Shows I'm Currently Watching: The Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Men on a Mission, & Guardian

CURRENTLY WATCHING:

The Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

It's almost over! There's only four episodes left! D: I've really enjoyed this series because it's not an overly complicated plot, which is nice when you're watching it weekly lol. Most problems are solved within a few episodes, so I'm not dying every week waiting to see what happens next. Regardless, it's a fun series that I like seeing what problems the characters will overcome every episode.

Men on a Mission

I started watching this a few months ago before forgetting about it until recently. I'm watching the first season available on Netflix, which shows the best of episodes from 2015-2016. I'm kind of sad that they don't show all of the episodes from each year because they reference past guests episodes that aren't available, and it makes me want to watch them, too lol. However, every episode is hilarious. I love how Heechul is always the crazy one who can get close to the younger female guests and everyone else has given up on that lol.

Guardian

I've been seeing gifs of this series on Tumblr for a while, so I thought I'd wait until it was finished to start watching it only to find out that it was done last summer! -__-" The hilarious gifs really sold it for me, especially after I read the summary. The show is based off of a BL Chinese light novel series, but due to China's censorship, it became a bromance instead of a romance. Regardless, you can totally tell that the main characters are into each other because of all of the little details, and I live for it. Also, Shen Wei is too pretty for this world lol. I have five episodes left, and I'm prolonging watching it because the comments already kind of spoiled the ending for me, and I'm not ready for the sadness! D:

FINISHED:

Love O2O

I was in the mood to watch something, but I didn't want to start something new, so I decided to rewatch this show since I liked it so much. I was intending to just play it in the background and do some other things in between, but guess what. I was completely immersed in the show again lol. I realized that I really do have a one-tracked mind; I can't have shows playing in the background because I end up focusing on them in the end lol. Overall, it was just as good as the first time I watched it although I did end up skipping the best friend's romance part because her voice still annoyed me lol. Also, I found out that the best friend's love interest is one of the main characters in Guardian! He definitely looks better in Guardian compared to Love O2O though lol.

Sirius the Jaeger

I started watching this as a distraction whenever I was on the treadmill, and the plot definitely hooked me. I liked that it started off in the middle of the action, so you're slowly learning about the world and how things work instead of long, boring explanations in the beginning. Also loved that the main character was from (probably) Russia and kept some of his culture's clothes even as he grew up. The art and characters were good; Yuliy was so cute as a kid! I can't wait for the second season to come out!

The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

While I was procrastinating on finishing Guardian, I found that a lot of people recommended this Chinese anime because it was slightly similar since there's a lot of action and a hint of BL romance (apparently it focuses on that later in the series). The anime was a little confusing at first since the first two episodes were in the present, but the rest of the season was one long flash back, but the characters all basically looked the same, so it was hard to tell the difference.

Other than that and remembering everyone's three names, it was really good. You get all of the little nuggets of info in the first two episodes, and then you're trying to figure out what happened in the past that leads to the present. Not to mention watching the buildup of how the main character becomes the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, a forbidden technique, is fucking epic. I definitely recommend this anime. There's only one season out, but apparently the second season is coming out in October, and there will be three seasons total and a live action adaptation! Lots to look forward to!

Weekly Haul (112)

Bought some more poetry books this month! I also got Pachinko because I've always heard great reviews and because it was on sale lol. Now to find the time to read them all...

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Unfollowing You by Komal Kapoor

Love Looks Pretty on You by Lang Leav

I Am Her Tribe by Danielle Doby

Working Out, Hanging Out, & Eating Out

January was a pretty chill month. I mainly hungout with a lot of people and worked out lol.

Shelle and Kyle quit Wing Chun a couple months ago because they didn't have time for it as much anymore since it's an hour away and Shelle had been working later at night. They were planning on doing kickboxing since it's a lot closer to home, but Shelle's been so busy with work and Kyle didn't want to do it without her. Instead, they decided to get a treadmill so they have no excuse not to workout at home.

