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Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays.
Dec. 25th, 2018 12:08 pm Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays to all of you that celebrate it. I hope you all have a great day. :)
Merry Christmas
Dec. 25th, 2016 10:38 am
(lol this gif is awesome xD!)
Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it. My Christmas has been pretty good so far. I hope everyone else enjoys spending time with family and friends. I'll post an after Christmas post later. :)
christmas recap and friendship issues
Dec. 28th, 2015 10:13 amHello everyone! I hope everyone enjoyed the Christmas holiday. My Christmas went well.
I ended up getting some really good gifts. My sister bought everyone presents when she went on her short vacation from New York. She bought me an awesome hoodie, and purse that's very me. I ended up giving her a gift card since I really didn't know what to get her. Also she's very picky when it comes to name brands so I figured she could buy what she wanted with the gift card. The main thing I usually dread about holidays is cleaning up after everyone leaves, but my cousin helped me so it wasn't too bad at all.
My friend was supposed to show up on Christmas Eve so we could exchange gifts, but she sent me a text saying she couldn't make it. Apparently she was doing testing for a new job she applied for, and she had to pick up her cousin. I'm trying not to get upset about it, but honestly she always does this. It's so frustrating trying to be in a friendship with someone when you feel like it's one-sided. I feel like I do a lot of the work in the friendship, and if I didn't we would just drift apart. I've talked with my therapist about it, but I don't have a solution. Sometimes I think it would be better if we just went our separate ways, but I do think she's trying (I hope anyway.) I'm not too sure, but I guess I would be lying if I said it didn't bother me. I really miss my best friend that moved away a couple of years ago. Things haven't been the same since she left. Honestly I don't think I've met anyone else that I could call a best friend besides my friend that moved away. I just don't connect with people at all, and it's so damn frustrating. Along with dealing with my grief that's one of the main reasons I'm going to therapy. Having social anxiety fucking sucks. :(
I had to work the day after Christmas which sucks, but I got through it. Either way more money is always good I suppose. Well that's about all for this post.
I ended up getting some really good gifts. My sister bought everyone presents when she went on her short vacation from New York. She bought me an awesome hoodie, and purse that's very me. I ended up giving her a gift card since I really didn't know what to get her. Also she's very picky when it comes to name brands so I figured she could buy what she wanted with the gift card. The main thing I usually dread about holidays is cleaning up after everyone leaves, but my cousin helped me so it wasn't too bad at all.
My friend was supposed to show up on Christmas Eve so we could exchange gifts, but she sent me a text saying she couldn't make it. Apparently she was doing testing for a new job she applied for, and she had to pick up her cousin. I'm trying not to get upset about it, but honestly she always does this. It's so frustrating trying to be in a friendship with someone when you feel like it's one-sided. I feel like I do a lot of the work in the friendship, and if I didn't we would just drift apart. I've talked with my therapist about it, but I don't have a solution. Sometimes I think it would be better if we just went our separate ways, but I do think she's trying (I hope anyway.) I'm not too sure, but I guess I would be lying if I said it didn't bother me. I really miss my best friend that moved away a couple of years ago. Things haven't been the same since she left. Honestly I don't think I've met anyone else that I could call a best friend besides my friend that moved away. I just don't connect with people at all, and it's so damn frustrating. Along with dealing with my grief that's one of the main reasons I'm going to therapy. Having social anxiety fucking sucks. :(
I had to work the day after Christmas which sucks, but I got through it. Either way more money is always good I suppose. Well that's about all for this post.
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!
Dec. 25th, 2015 12:39 pm
Just around the corner
Dec. 22nd, 2015 03:22 pm So Christmas is coming up, and I wish I could say I was looking forward to everything but I'm not really. My parents are remodeling their bathroom, and there's stuff everywhere because of that. Since we will have Christmas at our house this year it's going to be crazy with all the stuff everywhere. Hopefully it all works out.
I've been making a lot of progress with my therapy. Everyone has been saying how much they've seen me progressing since I've started going. I've just tried to make a continuous effort to do better. It is a struggle sometimes dealing with things, but I feel like I'm making progress at least.
I've been listening to random music lately like a bunch of old-school Visual Kei, Twenty One Pilots, Linkin Park, William Control, Trivium, Coaltar of the Deepers, coldrain, and many other artists. I've also been taking advantage of spotify's playlist functions, and made a few different playlists. I'm still trying to figure out how to use it so I'm still learning my way around. Since there are many artists I listen to that aren't on Spotify I don't see myself getting rid of my music library. While streaming music is nice sometimes I just enjoy listening to stuff on iTunes. I've heard people say that since they've started using streaming services that they no longer keep any music on their computer. I do understand that logic, but honestly I'm sort of old fashioned. Plus I listen to a ton of music, and some of it I can't find on Spotify so I'll just mainly use it to discover new music.
