This is my last post for 2016.
Sup.
Man, what a year.
A lot of firsts happened this year. I learned a lot. Granted, much of this learning came from awful experiences, but the knowledge is cool I guess? Changed my perspective. I feel wiser.
AGING, YAY
Some stuff, I'm still like... did that really happen..
Did my mom seriously like, have her life ruined because of drug lords lolololol wat is that
(it's not funny, but i don't know how to cope ha HA HAHAAHhahaahafhafkaflsdljflkdsf
The bonds I made have been incredible. And disconnects.
We often mourn the disconnects, forgetting what we get out of them. I learned something. I learned that "riding the white horse" is a real thing.
YES, I'M STILL HOLDING THAT GRUDGE OK. It's too funny to forget. That's such a juvenile, thing you'd expect from some terribad reality tv show. Not to mention, I don't think God would approve, but that's just me.
SORRY. MOVING ON. lol
The bonds I've created with people have been immensely life-changing.
Smiley did a thing for me that no one's ever been ballsy enough to do. I didn't think at the time that anyone would care, and would just forget stuff. But he did that, and I'll never forget it.
Ponies became my eyes when I was blind. He went above and beyond for me. Like in that Sex and the City episode where Miranda says she doesn't wanna be rescued by anyone, but she goes to get laser surgery on her eyes, and she was blind and had no choice but to let Steve take care of her.
Ponies knows what I'm talking about.
Doge. You stood by me, without me even knowing. You know what I'm talking about. That's some Sex and the City shit. I won't forget that. Ever. Thank you for yelling at me, for being frank with me. For scolding me and being a paternal figure keeping me in check. I know you don't want to see me fall, and I will fall many times. I just hope that you will always be there waiting for me to come to you saying "please don't say I told you so." Over and over.
T, you've always been so supportive, even if you don't agree. You just wanted me to feel like things would work out. I can tell, lol. But in the moment, regardless of whether I believed they would or not, hearing your support was what I needed. I'm not the most positive person, and sometimes it's hard to be around me. Our personalities are so different. But your awkward gentleness and positivity are my favorite things about you. Thank you for coming into, and staying in my life.
I could list a bunch of things from the few people who have inspired and moved me.
Bonekitty - your little surprises always made my month. It sucks that we don't live closer. We'd have so much fun probably with sleepovers with horrible yaoi body pillows and kpop dance parties and ugly kigurumis and my fucked up cooking watching kdramas and spending too much money on dumb cute shit in little tokyo. sigh. you so cute girl. ilu
AX, 4th of July... opened up the weirdest fucking door I've ever stepped through, ever. Idk if me coming into your life was good or bad, for you. It's been weird. but you won't stop. pls don't stop. no one else makes me laugh like that.
I could go on and on, but I'm sure you're tired of reading about it, lol. Either way, I remember everything. All the little things, that's what I live for. So if you're not mentioned here, and we did a thing, rest assured, I hold those memories fondly.
Memories are precious to me. It's the motivation for this blog, and the crazy amounts of photos I take everywhere I go. I love looking back on stuff, especially on bad days. So, despite a lot of bad shit that's happened this year with me and my family, I'm very grateful for the good things that happened because of the people who chose to stick around. :)
Thank you. you guys are... precious to me.
So, for Christmas, after work (lol) I took a short nap before Ponies came to get me. We had to go see Rogue One, I think I mentioned this before.
The day before, we just went out to get coffee and pizza and to just kick it.
It was the 24th, and I couldn't wait. I wanted to give him his present.
lol it looked like vinyl xD
80 GOTH POINTS FOR UBER KVLT GOTH GIFT WRAPPING
(electrical tape. don't ask why i have it.)
it was fucking cute, okay. it had to be, he's my bff.
I got him a Sex and the City mug loooool
It's our thing. He liked it ^_^
Lemme just get this out of the way. SaTC often thought to be a total chick series, and it kinda is, but it's actually really good. If you watch the whole thing, it's a good fucking show. As we grow older and whatever, Ponies and I (mostly I) end up citing SaTC episodes to compare with our real life issues. There are a lot of relate-able scenarios that are shockingly very close to being accurate in how things play out. And how the characters deal with these issues... it's pretty fun to think back on them and compare. So. yeah. I recommend watching it. It's 6 seasons, but really worth it.
