hi guys, Tabby here. u might have noticed my inactivity for a while now, and there's multiple reasons for that. dw, i'm gonna tell u all of them. but, before we start, i need to make an important announcement. one that could change my life. no, it WILL. guys... friends... pookies.... and everyone who knew me during the time period where i called y'all "Tabbies"... I Tabby, aka Sanvika Am leaving scratch.mit.edu or as u know it, Scratch. this may be terrible news for u IF ur my friend, or, if u truly h8 me, this is rlly super, duper, mega-awesome GREATNESS news for u. but for me, it's good and bad. so let's get into it. ‹·˚ ҂ੈ♡ inactivity ˳ ༘° the reason for my ia is.. u know what i'm still that lazy 11 yr old who is u know, LAZY, so i'm gonna copy and paste what i texted my irl bsf is on scratch too (shoutout to ma bestie, @elliemaisbest): "my parents took away my "kindle", my school iPad, the book light, so now all i have is 1) books and 2) this laggy laptop which i'm only allowed to use for KHAN ACADEMY but my mom and bro r out shopping and my dad is click-ity clacking away on one of his three work computers upstairs so" as u can tell, i'm on my "laggy laptop" after like an entire week of boring Thanksgiving break doing absolutely N-O-T-H-I-N-G! so that's why i haven't been online. but, there's also my lack of motivation, like how lately i've been wishing for mounds of messages, which i DO get, but i just forget or am too *ahem* LAZY to respond to them... heh, I'm guilty ∩(︶▽︶)∩ but more on that later ‹·˚ ҂ੈ♡ why I’m leaving ˳ ༘° K so there’s like ALOT of reasons I’m leaving, and i shiver when i think of all the reasons (but i also shiver cz it’s 26 degrees Fahrenheit outside). So I’ll tell u guys the important ones. Addiction to the website & sleep As u can tell, this site is RLLY addicting once u get attached to it! At this point, it’s severely interfering with my life. When i was really addicted to Scratch in October, i snuck my school iPad into bed with me and chatted with u guys, making projects and stuff instead of sleeping. This made me get only about 5 hours of sleep on school nights, cz I would wake up at 6 to get ready for school. This also made me receive severe back pains these few days away from my screen while i rested over this week off from school we call Thanksgiving break. My mom also caught me red handed doing the sneaking on like Thursday, RIGHT when i got pneumonia and RIGHT before break, so i ended up without any devices until NOW, and that also explains my absence from Scratch in more detail and ARGHHHH MY BAACK no actually i just got a spike of PAINNNNNNNNNNNNN ugh ok onto tye next reason I’m leaving: Self care <3 So uh as a lot of u know, I’m about 11-12 yrs old, and I’m like just about to go to middle school, after this school yr ends (and obvi summer break), and i don’t like how i take care of myself, in, well, a lot of ways. As this year ends, and a new one begins, i wanna make it a goal that i eat A LOTTTTT healthier, and i can prevent myself from eating buckets of candy a day (ok that was over exaggerated it’s actually 10 candies a day BUT STILL A LOT!!)… also i wanna take facial care cz like, less than two yrs to 13!! So i wanna look my best. Also, i need to look GOOD for my 5th gr ceremony at the end of this yr. Plus, i need to control some of my irl drama. I’ve js been using scratch as a vent space when drama hits, and now I don’t wanna do that. I wanna talk to real ppl in my lives, ppl that I interact w/ everyday, in PERSON, so yh Studies ☹️ UGHHHHH ok I’ll just come out and tell u that this yr—study wise—has NOT been good. As i told u, I’ve been addicted to this place kinda since the school yr began, and I’m NOT happy w/ that. As usual, my ELA grades r high, and so is writing. But math… yeaaaaaaa that’s where u can see the *slight* problem. On every math test so far this yr, I’ve been getting ONE question wrong, and there’s only 7 QUESTIONS!! My elementary school scores and gives grades using the 1234 system: 1- i dunno what they call it, but it’s like RLLY BAD, like an F- or smth 2- basic, meaning like a D