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haiii cutie pies~!

it's quite late, but that short nap i took earlier is probably what's keeping me awake now. still, i'll try to sleep after i post this... maybe. anywaaaays, how are you guys doing? :D

personally, i've been doing okay. i didn't have any classes yesterday, so i didn't have to do my group presentation, hehe :3 but now i'll be thinking about it over spring break.. eeeek.

besides thinking about school, i'm planning to deep clean my room next week! i need to do my laundry, clean out my armoire and closet, vacuum, and get someone to fix my curtains. i also wanna rearrange all my stuffed animals so they aren't just piled up on my chair. a few years ago, i used to place them all around me and i would sleep in the center. it was so cozy, and i wonder if i could do that again.

also guys, i drove myself to my own dentist appointment this week~ however, it was not fun. (is the dentist ever fun, tho??) i really dislike getting x-rays, it's so uncomfy :( and um. i have a few small cavities but i will go and get them fixed this week. i have two appointments on wednesday and thursday, so hopefully everything goes well.

i also started working on a layout for april. i spent a majority of the time struggling with border image sizing, but i'm excited to see what i may do with the layout. i wanna create a very minimalistic layout, saving only the important stuff. there isn't a whole lot that i can say about it right now, but we will see what happens!

and lastly, you guys know i gotta talk about music. currently, i'm at a very 2nd generation k-pop girl group time in my life. nine muses, miss a, and kara are taking over my ears. heavy on nine muses. i JUST recently managed to stop walking around my house mumbling the lyrics to no playboy. what will my next song obsession be?? stay tuned :0

well! i think that's enough rambling for tonight. i'll be on my merry way now, but i hope u guys are doing amazing. nighty night, i love uuuu~

- nara ❤︎

reminisce

hi! so um. i don't know if this is a good idea to post here, but i have just had a lot on my mind today and i wanted to write out my thoughts.

so, i've recently spent some time on discord after receiving a frq on friday. it was some guy from spacehey that i ended up having to block bc he turned out to be a weirdo, but... anyways.

today i made the decision to just update my profile and look through old messages, right? it was just for fun, really. most of the texts i read were between me and people i was friends with on spacehey that kinda disappeared after a while, lol. (i miss them fr, they were very cool.. </3)

then i made the strange decision to read back messages from my past relationship. i guess i was just curious to see how i would react to them. i didn't cry my eyes out or anything, but i wasn't expecting to. instead, i chuckled at some messages, and simply thought back on those times. 

but now, i feel like a loser. aren't i supposed to be completely detached from that relationship? i don't know, but i guess i felt that we had been broken up long enough that reading through past texts wouldn't bother me so much. aaah, i was very wrong.. 𖦹 ´ ᯅ ` 𖦹

i know it was my decision to separate, but sometimes i miss that bond. and with those feelings comes embarrassment. i feel like it's selfish for me to even want it back. i knew then that completely cutting contact was the only way to move on. we could not be friends, and that was okay. it hurt, but it had to be done.

i just wish my heart didn't feel so heavy now.

but oh well. i'm sorry for writing a post like this directly after my last one. i'll try to write something more lighthearted very soon, pinky promise! i honestly considered just writing this in my diary, but i guess i just wanted someone to talk to.

the truth is, the internet is the only space i feel comfortable being myself in besides my house, lol. you guys are the kindest and most supportive online friends i have ever had, and i appreciate you so much. despite the chaos and struggles of life, you always make the effort to jump online and interact with me. i'm so lucky to have you guys in my life, and i hope to stay in touch with you for a long time. i love you guysssaaahhhh <333

- nara ❤︎

taste

hi guys!! i was gonna post a blog talking about my week, but then i read it and thought it might be kinda boring, so i'm doing something a little different today. here's a list of foods and snacks i really want to try and/or eat! let's get started :D

my creation

i finally locked in and finished this, yay!!

f5ve slideshow by nara

- nara ❤︎

trip & tune

any life, any galaxy, i choose you every time.

haiii :3 saturday was such a long day, i’m so tired.

originally, my siblings and i were supposed to stay at home while my parents went out to bring back my new car (it’s red btw, i like it!) but they decided to let us go too. this meant that the dogs were left home alone.

the drive there was a little over 3 hours and we got mcdonald’s bc my parents and sister had visited last thursday and said it was the best mcdonald’s they had ever had.

it was not as amazing as they made it seem today tho.

