Ahh so this is quite an overdue post actually! I had so many things that went on in 2016, such as travels and outings, that I meant to post individually about but.... never got to OTL >< So I'll take this opportunity to briefly go over them all as well as my personal highlights! 

Also, since my computer went through a few...... ordeals....... in 2016 I lost my emoticons and most of my files for pixels so please bear with the text emotes! 

The events are in no particular order aside from what I remember first! I'll try to organize it chronologically but keep in mind some of these happened towards the beginning and/or overlapped and I may have mixed a few up a little but overall it should be about right chronologically LOL.

 I dyed my entire hair Pink/Purply Pink

I guess the best description for my decision of dyeing my whole head of hair was... yolo? I've always wanted to dye my hair a shade of pink but never had the guts to do it until earlier 2016! I also chopped off a bunch of my hair. Not only did I want a new refreshing cut, it was a way for me to let go of certain old memories -- a fresh start if you will (sort of).

Around the beginning of the year:

I dyed it back to black for a while then redyed it to more of a pink! :

I've been sporting short hair since then! However I do plan to grow it out this time.

As I'm finishing up this post... I'm re dyeing my hair pink since it has faded a bunch since this picture above! I think after this last dye, I'll go back to either dark brown or maybe dark purple. I can never stick to one color >< (hence why I have sooo many wigs, it keeps me distracted LOL) this pink is actually the longest I've stuck with a color!

 I drove to Dallas by myself and visited a friend I made online

Back then, it was highly encouraged to never meet up with people you met online, but now it's quite the norm LOL. This was my first time driving out of the city by myself and to Dallas at that! It's about a 4 hour drive for me, so it was kind of nerve wrecking at first despite that fact I've gone to Dallas a few times with friends (although I was never the one driving those times eheh..) I met up with Crystle and ahhh it was such a fun time! She took me all over the place, we went to cafes, cute stores, a conveyor belt sushi that gives you a free gashpon when you finish x amount of plates, daiso and Round 1 (which my city doesn't have so it was new to me!)

I also played with a UFO catcher for the first time! I caught the cat plushy above and its huge!! (I went again with my boyfriend celebrating our 3 year anniversary and I caught a bunch more plushies LOL.) We also took pictures in the PuriKura machines (first picture above).

I stayed in Dallas for one night at a Hyatt nearby where she lives. Boooy sleeping alone in a big hotel room is kind of scary?? I'm not use to it OTL. on the day I was leaving we went to eat the conveyor sushi belt that I mentioned earlier and then we parted ways.

I can't wait to visit again soon.

 I drove to Houston by myself

This was a fairly recent accomplishment for me since it happened during Winter Break! Again, I've never driven out of the city by myself before until this year to Dallas. I went to Houston to visit a few of my friends and to exchange Christmas gifts. Houston was about a 3 hour drive for me, and getting there was easy but the way back was terrifying!! I'll talk a little more about that later!

My first day in Houston my friends and I went to eat at a really nice cafe, wish I took pictures of the area but I didn;t... too occupied with eating the food and chatting I guess LOL, then we went to the mall in hunt for the Sanrio store because last time when I went to HTX with my boyfriend the Sanrio store had a bunch of Pom Purin and Gudetama stuff but when my friends and I went the store was emptied out because they were closing!!! After that, my friends and I went around and got boba, Took lots of pics and stuff. I stayed for one night at one of my friend's house (thanks Trang!!).

credit: barechatta

On the day I was leaving, we decided to eat some sushi, and roam around the Chinatown area for a bit and took some more pics at a different cafe. It was a fun couple of hours!
When we parted ways and I was driving to go back home, I pretty much missed a few exits. Which shouldn't be too scary right? But the highway/free way in Houston is a lot bigger than where I live (Houston is like 5 lanes while where I live is 3 lanes, slowly making 4 lanes) and (most) of the drivers in Houston are scary and reckless?!? I can't handle LMAO I wasn't use to all of it and to make it worse I was leaving during the Holiday weekend, so there were more traffic and more people driving out and about. Note to self: don't leave on a Holiday weekend.

 I Fostered My Friend's Cat

I was able to foster my friends cat, Mochi, for a few months! He pretty much took over my snapchat story for a bit LOL. Had to let him go today though (well on the 2nd) but it was fun while it lasted!

