Bothered

     It's been like 6 months, and something still bothers me, a lot. Last night I couldn't sleep until almost 5, my head was racing, and I was ... angry. I'm bothered.

Waking up and choosing to be unkind to someone out of the blue isn't something I want anywhere near my mental fortitude. It's not something I want, period. It's exhausting. I'm losing sleep over it. When it does happen, it follows behaviors that have overstepped boundaries and stuck with me.

I'm not sure if this will ever reach your eyes, but I have to get it out of my system, because it's bothering me keeping it to myself. My last correspondence to you was a mistaken text message with a horrific detail that you could've lived without. I promptly apologized for the mistake, and life kept going. After our well wishes to one another, the sea had calmed. This is coded for you; I think you were right. The whole time. I think I understand now what you saw and I did not.


There have been men that come into my life and have been angels. I will always advocate for you. And there have been men that come into my life and decide to be incomprehensibly inappropriate and willing to burn a bridge just to see how far they can go. In the last 2 years, it's now an average if 1 man per year to burn the bridge with inappropriate behavior. Men I knew personally. Trusted. Men I called friends who now are to me, repulsive creatures I don't care to associate with again.

I won't bring up the first one again, but this last occurrence from 6 months ago still boils. It happened in August. To my dear Coded, there was turbulence in our dynamic. The ultimate blame that was placed on me felt out of my hands, and so I left you. And it pains me that you weren't left once, but twice over. What's done is done. Following that, in attempts to sooth a broken soul, I stuck to my role as a friend to this man, to hear him out, and to listen.

He wanted to talk, vent, whatever. I suggested food and said I was going to check out Halloween stuff at a home goods. He met up with me there. I told my husband where I'd be and who I was going with.

I didn't dress up for him. I didn't put on make up. I was in pajamas, with a bare face, messy bun, and trying to be as unattractive to him as possible. Why I subconsciously felt I needed to do this to begin with should've made me reconsider. Alas, going out of my way to be as off-putting as possible, I wasn't expecting to feel him put his body so close up on my back, almost wrapping around me. Imagine you're browsing something and a man bigger than you comes up behind you, his whole body on your back, and he reaches his arm under yours, touching your waist and leans forward because.... he was putting something back on a merchandise hook. He made contact with your backside. Would you feel okay with that? Would you feel okay if your "friend" who knows your spouse, and you weren't ever into like that, did that to you?

I cannot fathom WHY he ever thought this was a good idea. I do not want to think about his motivation. The whole thing was repulsive. Disgusting. I never want to know what was going through is head. But suffice to say that he was incredibly and deliberately inappropriate. He was almost spooning me. Him doing that shit shattered everything- not just how I saw him but the reality that I ever saw him as a friend, and shut someone else out who probably got gaslit to hell and back, and I should've read more between the lines.

I didn't say anything in the moment. It was denial. I had so many questions racing through my head in that moment. I tried to brush it off, act cool like it didn't bother me. But it did bother me. And kept bothering me. So I sent him a curt messaged telling him how uncomfortable it made me and to cut it out with the affectionate treatment. I told him I didn't want to make a big thing of it, and that was me trying to minimize how much it affected me and salvage whatever shred of dignity that "friendship" had left. But the more I replayed it in my head, the more pissed off I got, and the more repulsed I became.

Let me make something crystal clear. My friends are very few. I like it that way. So when a friend does shit like this, it affects me. It's not just a disagreement, it's a violation and a monumental fucking disrespect. To me, to my husband, and to my fucking time on this planet. Our friends don't know, but in time they will. He likes to make impressions so much on people, this can be another he will have made on them.

Both of these men were invited to my wedding. I'm so SICK of men doing this shit.

I have one simple request: If there's ANY animal magnetism, get away from me. Do not touch me. Do not talk to me. Do not come anywhere near me. I don't want you in my life. Ever. There are so many girls whose whole shtick is to be lusted after. Go be their "friend". Not mine. You are not welcome.

I can't believe this shit still happened. Grown ass people still acting fucking STUPID. That monkey brain shit shut the door and that one liner "i'm so sorry! it won't happen again!" bullshit apology was just insulting.

So, to my Coded one, perhaps you were right. I'll never know. Albeit not mine and I stand by that, I understand the projection of your blame on me. Had I known this would've gone down like this, I would've happily cut him off much sooner.

I needed to get this out. I had to. Putting me in a bad mood for no reason. Ruining my sleep. Ugh. SO gross.

Sigh. No more.


So, meet Rupert

He's a blood clot I drew. He likes dancing the flamenco and is good at calling taxis.


This Saturday is going to be fun.


Take care. Be good to each other. Don't violate people or their space. Have a good day.