afterwards, we also ended up visiting family friends and seeing their new home. then we hopped back on the road again. we stopped at another restaurant on the way back and they were playing omg by newjeans.. maybe the employees are bunnies.

so yeah. i spent a bunch of time riding around, listening to music, and eating. i was very happy to finally get home to my doggies after so long~

i WAS gonna let kali sleep with me in my room, but she started acting crazy, biting at her leg and turning around in circles on MY BED. then my brother walked in and started playing with her, making her act worse.. i told him to stop, but it was too late. kali jumped up and pushed him back, and my tv fell over.

so, kali is now in her kennel. 🙂 maybe another night.

also, music!!! f5ve has been on repeat for me a LOT lately. i like a handful of their songs, but i can’t choose a favorite.. and the mvs. ughh i love them. some are so simple, and filmed in one location. and they are amazing!! do you guys listen to them?

i could go on and on about them, but it’s almost midnight. maybe i’ll talk more about them in a separate blog! we’ll see. anyways, i should be going to bed now. night night~!

- nara ❤︎

glued to u

hello hello, i'm writing this from my mom's laptop hehe~ how are u guys doing?? are u ready for february? i think i am, maybeeee..

i spent most of today out with my family. we went to go look at a car, and everyone else liked it but me. my parents want me to have a small suv, something higher off the ground. my last car was pretty low to the ground, but i felt more comfortable in it. i guess i was just too used to driving it. i just miss it and it's hard to think about different ones. uguhghghhhh :c

other than thinking about cars.. i've been okay. it's soooo freaking cold out tho. the wind hurts my skin and brings chills to my bones. i even saw some snow flurries this morning! but sadly, no snow.

i've been working on my layout a bit for the swap. i still have a ways to go with it, but i'm excited to see how it will turn out when it's all done~ happy early palentine's day (bc we're friends!)

i've been watching a lot of tv lately... particularly pbs kids. i put it on for my dogs when i leave for class and when i'm sitting downstairs with them during the day but atp i'm the audience. idk what it is but i'll be sitting down looking at the screen and before i know it i've watched an entire episode. and the shows are super good and educational. yesterday i learned about ruth bader ginsburg from a show called xavier riddle and the secret museum. and just the other i learned about pabitin from jelly, ben & pogo. the odd squad was also pretty funny. i watched an episode where they brought a band back together after breaking up.

once while i had the tv playing tho, this one show called donkey hodie came on and it reminded me of this show from my childhood called jack's big music show. i literally never see anybody talking about it in those nostalgia compilations online. it's always shows like ni hao kai lan and yo gabba gabba (loved those 2 btw, don't get me wrong).

anyways. enough about pbs kids. let me tell u what got me MAD yesterday.

so u guys know i love my corny k-webdramas. i saw on cheezefilm's channel about a girl who kissed her bsf so i clicked on it. basically there was pretty girl named jihye who really liked her friend dasom, and a rumor went around school that they were lovers even tho they weren't. so dasom didn't wanna be around jihye anymore, but eventually she missed her and they ended up happily together. (jihye wanted to name their future child dahye, so cute~)

and everything was going fine until the MAN showed up. he came to jihye bc she had dropped her wallet and ended up asking for her number and she GAVE it to him. eventually she ended up telling dasom "i like you but i have a boyfriend.." and dasom slapped her and told her to never face her again.

then they broke up and jihye went off with her little boyfriend... then ig they got married and jihye became pregnant. but then!!! jihye and dasom coincidentally met at a bridge and hugged. the end.

i was very disappointed bc why couldn't the girls have a happy ending??? like. why did the man have to even show up. it ruined my mood fr, but oh well.

this was quite a lengthy post, so i should probably wrap it up here. talk to u guys soon!!

- nara ❤︎

better

haiiiiiii i hope u guys are doing good :3 yesterday was okay for me!

i was and still am very sore tho. everything hurts, but i got some medications from the pharmacy and i’ve been taking it easy for the most part.

obviously i couldn’t go to school, so i stayed home and it was nice. lucy and kali drove me a little crazy, but it was okay nonetheless. (haha “drove”.. ugh i miss my car :c)

i also had to do an assignment for my marketing class where i had to come up with a unique specialty drink for a pet-friendly coffee shop. my idea was a frappuccino with dried flowers (roses, jasmine, or hibiscus) mixed in the coffee. and for dogs, a small cup of whipped cream with dried roses bc i read that roses are safe for dogs. idk if the drink would even taste good irl but i was so proud of it! i called it a “flowerbloom frappuccino / frappawccino (for dogs). u guys know i love alliteration ~

since i have no laptop, i used my ipad a lot today, and i went on pinterest a couple times. now i want a chunky pink keyboard with cute little stickers on the keys and one of those pink vaio laptops. ARGDHH i just want a cutesy pink bedroom and cute gadgets and accessories rn!!!! >:0

speaking of room decor, would u say ur room matches ur personal style? do u have a say in how u decorate it?

