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waiting for lost ark to install while i write this daily log! today i woke up around 12pm. like every day, after my dog stomped around at the front to be let out to potty it's always hard to go back to sleep. had stuff to do anyway today but--still! i made bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches on sesame seed buns (prefer brioche for this but right now all we have is big martin's!) and got ready. i actually did a whole routine today and hope to keep it going.. like, ceraVe + neutrogena hydroboost moisturizer + eltaMD sunscreen. that's what i use right now, at least. my boyfriend uses the same stuff and has the opposite type skin from me, so i think this routine is a generally well-rounded selection. we look very hard and discriminately for items for our skin. charlie--(my boyfriend)--mainly, because he is sensitive, oily, and acne-prone. i'm combination-dry somewhat sensitive and not acne prone at all. but now i am at the age where if my skin doesn't like something, it will be so so so obvious.
anyway, sat around after getting ready while charlie also got ready to go. i took some pictures of my guinea pig on the way out the door because she was being so sweet and cute. i noticed she was initially standing up repeatedly when i leaned down by her cage--she always does this, she loves attention and affection. when i got my phone out to take photos of her, she kept shoving her little nose and mouth directly in the lens. also standing up to get really close to my phone, like 'what's that???'-my heart bursts. people talk about guinea pigs as if they're aloof and perpetually afraid but it's the same sort of thing as hamsters. you either haven't bonded enough with the ones you've had or you have only known people who haven't--it's common. there's so much personality bundled up into each pig, and it's disheartening whenever people talk about them as if they aren't as smart and loving as something like a dog. you just haven't met the right guinea pig?
sorry for ranting--i love guinea pigs so much, i feel like how bug people (lol) feel with their insects except with guinea pigs and people who think they're useless. here's the promised pig pics;
on the drive into dc, i saw this really gorgeous sunset.
i looked a little too long at one point while the sun was actually out and got neon floaters in my eyes for a few minutes. even when i closed them, it was like sparks of bright light beneath my eyelids. do you ever experience this common human phenomenon?
met a really cool person on the metro. they sorta flirted with charlie a bit but in a light way after complimenting his joggers--plus, we could tell they were chill and potentially queer when this happened. they kept inserting little things into the discussion that seemed to press the 'hey, by the way, i'm gay' cue.. like saying charlie's hair is like elton johns' or that they're excited for pride and hope it happens this year. we ended up having a long fun convo about various things (anime, videogames, pride, carne asada, the wharf) and they gifted us a crisp 2-dollar bill they had been holding onto for luck. said they always give significant encounters with people a little gift and that the 2-dollar bill should bring us more wealth! i remembered i had dollar coins on me, which are fairly unique as well--so i gave one back. the 2-dollar was initially for charlie, so when i presented a dollar coin they gave me a cool coin they had found somewhere randomly. it's from an arcade or something. they were wearing a mechanic outfit and were still scuffed from obviously automotive work. but when they procured that hello kitty wallet, i knew they were a cool kid. i say kid because we ended up telling them we'd been together for seven years and it was like.. O_O! they said they were 18!
it was such a cool encounter. it reminds me of the significant passing encounters i've had on the web now since getting more into smaller 'communities' and making my own website. just acknowledging someone is cool and staying anonymous besides the brief encounter and divulgence of whatever details are relevant to that moment. maybe it's the isolation from the pandemic talking, but i think having people be so cool and having a genuine moment with strangers and then them staying strangers is kinda magical. truly spoken like someone who doesn't leave their house, lmao. it also reminds me of all the strangers and cool acquaintences my best friend would drag me into meeting, because his personality and willingness to engage random people like this person was so similar. this is how you get into adventures sometimes! or danger. whatever??
finally got a green tea latte for the first time in a while. (my local starbucks never has it. i do like their sweetened matcha powder, honestly.) on the way out of dc after grabbing my medication, we stopped by krispy kreme who HAD hot and fresh donuts when we first arrived, but not by the time we got into the store. after, my directional sense got us fucked up for a solid 20-30 min before we finally got food. got a bulgogi bibimbap bowl & karaage chicken from a place called bom in adams morgan. it was really nice walking over the adams morgan bridge again for the first time in years, though. i used to go over it all the time whenever i would visit a friend that used to lived right next to the national zoo.
then we went home!
now that i'm back, i'm going to play lost ark a bit and use up my energy in project sekai. then i'm going to sleep hard, because i'm helping charlie and his mom move her and his old childhood belongings out of the house she's selling! honestly excited for that because of getting to see more of his past. i'm gay. goodnight.
update: just ended up playing mabi because the una server was closed for the moment! didn't end up playing proseka because i was way too tired. well, anyway-
