Sappy Christmas stuff mush

This will be the first time I sleep by myself for a while. Louis went home to CT for Christmas Eve because his mom was working Christmas Day. I'm already feeling lonely from the anticipation. 

So unfortunately because I was working Xmas Eve I had to go back to my family's house after such a long time away. It was so uncomfortable with how formal everyone was. 

On a happy note, Lou and I hung out with Lil and Joey and Arc Sunday night and played video games. It was really great. The following day (Monday) I had a meltdown in front of Lou because I behind on a commission. So after just kissing my head and calming me by the tri-window, we ended up spending the dy watching movies and shopping. I finally found a gift for my parents that night. 

Lou found 1 of 2 gifts that Lil told him to get and we spent a lot of time in the shops.

Once we returned home we marathoned 3-4 movies and played animal crossing and ate pizza and Lou made a ballin' homemade Mac and cheese. It had chicken broth taste...so GOOD!!!! 

I had to be awake for work so I packed everything I needed to go to my family's house and we went to bed early. It was quite nice.

Now I'm in bed kind of lonely, wrapping up his stocking gifts and finishing some of the presents I made/got for him. It's making me nostalgic! I got into Christmas super hard this year because it was my first year spending it back in MA! Louis said he never got a stocking so I immediately jumped on that opportunity with a makeshift one until I can knit him a long one with his name on it! 

I also asked him what the best gifts he got were and he immediately said buzz lightyear from when he was little. I asked him what recent (past 5 years) were ones he liked or were memorable but he said nothing stood out to him aside from smaller things his sister got him. Not even friend/family gifts stood out. So I tried my hardest to figure out some gift ideas that could make an impression or he'd appreciate and while I didn't obtain what I wanted, I have a chance at a $200 gift that I think he would love. Depending on whether the place has restocked yet I want to get it for him for Thursday. I have a couple of bigger things that are either cool or meaningful to tie him over for the holidays. I just want to see him smile. :)

tree, misty wip, shrine goings, etc.

I finally put up the tree I got!! 

Currently decorating now.

Thanksgiving [COMPLETED] [short]

To be honest I don't have any pictures from thanksgiving but I had a wonderful time.

BLOG CHANGE AND SQUISHY

PSA: I WILL BE CHANGING THE NAME OF THIS BLOG IN DECEMBER TO USE KATPOMPON AS AN ART/LIFE BLOG AND THIS WILL BE CHANGED TO "POMCHEN"

The reason I'm doing this is because this blog has become predominantly relational and I really want to document all of the cute things between us. I used to do this tangibly in notebooks and scrapbooks but I figure those things I will lose and blogger has only a slim chance of deleting itself. When I'm in the mood I can look back on all of the things we've done together, big or small and it will remind me that I have a wonderful life and a wonderful man to share it with.

Now onward to a puffy faced Lou & plushie penguin.

Ash Ketchum Costume

Super Mario Sunshine vs Pokemon

So recently I publically posted about wanting pokemon xy really badly and about 2 hours later I met up with Lou who got me X. I had bought a present for him too and I wasn't expecting it to be an exchange but I bought him the Guess How Much I Love You rabbit which he had said he had lost as a kid in a conversation we had a week or two before along with a little picture to go along with it.

He seemed to be really moved by it so hopefully my gift giving is on the right track. I just wanted to give him something for no reason.

5 months and date night

So I wanted to update about shit but most of it involves Lou and I wanted to try and keep my blog balanced and it's literally like 80% mushy shit. So I'm just gonna do a read more for all Lou posts or long posts because ugh gross.

Fall Festival Weekend

So this past weekend I went to the Fall Festival in RI with Lou. It was perfect weather but the whole weekend was off to a rough start~

When I got off work Friday night, I had been dropped off so Billy could use my car for whatever he was doing. So I was dropped off and the original plan was for Louis to pick me up but I hadn't packed for the weekend. I was picked up and driven directly to a bar where both my parents and my uncle met up. I began getting agitated because my mother said we'd go home within 5ish minutes and I was supposed to meet Lou for 9pm. 30 minutes go by and I tell Lou to be patient but I hear my father say to my mom, who is obviously bummed that I'm beginning to freak out "Don't worry, don't be sad honey, her plans don't matter." And immediately I text Lou to come straight to the bar. Upon finding out he's coming, my father immediately tries to get everyone to leave the bar and leave me stranded. I was so angry I got really upset at the bar and had to leave so people didn't see how flushed I was. I was taken home and had to call Lou AGAIN to meet me at home.

When he got there I ran up to him, then packed really fast and jumped in his car. I couldn't get away fast enough.

