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Daily #1, January 1st, 2022, Milky''s first official post of 2022, written at 00:46 GMT, 357 words
What I think 2022 will be like
I think that in 2022, we will finally end the COVID-19 pandemic, and all countries will unlock and we will all go back to normality. I also see the winter olympics going ahead in Beijing not long after I write this, and seeing the amazement of the people who don't mind getting hurt on ice!
This year I hope we'll be able to see the first amazing imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope that got sent up on Christmas Day (now who wouldn't call that the best present ever?!) and that deployment will go well, so we get to see even more beautiful pictures of space, adding to our ever-growing collection of space pics.
Closer to home though, I'd like school to return to normality (like proper normality with no masks) and I'm optimistic of that too. I also hope that air travel will be back without any stringent rules before and after travel, so I can see my family and friends and my family and friends can come and visit us in the UK. I also think that for me, I'll get a few more grades in music and learn to better organise my time (both on scratch and irl) and celebrate those achievements this year.
This year, I also think that exciting new science breakthroughs will surface and I can hook myself on a new book series. I think 2022 will be a year filled with optimism, exciting new discoveries and more happy news! There's been so many small things this year that have just made my day because they are happy stories, humours comic strips like XKCD, and things that just give you that shot of joy you need in life. I think that this will happen more often in 2022, and that this year will be a year to remember.

If I were to be asked what I think 2022 would be like in three words, I'd say laughter, hope and status quo. (Wait does that even cout as three-)

So to that, I say we should toast to 2022: Welcome to a new year, and a one of optimism and hope.

My first main cabin daily! Also the first daily posted in the first session of JWC! :D

Oh my gosh, I can't believe it's already 2022! Some things that happened at the beginning of the year, like my short story being accepted to Owl Hollow Press's anthology, seem like they can't possibly be in the same year as when I first did SWC. It's been so weird, some things seem like they were closer together than they really were, while others seem so much farther apart. It feels like forever since I saw my friends, even though I know it's only been a few months. I'm definitely going to miss 2021 and all the fun things that I've been doing, but that isn't to say that I'm looking forward to 2022. I've done a lot last year- made a bunch of new friends, participated in TWO Minecraft musicals, learned a lot, even went to Disneyland—and I'm super excited to carry all of those new memories with me into 2022. I'm so glad to have had a fun and rewarding year, I know that a lot of people didn't have that chance. It's been such a crazy couple of years, I'm really hoping that this year will start to change for the better.
There's already so much to look forward to in the New Year, most of all (for me at least) the start of JWC! It's pretty much my first time leading anything, and I'm looking forward to learning how to be the best leader that I can be. I already am excited to get to know everyone in my cabin better, they already seem like they will make such a great team! I'm also looking forward to my classes starting up later this month and to seeing my best friends again. Despite everything that's going on in the world, I'm looking forward to having the happiest new year that I can.

My Main Cabin Daily
Some weird combo of both options
My family is going to have my brothers’ friends from cub scouts over on new year’s eve. They don’t have any kids my age. Or any other girls at all. We are going to stay up until 12:00 (obviously) playing games. My mom is making snack dinner and I can smell it all the way upstairs. My family loves games so we got a billion for Christmas. We got Dice Forge, Architects, Space Base, and more! I don’t really like games so I will most likely sit in my room trying to watch the fireworks out the window while reading books. The kids, so my brothers, their friend, and I are going to watch a movie later in the night. If I open my blinds enough I should be able to see the fireworks. I have 3 books to choose from, Ranger’s Apprentice, Egyptian Myths, or Hunger Games. Currently, my brother’s friend just got here. His parents are downstairs talking with my parents. I wonder what our new year will bring! I hope that this will be the final end of our pandemic. We have dealt with covid for nearly 2 years now. Countries shut down, people lost their jobs, and everything went virtual. I myself was virtual for half a year and then went back in person with masks. We are still wearing masks. Zoom was our main way of school back in 2020. I’m excited to start the new year, 2022! My new year goals include, reading more, my word count goal, writing another chapter in my story, getting on scratch more, getting A+s in every class, and joining track. If anything, these last 2 years have made people miserable, angry, sad, unhappy, disappointed, and bored. I hope that 2022 will be the opposite. I hope we have good fortune and joy!