We're also going to South Korea for vacation in a few months, so we wanted to make sure we could walk for miles while exploring and not get tired lol. But yeah, I've been working out on the treadmill for most of the month. Getting the motivation to workout is still hard sometimes. Sometimes I'm just speed walking because I don't want to run lol.

We had dinner with Mell one Friday night after work. She was expecting to pop by the next week, so we got to feel Mac moving inside of her belly lol. I think Mac is a little more than a month old now, but she's so cute! Mell keeps on posting pics and videos of her on Snapchat, and she is adorable.

The next night, we had dinner with Tawanda. I can't really remember where we went, but I'm sure it was tasty lol.

It was MLK weekend the next week, so I went down to visit the parents since it was Dad's birthday that week. Instead, I saw him for lunch on my last day there since we were all busy lol.

I hungout with Jessica Friday night. Her house got robbed earlier that week, so I treated her out to dinner. It was my first time eating at Ocmulgee Brewpub, and it didn't let me down. I had called up Alec since we were originally going to eat at Piedmont Brewery, which was one of favorite places to eat at and since he lives really close by. He ended up meeting us at the place after he had dinner with his parents lol.

Then we walked around and saw Jerry and Harrison at the comic book store. Instead of barging in and bothering them, I took a pic of them and sent it to Jerry to bother him lol. I didn't realize until later that he hates it when people do that to him since it messes with his paranoia... Whoops! We went to Reboot, this retro arcade bar nearby, since I've never been there before and to wait to hear his response lol. It was really fun! We hungout until closing at midnight which was around the time Jerry called us because he saw the pic lol. All in all, it was a good night.

The next night was the grand opening of a new Wild Wing Cafe that's literally a minute away from my house. Alec and Lizzy's friend was in the band performing that night, so we went out to support them. We made plans to meet up at 6:30, but it was so packed that we'd have to wait two hours for our a table. We decided to go bother David at work and get appetizers lol. We eventually went to Wild Wing Cafe and some more of our friends met up with us there. We stayed there talking for so long that we left at midnight lol.

The next night, David and I went to one of his coworker's, Brenden, birthday dinner. They originally talked about going to Parish first but then changed their mind to Bonefish Grill. Either was fine with me. I've only been to Bonefish once in college lol. We ended up making friends with our waiter who caught us playing Pokemon Go (the restaurant was a Pokestop lol), so we added each other as friends by the end of the night and he taught us the new trick with trading older Pokemon.

I spent the night at David's place before going home for lunch with Dad. Then I went home and spent the rest of the week working out and doing chores over the weekend.

All in all, a pretty chill month lol. This is probably my shortest update so far!

Books I Want to Read This Month

I managed to read one book off of this list last month. I'm feeling a little ambitious, so let's see if I can read two books this month lol.

1. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon? vol. 10 by Fujino Omori & Suzuhito Yasuda
2. Dengeki Daisy vol. 1 by Kyousuke Motomi
3. Kenka Bancho Otome vol. 1 by Chie Shimada
4. Yona of the Dawn vol. 1 by Mizuho Kusanagi
5. Yona of the Dawn vol. 2 by Mizuho Kusanagi
6. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
7. In Real Life by Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang
8. The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
9. 101 Corporate Haiku by William Warriner 
10. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
11. On Love by Alain de Botton
12. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
13. The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic
14. The Consumption of Magic by T.J. Klune
15. Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan

January in Retrospect

If it's not obvious, I got back into reading manga this month lol. Shoujo manga is just too addicting even though there's cliches all over the place lol. However, I also watched a lot of movies month that I've been wanting to watch for a while, which were really good.

