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Good Grief

Edited to say that this was written and saved in my drafts February 2021, until publishing it now in 2024. A year ago, I came home and found my dad dead in his wheelchair. I remember some details, but those details so vivid. Calling 911 and being told by dispatch that I needed to get my dad onto the floor and to start performing CPR on him, but being unable to do so. The cops showing up asking…

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Robert Downey Jr + his most iconic improvs in the MCU

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Storyville - Defying the Cutting Season

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been illegal in Tanzania since 1998. But every year thousands of families still plan to have their daughters cut, an ordeal that could cost them their lives. The ‘Cutting Season’ takes place during the December school holidays.

During this time hundreds of girls are saved from FGM by the police, the government and the work of the Safe House. It is run by Rhobi Samwelly, who was herself a victim of FGM, and now, not only does she valiantly run the safe house but she also works with the local police to rescue and protect girls at risk while arresting the parents and cutters.

But they have a tough and dangerous job and old customs die hard. Men believe that girls must be cut to reduce promiscuity and cut girls command twice the bride price in cows as uncut girls. Girls like Rosie, just 12 years old, have had to make the most difficult choices of their young lives - run away from home, not knowing if they will ever see their families again, or submit to female genital mutilation and child marriage.

These brave and courageous young girls are fighting against a tradition that goes back thousands of years. They are standing up for their human rights and fighting for change in their community.

The Safe House is the one safe place they can escape to.

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#mOOD (also everyone pls watch one day at a time, it’s gold)

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Holy cow this is amazing!!!

Nostalgia

I was driving home earlier, Blue Scholars blasting on the speakers. There was a thunderstorm happening in the Bay Area, and it brought back a wave of memories. There hasn’t been a storm like this since Fall of 2011, where this post begins.

Mike had broken up with me a few weeks prior, but for the first time in our tumultuous 5-year relationship, I felt something inside me shift; something inside…

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#Story Time

Quarter-Life Crisis

Being in my mid/late 20s, I’m supposed to have a good grasp of what my career should be. I’m supposed to be making a stable income, have a place of my own,

Supposed to.

Instead, I have (basically) a part time hourly job, I’m barely making it paycheck to paycheck, I’m struggling paying off debts that I’ve accumulated, and I’m saving what little money I have left by living in my parents’ house. My…

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Greetings!

It’s 2:28am PDT as I start this blog. I made the mistake of ordering a coffee milk tea from Boba Guys before closing and me being up this late is result of that.

Over the years, I’ve started and left numerous diaries and blogs. These included, but definitely not limited to: 90’s Sanrio notebooks with the plastic locks, composition notebooks, novelty notebooks from Borders, generic 1-subject…

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Be resilient, stay humble.

Follow me on my journey through life, love, cliches, and the mess that is my mind.

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Painted a Shiba Inu today <3

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Illusion Art by Alessandro Diddi

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Retro Game Room Version 2 I needed to patch the walls and paint, so I thought I might as well change it all up.

23 different consoles and handhelds, about 450 old games. Framemeister xrgb-mini upscaler so it doesn’t look bad on a new tv, handmade custom MAME cabinet, and a fuzzy chair and fuzzy carpet :)

A lot of work, and a lifetime of collecting!