He was really sweet despite how angry and short tempered I was and how pouty and bratty I was with him. He bought my a pumpkin latte, something we always share together now and my mood improved because I know he was trying to cheer me up.

The weekend got a lot better after that.

fucking mushy as fuq;; you've been warned

Ugh

I had a really terrible day today. I got in a bit of an argument with Louis regarding the fact that I don't text him as much as he does and I'm relatively withdrawn when we are apart.

I also was extremely late to work because of a schedule mix up, had my clothes torn on a box cutter and had my coworkers be less than supportive.

And I get home and the only thing I want to do is clean and currently I'm going crazy on my house because it's such a mess but the amount of pent up irritation has converted into an unlimited supply of energy.

I talked to my friend about it and she mentioned (because she's obsessed with SNK) that if Levi and Eren had a love child it would be me due to the amount of OCD rage. Currently it applies to today. But I already feel better now that I'm being productive 

Health Update and Hang out

Nexplanon - One Week Later

Healed up great! just a lil red dot and some redness where I removed the bandages.

Healing update 3-4 days later

Healing - approx 90 hours (4ish) days later.

Bandages came off and only the underbandages keeping the crater incision (puncture wound) remain. They're super sticky and the doctor said to keep them on until they fall off naturally around day 10. The dark line is the marker and slightly bruising from the implant.

symptoms and experiences so far:

Mood levels are fine but on a whole I've felt anxious because of personal family stuff and having Louis angry at someone Saturday was terrifying. I wasn't even present but i spoke with him through it and it was intense in my opinion. Hard to say if hormones are adding to it or not.

Very crampy lately. Just finished monthly lady business but progesterone is the chemical that tricks your body into thinking its pregnant, so the symptoms come along with it initially according to the doctor.

My back and lower abdomen were in excruciating pain in the mornings but tamed with little heating pads. Nausea comes and goes in waves. It's miserable physically but slowly improving. After reading a lot of reviews I'm just happy that everyone else seemed to have similar experiences.

Acne is ok. Instead of entirely clear skin I get a few very very small blemishes but not bad as long as I just keep my face clean. No weight gain, more cravings for meat, eggs and chocolate. Less cravings for seafood and dairy.

Overall I notice the hormones because of these changes but I'm hoping after the week is over they should be subsiding.

I Skyped for a long time tonight without issue so symptoms are beginning to space themselves out. At work I only felt gross twice. 

That's it so far!!!  I can push through this no problem. Totally worth the 3 years.

Uncommon problems

For those of you, (i.e. all of you), who don't know, I used to live in a very large house. It had a pool and a play room and a cool basement, but in my Junior year of high school, it imploded while we were away on vacation.

Breakfast, acnl and nexplanon symptom update

Had breakfast at ihop today yay!!

Cape Retreat Day w/ Mom

Quick entry because I'm on mobile:

I went to the beach today with my mother and had a very relaxing afternoon. I love spending time with my mom even though she can drive me crazy. It was really windy and a bit chilly so we ended up leaving after 1-2 hours. The rest of the day was spent napping and being lazy until dinner when we went out together. It was really refreshing. 

We also stopped for ice cream. I was happy that I got to talk to her about a lot of things that made me nervous and personal biz. It was only recently that I opened up to her about sex life stuff and relationships and other personal issues and it seemed like a weight off my shoulders.

I hope we have more days like this. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I return tomorrow to FINALLY get the fucking implant in my arm ugh. They've been putting it off so long I want to die but they're taking my money tomorrow so they better get it done lol

BUT I'M FEELING TWENTY THREE

Finally a post about the best weekend ever.

I think sometimes my sense of character is too independent for its own good.

何も

打ち明けられない誰も
信じられない誰も彼も
人生は難しい
今日、何がいないだよ

眠いですよ、とても眠い。

飲みたい、眠たい。

寂しい、とても寂しい

あなたは裏切られた

Friday 7.30.2013 updates

Literally how we spent our night. I wanted to play Luigi's mansion so badly these past few days so we started a new Save File. 

ramble

are you fucking kidding me. this is under the last three days post after I posted my 3 comics in total. Art gets you places I guess.

Literally this is the only thing that has given me confidence in my art lately. I've been really upset that I'm not working at a studio. I want to be able to make art and make good money at it. I guess tumblr is a good place to start even if it's just me dicking around doing nothing. This is my only motivation aside from my own drive. Every time someone likes something I've done I need to keep going. This post is a reminder to myself that I can do things people like. Something that took me 5 seconds to create had 34 people like it enough to try and keep a track on my blog. I love it. I love them and I love art and I love this. I'm still so upset but this has helped. Even if I had only received 1, it would have helped. I'm sad and happy at the same time because I'm not where I want to be but I know there are people out there who believe in me and thats all that matters.