I read:

• Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes by Andrew Tsyaston
• Nishiki-kun no Nasugamama by Yuki Shiraishi
• Koi wa Hito no Hoka vol. 1 by Minami Maki
• Koi wa Hito no Hoka vol. 2 by Minami Maki
• Koi wa Hito no Hoka vol. 3 by Minami Maki
• Defying Kurosaki-kun vol. 1 by Makino
• Defying Kurosaki-kun vol. 2 by Makino
• Defying Kurosaki-kun vol. 3 by Makino
• Defying Kurosaki-kun vol. 4 by Makino
• Defying Kurosaki-kun vol. 5 by Makino
• Defying Kurosaki-kun vol. 6 by Makino
• Mata Ashita vol. 1 by Mayu Murata
• Mata Ashita vol. 2 by Mayu Murata
• Mata Ashita vol. 3 by Mayu Murata

I watched:

• Venom (2018)
• Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable (2018)
• The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky (2018)
• Goblin Slayer (2018)
• The Death Cure (2018)

Weekly Haul (111)

Kyle and I went to Second and Charles to sell some stuff, and I ended up buying a couple of books. I also got some more books for Christmas from my coworkers!

Someone Else to Love by Susan Polis Shutz

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven R. Covey

Poems That Make Grown Men Cry by Anthony Holden & Ben Holden

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The Five-Minute Journal by Intelligent Change

Crush by Svetlana Chmakova

Yona of the Dawn vol. 16 by Mizuho Kusanagi

101 Corporate Haiku by William Warriner

New Anime and Movies This Winter That I'm Excited For!

I'm so excited for Mob Psycho 100 II! Gonna wait until the season's over so I can binge it like how I did the first season! Lol there's a lot of anime I'm excited for this season, but there's not many movies I'm interested in. I still need to watch the second How to Train Your Dragon movie, too...

Anime:

• The Rising of the Shield Hero
• Mob Psycho 100 II
• The Promised Neverland
• Dororo
• Boogiepop wa Warawanai
• My Roommate is a Cat

Movies:

• Isn't It Romantic (Feb 15)
• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Feb 22)
• Captain Marvel (Mar 8)
• Us (Mar 15)

Game Nights, Work Events, Graduation, Ugly Christmas Sweaters, Movie Night, Christmas Parties, New Years Eve

December was pretty busy due to the holidays.

We hosted game night at our place on December 1st, the first Saturday of the month. We invited a bunch of friends over to drink and play video games. We played some of Kyle's new Switch games, and of course, we had to play Quip Lash as well. I don't know how, but for some reason, Shelle and I started calling butter as burter, so I used that as my name while playing the game, which was hilarious.

The next Saturday, we had Smash Bro's Saturday at Alec's place since the game came out that week. We spent hours playing. It was really funny because I suck at video games, but after a while I would button smash correctly and kill enough other players to be the last three or four standing during every round, so everyone thought that I had the random luck of maybe beating one of the harder characters in order to acquire it. Luckily, David defeated the character before it had to pass on to me to try lol.

The next week was Archana's Master's graduation on Friday. Because she was taking the day off for graduation, her teammates threw her a surprise graduation party on Wednesday. We even passed around a folder that held a card inside it for us to sign, which had a list of people to pass it to after we signed it.

We were all hanging out inside of the floor's conference room while Sheraun, Archana's manager, messaged her to come see her and talk about a product, so she was completely surprised when she opened the door and heard "SURPISE!" from all of us. She literally paused for a while and had to say "I was expecting to talk about AMS, so I'm not sure what's happening" lol. Laura had even bought coconut cake for her, which was really tasty and is Archana's favorite food anyway lol.

The next day, we (the interns on our floor) had lunch with Thys, who is the president of our division. It sounded sounded really intimidating because he's an important person and was technically on vacation, so he was taking time out of his busy life to get lunch with us and learn about what we've been working on since we started.

Then the actual day we had lunch, we found out that CJ, his personal assistant, and Zach, our friend, were also going to lunch with us because Thys insisted on it lol. He didn't want to have lunch with just us interns lmao. But all in all, it was really good. He likes talking and gave good advice, and he was really funny, so it was nice.

The next night was our company holiday party. My manager told our team that we could work from home that day so we wouldn't have to drive back and forth from work to the event, which was nice. I made plans to carpool with Archana since her apartment was 20 minutes away from the venue. Apparently Lavit was coming with us, and he took forever to get ready, so we basically arrived when it was halfway over and only got to see people for an hour and a half.