(if you don't wanna count its 306 words)
this is for Star Cabin

MAIN CABIN DAILY #1
413 Words for Huff Cabin!

This New Year's Eve it’s just going to be me and my family at home. Me and my sisters are probably just going to watch movies and play games and things like that until midnight. Later on in the night (It’s only like six o clock for me) me and my friend Shasha might also get on a video call, but we’re not sure yet. That’s about my whole New Year plan!
As for what I think 2022 might be like, I’m thinking/hoping that this will be the year when COVID restrictions will loosen and the world will open up again! I think that in time, there will be less mask mandates about stuff inside. I really hope that next time I perform in 2022 I won’t have to wear a mask.
Speaking of performances, in 2022 I’m really looking forward to doing more productions with my community musical theater program!
I’m doing a workshop based on Mean Girls in about a week, and in February I have auditions for Annie the Musical! I’m really excited for that and I’m hoping to be Ms. Hannigan or Grace for Annie and for the Mean Girls workshop I’m hoping to be Cady, Gretchen or Janis!
In February (After Annie auditions XD), me and my family will be going on a trip to the grand canyon! We’re going to stay the night in a hotel after we drive there and then we’ll take the train to the grand canyon so we can see it! Then we’ll take the train back and spend another day at the hotel. Then we’re planning on driving to Flagstaff for two more days!
I’ll start high school in the Fall, which is kind of exciting. I’m already taking two High School classes!!! (High School English and Algebra 1 in case you were wondering)
I also hope to do a lot of reading and writing in 2022! I hope to finish a couple of my fanfictions that I started near the end of 2021, including one for Newsies and Hunger Games! I hope to find the next book in a new series that I started called The Cure Chronicles which, surprise surprise, is a dystopian book! I really recommend the first book The Cure if you haven’t already read it!
Anyways, that’s my plan for new years as well as what I think 2022 holds and what I’m excited for!
Happy New Year everybody! Hope everyone has a fun JWC session!!!!

Frost~ in the new year I am excited for more school. I am really excited for reading. I love to read and will do it for art last 5 hours a day. I am excited for the winter Olympics. I love watching the Olympics. The Olympics are a pastime and I love seeing how people do so many tricks. When I watch people do sports that I do it helps me in the sport. I am excited for volleyball. This is in January and I love doing it. I play indoor. I love spiking even though I am horrible at it. I am hoping lots of people will get vaccinated and the world will get more normal although it probably will not be perfectly normal. This would be good in some cases while others it is not as good. An example is a lot of places after the shut down couldn't open up. I am excited to crochet more. I am going to be making a pattern for gloves. I am excited to gain more endurance writing especially typing on mobile. I am a slow writer and stop often. I am very surprised that I have gotten this far without a break. I am going to be doing a lot of voice acting. I have done a few auditions. The one that the results were out I did not get a part but I am determined to keep trying even if I fail. I am awaiting one to audition for but they are making the scripts. I also am thinking about making an audiobook. I have finished scripts for the first chapter but am waiting to do the auditions. There are around 5 characters right now but there are going to be lots. I hope to then turn this into an ebook on scratch. I am hoping to make it seem as if it is almost the same but the audio book is just talking and a narrator while the book might have less talking.


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cal's jwc writing for frost!
I'm too lazy to make a topic :-')

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weekly for 1/x/21 - 1/x/21

can't do this until there's a weekly lol

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I figured I should just go ahead and set up this thread,,, :-)
anyway, frost cabin ftw; we'll destroy you

Main Cabin Daily. January 1

First of all, New Year's Eve isn't over for me. But so far it's been pretty great. My Oma and Opa (Grandma and Grandpa) came over to play games and eat. We don't usually eat dinner on New Year's Eve, we just snack throughout the evening. We played a 3 hour long game of Frustration (Yes, it's just as frustrating as it sounds) with my Oma and Opa. They left around 8:30 because they don't want to stay up until midnight. Right now my two brothers, one of my sisters, and my dad are playing Super Mario Party, while I type this. I'm alternating writing this and working on my SWC (co)leader application. I may have to stop writing soon, as my laptop may kick me off. I don't know what I'm going to do after that. I'll probably play some games with my family until midnight. My family usually just stays inside and spends time together on New Year's Eve. We don't watch the fireworks or anything like that. Anyways, it's been a pretty good New Year's Eve so far.

