MOVED - UPDATE

  OH MY GOD

   I'M OFFICIALLY IN ANAHEIM. Finally!
That was the most drawn out move ever, lol. But, I'm happy to say that everything I needed to... well almost everything, address has been taken care of. The only thing I need to do now is gather all my tax shit (which I'm still trying to find) and send it off to my friend Ponies, who's been so patient with me. He's probably over my bullshit by now, but he's doing my taxes for me. I feel horrible for putting it off this long. I'M SORRY PONIES! I'm a mess!


LORT, where do I start?
Shall we make a list? Cynthia quite likes lists. damn virgos and their shitty lists..

Lets see...

• ah, yes. Valentine's day.
• court hearing
• moving
• Long Beach Comic Expo
• Pasadena Comic Con

did I miss anything? I don't think so.

Can I just point out that before I moved down here, I was going out to eat A LOT.
Like, a lot. After I put down my deposit for the new place, I just went batshit crazy with food and said fuck it, I'm moving. EAT ALL OF THE THINGS AT ALL OF THE PLACES AND DO YOU, BABY GRLLL

 Like, I went to this place in Old Town Pasadena.

 Look at that fucking broth.

Look at it.

It was pretty dope.

 Went with this fool. He lives near there.

Cynthia has a problem with ramen, so we compromised.

AND TO MY PLEASANT SURPRISE, CHRISTINE WORKS THERE!?!?

We were sitting there waiting for our food when she comes over and is like, CYNCHA?!

and I was like, HO MEI GAHH

and we were both like, NO WEI

and Stephan was like, o___o;;

I tell the best stories.

I had no clue she worked there! She tells me they have chefs from fucking Japan, and like, they had just come back from a trip there to do RAMEN TRAINING. TO LIKE, MAKE IT LEGIT.

And I was like, whoa. that's so fucking cool.

because it fucking IS

I hadn't seen her in a while, we're both working students with limited schedules so it's hard to get together, but this was an awesome treat. I miss her. She's loads of fun! I'll have to try and plan a thing so we can hang out again. Bless that girl and her penis face

And then soon after, I went out to get Thai food. Because I was hungry.

 Recommended by this fool.

This time, it was close to my place and I was totes okay with that.

 We ordered entirely way too much food, like nubs. 

And learned that "medium spicy" in Thailand is actually code for "red dwarf star essence."

he's like,
a geisha.

       
    




          | V A L E N T I N E ' S    D A Y |

   Let me just start by saying that I am a selfish shit on Valentine's Day. It's been a thing for me, personally, to take myself to Little Tokyo every year on this day and treat myself to lunch. Whether or not I'm in a relationship with someone makes no difference. Because fuck it, Cynthia needs to love Cynthia, and that's the only person who's gonna make Cynthia happy in this lifetime, SO. 

   HOWEVER-- this year was a little different. I had someone join me in my little outing. It was nice. Cliche and weird, but nice.  

RAMEN.

Don't ask me why I settled for Orochan ramen.

Worst decision of MY LIFE

but.

it is what it is.

 Stuffed our fucking faces, it was awesome though.

 Clearly, I was accompanied by Stephan on this eve.

yeah okay, brains relax.

ok?

relax...

 don't.... try to get ahead of me. 

don't.

r e l a x    

w/ that shit.

 ANOTHER pleasant surprise... Stephan's sister used to work at the place right next door to the mochi place we went to, and dude working there recognized him. So he only charged us 2 dorrar for everything we got. It was DOPE. 

These... 

these are the connections that really matter, guys.

Food connections.

Food ones.

With the exception of Orochan, it was a fun evening.

I bought manga, and was gifted a ton of pocky by Stephan who was trying to be polite lol

(of which we forgot in his car and is holding hostage and probably ate all of by now)

but it was a good day.

 what r u doing..

 i went home and collapsed onto the floor.

 sleeping on the floor sucks.

was that mentioned?

ugh.

this was me for like 2 weeks, lol. 

But, admittedly over time I think I got used to it and surprisingly, my back wasn't hurting as much anymore when I'd wake up. I think I just needed to like... learn how to sleep straight or something? 

Apparently I was sleeping all kinds of twisted which is what was fucking me up before, but yeah. Not comfortable, but apparently better for my back.

