Muertitos + BlizzConline 2021

   Waooo wao wao waooo soo much going on, waaaooo..

So I'm gonna just gush for a little bit before I talk about BlizzcOnline. There's a lot of gush.

Oh hey, a joke

ALRIGHT.

Now that I'm working at an independent mortuary, I can't stress enough that I AM SO IN LOVE WITH WHAT I DO. SO IN LOVE. There's a plethora of things I'm learning every day, and very recently I'm growing more into gradually learning how to direct our funeral services with the help and warm encouragement from our fucking awesome team.

Getting my name tag made my heart burst T_T

Everyone has demonstrated their desire to help me grow and develop, and they believe in me, and it's been a huge like... just... you know when you just get that really nice chapstick that just... mmpf, you put it on and you just feel great? Because that chapstick is keeping you feeling good? No one can see that you're wearing it, but you know it's there, and without that chapstick, you're still aight but man, that chaptstick... fresh. Y'know?
My mortuary fam is my emotional chapstick. Also, in my welcome aboard package, they gifted me a bunch of cute stuff- one of which is chapstick with our brand on it LOL. And it's nice. I'm wearing it right now. POETRY.

One thing I wanna highlight is the support my mom gives me. Every day after I leave work, I call her and she asks me how my day went and asks about my "muertitos" in the most endearing, loving way ever.
In Spanish, muertitos translates to little dead ones. Muerte- death. Muerto- deceased or decedent. Muert+ito= death+smol, in context... little dead one. I love her so much. She gets so excited to hear about my progress and how my day went, and she cares about the loved ones and the families. Having this connection with my mom about specifically this field and everything in it is... I'm so beyond grateful for her.
My mom used to be a nurse back when we lived in Peru. But back then, she would tell me how nurses were trained for everything and were expected to flex between roles. Today, you'll find more specialized practices that I guess lightens the workload. She got to work with a lot of families when their loved ones would come into her hospital's care. She saw it all, and she was so in love with what she did. She continues to be passionate about everything that came with that line of work and ruminates on her time there fondly. This bond with her is so special to me. I hope she knows that. I gotta make sure to tell her.

OH. Something I forgot to mention before; photos?? not gonna happen.

BUT Look at these little things from coleagues :D

Another happy thing... I ordered girl scout cookies because... important.



Note: the lemon ones taste exactly like the lemon pound cakes from Starbucks.



Also loooooooooooooooooooooooooooook
I love this artist so much. There's barely any more room on my bag for more pins but... I'll find a home for these somewhere.

BLIZZCONLINE 2021 | waaaooo wao wao wao

What can I say?
Well, a lot, but I'm technically still under NDA
SO LETS ENJOY SOME BEHIND THE SCENES STUFF SHALL WE

Homdray got to be in front of the camera this year for the Diablo II|Resurrection Deep Dive panel, and there was a lot of set up. And... maybe you were wondering, or maybe you weren't....  why Homdray looked so flawless? Was it his au natural skin? Or was it my dope goth matte-ifying make up? (Guess.)
The lights were like a billion degrees and were slowly roasting him alive

Hi, that's Homdray!

He read books about Blizzard-North and dug up ancient resources that haven't been accessed in eons. He's a fact-checker. Stubborn, always wanting to improve and quadruple checking. If he's passionate about something, he's very protective of the integrity of it.
One thing about Homdray that I admire is that he utilizes negative feedback instead of succumbing to the sting of potentially being told that you're wrong.
When it comes to opinions, I don't care cuz opinions don't ultimately matter lmao, but when it comes to what is GOOD and integrity is on the line, he won't budge or compromise.
I like that about him, because it makes me feel less crazy lol. Annnd and and, like Chicken and myself, he's also an ISTJ hahaahaha
There's no what if, there's no compromise- It's either Good or it's not.

So I can tell you with full confidence that D2|Resurrection is in the right hands with Homdray on the team.
100%

Also all this equipment setup stuff..

Chicken lives for this shit

He set up and made sure Homdray was looking prime and like, the readiest

and good.
It took a long time lol

"haaaay guise, welcome to mai streeeaaam"

Lifa kept stuff in check as far as how good the shot looked.
There was a lot of little detail stuff.

wao wat a dev

It was fun. We had to be good and step out when the time came, but I can't promise that Lifa and I didn't probably creep up to Homdray's closed door, and maybe giggled like idiots while listening in.

Maybe we did. Maybe we didn't. The world may never know.
Chicken is so patient.

But honestly, I know how hard everyone worked to put this together, and it amazes me still how much love goes into all things Blizzcon. It's that absolute love for community that drives the passion to bring Blizzcon to everyone, even through the limitations of the pandemic... it's all for the fans and the community. And it's dope. And I'm so proud of Saralyn, she goes HAM every year, and all the teams, and especially IT and the video department. I can't imagine the shitshow schedules they were met with in order to keep this absolute monster going so smoothly. Sigh.

When things start to calm down, I can't wait to go visit campus and hug and cry on everyone. March will be the 1 year mark since we were told to go home- thinking this was all temporary. It still pains me that it absolutely could have been - if everyone had just complied in the beginning. But that was too much to ask.

But yeah. While I miss the in-person Blizzcon experience; the cosplays, the friends, the food, and just chillin at a con with familiar faces, BlizzcOnline was like sweet honey in this otherwise bland tea that this past year has felt like. Not just bland tea, but weak. Ugh. (Unless it's barley tea, but like ... 2020 was absolutely not ... delicious barley tea. so.)

ANYWAY Moving along

Omg there's this insanely cute little coffee/flower shop that we stopped by over the weekend. HNNNNG IT'S ADORABLE

You go in and everything is covered in cute plants and stuff and plushies and they have street food and drinks and they sell flowers!!!

It looks like... someone's cute cafe concept art on Twitter that just.. came to life.

"Coffee Flower" is the shop's name

We will be returning- This last trip, I got the pistachio latte with cocogoat uwu
was muy yummy ^_^

Annnnd lastly... I cut my hair again... if that wasn't apparent in the first photo with my head in it.

The changes are so drastic when at work LOL

I'm adjusting to styling my hair differently. Since my undercut is still there, the challenge is proving kinda fun, I guess. I had to borrow a hair brush because I never had one haha. No reason to have one before. But I just use it for teasing. Brushing my hair feels like shit lol.


One of these days I'll be able to get back to my clay stuff. It's been put on hold. Can you believe we still have boxes to unpack? I think now, we've just gotten kinda settled in to where it's comfortable, but there's so much to do still.

I miss my bff.

Anywho
Now I bid you dear reader a fond adieu.
I've homework to catch up on.
So I'll leave you with this death positive quote from Weiner Wilde, and some crazy lady nonsense:

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace."

We as a culture in the West have a lot of fear about death to the point where we avoid talking about it or even wanting to think about it- denying its rightful place in all of our own fantastical chapters of what we know to be Life. Without Death, what value does Life have? Without Life, how can we truly feel the gravity of our lives in our Death chapter? It's why simply existing is monumental. Every moment, every emotion, every experience, every interaction, is the most amazing journey to our final chapter. And that's okay. And it's wonderful. Being alive... no, actually just being.. is pretty damn incredible.

Oh yeah, wear a mask please. k bye.