It was nice seeing everyone all dressed up, but I didn't want to because it was cold and I was lazy lol. I wore a nice shirt and tights instead lol. I think Anita and I were the only women who didn't wear pants that night. What confused me was the fact that this was the only year where it was semi-formal. Every other year was casual! Why couldn't it be casual again?!

But the food was good, and they had unlimited drinks at the bar. Lol Jack and I were the only ones in our group who got white wine instead of red. The food were all appetizer sized, which made it easy to try lots of different stations. And the dessert station was really pretty; I wish I took a picture lol.

All in all, it was a good night. A lot of people were making plans to go to a bar nearby for the after party, but Archana and I were peopled out and didn't want to stay out too late since we still had work the next day. Surprisingly, there wasn't a lot of people at work that day lol.

That day, Dom and I left work early to go to Archana's graduation. Since it was a Master's ceremony, it was pretty small and quick. I kept joking about how come Mercer didn't offer snacks and refreshments before the ceremony lol.

Lol Archana was quick to find us in the crowd. We kept waving like crazy at her and stuff throughout the whole time. We technically weren't supposed to clap or whistle while they were announcing all of the students names, but people kept on doing it anyway, so Dom and I decided to do it for Archana as well. Afterwards, we went to Ponce City Market to get drinks at the bar. Then I saw the ramen place and wanted ramen, so Archana said we could eat here and get drinks too. She's so nice lol.

The next Friday was basically the last Friday of the year for half of the people on my team since we were all going on vacation until New Years. As such, we decided to throw a pizza party since Anita, Jack, and I were craving pizza one day and decided to try Blaze Pizza out since someone left a stack of coupons for the place in the break room for the past few weeks. Unfortunately, the coupons expired by the time we went lol. Then it evolved into an ugly Christmas sweater pizza party because we decided to be festive. Only a few of us actually wore them tho... Lol it was still fun though.

After work, Archana and I went to the mall to buy her some make up since she wanted to get a foundation that actually matched her skin tone and a blush since she's never worn any before. I also had to buy a shirt for Henry's Christmas present, so it worked out.

Afterwards, we all met up at Dom's place for movie night. We made a quick trip to Trader Joe's for snacks and ingredients for mulled wine. Archana found out that it was the Winter Solstice, and apparently it's tradition to drink mulled wine during this time. Then Archana and I made the executive decision to watch The Haunting of Hill House lol. Sonali and Dom hate horror, but Dom was like "gotta get over the fear by doing it" so we overruled Sonali lol.

It was hilarious because Sonali kept on grabbing Archana whenever it got scary, and Dom, who was sitting perpendicular to the tv, kept on avoiding the screen whenever something scary happened. Archana just kept on putting her hand up to the tv to avoid seeing the scary scenes lmao. We had to watch an episode of Friends to help Sonali calm down lol. Then we started watching it again while Dom was showering since she didn't want to continue it. We left off on episode six, and I keep on forgetting to finish watching it since. It's either that or I don't have time to marathon all four episodes at night like I want to.

After that was a week of Christmas events lol. We hosted Christmas for Kyle's mom's side of the family. Then we celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve with my family before David and I went to his uncle's Christmas party later that night. The next day, we had Korean BBQ and video games on Christmas with Willy and Janice and some of their friends. A few days later, David and I had dinner with Mikey as a Christmas present to him. Finally, that Saturday night, I went to David's work's holiday party. I met most of his coworkers and learned that they're all kind of crazy funny lol.

In between all of this, David's family was fostering a pitbull puppy called Thanos for Christian, so I got to play with the cutest puppy since Hercules came around last year lol. He was adorable and soft and cuddly; he just wanted to nap all day. Then we found out that he was a dick to other dogs lol.

Shelle and Kyle went on a cruise, so I didn't see them until it was New Year's Eve, and we had a bunch of people coming up to celebrate with us. David and Alec came up, and so did some of Shelle and Kyle's friends did too. We ate snacks and drank and played with fireworks lol.

All in all, it was a very busy month. I was super peopled out by the end of it. That's probably why it took so long to write this post lol.