Hyuck

    It's a world of laugher, a world of tears. It's a world of eating without any fears. Now I sit in the park, as I scarf and scarf, while I'm writing a new post.

EHHTS A SMOL WORL AAAAAFTUR AWWL


Just kidding. But no really, I'm writing from Disneyland. I've become THAT person.

It's been a long-time goal to go somewhere that isn't the comfort of my desk to write. For someone like myself, that's an accomplishment. And I've found the perfect spot, right next to one of my favorite shacks in Fantasyland.

Man, I'm getting Disney fever bad. I was just here last Tuesday. And here's what that looked like.

Why? Genuinely, I missed it and just wanted to go. Mr. Chicken was working, as he is today, but I'm not sure if he would've even gone. I think he's a little Disney'd out.

But I said in the last post that I wanted get the Grey Stuff, and I went and got it. Girlies gotta manifest*
It was the last week to get the "Love Stuff" that was themed for Valentine's Day. I hadta.

There's also this really delicious (and bad for you) pretzel twist bread thing stuffed with melted garlic cream cheese, parmesan cheese, aioli, and paprika and it is DIVINE. The bread is warm and soft and chewy, and the cheese inside is pack full of flavor. It's like... Oktoberfest worthy. It's at the Edelweiss Snacks booth, which until just now (that I looked up the meaning of Edelweiss) I didn't realize meant "Noble White" in German. Ah, when something just makes sense like that, it's so satisfying lol.

And behind Edelweiss Snacks is where I've found my perfect writing spot that's facing the monorail track and a pretty view of the pond, lake thing that's here. 

So, was Love Stuff delicious? Yes. However, Disneyland was way too busy for my taste. I had arrived around 1:30ish. Made my way to Red Rose Tavern to grab dessert, was entirely too busy so walked over to Edelweiss Snacks area and found somewhere to sit to finish my dessert.

Dang Merida was setting up a few feet behind me so people kept coming through to stand in line. I watched Brave and remember nothing about it other than the bears being her brothers. Either way, I enjoyed my dessert. I probably looked like a creeper. That's fine. Then went and grabbed my Oktoby bread and got the hyuck out of Disneyland to make my way over to California Adventure.

Ah, that's better.

Crowds were significantly less. I saw Clarabelle's Ice Cream shop had a pineapple hard cider topped with pineapple sorbet and a slice of pineapple. Zero hesitation. Walked over to the pier where it was virtually empty.

Ahhhhhh...

Literally, no one here.

This is my ideal "going out."
I go out to a place that I like, and no one is there. And the sun isn't pissing off my skin because the clouds came to rescue me. Kinda felt like 2B walking into the theme park area. Just nothingness, except automatons.

Far off to my left was this super nice Disneygoer who approached me

Since I was taking selfies and photos of the area, this photographer approached me asking if I'd like my photos taken (for free!) She's a Disney photog for funsies and just enjoys it. I get it. I politely declined, but asked if I could capture her instead! I wish I had her business card but I lost it. And just like that I met another neato Disney photo goblin :D

JK, she's not a goblin. I am.

Something I realized the other night... I was telling Mr. Chicken how I'm likely returning this week to the parks, because I really like walking around; it gets my blood going and me out of the house. But why there? And that's when it hit me. I don't go on walks by myself anywhere else. I don't feel safe to do so anywhere else. And then I got sad LOL. Disneyland parks are the only places I feel safe enough to wander around by myself anymore. Maybe that's why I'm so comfortable going there alone. Disney security respond quicker than police. And I don't even wanna imagine what Disney Jail is like. 

I was there for maybe 3 hours before calling it a day. Took the tram back, totally chill. Came home, played Fallout to regen FP.

I'm not even upset that I'm utterly invested in New Vegas. Not sure how many hours, but it's probably a little bit gross. Also, I'm also not sure if this is something other players do, but it just makes sense for how my brain works.

I have notebooks full of these terminal word games. Whatever difficulty level they are, I still make a whole thing out of it. I'll write out all the words how they're displayed on the terminal, pick one word to click on, which is usually the wrong password, click all the little codes to clear out the duds, maybe refresh my tries if I'm lucky, and cross things out as I go along. Since it tells you how many letters in the word are correct, I'll diligently try to figure it out on my notebook before entering my guesses in the game. It's kinda extra, but I enjoy it. I kinda wish that there was a game with nothing but just these on it lol.

Was also inspired to start a new art thing! Also, w a r n i n g.
It's a perspective that I imagine when I'm working. I don't like talking about it but I'm gonna document stuff I'm proud of and this is one of them.
I get super focused and I swear I can see myself in like, the 3rd person or something lol. But it's work related with imagery of a type of state and condition that I sometimes come across. It's very sacred to me, and in the moment all I want is to make it right. This painting is a memento of those emotions that guide me through what I do, with some of the instruments that make it possible.