I'm hoping that covid will finally fizzle out and things can return to normal. It's not looking good though, school's been transferred back to online and Christmas break has been extended. On a good note, I hope that I'll grow closer to my friends. Especially the friends in my little “family” friend group. I'm also hoping that I'll finally get a phone. I'm hoping for an iphone so I can have imessage and text my friends, but my dad h@tes Apple. I'm turning 15 soon though, and I'm hoping that my parents will let my get a job. I also need to study to get my learners. I technically could have already gotten them, but I procrastinate a lot. Procrastination is something on my resolutions. Along with Eating Healthier, getting more exercise, and just generally taking care of myself more. I don't know if I'll be able to keep any of my resolutions this year, but I'm going to try.

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Main Cabin Daily - January 1

I really hope the New Year is going to be better than last year. 2021 was not fun by any stretch of the imagination.

My school is putting on a musical, hopefully in January, and rehearsals are honestly one of the things I look forward to most when it comes to school. If it gets cancelled because of Covid, or schools go into lockdown, that's really going to suck. And I wouldn't mind another lockdown so much, to be honest, because I actually liked online learning - it's easier to go at your own pace. So I'd be fine with another lockdown if it weren't for the musical.

I don't really have any resolutions for the New Year, even though I have done in past years. Honestly, I feel like if this year is anything like the last two, I'll have done brilliantly if all I do is stay alive and mentally stable. It probably won't be amazingly easy, with GCSEs coming up and looming in the background, but honestly I think I can do it.

I know what I want to do in terms of GCSEs, which is French, History and Sociology for my options. I'm a little concerned that teachers might try to push me into doing Triple Science, which I don't want to do because then I wouldn't get to do as many Humanities. Anyway, I'm really excited about Sociology, because my school only offers it at GCSE, meaning I have to wait until Year 10 before I can start.

As far as resolutions go, I feel like one thing that might come close is the idea I had to start using an app to keep track of which books I read. I think it'll be really fun, and I hope I remember!

I'm really excited for 2022, and I just hope that everything will be okay, pandemic-wise. (Fingers crossed.)

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!

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Angel Cabin Daily: 1/1/22

Task: Write about yourself in at least 100 words.

Hello! I’m chocolatefrogs13, and as my username probably points out, thirteen is my favourite number. I have enjoyed writing ever since I was young, although when I started to enjoy it, I must admit, I was terrible. Being a bibliophile, I love to use techniques seen in other books, but my favourite type of writing is emotive writing. I made my username ‘chocolatefrogs13’ because I absolutely LOVE Harry Potter, and chocolate frogs refers to the snack Harry and Ron had on the train. And as I pointed out before, thirteen being my favourite number, I had to include it. Anyway, I was inspired to write fantasy because of the countless times I had read Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. I’m fact, I have read Harry Potter so many times that my parents have banned me from reading them. As well as this, I’m a logophile, meaning I have an interest in words. For example, I could bombard my friends with texts reading ‘Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the phobia of long words’ or make a tongue twister out of ‘Phobophobia is the the phobia of phobias’. I also love to talk about long words, like pnemonoultramicroscopicvolcanoconiosis. With writing, I love for suspense to be included, and never hesitate to include a cliffhanger. I have written many stories that are incomplete, but right now, I’m concentrating on a writing collaboration, which I hope will be a thing that will last longer than my usual stories. At school, German, English and Technology are my favourite subjects. Tech because I enjoyed cutting up wood and learning about bridle joints, dowels, finger joints, polymorph, coping saws, tenon saws and much, much more. English because, well, I love writing and learning about other writers. German because I find it fascinating, especially numbers. I also enjoy school clubs like STEM, Creative Writing and Dance. Out of school, my hobbies are Scratch, Piano, Swimming and Riddles. My favourite Harry Potter character is Luna Lovegood, my favourite Percy Jackson character is Annabeth Chase and my favourite Keeper of the Lost Cities character is Sophie. I am looking forward to a month of writing!

