New York, New York!

Ah… it’s been a crap ton of time since I’ve posted anything again. Should I just accept it by now?

Well, due to a small family emergency I found myself booking a last minute flight out to New York! Only for about 5 days… 12 hours of total flight time for only 5 days .___.; I was hoping to make the best of it anyway.

Most of all I really looked forward to seeing friends again. As much as I love living in Seattle and having Kai all to myself I totally have missed all of my friends so much ;_; And most of all, I’m in a constant state of missing Jess.

My first day out I arrived at about 5pm Easter time. Most of the day was already lost… but… I got PIZZA. NEW YORK PIZZA! There is no pizza that I can find in Seattle that can hold a candle to New York pizza. In fact, most food in Seattle cannot compare to the deliciousness of New York. But it is because of this that I feel I’m not extremely fat. If I remained in New York I believe I would have eaten myself into obese oblivion by now. In stead, my diet is well in west coast moderation with their lack of their artificial, processed, fatty, fast foods. I mostly eat natural and organic against my will simply because that’s virtually all that is readily available. So if anything this was also kind of like my rich fat and carb infused food vacation!
Saturday being my first full day, I met up with Jess :3 it was nice to catch up and, as always, things pick up as if nothing had ever changed. We went out with her parents to El Sid’s in New Jersey. I had a log of filet mignon.. no seriously, a log. It must have weighted like 2 pounds. Jess got prime rib which equated to an entire side of cow.
To burn off all that meat we went ice skating later on in the evening with Liz. Probably my first time skating in like 3 years and somehow I didn’t suck that bad. Then back off to Jess’ house for a small get together with other friends. A very well accomplished day with friends and food

Sunday and Monday were kind of lazy days. Spent some time with the family and slept forever. I seriously must have slept for over 24 hours between the two days. My body never seemed to adjust to the three hour time difference and not being in work made me so sleepy -.-

Ride the turtle!

Tuesday being my last day, Jess and I went to Philly for the aquarium and some cheese steaks. The last time I was at the Philadelphia aquarium was for my not so happy 5 year anniversary in my previous crappy relationship. It was nice to kind of re-program some memories of that place for that reason ^^;

I remember it being so much larger o_o we seemed to get through the entire thing in about an hour. But, I got to see spider crabs, touch slimy rays and see cute little fishies that I could never afford to keep myself so it was fun! I even bought a cute little turtle for Kai that we named “adventure to share all of our Philly adventures with!… because we’re kind of retarded.

After the aquarium was some shopping around Philly’s south street. I didn’t buy anything… though I totally should have. So many cute stores with cute things! And, my god, sex shops everywhere! A new one every 50 feet. All of them were really nice and clean o_o and we found an awesome comic shop that had an effen Sailor Moon arcade game from back in the day! Ah, so many memories from high school…

What? Yummy delicious cheese steak?

Later on we met up with her current “boyfriend” dating whatever thing to get cheese steaks. I’d like to just forget the other person was there ^^; it’s all a long and awkward story that maybe I’ll get into at some other time for a laugh. It only re-affirms for me that Jess totally needs to write a book about her boyfriends and people she’s dated. On a positive note though, the cheese steak was delicious~ AND I got banana ice cream later on <3

That was my last day ;-; well spent but kinda sad.. In the end though I was feeling kinda home sick and couldn’t wait to get home to Kai. It was so much fun to hang out with everyone again but being back also reminded me of all the reason why I left New York to begin with and why I wouldn’t ever want to live there again.  I’m glad my feelings haven’t changed.

I look forward to when I can take a -real- vacation to visit everyone again and have much more time and better plans in place… and drag Kai along of course.

Great place to visit but wouldn’t want to live there :B

Random post of randomness

Ok, so I’d like to just forget about this Christmas. There will be no Christmas post as I planned. I’d like my infrequent posts to not be based around only holidays. To be honest, Christmas is over and there isn’t much to say about it other than it was ridiculously busy, I’m now very tired from so much work and this year’s holiday season was a small disappointment. I think I put in more effort than I got back from everyone. Normally I’d be ok with it but… I feel like I could have used a pick me up amongst the chaos recently. Seattle is indeed depressing this winter and not because of it’s weather. If my feelings were a color it would be a slate blue, not yet colorless but still rather dull. I’m still looking forward to a new year though. I understand the beginning will be difficult at first but I’m feeling very optimistic about the future for once. I don’t think typing this out can really express the sincerity in what I’m saying. I look forward to the day it’ll feel safe to express my hopeful plans and opportunities. For now it’s still a while off and I have plenty of other things to focus on. I hope I change a brighter color.

