Stress in the Capital

Sooooo idk if I said this already but your girl is mad stressed-- I've been staying on top of my paperwork (at least I thought I was), and yet I am being threatened to be kicked out for supposedly not doing said paperwork. Like I have to have proof of completion for my fingerprints by the 7th, submit all my pre-departure papers by the 5th (tonight), get things situated quickly with my onboarding for GPI so that I can get paid as soon as possible, and I have to get my dentist to send my papers in for the 3rd time with my dental examination completed by the 18th, and rebook another eye doctor appt, go to it, and have them fill out my eye exam before the 18th as well. Then with those things looming over me, I am still trying to get word about my jobs that I applied for so that I can start working (hopefully that will be this week tho so fingers crossed). Then after all that clears, I can be more responsive to my peoples back in France-- this is a bad habit but I always wait to respond to people. I always think the people I am physically around deserve 100% of my attention therefore I don't often respond to people when I am around others and then I also feel like I should give 100% of my attention to the people I am messaging so if I think that my stress at the moment is too much or that I don't have enough time to give a thoughtful response, then I don't respond. I need to work on that and ASAP cuz it's not fair to the peeps who took time out to respond and are waiting for me to respond T-T (if they wanted a late response that clearly would've sent snail mail).

The chair represents all the office work I have to do that is constantly looming over me and the emptiness in my eyes represent the apathy I am beginning to feel towards it all T-T

But enough negativity, I need to cheery up and talk about what's going well in me life :")). This week, I was finally able to get my mattress which helped me "complete" my room and gave me an actual mattress to sleep on. Which is the little project I was working on for the past 2 weeks that has been forcing me to go back and forth to Atlanta. I am really content with the way it came out: now I feel like my room completely represents me and is a space I want to spend more time in. It was definitely a stressful situation with the mattress being back ordered and making sure all the stuff I ordered came in and also just simply finding everything I wanted to make my room felt cozy (at least to me). But it was all worth it and even now as I type, I am actually comfortably laying in my bed typing this!

My room in the morning light :)

1)My room when you first walk in 2) a full view of my first! full size bed (Aboni says my flower pillow looks like an egg) 3) my sitting area 4) my first tapestry, I got it of the tarot card of moon but you can't see all of it. I mostly like it for the moon and the zodiac ring anyway so it's fine :))

Also, I've been trying to introduce my mom to all the tasty cafes and restaurants me and Aboni go to as well as trying to make first time visits to other eateries with her. So we went to this matcha cafe with her, even though she says she doesn't like matcha or japanese food, but guess who still liked it??? Her! She had a strawberry matcha and gyoza and gobbled them up and even took a sip of seasame latte and said she liked it too! That's the cool thing about trying new food that is outside of comfort zone, you always discover something new about yourself as well as get to try a piece of other cultures.

I give the cafe a thumbs up

Unfortunately me mom's back was hurting so she couldn't sit to take the pics :(

Taiyaki 🤪🤪

Then the othe day, me and Aboni went over to Sebastian's house to eat some buriges and hotdoggies, which was yummy as usual! His mom wrapped bacon around the hotdogs and now I am a fan: the next time I am compelled to bbq some dogs, I going to have to wrap them. And then afterwards, I saw Lightning McCream again after a long time before grabbing some starbies and watching some doctor Pimple popper clips and Toddlers in Tiara clips before settling on an animal documentary with Obama.

The queen herself

caramel frappuccino>>> chocolate frappuccino

Lastly, I went to the beach yesterday/ the 4th. Since I began going to Smith, every 4th og July, my fam and I go to a beach. But this year was special cuz it was the first time my niblings went! I was so excited leading to yesterday and really kept the ball rolling to make sure it happened. It was a fun experience and I am super happy I was there to be able to witness their first beach outing, they really liked it and want to go back soon.

We went to the Gulf at Pensacola beach since the water would be warmer

Pre-beach, they were trying not to smile to show how excited they are (my niece took a pic of me so that she didn't have her pic taken)

And my other niece wanted me to take her pic once she was at the beach but not before she went into the water

I was impressed that they were running through the sand :0

My niece didn't like how messy sand was (so much so that she wouldn't eat unless I fed her so that she didn't eat sand)

My nephew liked being buried

We also gave them the traditional beach dessert-- strawberry shortcakes (we forgot the chopped strawberries tho 😭😂😭)

Aboni with 2 of my nieces. At first, my nieces were scared to swim but got used to it and by the end of the day they were swimming out there all by themselves!

But yeah, that's all from me little lads! I will read all that you have been up to since I didn't read everyone's posts from last week and I am excited to see what you have been up to this week!! And as usual, I'll leave pics from my week. byeeeee!!!!!!!!

A blimp flew over my house and it was super loud

This was a dog Sebastian was dogsitting and she was so cute and sweet-- she gets panic attacks tho :(((

I thought my hispanic friends were milking how good selena was, but I finally gave her music a change and now I am obsessed 😭😂😂

You guys should listen to si una vez and this song, Baila Esta Cumbia, a listen and tell me what you think!

I got mileage on the car one morning, almost beat my mom's current record)!

Finally went to this Colombian restaurant that an ex-friend told me about. The food was good don't get me wrong, but the food reminds me of like latino food that you always eat you know? Like the beans and rice and meat, but that was all there is to it. Nothing exceptional, nothing to rave about.

Cheers to shopping for my friends' bday, Stray Kids' Atl concert being postponed (we now have a chance of actually going now), and to my boi Sanzu's bday (he's off of my fav manga)

Said manga boi (though this official art for his bday is a disservice, the mangaka did him dirty here 😭😂😭)

Byeeeeee