Logging on tonight has made my day.

Waterfire

On Saturday, my family and I went to a Providence festival known as Waterfire~

dancing chefs!! lol

MINI GOLFING

Cleanliness Drabble

I'm not an extraordinarily neat person. But in high school I was flat out disastrously messy. My room looked like a bomb went off in it. My entire house does now anyway, because not only was I messy, but my entire family (with the exception of my saint-like younger brother) was too. 

After living in my own apartment by myself for 1.5 years and various other apartments/dorm room for the other 3, I've learned how to maintain a certain level of neatness. The problem is, if something is already messy then it's difficult for me to clean the mess already made and instead I just add to it because it's already there.

I came home and keep in mind, it took 4 years for me to become neat and pretty OCD about it too. I come home to a family who is once again, very messy. I almost have a conniption every day. My room was terrible, left in the disastrous state I had it in high school. 

Fast forward post college to let's say...now. Currently my room NOW looks like World War 3 erupted and only took place within this 24x18 foot space. 

I'm very, very overwhelmed but I need to clean this room within the next 3 days. How do I do it? Everytime I've tried I'd been distracted or so overwhelmed with the fact that even an hour of cleaning looks like nothing has changed that I give up.

I still have boxes upon boxes of my college and apartment things: furniture, clothes, lamps, my TV etc. and it seems like the amount of useless stuff is never ending. I need to minimize the entirety of my things into less than 5 suitcases. (this includes lamps and dishware etc) for moving out. How do I do it? The feat seems impossible

Anyway, just thought I'd rant. I really just want to help my family get the house in order and together. I hate messiness now. I can't stand it. I can't have anyone over my house in the state it's in now but no one will do anything about it so it's rather overwhelming.

It's 12:40am right now and I'm going to spend the next 3 hours cleaning my room to the best of my ability. Lucky for me, tumblr is down so I can't get too distracted. UGH

Gifts from NYC

Just wanted to say thanks again to ラリー·バートfor purchasing this gift in japan for me. Thank you for thinking of me while you were visiting there!  It was great practice for reading as well XD let's travel to Osaka soon!! 

ありがとうございました!

この本が好きですよ

gym time

Today we went to the gym and died. Today was shoulders calves and abs and I could barely do any! Since that's my weakest day, Louis beat me at everything weight wise. I felt calves were the hardest.

Cardio was great but I got a side stitch :(

I kept taking pictures of Louis because he was super into it when he was on the machines. 240 pounds on calves compared to my measly 135 (which I could barely do).

I think I might take some pictures of myself doing certain exercises for reference and to post a guide and How To on here.

We finished after the crunch machine because Louis felt a twinge in his spine so we just cardio-ed again on the bikes instead of treadmills and headed home with food so I could go back to work. 

Before then I showed him the rest of my backyard which is about 1.8 acres of grass and trees and showed him the old abandoned chicken coops and the fire pit!!! 

Anyway, off to work but I really wanted to post that picture because its cute and Louis will probably hate me for it LOL

TANDEM BIKING

This Saturday my family and I went to Cape Cod for the weekend. Considering family stuff involves a lot of sitting around or yard work I decided to bring Louis and go adventuring. I really wanted to take him tandem biking because he had never done it before and the one time I did it I had a ton of fun.

We drove down Friday night and ended up talking until 3am which we hadn't done in a while. We talked a lot about style and influences and taboo stuff like drugs and what I've done and what I'd do again and what we would do together if we ended up in that scenario and vice versa and piercings and how he liked industrials and those spiral piercings and how if he got one that I'd get one too and about video games and cosplay and all the different cosplays he looked forward to and how he would make a good Haru but he wanted to keep his hair long etc and also personal things we needed to address together. It was just generally nice.

Since we stayed over Friday night, I made blueberry pancakes in the morning and lounged around playing Super Mario Sunshine. We set out around 1 and got some pizza at Louis's request and then approached the bike shop. The staff was pretty surprised I wanted the tandem bike and seemed pleased about it. He brought a giant red tandem bike around the front. I paid for it and we were off. Louis seemed kind of embarrassed about it but warmed up to it quickly, hopping on and riding it around the parking lot in front of the canal.

It did look kinda goofy, but look at him go LOL

After a couple tries in the beginning we finally got the hang of balancing on a two person bike and off we went!! The whole canal is about 7 miles long. It was an absolutely beautiful day with very little wind and a nice breeze as we rode along the canal.