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Dear JWC friends
Wow! 2021 was an interesting year– what with the pandemic, covid shots for adults, covid shots for children, and booster shots. One thing that happened to me this year was moving. I had to move away from my hometown, the place I’d lived all my life. I said good-bye to friends I loved dearly. Then, I spent the summer with my Mom in my new home. We adventured our new neighborhood, went to the place where my Dad was going to work, and just had fun together. After summer was over, I went to a new school. A new grade. A new classroom. And a whole bunch of new students I’d never met before in my life. It felt like everyone knew each other, except for me. But, on Thursday, the last day of the school week for me(A bat had flown into our house the first day, and I left early to get rabies shots. Nobody got bitten, that we knew of at the time, but better safe than sorry, right?), I made a new friend-two, actually. Then, the days carried on into weeks, then weeks into months. And before I knew it, It was 2022.
I’m really excited for this new year. I’ve really changed– In my art, my writing, and my style. I hope that 2022 will be a better year then 2020 and 2021, that we will start helping this world more, that we will be kinder, and that we will soon find a way out of this dark hallway. I don’t know about you, but I think I can see the light.
I hope this new year finds you all in good spirits. I’m excited to see what will happen in the next couple of months! You are all talented authors and I am so happy to be here.
Best wishes, Anemone
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Main Cabin Daily-January 1

2021 was a year like no other. I can't say it was an amazing year, because I'd be lying, but it sure was better than 2020, right?
2021 came with some changes for me. I started middle school, which where I live, means an a whole new school building, with new teachers. It's taken a lot of adjusting, but I've made lots of new friends there. It wasn't what I was expecting, but it wasn't bad either. It's come with disappointments, like not getting a part in the school musical, and fun new things that I get to do now that I'm older, such as a writing class that I had to audition for and got into!
2021 was both the longest and shortest year I've ever experienced. Every day felt like an eternity, but the year just passed by so quickly. I feel like it was just yesterday we were celebrating the start of 2021 and the end of our terrible year 2020. Now we're celebrating the end of our terrible year 2021!
I have hopes for 2022. I know things won't be perfect. After all, wasn't everything we're saying 2022 will be like what we also said about 2021? But we can hope for the best. And hope can take you a long, long way. Now that I'm fully vaccinated and a lot of my friends are too, I think we can really get through this. In history class, when we're reading about things that happened in the past, don't you always wonder what it would be like to live at that time? Well, I don't know if everyone realizes this, but right now, we're living through history. Someday, centuries from now, kids will learn in their history classes about us. About the challenges we endured in these hard years. It's been tough, but we will get through this, if we just believe. We still have each other.
I hope 2022 is everything we hope it will be. It probably won't be, but it can come close. Just remember, even through these challenging times, none of us are ever truly alone. We're all in this together.

Happy 2022!,
Starry

1st MC Daily, Happy New Year!
Cowboy Cabin
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please excuse this sleep deprived rambling lol

I compare a lot of things to kaleidescopes, but I would have to say this is the most accurate comparison I have made so far. The fireworks really do look like kaleidoscopes, each one a sparkling bonfire of swirling flecks of light. Twisting and turning, bursting colour from the centre. Most of the time, the light forms in a spherical shape, circles illuminating the otherwise darkened sky. But sometimes, there are faces. Their glittering smiles split the sky with light, and I try my best to smile with them. Each face is accompanied with a BANG, reminding me of the “no dogs allowed at event” signs dotted all around the place as I decide whether the sound is more comparable to a gunshot or a bomb dropping. I settle with a bomb as the freckles of light dissipate, revealing the smoke quivering across the sky in their place. I can almost taste the bitterness of the air from here, thinking about how the sky must feel watching us clap as it burns.

The spectacle's over now, and so is 2021. 365 days. It doesn't feel like that long, does it? But it is- another year passed by. I find it a strange terminology, the years passing by. Don't we pass by the years, not the other way round? The years don't happen to us, we happen to the years. We make them into our own creations; we form them with our own hands. It seems like hands have gotten careless the past few years, but honestly, they've been fairly careless all along.

New year, isn't it? New memories. Shame I'm still stuck in the past, but I suppose you need old memories to create new ones.