So, on actual Xmas day, we went to have sushi before going to see Rogue One again.
Little Tokyo! ^_^
This place is one of Ponies' favorite places to dine. The staff here knows him and like his pictures on instagram lololol
It's vegan, but it's sooooo good!
i got the seared "scallop" roll. They come out with a torch and light that shit up. It's dope, and delicious!! Ponies got the same thing
And dessert :D
apple pie with coconut ice creaaaaam
We went to the L.A. Live theater and it sucked.
The seats were tiny and cramped, and not very comfortable. The interior itself, like before you go into the theater, is nice but like... bitch i'm going there to sit down and watch a movie in the theater not look at your light installations
cried a lot.
deal with it.
I went from one hobby to another and they bled into each other.
Yeah. The little Pachimari thing from Overwatch.
It won't stop, someone help. I keep making Overwatch stuff.
Those turrets? I gave one away to my friend who also mains Symmetra.
but I'm gonna make more and tape them to my monitors.
So like, I'll have six, right
ALIGNING DEFENSE SYSTEM
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oh so having a white cat with like 96% black wardrobe is fun.
She licked this and jumped lmao
It was still hot, and I made it spicy. She learned the hard way not to eat mom's yucky human food.
GUYS.
So I've been wanting to prepare lengua forever right.
So like...
I asked for the smallest they had. It was HUGE.
And really off-putting.
In Peru, lengua isn't really a huge thing. I don't think it's even in many dishes. Like, at all. At least not to my knowledge. So this is like... new territory kinda, for me. Preparing it.
Guys it felt like SHIT when I pulled it out of the packaging. I was not prepared for that at ALL.
But there it is.
According to some instructions on the interwebs, I'm supposed to boil it for an hour/lb.
So I whipped up some garlic, onions, veggies and salt. Got the water going, and dropped that baby in there.
That's definitely a membrane.
Daunting is one word for it.
Like, it's a fucking tongue.
It's a tongue, guys.
But then I think about Ariel getting her tongue ripped out and yanno, things aren't so bad anymore.
I gotta give it to the guy who decided not to throw away this part of the animal and tried to do something with it. Like, SOME dishes, regardless of what they use, I try to remember that even though some of that shit is weird af, it's still being consumed instead of being thrown out. Which is wasteful as fuk.
Now there're some absolutely fucked up dishes like shark fin soup that sadly are the total opposite. like, sharks are hunted just for their fins and then thrown back into the water to die. fucked up.
i like to think that shit like chicken feet, pig feet, tongue, etc all that weird shit is at least feeding someone.
Thanks, dude that appreciated his hunt and discovered lengua.
Like, I eat meat, and you can call me a total hypocrite, but there's stuff I won't eat.
shark fin soup for example.
another thing I won't eat is veal. I refuse.
why?
because they keep them tied down for months so their muscles atrophy for the sake of meat tenderness.
FOR TEXTURE.
TEXTURE.
That's fucked up. That's not even to feed someone, that's just a preference in meat, a retarded luxury.
no.
that's fucking stupid. no. i refuse.
not that it'll ever make a difference. veal will still be produced that way whether i eat it or not, but yeah. no.
you know what is tender? beef tongue.
it's soft, and chewy, and flavorful, and it's a byproduct. and there's a generous amount to feed several people.
like.
ANYWHO. I made lengua curry and served some for my housemates. Guess which one's mine :D
They loved it ^_^ made me happi!
And for my last adventure of 2016...
It was raining, and late. And cold.
I parked, walked to the village and waited, when Oppa texted me asking where I was.
Sushi Enya, right across the street was waiting for us!
I've had a lot of sushi lately, lol.
He ate that whole thing.
I had eaten the curry earlier, so I wasn't too hungry.
Once we were done, I was in for a tour of LA to remember!
He walked us everywhere.