Unfortunately the tandem bike was a little tilted in the back so riding in the rear first was a little uncomfortable. We kind of leaned to the right and it felt like we were gonna just speed right into the river. It took us about an hour to bike the whole 7 miles down which wasn't bad at all. We stopped twice to rest and once to get water. But once we made it we went out onto the rocks and found somewhere to sit.

We sat down and drank a ton of water and gatorade and started eating the lunches we packed. We had made ballin' sandwiches right before we left and ate in the sunshine. It was such a nice day out, not too hot and not to chilly and we watched a lot of people fish in the canal. Behind Louis in the picture is the Atlantic Ocean. I'm sad we didn't have time to walk along the coast a bit but we had to have the bike returned by 4:30. So after a nice long lunch and a few billion selfies and pictures of each other, we headed back out. 

This time the ride was a lot easier. We biked the whole seven miles in one shot without stopping, this time I was riding up front. Louis was chillin in the back and a lot of passersby thought the sight was pretty amusing. A ton of little kids became really excited at the site of a two person bike and pointed and shouted and pulled their parents to look or check it out. One kid specifically yelling "MOM LOOK IT'S A TWOFER" with a lisp was the cutest thing.

NEW YORK CITY

ok actually creating NYC post in entirety. PLEASE STAND BY LMAO. will save and publish in updates so i dont lose data

Okay so I arrived in NYC around 3pm and waited around for a bit lost in Port Authority. Out of nowhere I saw Hiroki and almost died because it had been so long. After a million 久しぶり’ｓ (essentially: "long time, no see") we went back to the hotel and I changed and we explored the city.

It was cloudy and immediately started downpouring which was terrible and awesome at the same time. We didn't have umbrellas so we literally just walked around soaked and my hair was a massive poof once we were in Times Square. 

We ended up going to the M&M's store too which was incredibly big. Towers upon towers of candy and I mentioned that M&M's mini version were my favorites so he got me a bag. What a sweetheart!

We explored Times Square and Manhattan and went all over the place. Here's the inside of Trump Tower, a neat fountain! It had shops inside so we went into Nike and Adidas!! We walked everywhere, my feet hurt so much ;^;

after being heavily rained on and gross LOL

Night time Times Square.

We ended up at the Disney Store and looked around at all the things. I tried to find Cheshire Cat themed things but all I saw was a mug. The inside was incredible though! Very open and fun! After more exploring, we decided to eat yakiniku and go to a restaurant called Gyu-kaku. It was SO delicious. I love Japanese food as is but Hiroki had me try some things I had never tasted before. The interior was nicely decorated. Hiroki bought me the dinner and it was very nice of him, I can't imagine what the bill must've been because he kept ordering food continuously and getting us drinks.

mini appreciation post and random stuff

JESUS H. CHRIST.

Honestly I'm so happy I received so much positive feedback on something that was literally only for kicks and giggles. Thank you so much everyone. You're kind words and messages make me feel amazing and I love it.

When I get selfies reblogged it's a huge compliment and I know it's weird to write a post about but my confidence which was fine before is through the roof now because of this. 

Speaking of cosplay, I'd figure that I want to do really simple ones for a while with an extremely complicated one for Otakon and Comic Con next year. Because everyone I want to go with me will be out of school...well GRADUATED and working, we can make this happen.

For simple ones I'm definitely considering Tifa. I want to do Tifa and Zack with Louis and have my brother be Cid or something. 

I already listed couple cosplays I want to do on tumblr, but for singular, definitely Lust, Eren Jaeger, Ivy from Soul Caliber, Poison Ivy (again, refitting my last outfit), Jessica Rabbit, Black Cat revamped, Gou Matsuoka (with a group maybe?), revamped Neliel, Morrigan, feminine Gene Starwind, cast of Tenjou Tenge, etc.

Hopefully this will be my lineup for the year.

I will be attending 15 cons total so I'm really excited.

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In other non-cosplay but fashion-y news, I ordered a lot of Boy London and am trying not only to get back into the k-hiphop fashion again but also my long lost gyaru passion. I miss being able to be cute one day and try and attempt sexy the next. I can't wait for my birthday though! I have a whole schoolgirl-y boy london, over the knee stockings outfit planned. Cute as fuq.

