PurpleHello98

I'm thankful for a lot of things this year, so i thought I'd make a little post saying a few things I'm grateful for!

• My friends! I've cemented a lot of my friendships this year, both new at college and with people from high school that I've kept in contact with, and deepened my existing friendships. Each of my friends brings something different to my life and I'm so thankful for each of them, who brighten my days in different ways. :)
• My amazing boyfriend! From our uber-sweet meeting story to now, Grey's never ceased to shower me with affection and treat me so sweetly, and he's just the cutest, handsomest guy ever, and he's funny and really cool! I think I won the lottery with him. He's the best! :)
• My trip to Korea! I've loved K-culture for so long, but I never thought I'd be able to actually get to go to Korea, so it's a freaking miracle that my Travelbug Aunt just so happened to be going there and my mum and I just so happened to be able to afford it and everything! It was so amazing and one of the highlights of my year for sure!!
• I just had the best summer vacation I've ever had in general! I had a great time even at work, and got to do a tonne of stuff with my best friends and just generally have an amazing time. Plus, I met a certain special fella towards the end of the summer. :3
• For the most part, I've had great classes, and even the ones I haven't liked have still helped me somehow. I think I've also just developed a much more positive mindset this year with regards to school/generally doing things I don't want to!
• VERIVERY ARE HAVING A COMEBACK!! All the amazing stuff in my personal life PLUS Verivery FINALLY having a comeback is cementing 2025 as the best year of my life so far. Plus Girls' Generation released a new song and it wasn't even an anniversary year!
• And I have great things on the horizon--studying abroad, for one!!

That's everything I can think of! I hope you guys have had as great a 2025 as I have. :) I don't know how but this year turned out really good! And I'm also so thankful for everyone who checks out my Web site and/or reads my blog as these are my passion projects! :D Thanks so much for reading and I'll see you soon!

Well, when I finished my bio class, I thought I'd have so much more time for hobbies. Which is right, I guess, Except for this week I've been feeling extremely demotivated. Maybe I'm just crashing because this is the first mostly free time I've had all summer, but I also think my ADHD is getting to me. I was supposed to do a good deal of stuff today and I knew I could do it. I added it up and it was only like three or four hours of stuff for the whole day, but I didn't get half of it done. So I think I should try and go easy on myself tomorrow. But I need to set more definite goals, like having such-and-such done before lunchtime, because that helps me get things done. The thing about ADHD for me is I have a lot of stuff I want to do in my heart, but in the moment it's easier to just watch one more YouTube video or something like that. Maybe I should just block YouTube, Pinterest, etc., until a certain time of day. And stop watching TV in the morning if I have something to do in the morning.

But I did get a little done today. Ages ago, my dad bought a treadmill--he used to be super into running and walking, and would go on walks or sometimes runs for a couple hours each day a lot of the time, so he invested in one, i guess just for when he got home late or it was too hot/cold for a walk, etc. He hasn't been into walking for several years, but I thought I'd start using it to get back into my old routine of taking a walk every day, except this time on the treadmill! Maybe I'll start off my morning with that, to get me motivated for the day. In fact, I think I'll do that tomorrow!

Anyways, the big thing recently is that Green, Blue and I went up to St. Louis, which is a few hours away from us! They have a K-pop store there, and some other things we wanted to go see. Part of this was supposed to be a do-over for a trip we had ages ago that was kind of crap, and part of it was a sequel to the trip that Blue and I took there last year. (I'd link the post if I'd moved it over to my new blog yet!) But when we got there, after we went to Daiso (vastly inferior to the Korean Daiso), we found out the K-pop store was closed that day for some reason? Even though the store's Web site hadn't said so.

I had my first Raising Cane's, which was really good! But sadly we had to give up on the bing su we were going to have as it was too far out of the way. The St. Louis art museum was really cool, and they had this cool exhibit on '20s fashion and cars in France! It was epic. The rest of the museum was cool too, although we had to rush to get out before it closed.