 BUT... as soon as I got confirmation from my work that the transfer went through, I packed up the last of the bigger stuff (PC, desk, chair, extra pillows/blankets) and hauled all that to my new place in Anaheim.

 Freya immediately greeted me and made sure my things felt right at home by sitting on and walking over all of it.
It was pretty much just blankets, pillows, make up, clothes, and my little netbook w/ me in that room until I finished out my work week. GOOD TIMES, lol.
Also, no internet. My saving grace w/ my external hard drive that had all the seasons of Sex and City on it, so I basically just binge watched that, avoiding using up the data on my phone since the internet was shut off.


BUT THAT WEEKEND WAAAAASSSSSS....

L O N G   B E A C H   C O M I C    E X P O

 fuck I missed cons. I missed it so much. That weekend, I stayed here in Anaheim and just drove there both days. The first day, I went alone.
Once I got there, I was kinda meh because it'd been forever and I didn't know who all was going or who I'd run into.

 So I just walked around and looked at stuff aimlessly. Gradually getting bored and wondering what I should

 Until Brian and Sandy spotted me!! ^_^
It was SO good seeing them! They've been putting in so much work for the last two months they've been here. I've been wanting to meet up w/ them, I still have their order!!!! If I had known they'd be there I would've brought it, but apparently they've been assembling clone trooper armor for like... EVERYONE EVER. For 2 months.
That's insane.
They've been busy potatoes.
But I'm gonna bug them to meet up before they leave. They're staying until after Wondercon, so if all else fails I'll give them their stuff then, but it'd be nice to see them outside of a con. They're cool.
And they're probably the most hxc SW fans I've ever met.
Like, I've known them for YEARS, and they just faceplanted HARD into Star Wars, lol.

 Sandy!

 hmm?

 *pew pew!*

(she missed. haha!)

And then at that moment, I got the most random call from my friend Anthony. Had no clue he'd be here too, but he was! He needed me to help him w/ something, and to meet him outside. 

Imma helper. Me likey helpy. So I go do that.

 BUT LEMME TAKE SOME PICHAS FIRST

 oh well HI

He needed help putting on his Hulk Buster cosplay! 

When I got there, he was unloading it out of his parents' car. Dustin showed up shortly after

 Definitely needed help. We ended up being his handlers, lol.

Dustin left early but I stuck around w/ him because he'd probably die. He kind of almost did.

We'll get to that later.

 but he looked awesome!!!!

I remember he came as the Hulk Buster last year, at LBCC and entered the costume contest. 

Unfortunately he didn't win, but this year he wanted to give it another go.

 YAY ANTHONY!

 And we were off.

Baby steps.

Up the little hill towards the parking garage.

 Oh, I recently, like a day ago, replaced the camera on my Galaxy S4 because of this shit.

The old one was exposed, and fucked up. So... know how some of my photos are foggy, or the white balance is off? Yeah... the sun made the flaws clearer. You'll see the difference later on.

 But as soon as we got up the hill, Anthony was stopped and the photos / cosplay videographers swamped him. This was for a cosplay m/v.

 They wanted him emerging from the garage, all dramatic like.

 Then another srs photog stole him. but wanted him to go to the top level of the garage and we were like  -______________________-;; hokay.
We wiggled him into the elevator and he slowly baked under the Long Beach sun inside the costume for a solid 12 minutes.

 Dustin transformed into a magical girl.

 A racist magical girl

even though he himself is asian

 saving the world one stereotype at a time

 Once finished, we wiggled him into the elevator again and made our way towards the entrance, when we spotted the ESTAR GUARS cosplayers!!!!

ESTAR GUARS, EH

I love these guys so much. I've seen them before at Comikaze and lost my shit.

This time I was able to talk to them a little bit and get to know them. They're so chill and down to earth. And... FUNNY STORY....

TURNS OUT... well.. 

I shouldn't, but... point is... 

it's a small world.

 BABIESSSSSSS SOOO CUUUUUTTEE

 Chocolate milk break. It was only 8769238759823 degrees out.

 Then we went inside and walking was like nope.

 But eventually we made it to the con floor.
Good times.

 Met Matt.

Batman said something rude and I guess Matt has some weird anger issues and almost killed him?

 but he got him a card saying sorry. Nice guy

 He stopped to take a picture with me. 

The honor was mine.