I cannot draw. Or paint. Angles, perspectives, lighting, movement - none of that makes sense through my hands unless it's 3D and I see it in front of me, which is why I like working with clay more. With a blank piece of paper, I can't fathom anything. So this isn't great, but it's my first watercolor painting and I happi.

No clue what I'm doing. I used art pose references of people laying down, and seeing them from the back, but nothing really was what I needed, so I did my best lmao.

It's very rare that I'll get inspired to draw anymore. I used to when I was much younger. But that kind of went away and I was fine with it.

The pink and orange splatters represent the fluids.
Those are the instruments I most often use.

I left things kind of unfinished, and at first I wasn't sure if that was what I wanted, but it is.

I'm not sure what else I'm gonna do, but I like the messiness of watercolors.

Here are Ophelia's beans as a palette cleanser.

Also, it's time to take a moment for this soup I make. 

It's the easiest soup to prepare, with so much flavor, and I wouldn't be who I a today without it going into my face.

K super quick: however many cups of water for starters will equal to tablespoons of stuff.

I made 4 cups. So I'll use 4 tablespoons of whatever. K.

4 cups h20
4 tbsp soy sauce
4 tbsp sweet mirin
4 tbsp dashi
4 tbsp sake
1 fat tbsp of miso paste
1 tbsp of garlic soy paste
1 tbsp of any spicy garlic chili oil

Fishballs. As many as you want
Thinly sliced beef or pork belly
Dumplings or gyoza. However many you want. Toss those hyuckers in there
A bundle of glass noodles

If you wanna add other stuff, go for it. I like daikon with shimeji and enoki mushrooms if I have any. Tofu works too. 

If glass noodles aren't your thing, just have this with rice. I'll take a bowl of this to work with a thing of rice on the side and it's HEAVEN. Or can just have it without noodles or rice on its own. Super yum. 

Mkay. Moving along.

I impulse bought a plushie I saw on twitter. No regrets.

Cinnamoroll, my beloved. I snuggle with it every night now. It's soft, and adorable, and squishy, and perfect. And it's ears are so floppy. It's everything I could ask for. 

And last night I rewatched this film. It's one of those older films, I think Gong Li is like 20 in it or something, but it's a comfort film. When I was taking Mandarin classes our instructor assigned us to watch this film and do a paper or something about it. Can watch the whole thing for free on YouToom.

Oh hay

And now we are here. In Disneyland. Again. It's getting colder.

The parking lot was empty when I got here, and the security line went smoothly. It's afternoon now, the crowds are growing. 

But I had to get the Green Stuff.

There is one good thing about the overwhelming amount of strollers. If there's something cool behind them there's a good chance people aren't going to get in your way.

Sigh. I had to cut my bangs. The longer they got, the more disheveled I looked and felt as a human being. Even now, they feel too long, but it's better. God, the eyebrows. So unruly. 

Dis me. I feel like Carrie Bradshaw. Perhaps this could be my Carrie Bradshaw arc. Actually no, she was unstable as hyuck. But I liked how she just took herself out to write. 

Whoa there's some parade thing going on right now. Lemme see if I can get photos. 

I can't. But I can see Genie, Merida (again)

And Pinocchio with Geppetto dancing to the music. Cute!

Time for California Adventure!

Love that the first thing I see when I walk in is Oswald's. Don't love that there's barely any Oswald merch. Color me a monochromatic surprised. I will wear the same Oswald hoodie until something better comes out.

Baymax balloons looked like a Souls boss. I followed it, passed it, and was followed by this amalgamation of gas and plastic for several minutes before it reset somewhere. Phew.

The path towards the pier was wiiiiild. There was a booth that was selling the Sip & Savor passes. Line went back all the way to 1928. I kept on walking and ended up at the pavilion way in the back. 

Aww, a woman just asked me where I got my Oswald ears and complimented my bag. Maaaan. So sweet. The ears are courtesy Mr. Chicken's coworker who brought them from Tokyo Disney. He's respected a little more over there, it would seem. I wanna visit when we go to Japan. I heard that Tokyo Disneysea is cool but it's not affiliated with Disney? It's some third party thing. Idk. I digress!!

When I got to the pavilion, I saw that there's a cute prickly pear lemonade mimosa! It's pink, and glittery, and comes with a flute. I NEED IT. 

