Merry

  Tis the season to beeeeeeee jolllyyyyy falalalalalallalfkdjalfkjdsalfkjdlaskfjldksjaflaskdj

I don't even know how to start these anymore. It's just brain poop.
But hey. It's December! And that means holidays for the whole family. Which instantly made me think of cartoons on Nickelodeon from back in the day.
I learned about Chanukah and Kwanzaa through Nickelodeon lol. The most passive way possible, and was like, pretty cool at the same time.
Growing up in a (passive) Catholic household, Navidad (Christmas) was pretty much the only thing I knew of around the holidays. Idk what I'm trying to say, other than Rugrats and The Proud Family were cool for demonstrating other holidays to kids. Passover too! Celebration of Jewish slaves being liberated. That's dope. THANKS RUGRATS :D

Also, I used to work at a Jewish bakery several years ago in Canoga Park. And uh... Challah bread is fucking incredible. Now that I think about it more... Jewish peeps got fucked over twice in history. Correct me if it's more- I hope it's not. First slavery, then the holocaust. That's messed up. We should like, notice them more. In general. Within media. Just sayin.
Like, yeah Christmas is dope. but uh, other holidays are dope too.

ANYWAY

Chicken got Bugsnax for free for PS5, and it looks like the kiddiest game of all time. Lifa said it got good reviews and like, people were saying it's a legit, decent game. So we gave it a go.

BRUH.
THIS IS THE GREATEST GAME.
I can't. I don't even know how to start to describe it? For why I like it.
Chicken, Lifa, and I (mostly me lol) devoured this game over 3 days (when I wasn't guzzling Genshin Impact). Lifa and I were more into it, Chicken just kinda helped us figure stuff out (mostly me uwu) but omg. It's SO FUN. And like, there were a surprising amount of adult moments and jokes that were pleasantly sprinkled. And a lot of deep drama shit that just... doesn't come across in first impressions. But man. So good. If you have a PS5... this title. Worth playing.

I loved it so much that I ended up making miniatures of two of my favorite snax :3

I was stupid and couldn't figure out how I wanted to make a raspberry until 2 hours in and realizing I could just cover the thing in little black clay beads....
And for Strabby; the little strawberry snax, I made a billion seeds to put on it that took me 948579247 hours. Only to scratch them all off because it didn't look right, and made indents instead after Chicken's suggestion. I hated everything because it felt like I wasted several hours just.... figuring out how to execute shit.

You'd think something like this would take 20 minutes.
no.
No. it never does. Because I overthink everything. This took like... a billion hours. And I hate it. lol.

At some point during all of this, I turn around because I hear Chicken moving stuff, and

And then I turn around again lol. He's always messing around with stuff.

DECK THE HALLS
WITH BALLS OF
MY BULLSHIT

So Chicken and I got Christmas decorations. eeeeeee! So happiiii!
I started singing that one Mariah Carey Christmas song, "I don't want a lot for Christmas" and Chicken said "okay"

:(

It's fine. I nagged everyone into going to Joann's. Because I am a good housemate. And we will have fun. Or I will drag them down with me. Into Genshin Impact. Until they like it. (It's kinda working loooololol)

While there, they picked out two fabrics that they liked!
Whyyy?
Well, to make our very own Christmas stockings of course!
WEEEEEE, FUN!

And, since we had a Christmas tree to decorate, I also nagged them into picking out ornaments ^_^

Chicken got a ..chicken

We also put on Fifth Element. Chicken good.

Lifa got a bear

wao handsome Chicken o__o

Homdray kept screaming about how shitty my black Christmas ornaments were, so I told them they could decorate the black ones with the glitter pens we got lol

"DOPE" - Lifa

These fools

We were hungry, so while Lifa was making dinner, I got a craving for spam musubi. He was down, so I started prepping everything for them, but then Homdray started screaming about Salad Fingers. And by that point, Maker's Mark had been in my veins for well over an hour. And I had no choice but to pick up those crappy dry erase markers and go to town

He's still down there. I hate us.
Lifa was forced to finish my bullshit in the kitchen looolol my bads. It's cool tho, he's a pro spam musubi maker.

We ate.
And then it was time to make stockings!

So, I'm dumb and impatient and decided to make my own stocking pattern. Which was made from paper towel in all of 15 seconds earlier that morning. I made the mistake of not including the trim when we put the two sock pieces together, but it's fine. We hide that shit.

