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Happy New Year!!!
Jan. 21st, 2026 10:14 pm Woah! Has it really been 2 and a half months since my last post??? CRAZY!! Well anyway, happy new year! This was my first week back from winter break and honestly not much has happened since my last post lol. I did get a haircut and dyed my hair by myself for the first time and I'm super happy with how it came out~ I also trimmed my brows and started wearing makeup again~ Sadly the little growth I had on my nails I bit it all off yesterday on impulse... I really need to work on that!!! I also need to start going to the gym again, I found that using the bikes helps with my lower back pain yaaay!! I'm getting old... Need to start streching like the chinese grandmas... So I do need to make going to the gym a habit. OH! And I just got a new lid for my favorite water bottle in the mail yesterday!! So right before the pandemic I got a tour of Crunchyroll HQ, and during that tour I got an 18oz YETI insulated water bottle with a custom engraving showing I had gotten it from Crunchyroll on 2020. It's been my favorite waterbottle as it's been the perfect size to put in my backpack while commuting and keeps my drinks cold, however... the lid has always sucked a bit bc I'd always have to unscrew it to drink and it's messy... But I just found out YETI has interchangable lids w straws!? So I found a listing on ebay new in box and it came a week early!!! Lemme tell you... This lid is a life CHANGER!!! I'm so so happy I don't need to replace my water bottle and now it's easier for me to drink waterr throughout the day.. I am so pleased, and also it's made me want to give my water bottle a new life and replace the pealing stickers... I've been looking online to find some I like but tbh I think imma keep it blank for now so I have space for when I go to my next con. Sadly however I have to stop going for the time being as I need to save some me omeny for when I'm living in the dorms.
I was able to keep my tutoring job so that is a plus. Also apparently my mom's mom (who I'm no contact w atm) is going to help pay for my college stuff, and my mom's dad (who I am low contact w atm) is gonna help pay for repairs on my car so she is in tip top shape when I move!! Oh I am so happy!!! I did decide to take all online classes this semester.... So I won't have that many opportunities to make new friends, but at the same time I'm glad bc I'll just be leaving them in the fall. So I'm using this time to meet up w old friends before I move. I already met up w one friend this year so that means 2 more to go, these are my community college friends I've made in the past 2 years.
Over the break I did have a nice holiday, my roomates and I exchanged gifts!! I gifted one roomate a vintage Star Wars mug and the other a LEGO C3PO keychain to match my R2D2!! So cute!! My gifts from them was a keychain of Usagi from Chiikawa wearing a taiyaki hat lol! He's now on my rearview mirror and keeps me company on my commutes. ^_^ All three of us got matching plush keychains of Chiikawa, Hachiware, and Usagi that we have on various purses when they where still sold at Miniso. I also went to con with my cosplay duo to start off the new year, although I didn't cosplay I got a buuuunch of photos of her, they look so good!! When I transfer to my CSU I will be taking a photo editing class tho bc idk how to color correct props or fix flyaways on wigs,, So my duo had to do some edits. I had a lot of fun tho and it gave me a lot of experience, she had paid for my ticket and food while I followed her around con and took over 100 pics ehehehe~ So we bargained and called it even, she's also letting me use her photos in my portfolio if I do decide to pursue cosplay photography bc apparently there's a bunch of photographer creeps!?
So apparently con photographers, mainly male photographers, are hella creepy.. They will focus the camera on the body (aka boobs), will airbrush the face so smooth the cosplayer is barely recognizable, and run cosplayers photos thru AI WITHOUT CONSENT!! Horrid horrid... I was as polite as possible when asking cosplayers for photos and even was told post con that I was the nicest photographer a cosplayer had met, that made my day fr.. I think it really helps that along with being a casual photgrapher I'm an artist as well and a cosplayer of 10 years, so like ik poses and angles lol!! Although I'm not going to cons my roomates will still be going. I am sad I can't join them anymore atm, but it's not like I'm never going to go to cons w them again in the future.
