Weekly Haul (116)

I haven't done one of these in the past few months, and then I forgot to do one last month because I had packed them up when I was moving.

Hitorijime My Hero vol. 1-3 by Memeco Arii

African American Poetry Series by Mouse Book Club

The Bride was a Boy by Chii

The Rising of the Shield Hero vol. 1-3, 10-12 by Aneko Yusagi

I Hear the Sunspot: Limit vol. 1 by Yuki Fumino

I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino

I Hear the Sunspot: Theory of Happiness by Yuki Fumino

Weddings, Dinner Parties, Game Nights, Father's Day, Birthday Parties, Ali Wong, & Going Home

June was busy but also not busy? I finally had some downtime during the weekdays, but all of my weekends were busy!

The first weekend of June, I was at a Vi's wedding. We basically grew up together since our birthday's are a month apart. Then, her parents moved to Florida, so our family gradually stopped visiting each other as much. I think I haven't seen her for at least five years before going to her wedding lol. But her wedding was really nice and pretty. Their wedding party was huge, at least 10 people for each side.

For dessert, they supported their friend's popsicle business and had custom made popsicles. The most notable flavor was cafe sua da! It was really good. I probably stayed up late because of that lol.

The Thursday afterwards, Shelle and I went over to Archana's apartment for a dinner party. She spent the night before making her mom's butter chicken, which was a first for her since she's vegetarian lol. Dom, Esther, and Bianca were also there. It was a nice night. We talked about a lot of stuff and all took the Bingo Theory quiz. I found out that I'm a masculine energy. Can't really remember my number, but I think it was around 26, so I'm near being evenly balanced in energies.

The funniest part was when Dom was so cold that Archana had to bring out her comforter for her. Dom basically became a blanket burrito by the end of the night lol. It was very cute. XD

That weekend, I went down to Warner Robins to visit the parents. David and I went over to Harnish's house for a Super Smash Bro party with our friends since the game came out recently. That's when I found out that Harnish and his now ex broke up because she moved out of state for grad school and didn't want to do long distance. Now he's back to hooking up with girls on Tinder like how he was during his last breakup. :(

The next Monday, I actually worked out for the first time since before we left for Korea. Then I got sick the next day. :( I had the beginnings of a sore throat and a runny nose the first day. I got a cough the next couple of days, which sucked. I was more or less better by the weekend except for the occasional cough, which was good since it was Father's Day weekend.

Mom made a feast for us that Saturday. She grilled so much ribs and pork and chicken wings! It was great! :D The next day, we took dad out to eat, and I finally got to pay for the meal. I promised mom and dad that I would treat them out for Mother's Day the previous month since I was officially hired at my job (no longer an intern!), but they ended up paying because they invited some friends out as well. To make up for it, I got to pay for Father's Day. :)

The next weekend, David came up to visit. We went out to a new Szechwan place for dinner, and it was great. Kyle and I died and fell in love with their hot and sour soup immediately. Then the rest of the food came out, and it was so good that David and I came back two weeks later to celebrate his first day of work lol.

Shelle and I had a dentist appointment in the morning, which was funny because her dentist appointment was originally the week before, but then it got moved to 30 minutes before my appointment. Afterwards, Shelle and Kyle went furniture shopping because (I think) the weekend before, they had finally decided to buy a new house. Meanwhile, David and I went out to eat dinner at a Thai place near the house. While all four of us were out, we had a power blackout in our area for a good 20 minutes.

Later that night, David and I went to Archana's place for game night. Shelle and Kyle had to go to a birthday dinner first, so they met up with us after, which was perfectly fine since Archana has been wanting to learn how to play Settlers of Catan for a long time, and Kyle hates playing Catan lol. It was really funny because Archana isn't a competitive person, but she decided to be competitive and started trash talking David while playing Catan even though it was her first time playing lmao. Every time she'd roll the dice, she'd say something like, "Are you guys ready to lose?!".

Then I won the first game even though David and I were taking it easy on her lol. Because of that, the two of them decided to form a coalition against me and wouldn't trade resources with me. Lmao, I still won in the end. :D

After they came, we played a couple rounds of Splendor with Shelle and Kyle before calling it quits for the night since it was already 1 in the morning. All in all, a very fun night.