Because he's definitely not Kylo Ren.

He's just some radar technician guy... yeah.

 FUNNY STORY #2

Long Beach Comic Expo used Anthony's likeness for promotion without his permission, lol?

There was a photo of a Delta and Little Sister from Bioshock 2 on the first page, and that's totally him. lol... No credit, no nothing. Not even the photog's info. 

yeah. just thought i'd mention it.

 when i send sexy selfies, they're of me in the bathroom making defective faces.

correction. I only sent one, to one person because he wanted to see what I cosplayed as. 

he was not surprised.

 hungry cynth is hungry

 Desiree was a hobbit!!!!!

lol so damn cute

 AAAAWWWWWWWW

JOSE AND JOHN

 They are adorable. Like, when you look at their faces, it's like... whoa.

Their features are crazy striking.

 I love them, they're so chill. 

Always good to see them. Hopefully we're gonna meet up at Wondercon for Zelda stuffs. I'm busting out the Poe. Speaking of which... I should probably like, work on my lantern. >_< damnit

 ALVIN

 :D

 ^_^

 wao

lol aaaaahhhh I missed him.

 Can I just gush about how much I love seeing all my con friends?
Can I do that? Because I do.
They make it feel like home.
You guys make the cons so much more fun and seeing you makes my fucking day. For seriously.
I LOVE YOU GUYS T____T

 So like, it was getting sorta close to the time to register for the costume contest, and we kept getting different directions from people. And we ended up in the basement somewhere on Saturn.

 Security heard us and came down quick, lol.

They escorted us in the right direction to get to where we needed to be xD

 WHERE WE SAW THE ESTAR GUARS GUYS AGAIN

but this time they dragged out their son with them xDDD

 brilliant.

fucking brilliant.

yo mira, es 3 generations

 D O P E  AS  FUK

 CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE

 took forever to set up for the contest, but once it got going it went pretty quickly. 

Can't see her too well but that chick C-3PO was cute

 No surprise here, Estar Guars won best group :P

OF COURSE THEY DID

 And Anthony WON BEST FABRICATION!!!

He won a good chunk of change. It was AWESOME! I was so happy for him! 

He worked so hard on that cosplay, upgrading it and tweaking it.

He even bled for it lol.

At one point while waiting for the contest, he tried to haul the top half of his costume over his head by himself, and snagged the edge of a rogue staple rigth into the skin of his temple. 

It CAUGHT there. I didn't realize what was happening and went to grab the costume to lift it off of him until he said it's caught on me. He had to pull the costume downward to wedge the stapler out, still attached to the costume, and then lift it up over his head to take it off.

there was blood.

a lot of it.

it was running down the side of his face.

 BUT HE WON :D

If he had cried, he would've shed blood, sweat, and tears for his cosplay, lol.

2/3 isn't bad though.

 You did it! 

Proud of you!

Look him up. He's Blue Reaper on Facebook and @bluereaper923 on Instagram 

He makes and builds all of this shit from bottom up. And builds props as well. Insane talent.

I'm gonna do a collab with him for a cosplay I've been wanting to do for a while, but never really was motivated to before. But... with him I think it'll be dope.

DAY 2 | LBCE

 My day started with a hungry me, and a hungry Stephan.
I can't take that kid anywhere. He turns into an angry Vietnamese store owner and the accent never stops.
Like, ordering at Panda Express was hilarious and awful. at the same time.
lord


Okay so, lol we get there and sit outside to eat when this other Hulk Buster shows up

and we don't talk about him.

he's good. but we don't talk about him.

 

 It's a good morning to be Left Shark and Darth Vader. 

Together.

 This Sally instantly caught my eye. Super cute!

 So we're walking around the con when suddenly 

A RANDOM COOKING KNIVES BOOTH APPEARS

And Stephan looses his shit because he went to cooking school and likes this shit

 So he starts cutting fucking potatoes and carrots and shit

He didn't buy anything. It was hard not to lol at the guy's pitch because I knew he wasn't going to buy anything, but he was pitching so hard that it was hard to stop him, so he just kept cutting veggies lol.

 This Uncle Fester had a working light bulb in his mouth. 

I was impressed.

 BABBBBBYYYYYYYYYYYY

 Ran into Matt again.

Stephan was sick of his shit and yelled at him about a muffin.