I talked to my boy and a few friends and I noticed that while mos tof them have a set theme for fashion, a lot have expressed longing to switch it up. I think it's ok to wear whatever the fuck you want, cute or punk or sexy, whatever makes you happy. I know Mary wants to dress more cute, Louis expressed wanting to be classy as fuck (like he dresses everyday) but also like...cool and punkish? I forget exactly what he wanted but they both mentioned that they feel like they can't just attempt it without whiplash from others. I've been slowly persuading Louis to wear Supras more often and Mary to wear bows and slowly they're both starting to incorporate it. (Louis is harder to persuade in the fashion department LOL, I think he's waiting for his ponytail to grow out before busting out the Supras, Mary will only wear bows around me but I got a text today with a picture of her in the white bow I made LOL so proud ;^;)

It's really upsetting that people take the opinions of others so personally. I think it can be disheartening but at the same time, if you express confidence in what you wear and what you look like, eventually it won't matter because you, yourself will be happy. 

METEOR SHOWER

I'm sorry I'm so terrible about updating. I just really like uploading pictures and I don't have the SD card for my phone so I have to email them which is super tedious.

Anyway I had literally the most romantic night last night during the meteor shower and I wish I could relive it over and over and over.

once again, using the cut for anyone who doesn't wanna read sappy shit

NEW YORK CITY TRIP

The highlight of NYC summed up in a photo. Singing Screaming KURENAI by X JAPAN at karaoke.

Gonna upload more pictures as the night goes on. Just gotta filter them out and upload them. Please stand by!! ^_^

NYC MEETUP AND 3 MONTH ANNIVERSARY MUSH

TOMORROW IS THE DAY I MEET UP WITH HIROKI, LITERALLY MY BEST FRIEND AND THE MAN I'M PLATONICALLY IN LOVE WITH AND MY BACK UP HUSBAND IF NEITHER OF US ARE MARRIED BY 26.

Hiroki was a college transfer student at my university during my Sophomore year and following a lot of shit, he became my closest friend. For a while we had crushes on each other because we were SO close (despite him not physically being my type) but it faded into mutual respect and now we're both in committed relationships but still joke around like a married couple. I'll be staying with him for three days and we're going to adventure all over the city. I'm so excited.

The subject of joint tattoos came up too but I don't know if I'm entirely ready. I always plan these things out a million years in advance and I kind of wanted my first tattoo to be the one I had planned for a while but this kid means the world to me so I might go through with it if its a reasonable cost. Definitely getting more piercings if I don;t though! No body ones, probably just ears still. Trying to fill them up before moving elsewhere.
Honestly not even sure if I want my belly or collarbones pierced anymore. Kind of getting over that whole scene and I'm really lazy during the healing process when it comes to rings and stuff and they're easy to pull out whereas with tattoos, you can't exactly rip one out accidentally LOL.