So I’ll make this a very uneventful post and write about something stupid! I haven’t done that in a while, huh? On to the randomness!

Kai and I discovered this crazy, stupid, screwed up band a while back called “MY DRAGON – Nijigen Complex” (Nijigen meaning like two dimensional). Like many things from Japan, it leaves you scratching your head saying “… WTF did I just watch?! What was going on!!!”. But seriously, I love this band. It makes me laugh so much every time I watch PV or Lives. I just can’t believe this exsists, furthermore, I can’t understand why the hell they’re so popular! They sold out effen Shibuya O-East! How?! Why?!
Upon further inspection we found another band kept popping up under youtube related videos. A seemingly completely unrelated band called 己龍 (kiryuu) with a heavy traditional VK style… Only once we actually clicked one of the videos we realized there was an odd similarity going on…

For the sake of making a proper comparison here’s their PV:

Ok, hope you had fun with that. Now here’s a PV by 己龍.

Notice anything? Yeah.. the guitarist and Bassist look kinda familiar… Well, that’s because it’s the exact same band. Yeah… and the amazing girly pretty vocalist of 己龍 is the same bearded bee costume clad, phallic faucet crazy dancing lead singer in MY DRAGON. HOW?! HOW DOES SUCH A PRETTY MAN TURN INTO THAT?! I was completely mind fucked. Apparently MY DRAGON is like an alter-ego of the band 己龍. Even then, if it weren’t obvious enough, 己龍 actually translates to “My Dragon”. Fuck.

Thank you Japan. Thank you for completely screwing with my mind with your crazy screwed up ways. I have not yet seen all of your potential but that makes me really happy. I look forward to more mind fucking in the future.

Sincerely, Me.

Halloween 2011

I make the un-dead look sexy ;D

I must admit.. getting older has made Halloween not so much fun at all. I wish it was still acceptable to go around to stranger’s houses, dressed up all crazy and demand candy. It seems until I have a child of my own to drag out Halloween won’t be the same. It’s been a rough couple of years. Because of that I haven’t really been involved with things that I use to find fun, like dressing up. I suppose my self esteem still has trouble sustaining that. But this year I decided not to let all the blahness hold me back. Sure, I couldn’t get all decked out in a costume for trick-or-treating. I’m also too far away and too poor to have visited home this year to party with my friends ;-; So I did the next best thing. I dressed up for work. Something I haven’t done to this extreme before. I was determined to go out in public looking as odd looking as possible. My weapon of choice this year? A bloody gorey Zombie!

The Majestic Mountains!

I decided to take a week off from work while I could. Before the holiday rush that’s soon to come. It was rather nice. Nothing to worry about for a full week! Though I hate how having time off means I end up spending more money than usual. But it was nice to get out and do things.
The last few days of my vacation Kai and I took a trip upstate into the MAJESTIC MOUNTAINS in Mazama… where ever that might be. There was no phone signal so I have no effen clue exactly where we went since google maps wouldn’t work. It was really far though. A nice 3-4 hour drive to the middle of nowhere. When we stopped at the first overlook on a cliff it started to snow! Really slow, light kind of snow. Kind of like the gentle and fake looking snow you usually see in movies. Only apparently gentle snow isn’t fake. I suppose I’m use to the snow we’d get in New York which was pretty much an angry cloud violently vomiting up heavy and often wet snow like substance all over everything at the most inconvenient of times. So yeah, this wasn’t like that.
It was a really nice experience though. I’d never seen mountains like that in person. Was something like the panoramic views of nature you’d see on the national geographic channel or something. It’s so much different in person though. The sheer size of everything. Out on a tall cliff in the middle of nowhere surrounded by mountains on all sides.

View from the cliff

We ended up staying and Kai’s Uncle’s Girlfriend’s cabin in the woods. A nice warm place to hang around and watch Jdrama all day. We did some sight seeing around the small neighboring towns. I went to my first wine tasting 8D and at no point did I get attacked by a bear. Over all a good weekend.

Under the Sea~

I realized just the other day I never posted anything up regarding my beloved Picotope mini-reef tank that I’ve been wanting to set up for years! So I went to it and took a bunch of pictures and even made a stupid little video. I amused myself with all of this at the very least.