Now I think I go practice my guitar for a while. I hope everyone is doing well, and I'll try to comment on people's stuff before Christmas rolls around. If I don't then Merry Christmas to everyone!
I've been making a lot of progress with my therapy. Everyone has been saying how much they've seen me progressing since I've started going. I've just tried to make a continuous effort to do better. It is a struggle sometimes dealing with things, but I feel like I'm making progress at least.
I've been listening to random music lately like a bunch of old-school Visual Kei, Twenty One Pilots, Linkin Park, William Control, Trivium, Coaltar of the Deepers, coldrain, and many other artists. I've also been taking advantage of spotify's playlist functions, and made a few different playlists. I'm still trying to figure out how to use it so I'm still learning my way around. Since there are many artists I listen to that aren't on Spotify I don't see myself getting rid of my music library. While streaming music is nice sometimes I just enjoy listening to stuff on iTunes. I've heard people say that since they've started using streaming services that they no longer keep any music on their computer. I do understand that logic, but honestly I'm sort of old fashioned. Plus I listen to a ton of music, and some of it I can't find on Spotify so I'll just mainly use it to discover new music.
Now I think I go practice my guitar for a while. I hope everyone is doing well, and I'll try to comment on people's stuff before Christmas rolls around. If I don't then Merry Christmas to everyone!
therapy and christmas shopping
Dec. 9th, 2015 10:37 amI went to see my therapist yesterday for our weekly appointment. We ended up changing our meeting time to Tuesdays at 11am instead of the time I had which was Wednesdays at 4pm. I think my sessions with the therapist are going really well. It's nice to be able to talk about how your feeling without worrying about if they're going to judge you, or not. She seems to be a really good fit for me.
Christmas is in a few weeks, and honestly I need to do more shopping for gifts. I've gotten a few people out of the way, but the rest of the people will probably end up with gift cards unless I can think of what to buy them.
As for music I have to say spotify has really helped me find a lot of new artists to get into. Before I got spotify I would go on youtube and just listen to random bands, or check out new releases that were coming out. Spotify makes it so easy to check out current releases and decide what you like or not. A few bands/artists I've discovered recently are: Turnover, The Amity Affliction, August Burns Red, Blut Aus Nord, The Contortionist, Danzig, Death from Above 1979, Can, The Knack, Deep Purple, La Roux, Light Asylum, Lust for Youth, Lamb of God and a few others.
Well that's all for now
Christmas is in a few weeks, and honestly I need to do more shopping for gifts. I've gotten a few people out of the way, but the rest of the people will probably end up with gift cards unless I can think of what to buy them.
As for music I have to say spotify has really helped me find a lot of new artists to get into. Before I got spotify I would go on youtube and just listen to random bands, or check out new releases that were coming out. Spotify makes it so easy to check out current releases and decide what you like or not. A few bands/artists I've discovered recently are: Turnover, The Amity Affliction, August Burns Red, Blut Aus Nord, The Contortionist, Danzig, Death from Above 1979, Can, The Knack, Deep Purple, La Roux, Light Asylum, Lust for Youth, Lamb of God and a few others.
Well that's all for now
Happy Holidays & other things
Dec. 22nd, 2014 12:29 pm I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Holidays before I forgot to post anything. I hope everyone is enjoying spending time with their family, friends, etc.
Last week was a long week for me, but I'm glad it's finally the week of Christmas. That gives me an extra day off work, and more days to sleep in which is good. At work I got a bunch of awesome gifts for Christmas! I was surprised because last year I didn't get much of anything, but think they organized it better this year. My mom has been sort of sick with a bit of a cold, and she's utterly miserable being that she's sick around Christmas time. She was actually sick around Thanksgiving too which sucks. Hopefully after she gets her medicine she can feel better.
I've been meaning to make a post of my favorite albums of 2014. Instead of doing it like I did last time by music genre I'm going to post my favorite albums in general. There were a lot more albums I enjoyed this year as opposed to last year. I think that K-pop has been really lackluster this year in terms of quality music. I did have a few albums I like, but most of my favorites have been non-korean albums. Dir en grey's new album is perfection, and everything I wanted it to be! It's definitely going to be on the list. :D
I've been sort of stressing about my deteriorating relationship with my friend who moved away. I mean I should have expected us to eventually grow apart since she's no longer here, but it makes me pretty sad. I will send her a message on Christmas wishing her a Merry Christmas, but I'm going to start treating her like I treat everyone else. I'm not going out of my way for her anymore. I'm tired of being the one putting all the effort in the relationship and getting nothing in return. To me that's not true friendship at all.
