[June 2024] Mint Nails & More Cursed Nailfies

 

Hello my angels!! There wasn't much that happened in the weeks between my nail appointments this time around so I'm already sharing the next set.

I went with a minty green chrome situation and kept it quite simple as the sanrio set before this was an absolute sensory nightmare.

At this point we were still obsessed with the cursed nailfie trend so here are some incredible snaps from the izakaya we had dinner at after my appointment ✧｡٩(ˊᗜˋ )و✧*｡

For dinner we had some skewers and my favorite hamachi sashimi ( ˶˘ ³˘)♡

After dinner we went to go see some friends and the cursed photoshoot continued (≖⩊≖)

This one is probably the best one we took that night ꉂ(˵˃ ᗜ ˂˵)

Of course here's a bonus proper picture so you can appreciate how cute these were lol

I know it must seem really immature for me to be doing all these weird ass photos but at this point it was nearing the 1 year anniversary of my dad's passing and the grief was still very difficult for me to deal with every day. I think that finding small joys and opportunities to be silly or lighthearted with my loved ones really helped ease the burden of grieving and made things more tolerable so I wasn't just crying all the time.

Through little things like this I developed a newfound appreciation for life and redefined what it meant to really live. I think for me one of the hardest parts about losing my dad was that I felt we had very few photos together. I want to make sure I live my life to its fullest and have lots of fond moments to look back on so I decided that from now on, I will just do what makes me happy even if it means acting silly and taking photos with my friends in a parking lot at night with the 0.5 camera zoom on ( • ̀ω•́ )✧

I want to make sure I have as many photos and memories with my friends as possible so that when we're all old and grey we have an endless stack of photo albums to look through and reminisce over (⸝⸝ᵕᴗᵕ⸝⸝)

I hope you enjoyed this post! Thanks for reading (ㅅ´ ˘ `)♡

[April 2024] Friendmaxxing with Mando and Brailon

 

Hiiiiii I'm so excited to finally write this post. I feel like I've put it off for so long but actually it's coming at a perfect time since I just saw Mando and Brailon last month for their weidding so it's nice to reminisce about the events leading up to it!! See it was tactical and not at all due to poor post management on my part lmao (ᵕ—ᴗ—)

Last April Mando and Brailon came to visit me to celebrate Mando's birthday. It was also my first time seeing them after they got engaged in October. I knew about the engagement because I had helped pick the engagement ring hehe ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

The first night we met for dinner. Mando said they wanted to eat some meat so I thought Sooda would be a great spot for our first dinner together. 

 I thought the photos we took the night before were so cute I printed one out for Mando and they put it in their phone case ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡

The next day we had dinner and karaoke planned but since the afternoon was free we decided to impulsively get some matching tattoos.

The weather was nice so I decided to try to dress up a little. I didn't have a good bag to match this outfit but it's ok I didn't think too hard for this fit lol (´｡• ᵕ •｡`)

Brailon and Mando got matching Pochita tattoos and the 3 of us got a matching heart tattoo on our wrists（⸝⸝ᵕᴗᵕ⸝⸝）

We were super fortunate that my tattoo artist had such last minute availability. Also she had her dog Hugey at the shop that day so I was so excited that they got to meet Hugey because he's such a legend I love him sm!!!

Kevin happened to be in the area after we were done our tattoos so we stopped by Chatime for a sweet treat before dinner. Of course we had to take a lot of cute photos together ( • ̀ω•́ )✧

For dinner we went to Suika and the staff surprised Mando with a birthday dessert. It was such a great night!!

Later we went to karaoke and took more pics and I turned Mando into Ed Sheeran.

The following night Kevin and I took Mando and Brailon out for dinner to celebrate their engagement. We went to Elisa and it was one of the best dinners I've ever had!!

Since the restaurant was quite upscale we didn't take too many photos. Also there was another table that had really annoying children so we didn't want to cause the staff any more distress with flash photography (⸝⸝๑﹏๑⸝⸝)

We ended the night with some ice cream nearby and decided to go home after because it started raining a bit.

For our last day we did a chill mall hangout. There was a cosplay and artist alley event happening and Mando wanted to check it out. It wasn't very eventful and after lunch we came back to my apartment. Mando and Brailon finally got to meet Koji and we decided to order sushi and watch Chainsaw Man together for dinner.

This was such a fun and eventful week I was really sad this was our last day together!! I think about this week often and am thankful that we became such good friends over the years. I can't believe I've been friends with Mando and Brailon for over 10 years now!! I'm now frantically trying to catch up on my backlog so I can write about their wedding RAHHH ୧(๑•̀ᗝ•́)૭

Thank you for reading!! I'll catch you later ♡