sweetie

haiiii!! it's been WAY over a week since my last post, so sorry. i've been wanting to write a blog for a few days, so i think now is a good time bc i wanna talk for a bit, lol.

nothing particularly interesting has happened lately, as i've mostly been busy with school. my classes are all going well, and the workload isn't too much to handle now. well.. my weight training class is a bit difficult. i'm not used to lifting weights and stuff, so i've been kinda sore the past few days. my teacher told me that the machines weren't made for people my size.. like ok then! whatever that means. also, we had to run a mile on wednesday, and it was so hot! immediate middle school flashbacks!! i finished in like 16mins bc i did a combination of walking and running. besides that, i've been learning a lot about computers lately, which is a lot for my brain to take in but it's pretty interesting! my class worked together to set up a router and reset some old computers, and it was very rewarding once things were completed~

now, i have some good news. guess who went out in public? meee :D i went out for ice cream last night with a new friend. i got cotton candy ice cream topped with colorful whipped cream, sprinkles, one sour rainbow candy, and a sugar-coated cone (representing a unicorn horn bc it was unicorn themed ice cream, hehe). it was my first time trying cotton candy ice cream, and it tasted kinda like trix yogurt to me. it was really good!

in my free time, i've mainly been on the internet, lol. i just visited spacehey earlier, and it looks like the profile pictures are finally back. i don't have much of a desire to use the site like i once did, but i only hope the best for the site and its users. i just wish some of its many issues were addressed and handled better. oh well...

i updated my frw profile a bit, and it looks like there are baby pink jelly beans all over. it looks cute.. but i can't help but feel a bit sad, because i don't feel as proud of my layouts as i once did. nowadays, i don't always get that same feeling of pride when i finish a layout like i used to. and then i end up changing my layout every two business days bc i'm so indecisive!!! so i wanna pose a question to you guys: what's one layout that you loved / were truly proud of? personally, i loved this one! it was so cutiepatootie~

mushroom house theme ❤︎⁠

i almost forgot to talk about this, but i've been contemplating changing up my blog theme. i've been seeing other people's blogger sites on pinterest and they all look so cute! i want mine to look like an adorable, girly bedroom, if that makes sense. i'm envisioning lots of pink, polka dots, frilly borders, cute fonts, and soft music. if this "bedroom" were real, it would smell like strawberry and vanilla! 

ah, i've been talking so much digital mess. moving on!!

i've been kinda into capsule lately. do you listen to them? there's so many diverse sounds in their music. one song may sound like it was part of a video game soundtrack, another sounds like electronic heaven, and another is bossa nova. the instrumentals are really satisfying to my ears, and so i listen often.

well, i think that's all i really have for right now. i'll go ahead and wrap it up here, and i can't wait to talk with you guys soon! byeeee~

✿ one good thing that happened today actually was that i made cookies.. and i want one now so i'll have one and then go to bed. here's one for you btw :3 🍪 ✿

- nara ❤︎⁠

code breaker

hellooo, i've returned!! how are you guys? just a fair warning, this blog may be a bit long....

my week has been quite full of mild inconveniences. i started school again on monday, and i was extremely nervous. it wasn't even necessarily about the classes, but about my tuition. at the beginning of every semester, all students are expected to be financially cleared by a certain date in order to keep their classes. and since i wasn't financially cleared, i was STRESSINGGGGG.

i went up to my school's administrative office on monday to see if i could meet with someone, but i was told i had to make an appointment, so i scheduled it for tuesday at 11:30. y'all.. it was so backed up in that office that i didn't get called back until like 1:30. luckily, i was somehow able to get the necessary financial clearance and i left that office feeling great.

however, there was still another thing to take care of. my housing! a while back i noticed that my school was charging me residence hall fees, but i live at home... so i had been trying to apply for off campus housing for a while, but the system was not working for me. i input all the information correctly, uploaded all the files asked of me, and checked all the boxes, but every time i pressed the submit button i received an error message. well, i finally managed to get in contact with someone who helped me troubleshoot it and y'all won't believe what the problem was.

it was the FREAKING FILE FORMAT.