 Visited California & Las Vegas

This happened during summer break, roughly the first week of August. My family and I took the car! Most people will hate the idea of that but to be honest I like long road trips? I really enjoy looking at sceneries and wondering what people do and how they go about their daily life. Especially when we pass by homes/places early in the morning and I notice people are awake or vice versa at night and their lights are turned on, it's really interesting to me albeit probably kind of creepy LOOOL.

It took us roughly 2 days to reach our destination in San Diego? Give or take it was 2 days ^^"

*Did you really go if you don't take a geo-filter of it? HAHA just kidding*

Can Snapchat bring back the doodling filter though, I actually really enjoyed that filter!

San Diego was really fun! It's been roughly 5-7 years since I last visited! Wish I could've gone with friends though, going with family kind of restricted me from wanting to go to other places hehe.. one day! But nonetheless it was fun with family <:

Some pics wandering around the strips of vegas:

This wasn't my first time going to Las Vegas either! Not much has changed since I last visited, we even stayed at the same hotel haha. We also visited this really awesome store in Las Vegas (I'm not from there so correct me if I'm wrong) called Tokyo Discount that sold a bunch of cute things.

Anyway I had a tons of pictures of Cali and Las Vegas but I lost them!! So these will do u-u

 My Manager Let Me Manage our Work's Instagram Account

Probably not a biiig or noticeable accomplishment but it's definitely something I thought I should add! It's not often your manager lets you handle your work instagram LOL.

 First Work Dinner On Christmas Eve

My manager took his girlfriend, my coworker and I out to eat at a Brazilian Steak House, and it was super nice! The waiters come to you and set the desired meats on your plate, it was a fun experience.

 I started Collecting Enamel Pins

Pins are so cute why didn't I start earlier?!?! I only started around the end of summer time! My collection has definitely expanded since. This is my current collection so far:

But I lost one when I was out in Houston! It may have fallen off when I was grabbing my backpack out of my car to transfer to my friend's room and I never noticed OTL. My goal is to fill this entire board with pins.

 I bought Ufufys

CUTE LITTLE PLUSHIES WILL BE THE END OF ME. These are currently not released in the US! At the moment, I believe they are Japan only but I was able to get them through a personal shopper!

If you're interested, you can find a personal shopper on a Tsum Tsum Facebook Page or googling Personal Japanese Shopper!

They are super duper cute and smell so sweet, to me they smell like cotton candy or bubble gum. They're also super soft it's ridiculous.

 I reached 50k followers on Instagram.

Exactly 1 year ago I only had a couple thousand (like... maybe 2k or 5k?) and I was on that 2k/5k for months! Never would I have thought I'd get 50k in that same year -- that is incredible to me. I don't even do anything interesting on Instagram I'm not worthy!!!!! T-T Actually, I've been thinking of making makeup tutorials or something and posting them on IG, that is if I can figure out how to make 15 second videos and get them on Instagram! I'm not very good with anything technology wise HAHA. But we'll see! I'm really thankful for those who chose to follow me though, I'm always astonished at the amount of followers I have, thank you so much for the support!!!

 I got an Industrial and 2 new lobe piercings

I've been wanting these for years!!!! But I was always too scared to get my ears pierced LOL I always wanted a helix piercing... but I decided to go big and get an industrial HAHA. I don't exactly remember the dates or month when I got them but I got my industrial first then a few months later I got 2 new lobe piercings on my left ear, placed above my other lobe piercing I got as a baby.

Pictures below are when I freshly got the piercings.

Since I got my cartilage done first (by getting an Industrial) the pain for my lobe piercing wasn't too bad. Surprisingly, my industrial piercing healed much better, easier and quicker than my lobe piercings! With that said, (TMI) I did have to take one of my lobe piercing out recently because it kept getting infected OTL but otherwise, I'm thankful I'm able to keep one of the new lobe piercing and that my industrial healed quicker and better than I thought!

I do plan on getting 2 more piercings but on my right ear to balance it out!

 I started to Cook and Bake More

I've always had an interest for cooking and baking and never really had the time or motivation to do it often. But lately, I'm starting to do more and it's honestly really nice! It helps me save money, it's fun especially when the outcome is delicious and it helps pass by any spare time. I can't wait to try out new recipes!