This is my prickly pear redemption arc. The last time I hyucked with prickly pear, I ended up with one of the spines in the roof of my mouth. I kept thinking there was something lodged behind my front tooth and that I'd just swish it away or something. When I got to work, it started to sting, and I could move it kinda with my tongue. And then it started to really hurt. On my way to get something at another department, I asked someone I know if she could look up my mouth and tell me if she saw anyting LOL. She totally did!!! She said there was a huge red area that looked like it was bleeding from the inside. She said hold on and ran to get gloves. Other people showed up, there were maybe 3 and they all looked in my mouth trying to figure out how to get the spine out. Then we walked to visitation and asked if anyone had tweezers. One of the women there did! And she used to be a dental assistant lmaoooo, she she got gloves and went in there. Ultimately, they were unsuccessful. I told my partner and he said go home, get it out, and if you're up for it you can come back LOL. Soooo I drove home. Thankfully Mr. Chicken was working from home, or off. I can't remember. I told him what happened and he had me sit in his racing simulator chair and reclined it all the way back. I can't tell you how stupid and funny this all was. Dr. Chicken grabbed tweezers and went to work for a few minutes. He got it. I of course, took a picture of it, and went back to work and showed it to everyone. It was a good time. Btw this isn't the first time he'd have to extract a spine out of my gums. That's for another day.

SO. .That's my last experience with prickly pear. 

Well, not anymore!! Mwahaha!! It was really good. Light, yummy, refreshing, and pretty. And I have a new flute ^_^

Am writing by the wine area now. It's getting coooold. This is weird. I've never written so ... Reporting to you Live before. 

Anywho, I got the Sip & Savor pass.

This time, it's a digital one. There's a barcode on the back with a pin number you expose by removing the sticker. There are 2 options for passes this year: One has 4 items to claim, one has 8, all good for the participating food carts and locations during the festival. So far I've used up 3. I'm so full omg. It was that damn, delicious pretzel thing I ate earlier today T_T

The passport is cool, it tells you what all the carts have, where they are, and what participating areas have. Really useful, and kinda makes it like a treasure hunt. The first item I got was the Impossible Beef Stroganoff. Vegetarian or not, I love me savory beef stroganoff. It was really good!! I was happy with it. Def would recommend. After eating that though, I got kinda full. It doesn't look like a lot, but it was really filling. I continued wandering. 

So I realized that this time around, instead of ordering at the actual food cart you're hitting up, there are now separate areas where any and all food items at any food cart can be ordered. You'll be given a receipt with everything and you just go to the food cart pick up line. But hold onto the receipt, as cast members will cross out each item as you claim it.
The second item I got was the Grilled Top Sirloin. I'm probably still chewing it in another dimension. While the meat was overdone, flavors all paired well together. It came with mashed potatoes topped with this garlic, habanero spicy pesto sauce. SUPER tangy and flavorful. I really liked the flavors. Texture of the steak, not so much. Then I got in line to pick up my third and final item. 

This guy. The Cheeseburger Bao. It's uh, cold now lol. I'm so full. I feel like an asshole for getting it in the first place. I should've just waited to get it next time. But uh... it's fine. Nothing great. The dough is sweet. The inside doesn't really have any flavorful anything. I think it's all on the outside. Not impressed. Wouldn't recommend. 

And this concludes our post here at Too Many Srs IRL.

What does that even mean. It means exactly that. IRL gets too serious, stahp it.

K, I'm leaving. It's cold and I'm full and sleepy. I gotta figure out when we're coming back to use up the rest of my Sip & Savor pass lol. Oh yay it's rush hour!

 :D

Ah Wondercon is this month. Also have an embalming seminar that same weekend. HNNNNNNG I gotta finish my cosplay T_______T
Imma play Fallout lol bye

3rd Wheel

    Do I write cool? After all these years, Mr. Chicken told me recently that he had become enamored with my writing, before we grouped up. It was such a sweet sentiment that made me feel kinda neato. Makes me think that I had like.... some neat affect on him the way Cyrano's writing had on Roxanne. This is my delusion and we're friendly here.
Remember how Cyrano wrote love letters to her (because he was in love with her), but his friend took credit for it because he begged Cyrano to help him gain Roxanne's attention/love through his talent? And then like, Roxanne fell in love with the letters, and when a time came for the friend to be alone with Roxanne he looked like an idiot because she was like talk to me like you do in your letters and he was like THE SUN IS HOT AND SO ARE YOU and she was like GROSS GET OUT and then by the end she learned the letters were written by Cyrano the whole time?

My point is, husband was (is?) enamored by my idiot ramblings. Cyrano's situation is so much more tragic, but uh... it's all I got.

Anywho, HI. Happy Lunar New Year! Or what's left of it. Which is like, a day. I think. And belated Valentine's Day! It's been a good month so far. Busy, but good. Mostly.

The "mostly" part being COVID and the results of drinking alcohol on an empty stomach. Potions were too strong, and I overzealous. But I digress.

Mama Chicken, sister and I went window shopping, enjoyed lunch and get boba ^_^.