Anyway, yes, it's going to be great, and whats better is that it will be giving me a chance to brush up on my Japanese AND Korean considering that's the only language that will be spoken between me and Hiroki and the others I'll be meeting up with. No English for the next three days is intimidating though.

~~~~~WARNING: GROSS LOVEY STUFF AFTER THE "READ MORE": AVERT EYES~~~~~~~~~

Gonna make a cut for some of my Louis posts because it can be too mushy but I need to write it out. For daily hangout, there won't be cuts all the time. In this case, it's a bunch of feels because of the date. Just for my HS buds or tumblr followers who read this and don't wanna see all the love crap LOL

boredboredbored

Due to some misunderstandings, I wasn't able to go to CT tonight. I didn't have a huge desire to go either because I feel like I would just get in the way of bro time tomorrow, but I guess I didn't realize how lonely it would be without much contact.

I'm drawing again, lots of quick practice sketches that are kind of shitty, but it helps the creativity. I'll be starting a full illustration or digital painting tomorrow. It's been too long.

I guess I'm going to watch Garden of Words tonight. I wanted to watch it after Sherlock but the visuals are just too appealing and it seems like a bittersweet movie. If not, then I guess I'll catch up in Orange is the New Black or rewatch Tekkonkinkreet. -groans- boredom is worse than death.

Garden of Words clip

So beautiful.

I actually tried to get into Welcome to Night Vale but it is rather strange. Reminds me of an audio book in the form of announcements. It took a while to get into but it's actually not to bad.

New episodes of Free! coming out tomorrow and gonna rewatch the fuck out of SNK. I'm such a sucker for tumblr trends but even when it was just known as "swimming anime" and was a 30 second preview I watched the fuck out of it~ I want to make Haru's swimwear so badly, perhaps that'll be a nice project for tomorrow as well since I'm stuck inside for the day!!

Hangout Posts Again

Last night, around 10pm I went to Louis's. At this point I might as well skip asking permission and just ask forgiveness if my family is mad about it because it felt like I hadn't seen him in ages and I wasn't able to visit him over the weekend. I should be able to see him whenever as is, but situation............yeah. As soon as he was out of work he called and I drove, arriving pretty late. I looked ridiculous because I hadn't done laundry and all I could find was a black pleated skirt and a white BigBang shirt Cheleen gave me and the first shoes I found were high tops so once I rolled up the T-shirt sleeves I looked like I was straight out of street fighter.

We bummed around for a bit and then he reminded me he bought some things from an Asian Market he was waiting for me for.

Holy fuck it was so delicious

More pix under the cut----->

Moving and TMI LADY STUFF

I think I'll be moving out soon. I'm trying to get set up outside of this house but I need a financial miracle.

I told a bed time story last night. It turned out hilariously because I came up with it off the top of my head but it led me to start thinking of illustrating them, even though they're so crazy. It's good practice~

Like Axe Cop or something. I just need a something solid to commit to for drawing aside from random doodles.

Tomorrow I have an appointment for nexplanon. Since they couldn't do it before they'll be consulting me tomorrow.

It's possible they'll perform the surgery so I kind of want to get it on tape so others interested in it can understand the procedure. I'm very anxious about being awake when my arm is sliced open but its worth not being pregnant for a long time. 

Not that I ever was pregnant LOL no thank you

Nexplanon explanation, TMI lady-related health stuff and moving info after the read more:

Judgements

I have to admit that I am very intimidated by people who I look up to.

For example, I have a lot of respect for my friend Ally who I haven't talked to in a while. But I am intimidated by her because I think she is very cool and has a very level head on her shoulders. She's stylish and doesn't give a shit about what others think and I think it's very admirable. She handles so many things I wouldn't be able to handle well and I look up to her a great deal. Oftentimes I get intimidated by how cool she is.

I am intimidated by Cheleen because she has already been to Korea for a year and I'm afraid she will judge me for not speaking it as well as her or not knowing as much about anything. :( Same goes with Brendan. I respect them both. I want them to respect me the same way.

If I respect people, I want them to like me and it's been stressing me out. I've been so happy lately and I've been over-analyzing everything and thinking that people who I love are looking at me differently or people who I want to like me (like Brendan, Cheleen, Ally, friends and family of Louis etc) are judging me hardcore based on internet presence and appearance.

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Tuesday-Friday

Okay so here is the long awaited long post~ (currently writing...)

Tuesday I slept over in Providence because I was travveling to CT the next morning so I could chill with the grandparents. Unfortunately we overslept and ended up arriving at around 2pm. Louis's mom was picking up his grandfather from an appointment but it ended up taking 4 hours to complete. I had wanted to go shopping desperately to prepare for my NYC trip so I was disappointed because he had ended up having to wait around. However, dinner was spectacular.

Louis's mom and his grandmother had made noodles and bamboo and a spinach dish which were glorious and taro and red bean buns (which I devoured). They also made a good amount of ~*~*~LOBSTER~*~*~ aka my favorite seafood ever and I had about 4 claws of them. So delicious!
We had only planned on staying a short while but we ended up stuck there repairing his grandmothers computer. A simple fix really, but took some time over thinking things to actually see the solution.

We left and decided to walk around Mohegan Sun.

I  had never been inside and it was pretty nice! They had this weird swirly LED thing and a light up waterfall. We got ice cream and then I headed back home.

