Hi. It’s been a while.

If you’ve been reading the blog, you’d notice I’ve been trying to have human interaction more. I’m not very social in the sense that I’m a homebody and I don’t do well meeting new people. Anxiety sets in and I just want to hide. I’ve been pushing myself to see where it takes me. Hopefully, this also helps with my networking skills.

Speaking of work, it has been a whirlwind since next week will be Erin’s last week. Christopher and I have been making time to have lunch with her every day the best we can to absorb her in before she’s gone forever. I moved one of my three monitors over to her cube just so I can spend a little more time with her. We talked about going to Japan to visit but it might be a trip done separately depending on how things work out with my traveling plans next year.

Speaking of traveling, we decided to do a cousins trip towards the end of the year. We’re not too certain if this is a good idea or not especially since everyone has different forms of traveling and all want to do different things. So far, it’s civil but who knows what can happen. I’m planning to make shirts for us all but I might get lazy. And … maybe we’ll fight and the trip gets canceled.

I’ve been spending a lot of time bettering my knowledge. I kind of put that on the back burner when Scruffy and I were dating. It’s hard getting back into the swing of things but so far I’m enjoying it and I know it’ll help me in the future as I do more.

Rizzo hasn’t been hiding anymore. Started eating again. He’s doing the small jumps but won’t do the big ones and will cry until I pick him up. We try to stop his jumps but he’s too fast sometimes. Hopefully, he’ll get better with time and won’t get worse. He got to spend tonight with Juan-Juan. I don’t think that’s how you spell it since it’s a girl but they got along well as Rose and I caught up.

Time to relax and finish up Chernobyl. Hope you all had a great week!

I finally celebrated my birthday with Rose at Gyu Kaku for lunch. She has her lunch calendar booked for months so that’s the reason for the belatedness.

She’s never been to Gyu Kaku before so she was all down for it. It was funny watching her cook and get overwhelmed by everything around her.

We were surprised we finished everything and cow tongue is still my number one favourite. Yum!

Work went by so slowly but glad all the meetings were short today. I was even lucky to be given a free scallop meal! I’m obviously too full to eat it but maybe I’ll be hungry by the time I pick my parents up from the airport and get home.

Hoping I am able to get some studies in before bed.

Work was quite chill today since not many people were in the office. I got all my work done and even managed to finish a whole entire module and then some in my studies.

Today was Erin’s first happy hour for her going away at Watson’s. Christopher, Juhi, Jade, Miao, Chase, and Amelia all showed up. We had fun talking about languages and many tried to pronounce my name, failing horribly. I had fish and chips and two beers before calling it a night.

I forgot about the happy hour and used my free Redbox code and pre-rented A Simple Favour. I think that’s what it’s called. I hope it’s good. I like both those ladies. So since it’s getting late. Shower, get ready for bed, then cuddles with my pups while watching the movie.

Good night world!

I don’t remember much of yesterday other than it was super relaxing. June and I took Mum and Dad to the airport, bought groceries and relaxed at home until it was lunch with Sissy and BIL at Little Sheep Hot Pot. I don’t eat as much as I used to and it shows when I go to places like these or buffets. I’m excited for the new places opening in the new Chinatown. Lots of new places to try!

We went home and I got some studying and nap in before heading over to Priscilla’s for dinner. Delicious fish and curried vegetables. Lots of wine and great conversations. We’re currently watching What Men Want and I’m super tired already. Hopefully I can stick it through and make the long drive home!

This week has been hell when it came to getting sleep. I probably got a total of two to three hours a night while continually waking up during those “sleeping hours”. Last night I slept less than two hours and was thankful for London and I’s different time zones. We texted while I surfed Reddit until I fell back asleep. Sadly the alarm rang ten minutes later and soon enough, I was out the door.

Work went by so fast since. I sat outside and worked with Erin and Joel while they ate their lunch. I left a little early to pick up Noah from my old job and headed to our usual spot, Jollibee, for a late lunch. The whole ride to there and while standing in the long line, I updated him about everything that’s been going on since I last saw him at the beginning of January.

Then he goes and talks about his stuff while we finished eating and while we drove to The Mad Potter. He painted an elephant mug for the girl he’s going to ask out Monday, and I painted a vase/cup type thing because I had no clue what to paint and it was one of the cheapest options.

We finally finished hours later. He kept asking for my artistic opinions on what to do with his elephant and it turned out super cute. There is even inscriptions on the inside which she will love! I just went the simple route and painted in the geometric shapes. Hopefully they come out okay. Mum or June can possible use it as flower pot!

Before taking him home, Noah treated us to Chick-fil-a ice creams. Did you guys know they have three different sizes? Same size cone but the swirl is either kids, small, or large. We both opted for the kids size and I cannot even imagine what the large would be like.

I dropped him off and although I had invites to some places, I declined. I did agree to thirty minutes of Switch play online with Mallory but my forgetfulness resulted in crushed plans due to an uncharged Switch. Whoops.

I’ve opted to work on some online training from a cloud-based software company instead of going out to party. My company will be using this and I’d like to get a jump start so I can get a better idea of what this can do for our team and start throwing out solutions to our issues. I could block out time every day to take these during work hours but it’s just been a bit too hectic so I’m trying to do them whenever I can.

If this is how I end up spending my three day weekend, I don’t think I’d mind one bit.