My sister plans on having a bunch of games for us to play for Christmas, including Karaoke. I'm pretty excited honestly. Usually our Christmas is boring because everyone is so tired after they eat XD! I'm glad she decided to make it more enjoyable this year. :)
Last week was a long week for me, but I'm glad it's finally the week of Christmas. That gives me an extra day off work, and more days to sleep in which is good. At work I got a bunch of awesome gifts for Christmas! I was surprised because last year I didn't get much of anything, but think they organized it better this year. My mom has been sort of sick with a bit of a cold, and she's utterly miserable being that she's sick around Christmas time. She was actually sick around Thanksgiving too which sucks. Hopefully after she gets her medicine she can feel better.
I've been meaning to make a post of my favorite albums of 2014. Instead of doing it like I did last time by music genre I'm going to post my favorite albums in general. There were a lot more albums I enjoyed this year as opposed to last year. I think that K-pop has been really lackluster this year in terms of quality music. I did have a few albums I like, but most of my favorites have been non-korean albums. Dir en grey's new album is perfection, and everything I wanted it to be! It's definitely going to be on the list. :D
I've been sort of stressing about my deteriorating relationship with my friend who moved away. I mean I should have expected us to eventually grow apart since she's no longer here, but it makes me pretty sad. I will send her a message on Christmas wishing her a Merry Christmas, but I'm going to start treating her like I treat everyone else. I'm not going out of my way for her anymore. I'm tired of being the one putting all the effort in the relationship and getting nothing in return. To me that's not true friendship at all.
My sister plans on having a bunch of games for us to play for Christmas, including Karaoke. I'm pretty excited honestly. Usually our Christmas is boring because everyone is so tired after they eat XD! I'm glad she decided to make it more enjoyable this year. :)
2014 is almost here~
Dec. 31st, 2013 03:39 pm The new year is almost upon us on this side of the world. I’m aware that it’s already New Years Day for some of you because we’re always behind everyone else over here…lol. Anyway if it’s already New Years where you are Happy New Year!
This week has been somewhat crazy, but luckily everything turned out to be okay. My mom broke a tooth, and had it removed yesterday. She had an infection so the doctors fussed at her for waiting to come in, as did me and my dad, but the procedure turned out ok. She’s at home now, and at the moment sleeping since she took her medicine. I've been doing everything around the house since she’s been sick. I’ve been to the store twice this week much to my dismay. I hate going to the grocery store because I either A: Always forget something, B: I have to make a list because if I don’t I will most definitely forget something, C: they don’t put something in the bag and since I’m absent minded I always miss it. Needless to say I hate going to the grocery store, but I managed okay. The lady did forget to put my toothpaste in the bag though despite me paying for it. >_>;
I managed to cook a meal that I've never cooked before thanks to my mom writing down the recipe for me. I think I just screwed up on one step which caused the chicken chili I made to be somewhat bland, but my dad being the trooper he is didn't complain or say anything about it. I knew it was bland because I tasted it but I was so stressed at the point from not knowing wtf I was doing I was like “Well it taste editable so It’ll do.” I’m not a bad cook I’m just limited in how many things I've made, or know how to make. My best friend always likes to brag that she knows how to make all these different dishes but personally I don’t think she’s that good of a cook (opp). I can’t help it I’m brutally honest. And I always used to think that whenever I would be at her place, but of course I would never tell her that.
Anyway here are a few of my Christmas gifts. I’m not posting everything, but these are the main gifts. It’s mostly clothes, jackets, shoes. I didn't include the things I bought myself...lol.
( gifts in here... )
I came across an article recently about Kyo from Dir en grey having a side project band called Sukekiyo. I was very surprised because I never would have expected him to do music outside of Dir en grey, but apparently they opened for Sugizo at some sort of festival thing. Kyo claimed that the music style was ambient/folk with ethnic influences but I don’t know if that’s the vibe I get when I listen to it. Sure it’s somewhat ambient, but I don’t hear the folk part that much. This song is nice, but it’s nothing really remarkable. I like that he’s actually singing instead of growling/screaming/screeching or whatever it is he does in Dir en grey. This video will be available for purchase on iTunes worldwide January 1st.