i had originally uploaded a file as a screenshot, and the system couldn't recognize it or something, so the troubleshoot man changed the file name and reuploaded it, and it immediately went through. i was in such disbelief. LIKE ARE YOU JOKING ME?!? technically tho, i found a flaw in the code!! i think that's pretty cool, hehe~

anyways, i'm just glad that's all over with. tomorrow, i have to go back to the administrative office to get a semester sticker for my student id, a decal for my car, and get a textbook for one of my classes.

a small update

well, we've made it to the end of another week~ how are you guys doing?

i had a few side quests this week. on monday, i had to go and gets my labs done, and then i had a doctor's appointment on thursday. my vitamin d numbers are still pretty low, so my doctor prescribed some supplements. i went to go pick them up from the pharmacy today, and i only have to take them once a month. what better day to start taking the supplements than on the first of the month?

i also finished a final presentation for my management class and submitted a two-page essay to an essay writing competition. the prompt was to write an essay on why you chose to major in business and how your success after university will affect your family for many generations. whoever wins the competition gets a monetary prize of $10,000!!! i'm really hoping i win, bc i think i have a pretty unique story. i mean, i moved from the biology department to the school of business, who has done that??? if i win the prize money, i will give it to my parents.

i set my new layout earlier today, andddd i think i like it! very pink and shiny, but also quite mobile UN-friendly... eek. i really like the font as well, though i'm worried it may be too small for people to read. i think i'll make it a little bigger. and the song!!!! i've been obsessed with it for weeks, the instrumental is so cute. i was pretty close to setting the song to bubibu by apink, but the music player barely works anyway so i couldn't bring myself to care much more.

oh!! i didn't tell you guys but i got a new tv last week! my mom picked it up for me last week and i'm very thankful~ i've been watching a lot of nickelodeon on it, hehe. currently, the fairly odd parents is on. i'm gonna turn on my sleeping music soon tho.. i'm pretty tired.

speaking of my mom, midnight is coming soon, and then it will be her birthday!! we're planning to go out to eat and then go to the movies after. i hope she enjoys her birthday (and that we can have cake, hehe..)

✿ and to finish up this blog, one good thing that happened this week was that my lab results indicated that i'm healthy!! ✿

- nara ❤︎⁠

afterimage

hiii guys, today marks two weeks since my last post. i don't usually go that long without posting a blog, so this is a little out of the ordinary for me.

lately, i've been kinda busy with schoolwork because the semester is coming to an end. i don't believe i have any actual final exams, but i do have some final projects and presentations that i've been working on. lots of papers and research....

also, i finished coffee prince on monday!!! it was SO good and i love how it ended. i could honestly spill my thoughts on all the characters and stuff but maybe that would be better suited for a later blog. i still miss eunchan too........... </3

this week has been kinda up and down for me tbh. my emotions have been all over the place, switching between happy to being irritated. wednesday was probably the most hectic day. i had class at 9am, and then a panel discussion to attend at 12:30. i had no idea where the room it was being held in was, so after aimlessly walking around trying to find it for a few minutes, i finally built up the courage to ask someone. (seriously tho... who decided to put a dining hall in the basement??)

the meeting went well. they fed us olive garden, but i barely ate. by the time it was over, it was almost 2pm. and right after the event, i had to drive all the way to pick my sister up from her school and take her to the hair salon for a 3pm appointment. mind you, it was like 80℉ outside, the sun was beaming, and my car's ac wasn't cooling me off AT ALL. i was already frustrated and now i'm having to rush.

i have a horrible sense of direction, so i wasn't entirely sure how to get to her school from mine so i put on directions and made sure to set them to avoid freeways bc.. terrifying. anyways, as i was driving, my phone overheated and my directions cut off, so i freaked out bc i didn't know where i was.

after a little while my phone finally turned back on, and i made it to my sister's school. it was still very hot in the car, so we rode with the windows slightly down. i knew a route to get to the salon, but made a small mistake getting into a turning lane on the road and another car honked at me... yes, it hurt my feelings.

after dropping my sister off i had a mini breakdown bc i hate driving and i hate living in this country town and i hate how i have to have a car to get everywhere. but then i came home and had a sandwich and i was okay.