The smoke from last year still stains the sky, remnants from only a few minutes yet a whole year ago, a reminder of what has been and what could be.

Doing Cool Cabin's daily for fun, I wrote BotW fanfiction :D

My legs tirelessly carried me up the stairs of Rito Village, depositing me at the very top of the stairs. Though I was already farther than most Hylians dared to go, I wasn't about to stop there. I turned to the rock pillar topping the village, craning my head upwards to where it disappeared into the clouds.
I grabbed the rough stone and began to pull myself upwards.
Little by little, I scaled the massive rock wall, running my fingers along its bumpy surface in search of cracks. When I finally dared to look down, I nearly let go from fright. The small plateau that the village was nestled upon was almost out of sight, not to mention the land below it. Falling now would mean certain death.
Resting for a moment with one tired foot pressed into a miniature ledge, I take a deep breath. The cool air of the Hebra mountains sends a wave of refreshment through my aching limbs, giving me the strength needed to continue.
I don't dare to look down any time soon.
Glancing upwards—a much safer alternative—I see that I've nearly reached the top of the pillar. One more breath gives me the power I need to pull myself up the last few feet. Reaching my hand over the top of the pillar, I grab a rock, which immediately slips and tumbles off into the abyss. A small pop sounds from above me and I groan. This is just the time I don't want to find a Korok.
Finding a better handhold, I finally manage to heave myself onto the flat surface atop the pillar, pumping my fist into the air in triumph.
The Korok eyes me warily before creeping back behind its rock.
I turn around and sit with my legs dangling down towards the village, staring into the snow-covered mountains in the distance. Slowly letting out my breath, I close my eyes, letting the misty mountain air surround me.

January 1, 2022
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In 2022, I think everyone is hoping for a better year. Everyone is saying expectations are low, so hopefully some delightful surprises will happen. Honestly, 2020 and 2021 were some of the hardest years in my life, and I’m really hoping with everyone else that 2022 will be better. There are so many things that I wish could happen, but alas, you can’t have everything. It’s just lately I feel like some people have spectacular lives while I have virtually nothing. I’m hoping to start off 2022 with a wonderful JWC session, and make a lot of new friends. I’m also hoping to possibly lead/co-lead a cabin in SWC for March 2022, so I’m working on my leader/co-leader application for that as well. Also, I think it would be cool to crochet more and get some more variety of yarn colors, because right now my yarn options are rather limited. Mostly, I’m hoping to go far in school, and work on Science Olympiad and Beta. I hope I can make my parents proud and maybe achieve something big. I don’t want to look too far into the future though. I think mainly I just want to focus on JWC this month. Not to mention, science fair is literally right around the corner and I am sitting here writing instead of working on my project. Why is it that all the fun things I want to do are not priorities? Anyway, I’ve been rambling off topic for too long. I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do during 2022, but I’m hoping to just wing it and try to work hard. I want recognition of some sort, but I’m not sure how I’m going to achieve that. I guess I’ll just keep working on myself and strive to be better. JWC would probably help with that. Anyway this is kind of sappy so I better stop and work on science fair now. It’s sad that winter break is over, but I’m interested in finding out what lies in the future ahead.
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Yep, first daily of the session completed! Ugh, I guess I have to do science now.

Jan 1, 2022
Angel Cabin

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yeah I just did the jan 1st daily- I guess I just write and post? Tell me if I'm wrong–