The next Friday was Esther's birthday party. She had rented an entire house on Airbnb the month before to have dinner and a sleepover at the place. Originally, Archana and I were going to spend the night, but Archana had stayed up until 5am doing a webinar for our Europe region and was sleep deprived and I was super tired from staying up late packing all week since we were moving soon, so we decided to just go to the party and go back home that night.

I was originally planning on just wearing my work clothes to the party, but Archana forced me to dress up with her since she was already wearing a dress lol. I had to borrow a dress, makeup, and shoes from her lol. It was all very rushed when I came to pick her up since I stayed late at the office working and reading a Chinese novel lol.

But the party was fun. I met a lot of new people and took a couple of shots. Archana drank like 3 cups of wine and was drunk by the end of the night. Lol I couldn't even tell that she was drunk at first since she acted pretty much the same but a little sillier than usual.

The next night, Jessica came to visit us since Kyle ordered tickets to the Ali Wong show for us as a birthday present to Shelle. Omg it was hilarious! She had a hilarious opening act who was this hilarious guy named Sheng Wang. He started off by saying that he wasn't Ali Wong's brother and that he also wasn't her husband. He was just a whole 'nother Asian lmao. Dude, my stomach was hurting from laughing so much at times.

Then Ali Wong came on, and she was super funny as well. Before we even got in the venue, we had to put our phones and smart watches in these black bags since we weren't allowed to record in the show. At first, we thought maybe it was because she was filming a new Netflix special, so they couldn't let anyone record it. Well, we quickly found out the real reason: it's because she flashes us during one of her skits lol.

Great show over all. I hope Sheng Wang gets his own Netflix special or something because I would love to hear him perform some more.

The next day, we made a short day trip down to Warner Robins since mom hasn't been feeling well all week.

And that was how I spent my June! Very busy lol.

Cover Lover 54

I'm exhausted. I never want to move again. 

One day... I will live a minimalistic lifestyle lol.

Books I Want to Read This Month

Unfortunately, I didn't read any books off of this list last month. Not too sure if I'll manage to read any this month either since we're in the middle of packing, but I'm working on it!

1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
2. Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat
3. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon? vol. 10 by Fujino Omori & Suzuhito Yasuda
4. Hitorijime My Hero vol. 1 by Memeco Arii
5. Hitorijime My Hero vol. 2 by Memeco Arii
6. Hitorijime My Hero vol. 3 by Memeco Arii
7. Kenka Bancho Otome vol. 1 by Chie Shimada
8. Kenka Bancho Otome vol. 2 by Chie Shimada
9. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
10. Love Looks Pretty on You by Lang Leav
11. Love Poems by Pablo Neruda
12. becoming. by Renaada Williams
13. On Love by Alain de Botton
14. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
15. The Consumption of Magic by T.J. Klune

June in Retrospect

I read a lot of Chinese novels this month! But why haven't I read any of the physical books that I own? Because I already packed them up lol. I'm moving in the next few weeks! Things have been crazy because of it and because I had already made plans before I found out that I was moving -__-"

I read:

• You Boys Play Games Very Well by Yi Xiu Luo
• Bark?! by Lu Tianyi
• My Enemy is Actually Secretly in Love With Me by 疾风不知
• Evil Cult Undercover Gets Exposed Every Day by Lu Tianyi
• Sharing Rain and Dew by 掩面而遁马甲君
• Waiting for You Online vol. 1 by羲和清零
• The Destruction of a Triad Boss Trilogy by Wu Xiu Long Xiang
• Your Highness, I Know My Wrongs by Haorenka
• Everyone Thinks That I Like Him by Dashing Small Snail
• Silent Separation by Gu Man
• Demon Boss in the Human World by 即墨遥
• Transmigrating into a Mob Character to Rehabilitate the Villain Plan by Sha Xiao Wan

I watched:

• When They See Us (2019)
• Mob Psycho 100 Season Two (2019)
• Rampant (2018)
• Di Wang Gong Lue (2018)