I didn't know the boba place we went to was doing a collab with that teddy bear character guy. It was cute!! And they had omikuji! They're usually at shinto temples. But... a boba shop is kind of a temple. Soooo. Yeah. Clearly.

Basically, shake the container holding the sticks to mix everything up, then pick one. Take it out, read the number you got. Then find the matching number on the omikuji drawers to obtain your fortune.

Albeit somewhat confusing, mine were yay. TLDR: You're loved. Treat yourself better.

In my last post, I promised myself I'd start on my next cosplay. And I did.
I hated every moment of it. But at least I got the hood started lmao.

I only hate it because I'm too impatient to clear out space for the sewing machine. And I don't like setting up the sewing machine. I also don't like to measure. It's just a bad ... everything LOL. I don't like it. BUT I STILL DO IT I don't know why I do this to myself. I enjoy cosplay, that's why lol. Ugh. You know what, honestly... I tried to buy this cosplay a while back, but the vendor was like oops sorry it's actually out of stock. And I was like WHY DO I EVEN TRY- so dramatic. So, angrily I dragged Sister out with me to buy fabric, and several months later, I finally hand sewed the hood. As you can see, Ophelia helped.

Sigh. I have to use the machine for it, but I really don't want to T_T. I ended up buying the rest of the materials I needed to basically finish it, I'm just... being a brat. Watch, I'll finish it and never wear it ever again lmao.

I mean... who knows though. I angrily made my Angie doll for my Donna Beneviento cosplay, so... maybe it's good that I get annoyed. It's literally the source of my craft. If you ever come over, she's lovingly looking over the lounge area. You can't miss her. I can't believe I brought her to work LOL. It was for a Halloween thing but still.

Speaking of work, it's been great!!!

I'm so happi. My left wrist isn't, but here's hoping that I get ripped soon and that fixes it. My coworkers invited me to join them for gym sessions. I'm at a crossroads with this so, I don't know. I'm a homebody at heart, what can I say. We do have some gym equipment at home, but we redid stuff and bought new furniture. Still trying to figure out where to set up all the gym stuff. We'll see what the future brings.

Whatever, Elden Ring DLC is coming out in June, so.

Cristal put this on my station at work. It's so cute. We had so much fun that day. We met up with Lifa, his bro and their friends in DTLA after spending time with the girls in Little Tokyo. Good times. Also look at my peeties! My PPE gown and apron come all the way down to my ankles! It's good coverage I guess, haha. Waddling everywhere feels powerful, it's fine.

Am really happy though. And feel extra fortunate, because my mom has taken an interest in funeral rites and everything that goes into funeral service. We talk every day, and she'll tell me everything she learned. It's my pride and joy. Perhaps this is a way she can understand it and dissect the negative views that death has attached to it. For many, it's an end to suffering, as is likely to happen to some of our family members. For many others, it's a cruel twist of fate. Death is many things, but what it is not is loveless, and I think meeting death with the empowerment of knowledge, coupled with love, diffuses the inevitable sting of its ripple in each of our rivers of time.
But I'm so lucky. I'm curious what videos she's watching, but I can guess. I asked her if she wanted me to send her anything but she declined saying she's been looking herself and found a lot of stuff to keep her busy.

Onward!

Ah, I was talking to Mr. Chicken about challah bread a little while back. I can't remember exactly why, but when I worked at a Jewish bakery, they'd have fresh challah bread out every Friday and it smelled amaaaaaaaaaaazing. And anything that didn't sell, they'd let us take home at the end of the night. I remember thinking that challah bread is like... delicious.

That's when Mr. Chicken said there's a Jewish bakery by Blizz! And they have challah bread! SO HE GOT SOME! It was just as yummy as I remember it. I have to control myself because during lock-down when the Panettones came out, I would eat nothing but that all day, shredding into a box at my desk and that's how I got the amazing thighs I have today.

If you're by there and haven't had challah bread before, give it a shot.

We had a celebration recently at Lifa's crib. His free spirit finally decided to settle on a homier space. We had to break it in with a proper housewarming.

Some of us broke more than others.
But look at these hot sauuuucies! Haunt Sauce Co, they're handmade by Thad's friend. He brought some over for everyone to try. I bought them the next day. They're SO good. My favorite is the green one.

Mr. Chicken bought Lifa a bottle of Lagavulin as a gift. We also got Dragon's Milk. You know, for Year of the Dragon.

Dragon's lactate, surely.

I am an affectionate, happy drunkard with an arsenal of likely off-putting, anachronistic information no one asked for. It is my greatest weakness.

I'm SO sorry. ilu.

Guys, we were assembling furniture all morning. I was ecstatic for the renovating we were doing at home, but that excitement made me WEAK.