 I played Mirrors Edge Catalyst

Mirrors edge is my favorite game series!! I'm not much of a gamer (I'm not "good" but I really do enjoy playing games when I have the free time and urge) but ommg I love Mirrors Edge so much. I bought Mirrors Edge Catalyst around the time it released. I really enjoy the game play, it revolves around parkour and personally I've always admired parkour! However, I don't have the strength or stamina to jump on and off buildings and places irl LOL. The graphics is really nice too, Catalyst was so gorgeous, I love how bright the city was (I'm a sucker for city views) everything was pretty much.... ~aesthetics~, the graphics definitely improved since the first Mirrors Edge.

• Blog More. I've been procrastinating on blogging so much and I really need to step up. I enjoy reading other blogs too, it's always nice knowing there are still other people out there who blog instead of vlogging (nothing against those who vlog though! It's just a personal preference of mine that I prefer reading about people's lives, reviews, etc than watching a video about it ^^"). Also it helps motivate me when I read other people's blogs! 
• Study Better. Ahh I'm at the point in my life where I'm not really sure about what I want to do, but I should make the decision soon. I've never had a really good work ethnic in school, oftentimes I feel like I underestimate myself to be honest, but to sum it up the best I just feel like I'm just... not really interested in school? I'm always comparing myself to my friends as well, which is never a good thing comparing yourself to others. However, I know it's important to finish up and graduate and because my mom really wants me to have a 4 year degree ^^" It's complicated when you know you should be doing this/that but you also really want to do something else ya feel me? It's even more complicated when your future depends on it LOL OTL.
• Get 2 more piercings but on my right ear.
• Fill up my pin board.

What are some of your highlights? What are your current goals and/or resolutions for this year?

I hope your 2016 was overall a good one! I believe every year has it's ups and downs, but its all about how you power through/deal with it. You can either learn from the not so great things or let it negatively effect you, it's all about you. With that said, I hope this new year of 2017 will treat you well!

Thank you for reading! <3

Wow, I can't believe its been an entire year (nearly 2 years?!) since my last post. 

I have to say I really missed my blog, there were times throughout the years where I would go through my past entries just to reminisce. I also did that just before typing this post actually!

And..... I'm speechless. I went far back as 2012, and looking back so much has changed! Not only from how I wrote but other things too, more personal things but wow I was kind of cringy back than HAHA  But I guess thats how everyone is when they look back at their younger self? And I would come across a few "when I was younger" in those old posts, damn... now I feel really old LOL  I'll keep the posts around just for the sake of memories. That said, I hope to document more memories onto this blog in the future! Also, I'm in the process of changing my cursor, "Tsukari". I made this cursor when I was much younger and just left it because I never had the time to change it.

I'm fully aware of it being wrong now and I don't want any misconception or misunderstanding about it, so I do apologize if it was offensive or I was appropriating Japanese culture in anyway because I was young and thought having a "Japanese" name was something cool. 

So, why did I never make a post? Life, honestly. I got a part time job, I had college to focus on and just overall other things that took priority over my blog >< Blogging is actually pretty time consuming, though it may not look like it. But, even back then I said I could never abandon my blog and I still stay true to that  I love my blog and I love being able to blog, write my thoughts and document my life on it!!

I don't think I'll come back full throttle though, as that unfortunately seems unlikely :( however I do want to make and find time to blog again, but instead I want to make it more personal (ie less sponsored stuff) and more reviewing things I just feel like reviewing. When I was younger I thought being sponsored items to review was awesome, like free stuff hell yeah!! But as time progressed and I grew older I realize it's not that great, in fact it felt more like a chore. There were some things I didn't feel 100% interested in but I had to review them, and that made me feel like I was just forcing a review to happen and it reflected in the quality of my reviews. (I think I already deleted those poor quality ones though) Not that I wasn't grateful for all the opportunities I had! I'm very grateful for them, it's not often some random person like me can say "oh yeah I was sponsored stuff before" LOL jokes aside, I am very grateful. One of the many things that showed me "less is best". (However if you want to go wild with sponsorships and whatnot by all means u do u!!)