He was so excited

LOL that pattern omg
When Chicken chose his fabrics at the store, I just... wanted to pat him on the head.

Everyone else used a glue gun (because I threw my old sewing machine away and frankly no one has time for all of that), but he decided to hand sew his sock together
what a cosplay boyfriend thing to do lol (fiancé, but you get it)

"my hobbies; space and cars"
precious nerd. just precious.

I chose spirals because that's festive, right? Spirals? And a green trim

Lifa was having so much fun with his lol
He was like a little kid in 2nd grade doing arts and crafts

Homdray picked out dope expensive fabric with super pretty astrology stuff on it, and crazy soft trim fabric. I'll scream if Lifa accidentally spills on it somehow from like 3 miles away, cuz it's really nice LOL

His feels like he skinned beanie babies to make it

Waaaoooo

I was so proud of them!!
They did such a good job! ^_^

Lifa had a lot of fun with the glitter pens on his Marvel sock
lmao

gaudyyyy

moar glitter

JOYFUL AND TRIUMPHANT

waaaoo festive

L O L
I forgot to take a picture, but my ornament was a bottle of soy sauce

The splendor
amazing
We would've put them over the fireplace but there's no room lol

This was so much fun. I'm glad they went with it, because it looked like they were all having a good time. ^_^
We didn't do anything for Halloween, but this month it was nice to nag everyone into coming together for cute stuff heehehe


SO. Chicken made me cry.
School stuff has become insanely dumb and complicated because of COVID-19.
TLDR; I can't do anything until August- at least not in regards to my major. I was supposed to start this next spring semester, but because it's a hands on field, classes are canceled.
The alternative that was suggested turned out to be a huge miss as well. Because they only take people in the fall, and I guess that wasn't communicated well between departments.
I'm really, really, reallyyy bummed in regards to school.
Chicken then said "are you feeling discouraged?" to which I nodded brattily. He then pulls out a package and hands it to me, "this might help"

When I open it... it took me a moment to figure out what I was looking at

He surprised me with a Japanese talisman (Omamori) from the Yasui-konpiragu shrine. Blessed by a monk.
It is a talisman for luck with school, studies, entrance exams, etc.
And I started crying.

He's seen my frustrations trying to get everything set up for next semester, and then to have it all fall apart, and then fall apart again. This was so thoughtful. Everything about it. I love it so much.
I'm not sure when he meant to give me this, but that moment was probably the perfect time to do it.
It's hanging on my PC tower.
I'm not forfeiting school, as I will still be taking more semesters of Chinese language classes, but things will definitely change moving forward.

And lastly, this morning I woke up to a Steam notification...

Damn. Thank you!

Now I guess I can judge Hades adequately :P
This should please Homdray, I guess. He's obsessed.

Anywho. Here ends the thingie. So many people on fb showing their beautiful decorations! I love it all ^_^
lol my Halloween decorations are still up. And will be. Forever.
It's a Friday in December, and California is on fire again

Merry Holidays and stay safe!

Dorifto

  Oh man. It's that time of year again. Here we are. December encroaching. Things become kinda heated because that day .... and... idk. Idk how I feel, with everything going on. Especially from that busted lag input during boss combat, but you know what? Maybe people like lag input. And maybe Ghost of Tsushima will win this year's Game of the Year award, but we won't know. We just won't know until December.

I should've edited this so the colors would be more striking but
I stopped caring :|

Frankly tho, I can't even say much because I didn't play all of the nominees this year. I wanted to like Ghost of Tsushima, but idk. Maybe it's residual burn-out from Sekiro. Which totally deserved the win last year, imo.

When I'm an old abuelita, my grandkids will sit all around me in my dope rocking chair, and hear the exciting tale of how abuelita beat Sekiro without using prosthetics :']

Going over the nominees for this years Game Awards. Huh.

Like... a few posts ago.. I was ranting about how vikings and Nordic themes are utterly over-saturated. And uh, yeah. I still stand by that. IS NO ONE TIRED OF THAT YET

And how these nominees were the only ones that got blown up on social media. Which I guess is enough merit to be nominated.

That seems flawed to me. Is that flawed? Is it just me? If you have a powerful marketing team and strategy, then your game is loud enough to be talked about until it's just... commercially good. Or is it genuinely good? I don't even know anymore.