This spinny thing by the police station in the center of this installation.
Idk what this was but it looked cool
And then he wanted to show me the place with the neon lights.
We turned the corner and I almost died
The reflection on the floor from the rain made it so beautiful, you guys.
This looked like fucking Coruscant. Or straight up a spot in some weird action anime or something. Or a map in an FPS
It was so beautiful. I was breathless.
And then he took me to see more lights a little ways down.
It looked so pretty!
I could cry
(i didn't but... omg)
We walked around the city for a while, trying to figure out what to do, but not really not minding idling.
He walked us back to Little Tokyo, where we got some tea and boba, and broke in to the building to get to the garden on the roof.
The elevators were shut down in the lobby. We tried the back entrance, but the doors were locked.
The only way we could get in was if someone happened to walk by and let us in.
This is exactly what happened. He saw a bridge a ways up, so we made our way to it, and someone spotted us, heading towards the side entrance. The dude was stepping out for a smoke, and let us in.
We made our way through the corridors to a working elevator
and there we were...
I wandered around idiotically, admiring the lights that were installed, and pretty much everything else there (even though we'd been here before).
Because of my wandering, I found a side corridor with two creepy doors and some survival horror looking valves. One door was labeled "mechanical room" the other was blank. Oppa deduced that if we needed some sort of important tool, it'd definitely be in one of these rooms.
Wandering still, I spotted a little pathway kinda that led deeper back into the trees, by this small, eerie fountain that sounded like people died in it because it kept regurgitating water and it was empty and just... ugh. lol. He climbed up the rocks first, then helped me up. Turns out this little path led to the walkway behind the garden. The one he wanted to show me before, but couldn't find the way to.
What a view!
We kicked it here for the rest of the night, until it was time to go.
It was the first time we hadn't defaulted to car talk. But this was way better.
We were in the company of my favorite solo artist, Edith Piaf. Until he said "this music reminds me of Fallout"
So, I put on Galaxy News Radio, lol.
At one point, we thought we were fucked, because out of nowhere we heard people talking.
The garden was totally deserted all night. So I got startled and booked it straight to my phone and turned off the volume. We crouched low and hid in silence in the walkway, lol hoping not to get caught.
He kept peeking up into the trees- spotted 3 guys walking around, but couldn't tell if they were staff.
We thought we were gonna get kicked out. He crouched back down and waited.
Then Oppa glanced over quick and I watched him look at something, then hold up a peace sign, smirking. I thought "o fuk we're done for"
they spotted him.
omg they're gonna yell at us and kick us out noooooo i just wanna take piiiicctuuurrreesss
turns out, it was just some dude coming down to take photos, lol.
THAT WAS FUN. felt survival horror as fuk haahahhaha
my heart was pounding! was exhilarating though :P
We saw a lot of stuff that was reminiscent of survival horror games that night. Was a lot of fun!
It was a really lovely way to end the year.
We were there until 4am. But he had to leave because Overwatch. Stuff ends on the 2nd at midnight, and he's gotta get on that shit. (and it was getting colder and I couldn't stop shivering lol)
Was a good call though because I passed the fuck out when I got home.
This morning, I was woken up by Mochi pawing at my fucking EYE
I thought she just wanted my attention to hold her.
no.
This hurts.
She smacks me all the time lol
I must look like one giant, jingly cat toy to her with my hair and shiny danglies hanging off my head.
It's now 35 past midnight, 2017.
Last 2016 post, or first 2017 post?
I bid everyone a good night, and happy new year.
One can only hope that this year brings good fortune and luck and yadda yadda etc all that crap.
I want to believe in all that shit, but it's literally another day that just passed. There's no magical thing that separates '16 from '17. It's just a numerical concept we made for ourselves for organizations' sake. but yanno, Happy New Year!
Personifying '16 seems to help with coping when it comes to what's happened, sooooo naturally now that '16 is gone, '17 brings hope. Means absolutely nothing, but...
REBELLIONS ARE BUILT ON HOPE
:D
Happy New Year, guys.
Be safe, eat a lot, and have lovely food coma naps.