Wednesday~ After the jump break "Read more link"

Using the "read more" links now so it'll be easier for me to scroll through.

Gym & Plans

So yoga was amazing. It was a little more fast paced than my previous class but it was still an AMAZING workout. I can't stretch the way I used to and when he lifted our legs, I couldn't go past my head like the instructor could. Luckily, I was still able to ease into the stretches and at the end of it, my body was so sore but so relaxed at the same time. After yoga I ran for about 15 minutes and did squats at 200lbs, a lower weight than at college. You're technically supposed to double your body weight for squats but the 30-40 extra pounds on the bar would've made my legs snap.

After I left, Louis wanted to come get me and when I said maybe tomorrow he got me anyway -_____-. We watched more Sherlock and his friends all crowded into his room stoned off their asses while we were bundled up in blankets and tried to invade his bed.

Waking up this morning was awful because my body was so sore from yesterday's gym rendezvous, but I have to keep pushing so I'll be going on a bike ride before work. Only 5 hour shift today~

Going to visit one of my best friends Hiroki next week in NYC. Really excited. Gonna drown in soju and karaoke and go on shopping sprees and blow all the money I made this summer~

Health kicks

I started working out again after a few weeks and boy is it difficult to get back into. I'm juicing too which makes me tired a lot but if I keep it up it's not so bad.

Currently I'm on the detox juice which is tomato, broccoli, cabbage and carrots blended together and then combined with fruit and plain yogurt to make it not taste terrible. It's actually kind of good, and filling too!

So far I'm going to attend the Monday night Yoga classes at the gym and bike and cardio the other days. I used to be a gym junkie but I think I'll ease back into it. I definitely want to go back to the hacksquats and the dead lifts. Gotta work dat booty.

Mmmm, I took home a giant tub of fruit yesterday and its going to be a staple in all of my meals.

Tonight is yoga night so I'll see how that goes. Tomorrow is morning aerobics and biking and Wednesday is off. Thursday I'm kayaking and then doing swim laps and then Friday is shoulders calves and abs. Wish me luck!! Gonna buy lots of steak too to build up protein!

Party taiiiiimu

Yesterday I went to my first college party as a graduate. (So basically I hadn't hit up the beer pong tables in a good three months) and it was pretty fun. One of Louis's friends was having a birthday party. I met his friend Tyler, who before even shaking my hand was like "I've heard a lot of things about you from Travis. Good, good things." The fact that Tyler had said Travis (not even Louis) had said good things made me happy. Roommate approval~

Louis and Tyler

Beer Pong

Kristie and I played one round and were doing well at first but then got decimated at the very end. :( I still had fun though and I got to socialize which I love doing. At some point everyone left to get super high and Louis decided to play cards in the meantime. I got a mixed drink and sat down and actually convinced Louis to get a beer LOL. A rare sight.

Louis with his Corona trying to teach me some weird ass game.

I couldn't get a good grasp on the card game he was trying to teach and literally quit 5 seconds in. At one point I went outside without Louis and Travis, Hickey (yes that's what they call one of his friends) and another kid Dave were all outside and started talking to me about drugs and life and Louis. I was happy because they all were very nice and they reiterated how happy they were to have Louis out and about on the town, socializing with them. Travis also spoke to me about some stuff too for probably 20 minutes and after that discussion I felt really good about where I stood with everyone and how they viewed me and how they viewed how Louis had changed to them.

Before I went inside I was approached by one of the dudes from the party with tattoos and he looked at me and was like "Yo are you with that Asian dude?" to which I responded "Yeah!" and he glanced at me and said "How did that happen...?" And at this point I wasn't sure if he was insulting me or insulting Louis but either way I was not happy and he then proceeded to ask if I was a weeaboo with yellow fever and that I was setting myself up for disappointment. I was enraged so I told him I date hot men and walked away.

I went back inside and found Louis upstairs in his friends room and sat down with him. We then proceeded to be narcissists and take selfies all night. One of the kids took my camera and snapped a really good shot of us too.

Selfie from downstairs in gross lighting

Shot taken by his friend which Louis is instagram-ing right now XD

Anyway we left early because we were tipsy and wanted private time at home without the roommates.

We eventually made food and watched another episode of Sherlock (which btw is PHENOMENAL...and also really gay). I wasn't felling well so we cranked up the AC and Louis was good about trying to help my agitated tummy. I passed out midway through the episode...hard. I didn't mean to sleepover but it was nice. 

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After dropping me off the next morning, I went to work exhausted. My dad was not too happy about me staying over, but my mom calmed him down. I went to work where it was super dead. I got out at 5 and immediately went home. Louis asked me to gym with him but I couldn't because it closed at seven and it would take to long to go down to Providence. So sadly, I went on a bike ride alone and Louis did push-ups forever and we both were gross.

I had dinner alone and watched episode 5 of Orange is the New Black which is a really good series. It made me super angry though. D:

I also have been listening to the Neighborhood and the 1975 non-stop all night. I'm really getting back into indie music. I had been so preoccupied with khiphop and all my hood ass shit that I forgot to come back and appreciate music I can relax tooooo~ I also really enjoy Lana Del Ray's stuff.

 

This is the Neighborhood's live version of Baby Came Home.