ANYWAYS. i’m sorry for rambling, i just have many thoughts at the moment and lots of things i wanna say~

before i go, i just wanna say thank u guys sososoooo much for all ur messages of love and support. i appreciate u guys forever. ur just the sweetest friends and i’m so thankful to have such amazing people in my life.

have a great weekend, and i hope to talk soon.

- nara ❤︎

shattered

i got into a car accident earlier tonight.

i was driving home from school around 6:30pm or so and i was going down the same route i always go every day.

now, this road is a dark backroad so it can be kinda hard to see at night. the infrastructure in my city isn’t the best rn to say the least.

anyways, as i was coming down the road i saw another car coming in the opposite direction. the car then drifted over the double yellow lines and hit me. thankfully there was a guardrail there that kept me from rolling into the ditch/creek below.

my airbag deployed, and both my car and the other person’s car were totaled. i lost my freaking car. it was a college gift from my grandma and i’m so sad :(

apparently the other driver had a seizure and passed out behind the wheel. i’m kinda skeptical abt that now bc she was able to get right out of the car fully conscious and speak with the police. but anyways, she was eventually taken to the hospital.

luckily i wasn’t seriously injured at all. i was just a bit bruised and shaken up. my mom took me to urgent care and they said i would be sore for a few days. i think i can already feel my neck acting up >:[

i also lost my laptop. it’s all cracked now, so i’m having to type this on my phone lol.

i’m just thankful to be alive. things could have gone so much worse.

- nara

the new

it feels like an eternity since i last posted.

in all honesty, i have not been busy in the slightest. i was just too lazy to type a post...

but i think it's time for an update! i'll start with school to get the boring stuff out of the way.

so, school. it's been going okay, and being a business student is pretty chill. i have 5 classes (1 is online) and they're all in the same building! and get this... i have ONE (1) hardcopy textbook. mind u, i had 9 hardcopy textbooks last semester and maybe only used like one of them (barely..)

my professors and classmates are cool, too. all of my classes consist of discussion, something i wasn't very accustomed to coming from science lectures. it's nice to sit in a classroom for once and not have a professor talking at u for fifty minutes.

i think the most annoying thing is that i have late classes from 5:30-6:45 monday-thursday, but luckily the professors don't keep us the whole time. so it's fine.

so all in all, i like this new path. moving on~

my mom, sister, and i cleaned the downstairs area of our house today. it was so dusty omg. i vacuumed, wiped down the stairs and some tabletops, loaded our NEWWWW DISHWASHERRRR!!!! (it came on wednesday btw) and helped my mom mop. it was exhausting.

anyways, i've been listening to a lot of music lately. apink recently had a comeback, and it was pretty good. the mv for "love me more" was really cute.

speaking of music, have u guys heard of tomatomat? i got distracted in the middle of typing this post and started rewatching their mvs. the three songs that they have put out so far are so cuteee!!!! "mushroom house"  and "collect call garage" sound like a cute videogame soundtracks. i really wanna try to recreate the vibes in my new layout.. glossy gradients, pixel fonts, pink, blue, green. aaah, so much to think about.

well, enough rambling on and on about things. i've missed u guys, and i hope ur doing well. having a nice weekend? let me know when we talk soon, luv ya~

- nara ❤︎

kowadan (2013) review

hi hi !! tonight i'll be doing my first movie review.

so, a few weeks ago i came across a few clips from a horror movie called Kowadan: Horror High School, and when i pulled up the full movie i found out that it's actually an anthology of horror stories.

honestly, none of the stories were that scary and i actually got bored and turned it off near the end. however, what originally convinced me to watch it was the story of yuna and crazy stalker girl, haru.

i'll summarize and show screenshots i took hehe~

so, yuna is a normal girl who lives with her mom and her adorable dog, seru. she meets a girl named haru on a message board and they decide to meet bc they both wanna be makeup artists. after talking in a cafe for a bit, they go to a park and haru does yuna's makeup for her. they become good friends and start hanging out, and haru gifts yuna with a makeup box, which yuna is hesitant to accept. just then, yuna is contacted by an old friend named maruko. this apparently makes haru mad and she knocks a cup of juice onto yuna.