Is the marketing team good, or is the game good? I want this on my gravestone.
This reminds me tho.. I still gotta pick up the new Yakuza game. But moving on...

HAPPI FRIYAY. Specifically shopping friday!

I peeled myself away from games long enough to make sure I get this out today. It's hard. because look

Omg as I was uploading and stuff, Chicken walks in and puts this on my desk T_T

ahhhhh sweet potato friiiieeesss so yummmyy

Alright. So.. this last week marked not just Thanksgiving but also the release of Shadowlaaaannnds

If you're unfamiliar, it's a WoW expansion title. Which normally would be celebrated on campus in front of the orc statue, but uh, pathogens. So.
Lifa was sent a care package from his team, so what way to celebrate than to have a toast! But... we can't do it without an orc statue. Thankfully, we have an orc statue. I forget who, but someone added the footsoldier, and it hurt a little bit.

Hooray to another WoW expansion launch!
Homdray didn't wanna be in the picture rofl
I didn't either, but that was because I look like shit

The next day, we held an early friendsgiving!
Complete with brined turkey legs and ... all that other stuff

It took me forfuckingever to figure out where I could get drumsticks. Because apparently, they're just really hard to find online. But when I went to grab groceries, there they were. amaze.

Everything was coming along, it was cute

Ugh. So good.

This was weird tho because like, a few days ago we had a 84579lb brisket, and tons of carbs, and chicken thighs, and now we have this, and. We're just. There's. There's so much food. Not a complaint. Just.

We need to stop. Or dial it down. Or something. I don't know. Or maybe we don't. And I'm just... idk. I feel greedy and gluttonous. A part of me feels like... evil. lol. No not evil. But like. Idk. TOO GOOD, YOU KNOW? Is there a phrase like imposter syndrome but towards life? That. Whatever that phrase is. That one. I feel it.

On actual Thanksgiving day, it was chill. I got to join in on Chicken's family Thanksgiving zoom call. His little niece's request. Omg. I can't bring myself to type it out. But I told my mom, and she screamed in joy.

THAT PHRASE. LIFE IMPOSTER SYNDROME. Everything. It feels like it's all peaking. Which is good. If a plateau comes, I won't even be mad. Because it'll feel real lol. Is this real life

It has to be, because look at this game.

Chicken surprised me with Sakura: of Rice and Ruin and it's SO CYOO.

The game is gorgeous. The music is beautiful.
My one critique. Just one. Little one.

Like. I was watching some footage of the game after playing it a bit to see if I could switch it to a different language... because on PC, there are only 4 languages- in absolute- that the game can be played in. No sub options. All Chinese, all Korean, all Japanese, or all English. Which was a bummer. But on the Switch, there's Japanese with English localization. So like. uh... basically.. well, because..the English version of Sakuna sounds very.... Nickelodeon lol. Which is kinda distracting. Like uh... super aggressive generic cartoon girl voice in a kids show. Idk. That's probably harsh. If it is, am sorry. I'm too meticulous. It's fine, I probably sound like Angelica Pickles pedantically narrating herself, while in reality just being like, a clueless, overzealous trash gremlin. So what I think of the English dub literally doesn't even matter.
That aside, I'm liking it a lot :P

Anyay... does anyone else want Sung Kang to glare at them into submission?

We watched Tokyo Drift again so Lifa could experience the dope that it is. And I just. Sigh.
His character reminds me a lot of Chicken.
And. and and. And I just wanna dorifto down a mountain with Chicken in a cyoo car. Right before grabbing some late night tacos or something. Just for the lols. That'd be so romantic u_u

Lifa loved it. I told them when we go to Japan... we gotta go to car meets. We have to. It's non-negotiable.

Ahh, last note. I've been playing a lot of Bugsnax on PS5. Holy shit. This game is really fun lmao. And it was free. We're all invested in it looolool. It comes across as a kids game initially, but wow. Took us all by surprise. Highly recommend. It's extremely fun, and the hours just pass by- there's so much to explore and do. Bungers are gross tho lol.

ANYWHO.
I hope all the of the Thanksgivings were happi and yummy, and people are staying safe. Steam sale is dangerous right now... tread carefully.
I'm still trying for Qiqi, but my hope is dwindling.
Happi Friyay
Masks are your friends
Drink water ^_^

kBAI