or smth 3- developed, meaning a C or B? 4- advanced, aka a A, aka the one my parents expect me to get on every single test JUST CZ I’M IN THE GIFTED AND TALENTED PROGRAM (aka ATP)!! My mom actually told me, “if u don’t pick up ur grades, u might be kicked out of ATP” LIKE, MY OWN MOM DOESN’T BELIEVE IN ME!! (Btw it’s not possible to be kicked out of ATP but my mom doesn’t know that) so like, i want some time away from Scratch to study more and get better grades in school (or, uh, math, mostly) so ya <3 Like, there’s so many little things that i don’t wanna name them all, so let’s move on ‹·˚ ҂ੈ♡ The Seaside Shoppe ˳ ༘° The seaside shoppe is like, my greatest achievement on Scratch, besides 465+ followers, but it is my greatest sorrow to say… The Seaside Shoppe is officially closing. I’m so glad and happy with how well it is thriving and gaining (+)
(+) so much popularity and customers, but it’s just too much and i can’t handle all of it. So, uh, yea, I’m rlly sry to everyone but. Yh ‹·˚ ҂ੈ♡ my banner comp ˳ ༘° So I RLLY wanna finish it but i can’t since in a few days I’m not gonna be on Scratch anymore. That means I’m canceling the comp. Tysm to EVERYONE who entered, buy it’s all just too much and i won’t be able to do it. I’m so sry <3 i hope y’all can forgive meh ☹️ ‹·˚ ҂ੈ♡ the last note ˳ ༘° On top of this happening, there’s also the fact that i have an irl life, like many of u-no, ALL of u! I have crushes of my own, friend dilemmas of my own, besties of my own, friends who r boys of my own, class problems of my own… but i also have Scratch. And it’s not my own. It’s all of our’s. So, i wanna just say: even while I’m gone, be kind. Stay kind. Keep our website kind. And, if u need me—any of u!—just contact @elliemaisbest and she’ll lmk irl, k? And when i get Roblox (who KNOWS when that’ll be), I’ll tell her to tell u guys what my username is </3 cz i luv Scratch, but there’s still a whole world out there with things i haven’t seen, things I’ve yet to explore. And, to my friends, there’s notes inside this proj 4 u all. To the ppl on here i know (but wasn’t that close to), u r all awesome, and i wish i could stay, but each of us has to go at some point, and now is MY time to leave. I’ll be back, someday. I might still stay on scratch, but i won’t be very active. And don’t worry, it’s not ur guys’ fault I’m leaving; it’s cz of me, for MY good, it’s MY doing. So… Don’t cry; stay awesome ‹·˚ ҂ੈ♡ goodbye ˳ ༘° I know that last note was like a goodbye, but still, u didn’t know it was the goodbye, so I’m going to do it here. I luv y’all so much. I luv this website so much. But I’m not that addicted to the site this week, so i wanna take this opportunity to leave. I still remember my dad making an email acc for me so that i could have all.. this. But now it’s time to say goodbye. To say goodbye to all my 10+ accounts. To say goodbye to all of my pookies on here. To say goodbye to the 465+ followers i have. I thought I’d be saying goodbye to all of this when i graduated middle school. Turns out I’m saying this while I’m graduating from the 1st trimester of my last year of elementary school. I’m saying goodbye to that first project of mine, where i showed u guys how to draw a smiling girl. And one of my fav first projects, where u got to decorate a light blue Stanley. Guess what? That light blue Stanley from the proj became my irl water bottle that i use everyday. I have to say goodbye to all of this, but of course i knew i would someday. Just.. not this soon. I’ll be leaving sometime in the next few days, once i handle all of the things I’m canceling, like all the banner comps I’ve entered but didn’t finish, my own banner comp that I’m hosting, The Seaside Shoppe, and so much more. I will come back for like Christmas i think and maybe New Years but ya. I’ll try to pop on once in every few months, js to chat and stuff. So.. yea. Deco my tree, guys: https://decomytree.com/home?hashedId=9cmot13t9N_E anyways….. Goodbye, guys. See u on the other side of the Internet. I luv u all :’) So, for (hopefully not) the last time…. -Tabby <3 Monday, December 2, 2024