Being 22 isn't so bad anymore. I may not ever live w my current roomates again, so I'm going to cherish the time I have with them now. I know we'll still be friends after, and hopefully by that point in time I will have a stable enough income I can treat them when we hang out. I also think it's for the best I'll be living on my own for a year. I checked w my mom and thankfully she's going to pay for me to live in my own room!! How exciting! My roomates and I have been hanging out a lot recently, and they do encourage me to get out of bed and join them too. So I'm happy! We also have cosplans for when I come back, so like I will be coming back eventually even if it's just to visit or to cosplay lol!! I think that while I'm living in the dorms imma start making cosplays again too as I'll have the space. I will eventually make a Miku cosplay for myself and a Kaito one for one of my roomates, while for the other we'll cosplay Sam and Castiel at some point as well. IDK when these cosplans will play out but I'm looking forward to it!!! In the meantime I have adult things to do to prep for when i transfer and to spend as much time with my current friends as possible!!! Also need to draw mire this year.. PEACE!!
I was able to keep my tutoring job so that is a plus. Also apparently my mom's mom (who I'm no contact w atm) is going to help pay for my college stuff, and my mom's dad (who I am low contact w atm) is gonna help pay for repairs on my car so she is in tip top shape when I move!! Oh I am so happy!!! I did decide to take all online classes this semester.... So I won't have that many opportunities to make new friends, but at the same time I'm glad bc I'll just be leaving them in the fall. So I'm using this time to meet up w old friends before I move. I already met up w one friend this year so that means 2 more to go, these are my community college friends I've made in the past 2 years.
Over the break I did have a nice holiday, my roomates and I exchanged gifts!! I gifted one roomate a vintage Star Wars mug and the other a LEGO C3PO keychain to match my R2D2!! So cute!! My gifts from them was a keychain of Usagi from Chiikawa wearing a taiyaki hat lol! He's now on my rearview mirror and keeps me company on my commutes. ^_^ All three of us got matching plush keychains of Chiikawa, Hachiware, and Usagi that we have on various purses when they where still sold at Miniso. I also went to con with my cosplay duo to start off the new year, although I didn't cosplay I got a buuuunch of photos of her, they look so good!! When I transfer to my CSU I will be taking a photo editing class tho bc idk how to color correct props or fix flyaways on wigs,, So my duo had to do some edits. I had a lot of fun tho and it gave me a lot of experience, she had paid for my ticket and food while I followed her around con and took over 100 pics ehehehe~ So we bargained and called it even, she's also letting me use her photos in my portfolio if I do decide to pursue cosplay photography bc apparently there's a bunch of photographer creeps!?
So apparently con photographers, mainly male photographers, are hella creepy.. They will focus the camera on the body (aka boobs), will airbrush the face so smooth the cosplayer is barely recognizable, and run cosplayers photos thru AI WITHOUT CONSENT!! Horrid horrid... I was as polite as possible when asking cosplayers for photos and even was told post con that I was the nicest photographer a cosplayer had met, that made my day fr.. I think it really helps that along with being a casual photgrapher I'm an artist as well and a cosplayer of 10 years, so like ik poses and angles lol!! Although I'm not going to cons my roomates will still be going. I am sad I can't join them anymore atm, but it's not like I'm never going to go to cons w them again in the future.
Being 22 isn't so bad anymore. I may not ever live w my current roomates again, so I'm going to cherish the time I have with them now. I know we'll still be friends after, and hopefully by that point in time I will have a stable enough income I can treat them when we hang out. I also think it's for the best I'll be living on my own for a year. I checked w my mom and thankfully she's going to pay for me to live in my own room!! How exciting! My roomates and I have been hanging out a lot recently, and they do encourage me to get out of bed and join them too. So I'm happy! We also have cosplans for when I come back, so like I will be coming back eventually even if it's just to visit or to cosplay lol!! I think that while I'm living in the dorms imma start making cosplays again too as I'll have the space. I will eventually make a Miku cosplay for myself and a Kaito one for one of my roomates, while for the other we'll cosplay Sam and Castiel at some point as well. IDK when these cosplans will play out but I'm looking forward to it!!! In the meantime I have adult things to do to prep for when i transfer and to spend as much time with my current friends as possible!!! Also need to draw mire this year.. PEACE!!