Gamers go too hard

Me, drunk: passionately talks about everything in the universe
Friends that can't escape it:

Note: EVO is gonna be feral.
Like.
Just.
I don't even wanna say why but it is and I cannot WAIT omg.

I'm so glad that Thad and Brudda Lifa joined us that day. It was so much fun having them there. Man, those sauces changed my life lol

Fabulous, dahling.

Frans

nnnnnnnnnnn000000000b

I think he was asking for help.
Idk, do you ever just bite your person? Cuz you love them so much?
There's this weird thing where I'm just like, *bite* and I can't explain it. Too many happies, I say. Only relief is bite. Hmph.

WUBS

HNNGG

He tried on my lipstick

WHAT A RADIANT BRO

Ooh, la la!

Mpf, yisss



Bellissimo! 

We needed food by this point. Thankfully, we were within walking distance to a pub, where someone ordered clams roflmao.

I don't remember who, but if I had to guess, it was Lifa lolol.

The burger was good. Overpriced, but good. Or maybe I was just hungry lol. I got a cosmopolitan, and that was my last drink for the night.

After that, I've no memory of the rest of the night. To say the least, Homdray and I took the most damage, but I also did the most. I was too low level. Too many stacking debuffs. Admittedly, taking the amount of shots I did, plus the Dragon's Milk, on an empty stomach was a bad move for sure. I'm not sure why I thought I was high enough level to clear the night. Felt bad. Thankfully I was with friends who are and always have been amazing, and everyone got home safe. But I still don't like how much damage I took.

Lesson learned.

It's been a few weeks but I still feel bad. I told Mr. Chicken that I'm gonna carry rice with me to eat even for just beer or something. Omg... Challah bread!!! Lmao, I'll carry a loaf with me everywhere we go to buff up. Or I could just not drink that damn whisky again. Whichever sounds better to me. I told my coworkers about some of it and they all nodded in comiseration. I feel a little less weird, but our friends learned a lot about the arterial system that night that they could've gone without.

SLUMBER PARTY

Lifa came over for slumbies. Very important. We had a busy day coming up.

Also Ophelia's been laying like this lately. It's cute lol, but haven't seen her lay this way before. She looks like she has little chicken wings, haha.

Anyway,

DISNEYLAND :D

Being blinded by the sun while in Disneyland hits different. Hurts just as much, but magically.

We had a brunch reservation at River Belle Terrace. Got there early, it was a nice morning!

The breakfast at this place was epic.

We weren't prepared. I mean, we were, but they don't mess around. I got the loaded fries and got handed this big boy.

This was ONE fry. It was delicious. As was the rest of the plate. I struggled to eat it all. We all took Food Coma dmg.

We had to get our blood going after that, so we wandered around the area and decided to check out Tom Sawyer's Island. 

This was exciting! In all the years I've been visiting the Disneyland parks, I've never been there. I had a completely different idea of what it was. I thought it was just a building with a bathroom and people just hang out there for 30 minutes and then come back. But WOW was I wrong! And so glad of it!

Caaaaaaaaaaaves! Caves everywhere!!!

ADVENTURE !

LOOT

What dropped?
FRIENDSHIP
:D

Mr. Chimkin was brave, for he has mild claustrophobia. It's probably a good thing because it kept him from doing stupid, reckless things during his adolescence, like climbing down a chimney and getting stuck.

No one wanted to wear ears :(
But at least Mr. Chicken wore his Oswald hoodie.
Lifa is in the market for some Goofy swag.

We will find it.

Tom Sawyer's Island is much larger than I realized.

I can't say how large, but we spent a significant amount of time there just wandering and trying to see everything.

Yarr, cap'n. Enemies abound!

FIRE CANONS

We crossed the most dangerous bridge in the entire galaxy.

We were taken hostage by headhunters, clearly.

But we escaped and braved the highest peaks of a tree and stuff

We faced a mighty winged descendant of the most ravenous raptors, its sleek feathers darker than the void itself

We sat outside the tavern to regen health after that epic battle with the beast.

And finally saw some booty.

It was time to hit up California Adventure
Becauuuuuse

Lunar New Year was in full swing! And of course I had to get me a Sip & Savor pass this time :D
it was a little different this year. Instead of 8 tabs, the passes now had 6. It was also less expensive! That's always a plus. We were satisfied by this point though because the last few times were there during LNY event, we tried pretty much everything there was. But still! I just wanted to eat lol.

This drink was a must, again. It was like, pinapple yuzu coconut milk taro something I can't remember but it was my favorite and so refreshing. 1 tab down. 5 to go.

Something I wanted to do this year was to hang my wish.

We all did ^_^

I also saw that there was a calligraphy booth this year. I wanted one.