haru tells yuna to go clean herself in the bathroom, and while yuna is gone she DELETES every contact except her own from yuna's phone. (also guys, isn't yuna's bear charm so cute??)

later on, maruko calls yuna and asks about some strange messages she received from her, but yuna hadn't sent them. (spoiler: it was haru trying to break yuna and maruko up). yuna also confronts haru about the missing contacts but haru says she did not do it. i think haru then asks to hang out, but yuna says she has "something important" and takes seru on a walk instead.

as yuna and seru are out on the walk, haru approaches them and she is NOT happy. i just took screenshots of the scene bc it was kinda funny to me, lol. (i'm sorry the photos are such bad quality...)

anyways, the following scene made me so mad. all i'm gonna say is that when yuna woke up the next morning, seru was no longer there. only the collar remained.

i assume yuna told her mother and her mother was so angry and wanted to call the cops. right then, haru called the house phone and yuna's mom was like "DO NOT CALL MY DAUGHTER!" then stormed out of the room. then haru called AGAIN and this time yuna picked up and was basically yelling "we're not friends anymore, don't contact me!"

HOWEVERRR!! haru said she wanted that makeup box back. so yuna went to the park to drop it off, but found a photograph of her MOTHER with a bloody red X on it. so she rushed home and found her mom.. and it was quite a graphic scene so i won't describe.

then haru enters the room and the story ends.

guys, i really need to stop watching all of these crazy movies. i need wholesome media in my life, but the crazy things always seem to initially catch my attention. "( – ⌓ – )

when alone

so… i’m the top naoko gushima listener on youtube apparently.

i’m only seeing this badge 2 days later, and honestly i didn’t even know youtube had badges, but YIPPEEE~!

while on the topic of music, have u guys ever heard of the girl group c-real? i listened to a few of their songs yesterday from the Round 1 EP. “No No No No No” has definitely been played more than once, lol. it seems they were only active from 2011-2012, tho :[

moving on now from music to… movies?? yes, i actually sat down and watched a movie by myself last night. and it was.. uh. it was definitely a movie. it was a japanese horror movie from 2012 called Shady.

i won’t go into too much detail bc it was kinda disturbing, but basically, two bullied and lonely high school girls become best friends but one is lowkey insane. oh, and the teacher is a creep.

moral of the story: be wary of who you allow to be ur friend.

well, i hope u guys have a great rest of ur day. i hope my movie summary didn’t ruin anything for u, lol. there’s another movie i’m interested in watching, so maybe i’ll do a review on that one if it isn’t too bad.

i love u guys, talk soon~!!

- nara ❤︎

bad but good

hello hello~! i hope u guys are doing good these days. the title was a miss A reference btw.

unfortunately, i start school again on wednesday and i'm not very excited at all. this break was great and much needed, i just don't want it to be over.

i'm gonna miss u guys tho, seriously. u made my days happy and reading ur posts is something i always looked forward to when i woke up everyday! so thank u for (virtually) spending the holidays with me. GROUP HUGGG!!!!!

on a better note, i've officially joined the commuter club!! i was finally approved to live off-campus today. not only will i get to live at home full time, but it saves my family some money. i'll definitely have to wake up earlier to make sure i get to class on time, but i'm not too worried bc i've never really struggled with managing my time in the morning. (in fact, when i was in high school i used to wake up like 40mins before i got up to get dressed just so i could spend the time laying in bed on my phone...)

besides school, we've had a bunch of birthdays in my family recently! my little cousin, both my grandmas, and kali had their birthdays. my sweet kali turned one years old!! ❤︎

i've been also trying to think of ideas for a new layout, but idk! i sometimes think that if spacehey allowed layout to be posted again, i would not have much to provide, lol. maybe i need to become more of a media consumer so i can gather inspiration and ideas. what's ur guys' creative process for coming up with layouts?

OH ALSO!! i saw a news station on tiktok earlier talking about bts releasing a new album soon and i'm so excited!!! literally just the other night my sister and i were watching those "bts funny moments" videos we used to watch back in like 2018-2019. sure, the videos are quite unfunny now but they were seriously a product of their time, okay.. i miss it and i wanna go backkk :,)

anyhow, i guess i'll be going now, but i just want u guys to know i love uuuu~ please take care of yourselves, sicknesses are going around. have a safe and relaxing weekend, talk soon~!

- nara ❤︎