listening to criminal by karin slaughter
mood 6/10

another monday, another post. i'm now on book 5 of the will trent series, lol! it's so so good.

listening to undone by karin slaughter
mood 7.5/10

would you believe i am now on book 3 of the will trent series? i think i'm listening to a book a day, basically! this is what happens when you listen to something while driving, while working, while driving again, while laying in bed, etc. i just can't get enough of karin slaughter's books and kathleen early's voice hehe.

anyway, my weekend was a bit eventful (unlike my normal cavewoman bed rotting weekends). my lil sis & i went to torrance pretty early on saturday. i needed to get new glasses, because my old pair was literally on its last leg ㅜㅜ it took me a while, but i ended up getting some tom ford sunglasses that we converted to glasses because i liked the frame. my wallet cries!!! sigh. afterwards, we stopped by two of my favorite bakeries to pick up a paradise cake and cream puffs for my older sister's birthday and mother's day. :) we celebrated my older sister and daniel's combined birthday at 미술관 at the source oc & migrated to octave in buena park for some karaoke. ended the night at 3am after dropping off pita & alicia.

mother's day was spent with my fam~ we ate vietnamese food and hung out. my older sis also cut my hair for me hehe. then i went home and played aram & watched culinary class wars season 2 with my boyfriend. <3

listening to makedamnsure by taking back sunday
mood 8/10

celebrated cinco de mayo with our favorite taco truck! fun fact of the day: taco tuesday falls on cinco de mayo once every 7 years lol. anyway, sk & i waited over 45 minutes because there were so many people who had the same idea. we ordered (2) asada fries, (2) lengua tacos, (1) pastor taco, (1) order of potato tacos that comes with 3. i swear to god their hot sauce is so spicy & gooood.

listening to girl, forgotten by karin slaughter
mood 4/10

may the fourth be with you day aka my older sister's bday! :) the sibs & i are planning a dinner & a night at karaoke for her this weekend. it'll be funnn. my weekend was super chill. hung out with the roomies/friends on saturday. we opened op & spiritforged tcg (got some good hits!), baked, cooked, went on a walk, and played pandemic 3x on hard mode (lost all 3x) until 2am. sunday was a lazy day hanging with my bf and bed rotting, hehe.

anyway, my mood is pretty low strictly because i'm tired af. i woke up around 2:30 this morning because i had forced myself awake from sleep paralysis/weird dreams and then fell back asleep around 4:30am. then my alarm went off at 5:30am to get ready for work, and boy was it hard. -.-

i rarely remember my dreams, so i'll write out what i can remember for now. for the sleep paralysis part, it was super short, but i remember having a cat laying on my neck/chest area and its tail was super fluffy draped across my neck. i tried so hard to wake up, talk, move and it took awhile. when i eventually fell back asleep, i was suddenly in a different world that reminded me of neverland (peter pan's, not michael jackson's lol). i was hanging onto the neck of a dragon made of bicycle chains (wtf) as it dropped me off at my house and i went inside. there was a grandma in my restroom and a group of people in the living room that i apparently knew. i walked into the restroom when the grandma came out, and was surprised to see that she had spread chocolate (think melted crunch bar) all over the toilet seat and had unscrewed the pipe on the toilet so the bathroom was starting to flood. when i ran out to the living room for help, an anime faced robot in a maid's uniform said they had it handled. i let it do its thing, but i ended up going back to the bathroom to check on the progress after a few minutes. the robot had plugged the tub and let the water fill/run over the edge! i was like wtf!!! then i woke up again to my alarm for work lol. i was so tired that i was dizzy. ugh.

i won't be resting tonight until i go to bed, because it's gym night with my roomies. fun! :D

listening to kpop girlies playlist
mood 10/10 (tgif)

i normally hate the summertime (ask me why i live in california lol), but i'm super excited for my boyfriend to visit at the end of june for one of the last times before i relocate to norcal around august! it's already may, so only a few months left before i say goodbye to la. honestly, i'm so excited. dang, we've been long distance for almost 4 years now!

everyone keeps asking if i'm sad to leave friends & family; i mean, yes & no. yes: i know relationships drift more because of the whole out of sight, out of mind mentality (which i struggle with). no: because i see my family pretty often, once a month at minimum. i'll be coming down for birthdays, holidays, etc, which will give me time to also visit friends. the only thing i'm sad about leaving la for (besides the more important stuff), is the amazing food ;-; especially the variety of korean & mexican foods that are just sooo good !! i love me a good street taco T^T

listening to girl, forgotten by karin slaughter
mood 10/10

it's almost the weekend !! :D i don't have any plans besides getting my alignment fixed on saturday morning, but i plan to do absolutely nothing otherwise. my goal this weekend is to overhaul my page; i love this cute & clean layout, but i'm itching for something else (i just don't know what yet). i think i'll have to invest in adobe photoshop again though. whew

i've been breezing through these audiobooks.

listening to false witness by karin slaughter
mood 5/10

replaced the tire today! i found out it's probably due to my alignment, so that'll have to be fixed this weekend to avoid this problem in the future (insert money with wings emoji here). why is adulting so hard? :(

it's only wednesday & the weekend seems so far away. i think i'll go out with my coworker for lunch to treat myself to a kebab/wrap to lift my spirits.

i don't have much else to say, so here are some yummy snacks i bought at trader joe's yesterday:

• strawberry brioche style liége waffles
• freeze dried strawberries
• freeze dried bananas
• bbq flavored potato chips
• lemon flavored mini sheet cake

time to power through the rest of this day -- my plan is to be a gaming potato with my bf after work; it's something to look forward to!

listening to false witness by karin slaughter
mood 8/10

back at the office today! i need to get a flat tire replaced; hopefully i can resolve that by the end of the week. luckily, my coworker lives just as far from work as i do, so we carpooled today heh.

anyway, i've been heavy into karin slaughter books lately. i love true crime podcasts & fictional crime novels. since my commute is so long, i listen to a lot of audiobooks. i finished 3 or 4 of her audiobooks within a week! they're just so addicting. i do miss reading from real books though lol

i can't believe april is almost over -- time is seriously flying by.

listening to my new logitech alto keeb
mood 10/10 (working from home)

how nostalgic it is to be "blogging" again. i don't really have much to say right now, but i wanted to make a habit of logging thoughts & maybe a daily habit or mood tracker? i'm still a bit iffy on how to link a blog onto neocities, so i'm doing it in a super simple way because i'm a noob :(

for now, i'm just trying to find an "identity" for this blog -- i want my space to be cute, soft and comfy!