There were multiple we could pick from. I chose blessing. I forget what the other choices were lol

Rabbits represent! We're also Cats. Depending where you're at in the world. Kinda dope. I'm cool with either.

Mr. Chicken loves the chimoy stuff.
Something I'll never understand or can enjoy is the spicy powder stuff on fruits. So weird. Different strokes for different folks.

Gerald does his best. Just like the rest of us.
This is probably the best photo op spot in the entire park, if I'm being honest.

The trash babies, omg

ilu, Becky.

After we were done, other people started posing in from of this sign and it made me happy lol. Normally guests just walk by it.

Headed to the boardwalk at the pier for some afternoon noms

These "Proesperity BBQ Pork Bao" were pretty good, but the ginger was too powerful for me. Lots of flavor though!

Aaand this birria egg roll was really good. The little orange mango mousse cake thingie is yummy and rich. We had it last year, was happy to see it again.

Such a good afternoon. We were getting sleepy from too many happy hormones.

I'm the third wheel, look at these bros.

Lychee makgeoli so yummy! I nursed this for a good minute.

And Lifa wanted to try this bulgogi pizza. It was good!! We were so full by this point lol.

They got drinkies at Avenger's Campus.

Happiness is seeing your spouse and friend laughing together

The churros near the guardians ride were yummy. We wanted to the try the matcha strawberry ones last time, but a cast member blocked us from walking towards the cart. This upset Mr. Chicken because the parade hadn't even begun, but they were blocking off the street and access to .... crossing the street. She was unnecessarily stern with us. Her cavil demeanor stayed with Mr. Chicken, so he was determined to get the matcha churro this visit. And he did!

Aaaand we got the dragonfruit one again lol.

So cuuuute! Mr. Chicken asked me if I wanted it and that he'd get it right then and there. I almost screeched, but I couldn't justify spending that much for a drawing at that moment. It was fine, but nah.

He got his vietnamese taro iced coffee and Mr. Chicken got the char siu turkey leg

I passed and got the birria ramen again

Now a little more energized, off to Cars Land!

It's always nice walking around there at night and looking at the shops.

Don't even have to buy anything. It's just nice.

The end of the night was approaching, so we ran over to Guardians and jumped in line.

I look possessed. Mr. Chicken looks like his soul is trying to re-enter his body and he's afraid of it

And Lifa loved it lol

That called it a night in California Adventure. We walked over to Disneyland to peep since we spent most of the day in DCA. There's a shop by the entrance with an art gallery.

Many, many beautiful pieces on display. I had no idea. There were several rooms full of art pieces and collections of all kinds. I want that Mim painting lol.

And going a little further into the gallery, there was official concept art from various projects on display.

Even a 1:1 Dumbo! So sweet!

There was also a special showing of a short film celebrating all of the beloved Disney characters over the last 100 years. It's called Disney's Once Upon a Studio. We couldn't turn away. My chest tightened up rewatching it just now, on the verge of shedding a tear. Disney really is magic.

I don't even care about Disney stuff really. I just like how the old movies and the parks make me feel.
We were tired by that point. We had spent the entire day at the park.

We're breaking Lifa in for many more adventures to the parks in the future, now that he has a Magic Key.

Of course, we don't have to the spend the entire day there each trip, but this was just a preview of how easy it is to chill there and get the honk shoo honk shoos. So peaceful.

Good day.

Aaaand I'm going again tomorrow lol. But it's just going to be meeeeee. They have work, I GUESS. Jk. I've been missing the parks, sooooo Imma wander around tomorrow. Don't know when or what time, but I know Fantasyland is calling my name. Need me some of that Grey Stuff. It's delicious.

I wanna do a Disneybound but IDK what. Was thinking Wall-E and Eva, maybe. I have stuff for Mim, but I lowkey hate her outfit lol. Idk, we'll see.

When we got home, we exchanged Valentine's Day gifts.

I set the mood before he came into the room to open his gifts, lol.
This ended up being so silly but also really cool. We got each other the same kind of gift lmao.

I got him two vinyls, and he got me 2 vinyls LOL.
I also got him a box full of beef jerky for extra happy buffs while he's in the office.

He got me special edition vinyls with really pretty details on them. The Disney Haunted House vinyl had a cool smoked effect on the record. And the Nightmare Before Christmas record had animation reels all over it. It's so cool!

I love that we synced up this way. It was so funny.

For actual Valentine's Day, I was at work.

And after work, my coworker and I went on a girl date ^_^

We were just here, YAAAAY
It was fun. We click so much. She year of the pig. We're supposed to be like, super well matched or something. She's also quiet and picks up on my ... radar of distress signals, lol. I can't describe it but she just knows. And she speaks so deliberately. I like that about her a lot. There's little to no filler, and it's just easy. Considering we work long hours together, I'd say we hit the jackpot as colleagues! In fact, I'd say that about my entire team. They're all so cool.