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2022.
I didn't think it would come so fast! I can still remember clearly when I woke up on the first day of the year in 2021. I even remember the very first word I said. 2021 has gone by in a flash.
I can't say I'm looking forward to 2022, but at least it's another year I get to experience. I'm not dead yet, which is relieving.
The pandemic really sucks, and it's only getting worse. And to think that back in 2020, I thought it would be over by now! But no, here it is still, in 2022, not much better.
On the bright side, hopefully with all of the new vaccines and tests we can lower covid rates and save more people's lives.
But enough about covid-19, I know we're all sick of hearing about it on the news.
What about 2022 for me, personally? I'm not sure, really. I have no idea what's going to happen. I mean, some things are already planned out, like school. I'm moving on from plain old middle school, so there's that.
I don't know. I suppose we're getting fish that year, but it's not super exciting.
I wish I could see into the future, to know exactly what's happening this year. Every pro and every con, every exciting thing yet to come. Better yet, if something terrible were to happen to me this year, perhaps I could avoid it. I know I'm going a little off-topic now, but I truly have no idea what the new year will be like. It'll probably be something like the previous years, except different. Generally the same, but when inspected closer, almost every single thing changes. We are a year older. Everything is. We move on from 2021 to 2022, and next year, 2022 to 2023.
Oh, gosh. 2023. I don't think I'm ready for 2023, let alone 2022. I'm told that I'll miss 2021, but if I had to be truly honest, I won't!
In 2019, I was told 2020 would be a great new year, with lots of things to look forward to!
They were wrong.
Going off-topic again, so back to 2022. I guess I'm looking forward to summer vacation, it'll sure be an upgrade of all the snow we have here. I live in the mountains, and right now it's snowing. There's about a foot and a half of snow outside. I won't miss that.
But, will I? I won't see deep snow again until winter at the end of 2022.
Well, I'm telling myself that I should stop typing. But, I don't know. I'm feeling it right now, so I guess I'll write a little more.
In 2022, I hope to improve. Heavily. I want to draw better. My style right now is fine, but I want to see how much better I can be! I want to feel proud of my art, and know that it is quality.
I also want to write better. You've probably noticed, I'm not using a super big vocab right now, I usually do that when I'm writing about myself. I want to expand that vocab this year, learn new methods to writing, and finish a book. I really want to finish a book. I'm writing like, ten all at once right now, but I can never bring myself to write on them. Hopefully this writing camp will help improve my writing.
I also want to improve my more musical side. I play piano and the recorder, and I like to sing as well. I want to improve on that, especially my voice. I love to sing low, but my voice cracks whenever I sing too high. I want to fix that, as well.
Let's see, what else? Get another cat? Probably not happening this year.
Well, I'm deprived of ideas. I have no more material at the top of my head, and this is probably 400 words already. Let me check…
650 words?
Oh. Uh…
Let me count that.
300 is 400, plus another 300 is 800, and an extra 100 for sharing it. That's 900, right? Unless I'm wrong?
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
It's probably around 700 now, but to be honest I'm just done.
Bye, and to all a good year!

-Jay

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(900 points? I think?)

Jan 1st, 2022
Angel Cabin

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2021 was interesting, to say the least. Covid 19 has definitely put a toll on our social lives. Staying at home all the time, with nothing to do…it gets pretty boring. But, we can all hope for the best for 2022. I've been writing some novels, and one of them is scheduled for publication at my local library! So, that's cool. In 2022, I'm planning on doing better in school (because, like, for Math I have a B+ while every other class has at least an A) and my social life. Every time I interact with someone, I'm constantly struggling to find the right words. I was a big hand talker, but now I just…don't do that anymore. My social anxiety has also been going way up. But, I've managed to stay close to my old elementary school friends, and we hang out sometimes. We sort of look out for each other. One of them often joke that we'll be together even when we're older. (I have to cut this short because I have to leave now, sorry!)

I have a question about the main cabin and in cabin daily. Well for a start I don't think the main cabin daily changed-was it supposed to? I don't really understand the utc time thing. Also in Star Cabin. It's still the same too. I have no clue if that is normal because some other cabins changed theirs. If you have an answer please put it on my profile or something! Also tell me if these are pointless questions.

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2022, come to think of it, 2020 was awful, 2021 was bad, maybe 2022 will be good? NAH. global warming, people going oof (if that even IS A WORD)
but think of it as parrapa
2019 bad/good
2020 Colonel noodle: getting worse
2021 colonel noodle: getting better!
2022 Colonel noodle: getting better
but, 2023?????!!!!!!!!! colonel noodle: cool mode 2023!!!! bam!
either way it was good because i got a new computer (wich im on) and animal crossings!!! 2022 is off to a good start, first, i joined here, and uh, i didnt do anything else,but who knows what could be in store this year!!




P.S Me:the world will end in 2022 change my mind random person: covid will end this year. me: the world will end in 7.5 billion years change my mind