Jerkface.

 WINNER

HE WINS EVERYTHING

HE NEEDS TO GO TO AN OPRAH FILMING IN THAT COSPLAY AND JUST WIN EVERYTHING. EVEN EVERYONE ELSE'S FREE SHIT

JUST WIN IT

 This wasn't weird.

Those are condoms.

 One of my housemates set out condoms on the coffee table and wrote like, "take me!" on them or something in sharpee. So Stephan takes them.

 This was like... in the beginning of February when I was taking my furniture apart to move to Anaheim.

He pulls them out of his pocket, apparently forgetting they're in there and just sets them on the table.

Reaction is legit feels.

Anthony's face was great because he was just like.... HOW DO I RESPOND TO THIS

EVERYTHING IS WRONG

But we all just laughed awkwardly. It was the most right thing to do.

And Stephan was just his weird self.

bless his heart.

 Alvin ^_^

 Introducing these two to one another was a recipe for insanely racist commentary.

Hilarious.

but it was like they actually owned shops and were Vietnamese, at the same time, together. Vietnamese prostitutes. Who barely spoke English.

oh my god.

... ho mei gah

 That's Topher, btw. I met him a long time ago at AX through Lauren. He does representy thingies. 

He also is Vietnamese.

Him and Stephan fell in love.

Or something.

 That motorized scooter isuh trewl hunneh dorrah

i'm sorry

it's them

it's not me

every time i see them

it comes back

i'll shut up now

 Long Beach was really fun though.
Towards the end, I ran into my other Anthony, who I called Bahb, for reasons, and Chel, and we all hung out with Anthony and Dustin. So it was just us chillin and... them being insanely asian and racist. Bahb's pretty asian friend also joined in and just enabled Stephan even more

He's not Vietnamese. He's Korean. but he's SO good at the accent. It's hard to not laugh.
I'm sorry.
I said it.
You have to hear it.
It's horrible.
I'm sorry again.
Okay.
I'm done.

 Long day.
I was stoked to finally be home and get some sleep.

A few days later...

I had to attend court for the hearing.

The hearing I've been waiting for for almost 3 years.

The one I flipped out about on my last entry? That one.

 I was really happy to discover that my coworker and friend was also there.
We were robbed by the same guy, but different stores.
She and I open a lot together, so we look out for each other.
We had a hxc zero tolerance for shady people.
I think the cops hated it, lol. She wouldn't hesitate to call them if the slightest thing or person felt off.
Or maybe they didn't hate it that much ;)
but yeah, she was there. It made the waiting less awful.

 We were there all day, until 4pm.

They hadn't even picked the jurors out yet, so we didn't get in to testify until after 2.

 I was texting one of my special friends and when I told him we were finally being called in to testify, he said he knew I'd be stuck there all day, lol just didn't wanna tell me. 

I guess... selecting a jury takes ALL FUCKING MORNING.

 And... I went in to testify with like 15 minutes left. And I thought I was DONE! but the defense attorny wanted to ask me some questions, and the judge was like WELP IT'S 4. COME BACK TOMORROW, SEE YA. and I was like fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucking goddamit

now... I can't share details about the hearing until there's a ruling, but...

Guys... lemme just say...
I went in there
and my heart froze fucking over.
I wasn't scared. I was nervous when the D.A. called my name, but as soon as I stepped into the court room...
like, I've never felt that emotionally cold or callous or stoic or calculating in my LIFE.
I walked in and felt like the most emotionally void fucking person ever, and the only thing driving me to keep this facade solid was my rage. ironically.
but i felt impenetrable. because once I took my oath, they told me to have a seat in the stand, and I saw them.
the two brothers.
twins.
sitting there.
and i glared at them
and even as i responded to the attorney's questions, i glared at them
and when i'd look to her to answer her, i'd glance back at them, and glare
and hold my gaze until they broke eye contact
over and over
and over
and over

i said SO much with my glare
they felt it
they couldn't look at me for more than a few seconds.
they were uncomfortable
and it felt
SO
GOOD

like.
I was a fucking DROW
Like
if Scully and a Vulcan had a baby
who was kidnapped by a Drow
not just any Drow, a Baenre noble
and was raised by vindictive Priestesses of Lolth

that was me. lol.
fuck
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
fuck guys.
I could feel my face get hot when I glared at them

and you know what's gross?
Staring
Staring is so fucking gross to me
like, ew.
because it makes people uncomfortable, right?
yeah, it fucking does. don't fucking do it.
nasty
and i'm awkward
and making eye contact for longer than 2 seconds is just unneccesary
unless i really am into our conversation or into you, like, don't.
like, can we not.
ok
stahp.
looking at me.

