Goblets in the Mailbox

Just a little thing I wanted to share~ A few days ago, my company did an exercise to stir our creative “design thinking,” in which we got into pairs and interviewed each other about the last gift we gave… which ended up going deeper into our gift-giving tendencies and mindset, how these were shaped by how we grew up, what the experience feels like for us. Then we had to draw as many sketches as possible, followed by building a physical “prototype” or model, as a solution for our partner’s problem/what they’re trying to achieve. My partner’s problem that I decided to address was how—although she does genuinely love being able to give things to everyone in her life—it’s a responsibility that can stress her out. And she often feels that her gifts aren’t big/good enough? :c

As our building materials, we dug out whatever we had in the office LOL so a lot of Lego’s, paper clips, paper, forks…. So I made her a model out of Lego’s! :’D I represented her as a Lego person, standing next to a mailbox because that was the first Lego object I found that worked as a container haha. Inside the mailbox were a bunch of little golden goblets, because for some reason we had an abundance of those in our kit. And the Lego person was surrounded by a handful of more Lego people, representing her loved ones, each holding an identical little golden goblet. My solution for my partner was for her to always remember and not to undermine all of the good deeds she’s done and gifts she’s given to others throughout the year, so that she might not feel as pressured by or guilty about these big gifts she feels she owes. So yeah ^^ a reminder that those goblets you’ve given out are important and they are goblets that will stay with you if you remember to keep them in your mailbox! TLDR please appreciate yourself and how much you’ve done for others ♥

babbie's first dance class and power rangers

Just wanted to write this down so that I'll have a reminder of it later on! Last week, I went to my first everrrr dance class. @A@ It was an "all levels" K-pop dance class that I attended with friends Chiisana, Chris, Gino, Kyle, and David. It was uh...not an easy decision to go for it—I've improved tons but I'm still not totally comfortable with putting myself out there physically and being watched, and even worse, being evaluated...... I feel like my body and my movements are awkward, I don't have experience with dancing, I'm a pretty slow learner and have a hard time seeing movements and interpreting how to imitate them, and I have very little physical strength and endurance asldkfjsdlfj BUT I STILL WENT so I guess I overcame something. o^o The class was hard!!! I struggled the whole time to keep up and limped from soreness for nearly a week. My legs have never felt this sort of excruciating burn before. We learned Pristin's "Weewoo," which I love but never expected could give me this much pain and could bruise my knees so terribly. So yeah!! Starting the year sorta with trying a new thing!!! Friends seem interested in attending more k-pop classes, but it will depend for me on whether it's a girl group dance or boy group dance, because the former usually means more fun putting in expressive character while I think I might collapse attempting the latter lololol.



Also this is the most random and dorky thing, but at this very moment this is what I'm obsessed with LMAO.

"Power Rangers Dino Force Brave [ENDING]"

2018 New Year's Resolutions

Happy New Year! What a crazy year we just made it through.

I've been writing 100 resolutions each year since 2009; and admittedly they're usually more points of hope rather than committed goals haha. This year, I want to focus more on changing and developing habits, to better take care of my health and mental health. I actually made half of this list at the beginning of December, and I'm doing pretty well so far at keeping to it!

Since the very tragic event of a couple weeks ago, I've been putting a large emphasis on self care—so I hope this is something we all can make our 2018 about. ;u;

If you'd like to see how I did on my resolutions for 2017, you can read my review post here~

There's something very cathartic about the time spent reading old blog posts. This I had to do in order to jog my memory of the past year, so thank god so many things are chronicled! Without perspective, it's easy to feel like you haven't been moving forward, but it is really a healing experience to rediscover what I used to be like, the kinds of thoughts I had, everything I've been able to overcome, and the kinds of hope I had. ^^ And the good memories are good reminders that I'm capable of having opportunities for happiness and purpose. So I really like and am thankful that I blog! 2017 wasn't a heavy blog year for me (23 posts vs 238 posts in 2013 lmao) but I hope in 2018, I'll be able to leave more thoughts here and chronicle more of my experiences and learnings, good or bad [or trivial].

Edit: I just went to see how and why I posted so often in 2013 and tbh 2013 Eva can preach.