day 4

ok so i know i missed yesterday. but that was actually intentional because it was late and i wanted to get some sleep rather than spent more time online, so i'll just make up for yesterday right now.

3 good things that happened yesterday
1. somehow found my energy at around 2pm despite feeling totally tired and lethargic ALL DAY!
2. finished a good book yayyyy
3. encountered something so emotionally upsetting (for no apparent reason?) that it made me cry. and this is always good because then i can try to figure out why. and then i usually learn smth about myself.

3 things that made me happy
1. i FINALLY finally got to use that pretty little golden bookmark that wooho's mom got for me! yay
2. i feel like a person now. i don't know if that sounds weird, but i looked around my room at my snake cage and my books and the pretty scraps of paper (invitations, tickets, notes, what have you) on the wall and the empty bowls that once contained instant ramen sitting on my desk and i feel happy. i feel like for the longest time my room was just something someone else gave me. even my room in my old house. all the decor was just there because it's convenient. all the stuff was just there because it was there. but like i come home now and i feel like i'm home, like i finally carved out a space for myself in the world. everything i have, i put there. everything i have around me, it's stuff i got myself, for myself. it's like nobody else is running my life for me anymore, and this makes me so happy i could just stay here all break /sob
3. iii found my keys! after thinking i lost them. i know this was completely self induced, but it made me happy anyway.

3 things i look forward to tmr
skipping this since tmr already happened

day 5

3 good things that happened today
1. i saw judy!
2. i saw wang beibei and co.!
3. i saw EVERYBODY! aka my family and lisa and poppy and multiple allens and tons of people. i didn't know weddings were like giant reunions haha

3 things that made me happy
1. there. were. lots of flowers. flowers flowers everywhere.
2. my-y-y-y sis got married! ok that's kind of like cheating haha. but zhang ahyi brought her grandchildren and they are soooo cuuuute. they have chubby cheeks and they just sit there and grin at you and then look around and flop around awkwardly. asian babies are soooo cuuuute.
3. amy has a necklace with adam's ashes in them that she's gonna give to me. sometime in the next week <3

3 things i look forward to tmr
1. seeing kt! writing people cards (because i still haven't done that)
2. playing playing with my baby snakes they are so cute
3. just... resting. haha. i hope i get a chance to do that (:

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do you guys tip your hairdressers?

i never used to tip them. ever. because i never saw my mom tipping any hairdressers ever. and then in europe i saw that people would leave a couple of bucks on the counter if they liked the haircut, so i started doing that.

and then i read an article about how it's standard practice to tip 15-20%, like food.

really?!

do you guys do that?!

have i been undertipping (or not tipping at all) my hairdresser for like. ever?!?!?!!

as somebody who also makes a living through tips, i feel HORRIBLE T__T i'm sorry stylists...