I do have quite a few makeup related things I've been wanting to review and I reallllly hope I can get to it soon!! 

Anyways, not sure if anyone really keeps updated on blogspot and such anymore LOL but thats ok!! I'm honestly wanting to start blogging again for myself and, as I mentioned earlier, to just document memories and share a few stuff/drop some bit of knowledge here and there. So if you ever see this, thanks for taking your time to scroll through my once dead blog.

I forgot how I use to organize and categorize my tags.... I wish I could redo all my tags they're so messy!!!  

Valentines day! Do guys have any plans? c:

Personally I won't be doing much for Valentines day because of conflicting schedules but that's okay! Please don't forget to love yourself too as well as your friends and family. A lot of people mistaken Valentines day as only for people in a relationship. I don't think that Valentines Day is exclusive to only couples, we all have people or things we cherish and we need to cherish ourselves too. Go out and spoil yourself this day, buy/make some chocolates for your friends and family!

Speaking of Chocolates, I made some chocolates and treats for my loved ones for Valentines day! I tend to do this every Valentines day.

I call them my little people! Although, they look more like ducks in strawberry costumes lmao. If you're interested in the recipe/how to you can find it on youtube by searching "Strawberry Men". One of them ended up looking really sad and one of them looks confused LOL. I made cupcakes (made the base with my friend!) and bunny truffles too but they didn't end up looking as good imo so I didn't bother to photograph them haha.

Hope you guys have a nice Valentines day!

 Hello! I went to my first Anime convention today with my boyfriend c: It was a nice new experience  and I had a lot of fun   This post will be picture heavy~ my boyfriend took a bunch of pictures with my dslr so 99% of these pictures were taken by him except for the vertical pictures which were taken by me through my phone!! 

The con was held in a hotel certain lounge rooms were used to hold different events or things. We went into the Artist and Dealer area, which contains a bunch of things to splurge on!! There were a bunch of alpacas like the above picture, I caved and bought a large alpaca which you can see later on in the post~

 

 Lots and lots of anime charms~

 ROFL

 Really pretty lolita dresses!

 I don't know what anime she is from but I thought she was cute hehehehoho

More alpacas LOL

 My friend got me this chocopa bear! The gundam model is my boyfriends c:

 hhohohoho what is that big white blue thing~? 

(EDIT - Removed a photo with my 2 friends in it inside my friends art stand, just for privacy reasons!) My friend got an art stand!! If you're a very old bog reader of mine, you might have seen me mention her quite a few times! I've known her for the longest time (since middle school) and ever since then she's always worked on her art and has improved so much and I'm just really happy for her 

Now here are some of the many cosplayers 

This fox character cosplay was very realistic, his mouth even moved!!

Shameless restroom mirror pics 

 After walking around for like 4 hours we decided to look for food, we went to a Starbucks cafe located inside the hotel~ 

We walked around some more and I ended up buying a poster, which came with a free post card~ we went home to eat at McDonalds and buy pancake mix for tomorrow morning's breakfast 

Ikkicon Day 2

I decided to put 2 post in one since Day 2 of Ikkicon will just consist of pictures! Day 2 was much like ay 1 except not as eventful for us, besides the fact we made pancake in the morning before leaving:

Yay c: oki now to the Ikkicon pictures:

I ended up buying both of these for $5! Sooo cute, I gave the sleepy one to my boyfriend 

I thought this gigantic alpaca was funky looking LOL. It made me question whether or not it was an authentic Alpaca or a poor replicate but nonetheless, somebody bought it! I heard it was for $100?

My best friend offered to bring me to her hotel room to check out the view stuff, it was really nice  It's been so long since I've been in a hotel room! I miss travelling 

I love how everything looks so miniature. The sky looks nice too ;u;

Purchases from Ikkicon adventure! The matching shirts were courtesy of my boyfriend c: On day 2, he also got me another shirt from the same stand and he also got another shirt and another one for free. That bargaining though~  I got 2 icecream bear stickers from the same girl who sold the art work. Her artwork is soooo cute  !! Super talented. Here is a slightly better picture of the artwork (minus the stickers):

Yaaay thats it for today   Thanks for reading!!  Hope you guys have a nice day~