Mid January

Hello, my dear blog friends! I hope yall are safe and that January is treating you well. If not, please hang in there.

I just started putting my Christmas decorations away; slowly replacing my home with reds & Valentine’s decorations. Last Christmas was my best holiday within this past decade— I hope I can maintain that spirit for 2026. I had a bit of difficulties putting some of the decorations away at first, but I felt at ease as soon as I see my Valentine’s decorations up.

I know that if I don't give myself time to do my creative hobbies-- I would get upset at myself. Here’s my January so far in terms art, entertainment, food adventures, wellness:

 Art

I am currently brainstorming a drawing for the year of horse. I ended up creating a couple of OCs, they’re characters loosely based on myself, my sisters, my girlfriends with big sister personalities. This drawing will be quite challenging for me. I think drawing carousel horses is a perfect way to get into the spirit. At the moment, I am in the process of finding which stylized designs feels best to draw. The pseudo Blythe body proportion is growing on to me. If my drawing turns out super wonky-- that's okay, at least I'm exercising my brain to do something new!

Entertainment

I got back into Animal Crossing after the update. I ended up restarting my island on our Switch 2. I want a fresh new start and I am okay with starting over. I will write about my Animal Crossing game play after weeks of play or major updates on my game blog. I feel posting small logs of my AC game play would be boring to read and they would just feel redundant.

Food

Bern and I discovered a new place in San Gabriel. I really enjoyed their milk tea, toast, & pineapple bun! Next time, I would like to try their noodles and pineapple bun. The interior decorations was fun to be in— I enjoyed ogling at their neon light.

Bern and I made a mistake of going into a particular “taco restaurant” in LA. The aesthetics of their place is indeed nice, customers are pretty hipstery, & their menu layout looks well done— those are sometimes the signs that a restaurant would be mediocre. It was our own fault that we fell for a gringo taco place We were curious to try them out in the first place, because a couple of people in our social group seems to like them. Then we later learned that we also have friends who also finds them very bland Obviously, I don't post pictures or share locations of the place if I am not too thrilled with the food.

We got a delicious vegan doughnut to make up for our dissatisfaction. I also got around to making my own matcha latte. Because we're in need of calendars, we went to the bookstore and wandered around... we ended up not finding a calendar that we like

OOTD Pics

Wellness

I’ve been pretty good about maintaining my cardio workout. I need to do some homework on free weights workout. I want to make sure I work on areas in my body that doesn’t get enough care.

Last week, I discovered a former friend from high school have been harboring some f4scist outlook. I haven't spoken to this person because of life changes in circumstances, so we weren't able to connect. Bern saw her posts on social media-- they're pretty vial. I am used to having people in my circle who don't have a clear, well-read, well-researched perspective on the Global South matters. However, what this former friend have posted was straight up inhumane; antisocial. To my avid readers, trust me, you'll be repulsed at her. This was the same person who was my badminton partner on my high school team & we both like the same girly pop anime-- it's disappointing.

According to Bern, he theorized that one of the reasons why people act or fall into these antisocial worm mainly because they feel that they're not significant in life and it's their way of standing out. Considering that we both have questionable extended relatives, I see what Bern meant. What do you y'all think? Do you have any former friends who fell into the a1t right hole?

As usual, I've been eating fairly clean: mostly fiber, protein, and whole wheat grain. I also been in touch with my different group of current friends. With all the anxiety-inducing domestic & global current events, I try my hardest to stay level headed-- my friends and I would vent about our days and share our personal highlight. Because if I let bleak events get to me, I would not get anything done at all.

Alright, my sweets-- I luv ya all. See ya my next post.