archived entries: q1 2026 oct/nov/dec '25 september '25 august '25 july '25
happy easter! i'm now blogging from my new home! moving day was exhausting, but we were able to get everything transferred by 3pm and i've been slowly unpacking my room in between working for the past few days. i didn't think my sister was going to be able to help us move, but halfway through, she and her boyfriend came to our rescue which i really appreciated, especially since her leaving us is the reason we couldn't afford to live there anymore... my new room is so spacious! there's a lot of things i'll miss of course. there's no doubt in my mind it was the nicest house i've ever lived in. i'll miss the amount of light my old room had, and the ceiling fan. i'll miss the central air and the giant kitchen with plenty of space. i wish i could have utilized our space more, but at least i got to host friendsgiving there last year.
what i'll miss most of all is the easy 5 minute access to my trail and the park though! i rode my bike on that trail as often as i could, near daily. or when my bike was out of commission or it was too late, i'd walk to the park and have a swing or sit in that spinny chair... it was always nice whenever i needed to clear my head. i haven't been able to ride my bike in weeks now, since my bike has a flat and won't keep air... my grandpa is my bike mechanic usually, so maintenance has fallen by the wayside while we help him with his recovery.
my grandpa has been doing well! really the most stressful thing is maintaining his appointments and making sure he has transportation since even if i could drive, i usually work when he has one. thankfully we are getting home care and physical therapy to our house too. so my grandpa is ok for now... but now it's my sister's turn to go to the er. it turns out she had a nasty infection, one so bad that she needed iv antibiotics. i hope she recovers soon too... i may have been upset with her, but i never wanted something like this to happen to her either.
oh yeah, i can finally talk about my akira yamaoka concert experience! i'm actually wearing the shirt i got from the concert right now, heheh. we left in the afternoon and arrived at bear's brother's house since he always lets us spend the night whenever we go to concerts in his city. i wore a simple robbie ensemble! i wanted to represent my favorite little bunny rabbit son. at our stop to buc-ee's though... there was a guy wearing a sh2 shirt who complimented my "roger rabbit" outfit. not gonna lie, i judged him so hard.
getting there was smooth, but we overpaid for parking like crazy! we've never been to this venue before, so it was a lesson learned to get there earlier. raj ramayya was great too! it was a treat getting to see strangers live. i knew he wouldn't have since it's SO niche, but i would have lost my mind if he could have performed here comes the rain. maybe i should have brought my copy of gungrave. "what's that you got there?" he asked someone in the front row, holding up a copy of resident evil. that was funny. what wasn't funny was the loud and obnoxious leon cosplayer in the back of us, who we thankfully escaped by the time akira was up.
i'm sorry to all the people in front of me, but my sleeper silent hill otaku got activated and i was singing along the whole time... those lyrics are baked into me, even after all these years. the feeling of the concert this time was... different. when i saw akira the first time, his performance with mary was so intimate, and it was obvious they had such a deep bond. maybe it's because he's married now, or his relationship with this singer is just different? i don't know, but it made me feel even more grateful that i got the chance to see mary and akira perform together live. akira's suit was so snazzy, and in the end he came out with a cowboy getup!!
the next day, we went to explore our weeb area before coming back home! we go to this spot whenever we can manage to go out of town, though a lot of the shops here are thankfully popping up in my city now too, like daiso. we stopped at kinokuniya and bought snacks from the various food spots in the area. my favorite? our sweet potato taiyaki from a local place, and the ube cheesecake from uncle tetsu!!! oh my gosh, i need one again... i kind of regret not making the trip to chicha san chen since it wasn't too far away. i got to try it during our trip to the lolita popup shop, and i'm still thinking about their tea now. next time for sure!!
a couple of pictures!! my outfit from the concert, plus a shot of akira and esther. when we were going through security i put robbie in my bag and the staff member checking it said "ooh, that's scary" and handed it back to me. my son is not scary!!! rude!!!