Selfiiiieee wooou

I did that thing where you tie your hair in a pony tail on your forehead and just cut it. It makes for like, a layering effect? But am waiting for my long bangs and eyebrows to grow on me.

ahaaa.

Ghostiiiieee

It's stupid because I know that once it gets beyond a threshold, I'm just gonna cut my bangs again. But ah well.

Over the weekend, I got to see my morti ladiiiieeess. We gathered up finally after too long!

Catching up felt really nice. Granted, Cristal and I see each other at work, but Val and Hannah work elsewhere. And they graduated in December! They're done with school, finally. The comraderie in that is strong lol.

Skeleton bbies! Grabbed the last 3. Cristal got one, I got 2. I'm a little ashamed at how much these cost but was it worth it? Find out.

Girlies, meow meow ^_^

Very important, we had to unbox our lil skellies. Cristal wanted either Hello Kitty or My Melody. And I wanted Kuromi or Cinnaroll.

BOOM.

Cristal actually got Kuromi and I got Cinnamoroll and Hello Kitty, so we traded!

So cuuuute. I loved doing this lol. Just sitting there having dessert and opening blind boxes of our cute babies. Could do this all day.

And funny enough, Hannah's mentor showed up out of nowhere! They got to reconnect and talk for a while, it was sweet.
So Cristal and I took piccies :B

Bleb.

This was cute. I should get a red baret.

:D

Val kept taking cute photos of our little photo booth piccies. So cute. I love how she stages stuff. Ahh, I miss her already. She big mom vibes.

It was a good day. Since it was a Saturday, it was kinda crazy already. We all split around 3:30ish before it got even busier.

Also Cristal brings her little Sonny baby with her and takes photos of it, lol. So.... when you see these little guys in photos... it's Cristal's fault LOL.

So, I was craving wagyu last week. So we went to eat wagyu hot pot.

I brought one of my babies lmao.
This my favorite Skull Panda bb. She kinda lewkie like mee.
:B

This trip was wild. The place was having a Lunar New Year thing where the tables would have scratchers, and a lucky table would either get a discount, a free food item, or a year membership. Or nothing! This was so exciting!

Unfortunately, our scratcher was nothing. It just said Happy New Year of the Dragon, womp womp. But look at this view, huh? Who doesn't enjoy a melting bear in their brother?

We went a little crazy. A teeny bit. They had a chef's thing with a whole package and stuff. Couldn't say nooooouu.

It was the best day that week. If... there was another day.... in the same week, it would not have been as good as this day. Because this day... there was just none like it.

Beef tongue mmpf.
They ended up giving us another scratcher because we spent a certain amount on dinner.

Ugggghhh so gooooood

AND IT WAS A FREE ONE YEAR MEMBERSHIP
AAAHHHH!!!!!!!!

I couldn't believe it T_T. We have a membership for another wagyu place (that we need to soon revisit) but I like hot pot more and this was just the cherry on top of an already dope day.

On the left is the wagyu sashimi. It's my faaaavorite uuggggh. So yommyyy. And I think on the right is the rib eye. Bwuh. Soooup. Mmmm.

SHE'S BEAUTIFUL.
We left really full and happy. No regrets. I can't believe we got a free membership lmao. I'm about to pop my head in there next week just for the wagyu fried rice and sashimi lolol. The other place is kbbq style wagyu that Mr. Chicken likes. He feels the flavors of the wagyu translate better over flame rather than the broth. He's probably right. I can see that. And it was good! I'm just a soup goblin.


I kept meaning to post last week, but it had to wait while we finished remodeling everything.

Ophelia helped.

She takes no prisoners. Just hands.

Remodeling means finally making room for my embalming machine near my desk. And decorating it with cute photos of my girlies.

My colleague, I'll call her Peetie, and I matched one day. It was dumb but cute lol. We're petite, strongk, and wear crocs. Super Peeties.

And finally, the squirrels have finally discovered our bird feeder.
First, it was Madame Chubbs. The feeder was closer to the mesh screen. At the crack of dawn, we were awoken to loud thuds on the window.

She knocked it off one of the anchors LOL.
And today, another squirrel, and Mr. Chad, has repeated wrecked our mesh screen to jump onto the feeder. Mr. Chicken moved it further away, but they know now.

Ophelia is excited. She loves chirping at the squirrels. Now she can lose her shit every morning as they launch themselves at our window for seeds. Lookit the peeties.

This went way longer than I intended. It's late. Am kinda tiyerrrrrr. Gonna get ready for tomorrow's smooth brain wandering. Grey Stuff. Mmmm. And the strawberry shortcake dolewhip thing... mmmm. Ahkay.

A thousand times good night!

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