but
idk. evidently, inside me there is a very vindictive part of my soul that drove me to being that ballsy in front of a judge, jurors, and attorneys. my answers were short, concise, and my tone disciplined. i made sure i came off disgustingly eloquent and well spoken. like a fucking DROW.
damn, those books shaped me.
but i glared at them, and they couldn't look at me. and it was amazing.

the following morning before the hearing began, the attorneys (our guys, not theirs of course) came over to me and expressed to me how well i had done the day before. i impressed them, and they were not expecting of that.
that only inflated my ego before i went in to answer dipshit's questions. I won't go into what was asked, but he's a dipshit. it's his job, but... nah. intimidation and word manipulation is my thing too, asshat. don't work on me.
but yeah.

ok.
yeah.

:D
closure.
good.
very good ^_^

 Of course I had to meet up with special bestie and tell him all about it.

They do court stuff all the time, and he was giving me pointers a few days prior to the hearing. I got really nervous and was kinda panicking to him. He kept me level headed, lol.

A little while before that I went to see them.

brought them cookies and pocky.

It was a good night.

jizz monsters are real.

 And on my last day at work, which was just last Thursday, I got this card :3

Thanks, Jamie. LOL

 Look who it is!

Since I was moving and it was my last night in the Valley, we met up for lunch and caught up.

We hadn't seen each other in like, over 2 years. It was really good to see him. He's doing so well for himself, and I'm really happy for him. I wish him all the best in everything he pursues :)

And that same evening, I met up with another friend of mine. He lives far and I don't often see him because his schedule is opposite of other friendsies... schedules... kind of... so we went out for foooods.

 Eventually we decided on Peruvian because he hates going to Burbank on his days off and I hate eating anything in Van Nuys, and it was late, so we went to Hollywood lol.

 The verdict?

It was good, but not as good as my mom's cooking.

Lacked BOOM.

Umami.

Needed more boom.

I understand that white people can't appreciate or don't like boom as much as people who were raised on it, and that's fine.

It was blander than I'm used to, but it was good.

 And then afterwards, we decided to go watch Zoolander 2 lol.

because fuck it. It's my last night here. why not

 he hated looking at the camera.

GET OVER IT FOOL

IT'S MY THING

I PHOTOGRAPH SHIT

 Candy shop is dangerous.

I ended up getting jellybeans. Some gross ones, some not-so-gross ones.

But we had the theater all to ourselves!

Until previews started and 2 more people showed up.

but that was cool for a while.

We sat in the back like cool kids.

Verdict on Zoolander 2?

it was pretty stupid.

like, i was expecting it to be stupid, but funny/witty stupid.

this was stoner stupid, and i can't appreciate that level of stupidity. it requires zero thought processing, and it just baffles me how something that vapid could be entertaining. 

don't watch it. or do. whatever. 

AND last one for the night.. it's 1:30 lol

My dumb ass forgot my hoodie in Burbank at my old store.

guess who's the greatest and coolest and bestest special friendsie in da world!?!?

HE IS!!!

We need a code name for him.

no we don't. 

HE IS!!! 

he was going to House of Blues here for a concert, and I asked him if he could do me a favor, and grab my hoodie from sbux on the way down here. He totally did.

He was compensated in jelly beans, lol. 

and he said I smelled like gummy bears xD

I asked another special friendsie first, but since he hadn't responded for a while, (probably sleeping) so I asked him a little later on.

Other special friendsie lives in the OC as well, but commutes to Burbank for work. 

Either way, hoodie has been acquired. I had to call my old store and let them know he was coming in to get it. they lol'd. 

he dropped it off at at my new place after the concert.

i felt bad, he had a bunch of people in his car. they were probably so confused lolol

of course i made him let me take a picture of him. :D

 Anywho...

this entry is long enough. 

I'll write more tomorrow. Sleepy Cynth is sleepy.

GOOD NIGHT!