One Month One World One Year Challenge (Selena Lilly)
So, I started this off in the hopes that I could keep up with it, and immediately couldn't. I've decided to instead do it in this thread, but please check out the main thread with all its wonderful st...
It might have been the influence of picking up the paintbrushes again, but Selena had found herself longing to go up to the slopes once again. She'd always had fun skiing or snowboarding when she was younger, and she'd been happy to find out that there were rental boards available if you didn't have your own. Given that the paint supplies had already stretched her budget, that was a good thing.
It was as if her mood had simply started picking up again this last week or so. Sure, things weren't perfect, or the way they used to be, but she was slowly getting used to how they were if nothing else, and it was no longer as nightmarish as it had been at the start. She even wondered sometimes if she could ever have had the freedoms she did now if things had stayed as they were.
She'd also been thinking about Donny again, recently. Slowly, she was starting to wonder if it really was so much her fault that things had turned out the way that they had. He'd told that she couldn't blame him for getting sick of the way things were, and that she expected too much of him, but she'd been clear when they were dating about why that was. Selena couldn't help but think that maybe Donny wasn't as reliable as she had thought, and that...well, that maybe it was for the better that they weren't together anymore.
If she was honest, she was also beginning to think wistfully about dating again. She'd always been cautious, of course, but even with this newfound freedom, she found herself not wanting to get her heart broken on a whim. But it was nice to at least wonder what it might be like to go on dates again, or to get to know someone.
She took a deep breath of the cold air, and smiled.
We've hit Day 22! Still a little while to go before we move out, but the end of our Mt. Komorebi stay is in sight, and I have to say, I'm a little sad. Selena has been taking excellent care of the garden, and it will of course be coming with us when we move.
I sent Selena to get some snowboarding in, as part of the Extreme Sports Enthusiast Aspiration. I'm not sure that we'll complete it, but I wanted her to get as much of it done as possible. So, off to the Bunny Slopes we go!
She was eventually able to head to the beginner slopes, and to my surprise, didn't fall over as often there, either. She actually seemed to be having a blast!
At the end of the day, she'd levelled up her skill a little bit, and it was time to head to bed, sore but happy. She definitely seems to be smiling a lot more these days, and she's gotten a lot better at a lot of things!
Also, one last screenshot - she went hiking up a trail and got a blessing from the little spirits, and I got this beautiful picture of her smiling and energized. I think this might be one of my favourite pictures of her to date!