We also went to the World Market and got some cool snacks, although I wish there was more variety and honestly by this time I was hangry. We had Indian for dinner and I had a delicious chicken tikka masala with a mango dassi (I hope I spelt that right), which was a kind of yogourt smoothie type this that was also amazing! But then I got home really late. The whole trip was fun but with some little annoyances and honestly maybe that's why I've been so tired and whatever this week.

Anyways, that's about it. I hope I'll have a better day tomorrow and I want to work to make that happen!

Here are this week's Friday Five! The photo of my K-pop haul from Korea is still yet to come as I'm currently organizing my mess of a room. I've taken two photos but I forgot a single album in both of them--a different one each time--and I want to post the full haul.

This week's questions:

1. What was the best gift you received?
Well, I can't remember all time right now, so I'll say my two examples from the last year. For one, I got my 2009 white MacBook (which I'm writing this on) as a gift from my mum a few months ago, although I think I'm supposed to pay her back eventually. And at Christmas this past year, I got a Verivery lightstick!

2. What was the worst gift you received?
At Christmas when I was around ten years old, I got a book called "The Guide for Young Men", which... well, obviously, not a very good gift. I think I got rid of it the second I got home, but I flipped through at the Christmas party and I remember it had guides to barbecuing and flirting with girls, neither of which are things I've ever done or have any desire to ever do.

3. What gift did you wish for, but never got?
Whenever I was around eight years old, I really wanted an iPod classic for Christmas for some reason. They were really expensive to give to an eight year old, and I think by Christmastime they had been discontinued anyway, and I only ever listened to two albums anyways--Red by Taylor Swift and the Teen Beach Movie soundtrack. And so I got a cheapo MP3 player instead, although I did end up getting an iPod classic eventually, so I guess I didn't never get it, but this is the best example i could think of.

4. What was the best present you gave?
Well, one that comes to mind is my best friend Blue's birthday present this year, or rather part of it. But I haven't actually given it yet, so I don't want to spoil it in case he's reading my blog!

5. What was the worst present you gave?
A couple years ago, for his birthday I got my friend Pink one of those romance books called "Lessons in Chemistry" or something. I think it was trending at the time and I thought he'd like it, but I've heard since that it was kind of crap, and it's definitely not anything I'd personally read.

I seem to be having bad luck with liquids today. Firstly, after a semester of always bringing my umbrella if it looked like rain even when it didn't end up raining, I forgot my umbrella this morning and had to walk to the dining hall in the rain after my first class. But I like the rain, so it wasn't a big deal. Then, I was having lunch with my friend and filled my water bottle too much, and so when I opened the straw it exploded water onto me and my friend. And just before my current class, I got an Arnold Palmer to power me through this afternoon and evening, and I keep spilling little drops of it onto my notes for some reason. (Jerry Seinfeld voice) What's the deal with that?

This is completely random but why the hell is it so hard to blow bubbles with bubble gum? My mother got me some at the store today and I tried for a while and the closest thing I got to a bubble I could barely even see. Apparently blowing bubble gum involves the same muscles as whistling, though, which is something that I also can't do, so there's that.

Finally, February is almost over! This month has (ironically? I hope I'm using that right) felt like one of the longest months ever, like March 2020. We went from getting ridiculous amounts of snow to being too warm, and now it's finally pretty cool but not too cold again.

Also, in terms of my plans for this site, I think I want to do another album review today, so watch out for that! Since Verivery are having a comeback on Tuesday, I also want to do a review of that once it comes out, so I'm super excited for that as well! Of course, I'll keep updating this blog, and I've also been adding new sites to my links page every few days, so keep watching for that! Also, I'm considering making a writing page to put a few poems or short stories that I've created on this site, so I'll post on my page if I decide to add that.

femboy/trans solidarity >>>>>>>

Ugh.

some opinions on mario characters bc i can:

• mario - meh
• luigi - hell yeah!
• peach - peach stans the lgbt+ community and stans femboys too

Why do I keep forgetting to charge my phone when I go to bed? I always have to charge it up in the morning before I go to school now. >:(