friday's 10 happy things

What a tough, tough week it was for me. I was spiraling down with the blues again, and it has gotten worse because I have a tendency to sulk even more and bathe myself in my own misery. The last time I made FTHT was still October of last year. When 2015 ended, I thought I was just going to leave it at that because I honestly did not see the need anymore to be as committed to this blog as I was before.

If you know me, you'd also know how often I cut my presence from social media, come back, and then do it all again – I'm admittedly notorious at it. My friends know this too much of me. Some understand, some don't. But my true friends have never taken it against me – this I know. After all, real friends don't worry about following or not following each other in social media because there's much more in real-life interactions.

But I digress.

My anxiety was off the charts this week that I'm compelled to share happy things just to knock the foggy mood away.

1. The shoes that I've been eyeing on for months had a 40% off the tag. I thought it was too good to be true and anticipated that the store wouldn't have my size. But they did. Oh, luck!
2. After all the hassle in preparing the requirements, inducing unnecessary worries and waiting at the edge of my life for a week, I've finally got my Korean visa!! God. I can't remember the last time I've wanted something so bad as I've wanted this.
3. New pens :)
4. I haven't lost my streak in committing to filling up my 2016 planner! I'm usually just good at the start, and then eventually losing my way even before a month is finished, but this year looks promising (I hope this does not jinx it though).
5. Leona's Banana Nut Cake from Cebu
6. Writing.
7. Cutting and designing letter envelopes :)
8. Stumbled upon some decent tops that I'm comfortable with, for only Php200 each ($5). I'm so cheap when it comes to clothing because they have never been a priority. Most of my clothes now were still bought 3-5 years ago. I'm that cheap, I know. I hardly bat an eyelash when buying film, but I could never say the same to clothes. I can't stomach buying a $20 blouse. Hahaha.
9. Watched The Intern and loved it. It's funny to see how Meryll Streep's assistant before, in The Devil Wears Prada, is now the CEO 10 years later. 
10. My obsession, as you know.

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friday's 10 happy things

It's Friday! And I have time to make this list! This alone makes me happy. 

As I was remembering what transpired this week to put in this list, I realized that most of the things that made me happy are not things that I actually experienced, but more of my fandom sightings. I am such a fangirl of many things and this is probably the main point of this blog: to gush. Because I cannot shut up about the things I love.

1. Seeing Jun Ji Hyun photos and gifs from a Korean award show. 
2. Finally got my Ilford Delta 400 scans from the lab, which took me 4 months to finish and 1 month to develop. I had it developed in Studio 58 c/o Fuji Megamall. Thank God they showed me first the contents of the CD before clearing the transaction because when I checked, the photos and negative belonged to somebody else! Qué horror.
3. New Tinamy photos.
4. Having a person who knows you.
5. Alicia and Sam together. Why don't you throw in Adele in there too, if it's not too much to ask?
6. WLPPR.
7. I have been cooking for myself more often. I really enjoy experimenting even though it's not always a success. My favorite so far is sautéing butter, garlic, thyme, shrimp, and then putting soy sauce, honey and Nando's peri-peri sauce together with it, and then topping it all off to angel hair pasta. Haha it's my go-to comfort food lately.
8. Casually started to drop by Bakers Fresh before catching the train, and eventually turned it into a routine. The smell of their bread -- mmhmmm.
9. Walking Kimi around after months of not being able to do so. 
10. Eating isaw and drinking ice cold coke from plastic. Sarap!

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friday's 10 happy things

Something doesn't quite add up to this week. I think my introversion has spiked up, because all I yearn for in my floating moments is to escape the daily routine: sit with a cup of tea/coffee or tuck myself in to a cave. Nevertheless, everything went on as they should, and so did the things that made me smile:

1. New journal and pens. I deliberately did so, to sort of break the fogginess of my mood this week. I just knew I needed something tangible.
2. CBTL talk with my bestfriend over some matcha. Heart-to-heart talks are the end of me.
3. Caffera. A tiny camera-themed coffee shop in Maginhawa :) Darn cute!



bodies #believeinfilm #35mm #film #VSCOcam

A photo posted by April (@grewlegs) on Aug 2, 2015 at 2:15am PDT



4. Books for Less' 20-peso book saaaaale! Braved the first day of sale, and it was a combination of sweat and trigger happiness. 17 books for only $8 :) :)



all for the price of 1 regular book 💘 #dugotpawis #booksforless #booksale #books #VSCOcam

A photo posted by April (@grewlegs) on Jul 31, 2015 at 8:58pm PDT



5. I volunteered to revamp Q's blog, and had a blast. The layout's super simple, but I enjoyed it so much, I swear I almost wished it was mine hahaha.
6. New small notebooks and a bookmark. Again. I think I'm taking jotting down stuff seriously. I now have a separate notebook just for this list. It's actually fun, you know.
7. Cappuccino Muscovado + Sansrival at Cafe Mary Grace. My newly discovered definition of perfection.
8. Polly's Iceland posts. The colors are so rich, I want to slurp it.
9. Lea was killing time and open to entertain some questions, so I took a shot, tweeted her and got an answer in 1 minute.
10. FLAWLESS.

Let's all dive in to this weekend, shall we? :)

friday's 10 happy things

Hello! I decided to start on another blog link-up, the Friday's 10 Happy Things! I usually cannot fight not sharing it when I see/hear/feel something amazing or something that simply made me smile, but since I'm trying to shut myself up in social media, I thought it would be suitable to just keep them to myself for a week, and then dump them all in this list. So basically, it's a list of things that made me happy this week. Let me go ahead and just start:

1. True Confessions with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler - Oh my, how I would love to get my own swivel chair and be the fourth person in that table?! Tina Fey is my hero, and Amy Poehler is just always hilariously smart. And then there's Jimmy who has a darn cute laugh/snicker :) I'm that loser in school who just want to be friends with this group.
2. Let's not go further: the release of the first Sisters' trailer. Those parts where Amy says 'I don't get this dress, one of my apples keeps rolling out of the bag' and Tina says 'yeah, congrats on that wrestling championship' just make me want to step it up and be a better person in life. And my life after this.
3. The list could be done with those two alone, but let me just keep going for compliance's sake: I made a video of my recent travel to Malaysia, and this made me realize that video editing is probably what I really love doing but I only got diverted into taking photos.
4. I made a Google Sheet to track my savings for my next year's travel. Yes, that trip needs serious amount of discipline to save up for that I had to put it in a tracking sheet, with COUNTIF formulas and all.
5. I spoiled myself by getting a Swirl Rewards Card :)
6. Sarah Geronimo in The Breakup Playlist :D With her cute/rocker chick/law student/perfect messy hair in a bun vibe.
7. I am quite taken by the awesomeness that you can now send GIFs in Facebook Messenger. I feel like I communicate better through GIFs haha!
8. When you're in the shower just thinking about life.
9. My nephew, Francis' almost daily goo'mohnin' voice messages.
10. Omigosh, I learned how to change the fonts in my blog without using the ones in the template. It is such a game-changer in my non-programming world.