outdoors. Then finish off with a party joined by friends.

For now I’ll just keep pushing into 2025.

Today is the last day of summer. I spent last night going out to my senior camo party with the whole grade. I dedicated today to getting prepared for my first day back meaning, finishing my book, getting my backpack ready, cleaning my car, doing my laundry etc. I woke up this morning knowing I had a lot to get done, and I started off my day by praying, which I rarely do. I prayed for good focus today, and less anxiety, and for my parents and where I’m at in life. A hour after my prayer everything seemed to go to shit. My manager texted me that my coworker called out sick and I had to come in, me being on call at 4pm. Instant frustration was my first reaction. I knew my coworker wasn’t sick, and I had already explained to him how I had a lot to do today and couldn’t take his shift in the first place. I scrambled to my book to start making progress, but with knowing how my day will plan out, it was hard to stay focused knowing how much I had to do. I went to work and got it over with 7 hours later. Im ready to quit this job, and that was the only thing on my mind all shift. Im getting sick of the environment I’m in, but I feel attached because of the money. It’s hard to beat. So here I am, 11:11pm, 300 pages to go in my book, with school 9 hours away. This is the last way I wanted to start my senior year.

What’s up what’s up how’s the quarantine going. For me I’ve been pretty bored lately. I’ve sneaked out to the skatepark twice now but we might have to stop so we don’t get in trouble. I’ve been playing games a lot online with friends and that’s pretty fun because I can still talk to them. Well I’m not sure how much longer I can handle quarantine but I hope I survive the corona.

Ayyyyy, I got a new phone, the XR. I’m super thankful for my dad and mom for letting me get one. My old phone broke because at soccer practice someone stepped on it during water break. It’s so broken the screen as a huge black spot. Well now with my XR I have some cool features like Face ID, no home button, Animoji and more. Bye bye!!!

Tonight i got home from my snowboarding trip super happy. But when my Mom and sister got home from North Carolina they told me that our first and oldest dog Riggy had died. I was told he passed away peacefully with my other dog chai by his side. I’m glad he had a good 17 years of life and my 13 years so far have been amazing with him.

I had a basketball game yesterday, and it was the last game before the playoffs. We won the game by 2. The score was 20 – 18. I had 3 shots and two of them were close and the other I air balled. I played really well defensively. I was guarding their best player the whole game and probably stopped him from scoring at least 6 points. When ever we had a time out or something my team was saying how well I was guarding him. People were saying “Ya you locked up 45!”. Which had me laughing a bunch. We are tied for second seed I think and the first place seed is undefeated. I believe we are 6 and 2. I hope to win the rest of my games!

Tomorrow my mom is leaving to go to seattle. So I will be home with my dad and my sister. I have been playing a lot of this video game lately called Counter Strike: Global Offense (CS:GO). Its a first person shooter, and its very popular, at least it used to be. In a competitive game, there’s two teams, the terrorist and the counter terrorist. The terrorist are trying to plant the bomb in either two sites on the map or kill all the counter terrorist using guns and grenades. The counter terrorist are trying to defuse the bomb from which ever site the bomb is planted at or kill all of the terrorist. Oh yeah each team has five players. So I have been trying to get better at the game by practicing, and just trying to use different guns. My dad says I can’t play any video games until next week but we will see about that. Also since I got back from Mexico I have been kind of behind on school but I should be taking my tests this week so I can catch up.

I just finished the last day of the first semester and I’m so excited for everything coming up such as christmas, mexico, our new house that we are building, and mostly my birthday! We will be in mexico on my birthday so that should be a lot of fun. The last day of school today wasn’t very fun it was just exciting though. We went to a party which i thought would be fun but ended up being a 2 hour party in the gym which was so hot. Also the rest of the time we were using our laptops but my was dead so I was watching a friend the whole day except we would switch off sometimes or he would let me play when he was doing something else. After school I went to canton with my friends to hang out. Then I watched elf the movie which is my favorite christmas movie of all time. So that leads up until now.