Good music for lying around or like intimate moments although lyrically very sad

dem tattoos doh, son

Ugh anyway gonna finish this at work or something. Too tired to think. xDD goodnight~

Short post today!! Bingsu and Horror movies

Yesterday I had bingsu for the first time and it was pretty good! It was green tea flavored and delicious. I had never had red bean in a dessert before so I was surprised that it would taste so nicely with ice cream. It also had mochi in it which is my absolute favorite.

Today I went to work and it was uneventful. It passed by alright but tomorrow is going to be wild because we have a Taylor Swift concert literally 500 ft down the street at a stadium and the traffic is going to be insane but I get out at 6 so it won't be as bad as closing.

Since work has us already preparing for the holiday seasons (Halloween-New Years) even though it's ridiculously early, I was thinking about the first festive holiday we hit and what I want to do. Since autumn is my favorite season I really want to do many things this year. I told Louis on FB I planned on watching one horror movie a day for the month of October and he would have to with me. His friends all were like "GOOD LUCK" but........

....after some coaxing he agreed! And it's no take backs so if he tries to be like "no I won't" I now have this bad boy jpg on my blog to pull up as proof. I want to compile a list and save all the super scary movies for the end of the month. Maybe start out with some stupid B-list scary ones like Troll 2 and Sharknado LOL!!

I have a feeling he might actually start liking them after a while, or at least realize they aren't as bad as he makes them out to be.

Tomorrow night I'm going to go grocery shopping and try out some new recipes. I want to get the ingredients for a steak I used to make really well and make it in Providence, but I don't know that I have the funds. Soon though. I also am going to start juicing again. Hopefully starting tomorrow I can blend up my detox drink and get started again. I haven't been to the gym in a while because of my car situation so I need to get back there soon. I want to bike too! Even Louis is doing better than me with his push ups 

ヽ(ｏ`皿′ｏ)ﾉ  Gotta step my game up!

Now to go on tumblr and reblog my dream house and interiors because I have to think about moving very soon.

Move

Work was uneventful but it was a break from being at home.

My paycheck this week is going to be terribly low because I was scheduled only 2 days last week. I'm going to speak with my bank about a loan and see if I can get myself a new car without a cosigner and an apartment just so I'm not at the house I'm in now.

Here's to hoping.

Beach Day and Hookah!

So Friday I went out with my friend Brendan and we headed to a nice beach in Rhode Island. We stopped to eat first and took a bunch of creepy vines. I felt gross because my skin was terrible this week due to heat and I was really self conscious.

Here's Brendan! What a handsome guy! I call him Kinikun. (Kiniku = muscle and fusing kun) because he's too ripped to function. :|

We ate and got super bloated and drove to the beach a couple miles south of where we were. We passed the main beach and found a hidden cove that was extremely pretty and isolated with a gorgeous pathway leading down to it.

It was so pretty it looked like a fake scene from a movie.

We reached the rocks and it was amazing. The whole ocean was gorgeous and I hadn't been in so long, since before college so I was extremely overwhelmed by it. I had missed the ocean so much. I had been to lakes and bays but I hadn't been to the sea in so long. Just seeing the waves crash against the shoreline was a site to behold. I probably sound like one of those hipster crunchy earthy types but just smelling the salt in the air and walking along the rocks and swimming and having waves crash all around me was just very uplifting but also extremely nostalgic.

We played along the rocks after we swam and it was really fun. When we were swimming I was really nervous about touching the ground because the rocks were sharp so I would swim and keep my legs up even if it was only half a foot of water beneath me. I was also nervous about shellfish and monkfish that Brendan said were in the area. Monkfish are terrifying. 

Brendan doing a handstand!! 

We ended up chilling on top of one of the rocks and read magazines and talked about a lot of different issues. It was really nice to hear his perspective on different topics. (We discussed what friend zoning meant and what constitituted a "nice guy" and spiritual stuff and a lot of health things). He even made me a flower wreath LOL!!! We took off as it was getting dark and headed back north. We didn't want to go home just yet so we ended up going to Providence, and naturally, meeting up with Louis, who was swagged out and looking fly while I looked like a mess. -____-

After reaching Providence we ended up going to Johnny Rockets and having food and milkshakes. We milled around, got some Gourmet Heaven and then retreated into a hookah lounge for a smoke and some drinks. At this point I was disgusting as fuck and smelled like sea water so Brendan and Louis turned me into a hipster and played dress up with me.

Dem proportions lookin' good today tho.

Louis looking suave as fuck with that slow smoke rolling out of his lips.

ピース!!!

So Louis told me he had smoked hookah before so I had assumed he had been to a hookah bar but I guess it was his first time. I'm happy to have experienced this new adventure with him. Brendan and I had gone together twice and I had been to several throughout my life. Brendan went to this particular hookah bar so much that the bouncer knew him.

Eventually we traveled back to Louis's house and hung out and watched some ratchet ass fighting on Catfish.

And then took meme pictures and embarrassed ourselves. 

Things got weird.

Brendan eventually left around 1:30 and I stayed behind so I could shower before going home. Louis and I once again decided to be lazy and lounge around and talk and I somehow ended up talking about high school(?!?!?) and some other deep personal stuff that just sort of fell out of my mouth but I felt very trusting and I think it brought us a lot closer.

Overall a very fun day!! Success~