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 ❤︎

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 ❤︎

taidul

haiiii guys :D

i'm staying up later tonight bc my final speech tmrw isn't until noon so i get to sleep in, yaaaay.

i practiced my speech a couple of times today along with my powerpoint, and i think everything is pretty good. i'm cutting the time limit a little close tho lol, so hopefully i'm able to get through the whole thing in under 7 minutes.

also.. this might be my last night sleeping in a dorm.

i'm leaving tomorrow for the weekend and returning on monday evening for my organic chem final (sorry, put the wrong day on my bulletin lol). afterwards, i plan to return home and then come back to school on tuesday to finish packing. on tuesday night, i will check out from the residence hall and my officially break starts! so excitedddd.

this room is so hot rn i'm actually melting. i have my fan on but it does NOTHING. maybe i should've just slept at home instead of coming back here.. i even made some food bc i thought i was hungry but now i don't even want it that much TT ughhgdsjshgj

OH! i also added a chatbox in the "tagboard" section. eugene, thank u sososoooo much for telling me what to put there bc i was so confused LOL.

well, i'm gonna go watch a web drama now. nighty night bffs~

- nara ❤︎

what a week.

hello hello!!

we've reached the final stretch of the week, finally! do u guys count friday as part of the weekend? i do, bc it technically is lol.

honestly tho, this week was so annoying for me. so many little inconveniences, i might have been close to having a meltdown.

first, i was swarmed by wasps for two days straight. i've never been so terrified in all my nineteen years. i sent this in the family gc and my mom reacted with that emoji brooo 😭

second, my pink press-ons started popping off today. one came off while i was doing laundry, and then two more while i was trying to open a stuck drawer. i was so irritated i just took them all off.

lastly, i somehow messed my hair up. idk when it happened, but i either got it wet or it was exposed to humidity. i'm just gonna throw it in a ponytail tomorrow and fix it when i get home bc i don't have a blow-dryer or hair straightener here at school lol.

but ofc there were some good things this week too! i finally listened to the first t-ara album, and it was really good! super duper electric~ my favorites were "tic tic toc" "bye bye", and "apple is a". thank u so much eugene!!! ♡

also, my hall had a paint and sip party tonight. we painted flower pots, drank hot chocolate, and there were cookies and donuts! it was pretty fun, but my flower pot sucks. i cannot paint for the life of me, but it's okay! i still had a nice time and that's what matters!

anyways, it's getting pretty late so i should probably be getting ready to go to sleep. talk soon~

- nara ❤︎

happy halloween!

i've holed myself up indoors tonight, nothing to do really. 

i have spent the last few hours tinkering with this blog, and made no real progress sadly... custom fonts are giving me trouble and i'm so frustrated, i need a break. all the other code is seriously making my brain hurt.. 

it's definitely not as hard as i'm making it out to be, but i'm just struggling a lot with this rn lol. but it will come together soon, i'm sure of it. i can't wait! 

school today was a bit crazy tho. there was a guy that had been seen near the campus, and we were told to contact the campus police if we saw him and to not interact with him. as far as i know, all classes were online after that. idk what happened with the man, but after a few hours i got an email saying that everything was okay. 

then my sister went into a lockdown at her school too! like what.................. 

i guess ppl were just being super creepy in honor of today, idk.

well anyways, i don't have much else to say besides those things for now. talk soon!

- nara ❤︎

laboratory

hello everyone, good evening!!!

i know it has been so long since i last updated here, but school has been kind of busy, and honestly i have very little energy by the end of a day full of classes and schoolwork. and on my lighter days, i think i just get lazy.. so i'm sorry about that lol.

but anyways, my day went pretty well! tuesdays are my lab days, and today i had both microbio and organic chem lab. it was lots of work.

in micro, we swabbed for our normal flora, which is like certain types of bacteria we all have in our bodies that do not cause disease. so... i had to swab the palm of my hand, my throat, and my nose... those last two were not enjoyable. and then we had to do plate streaking. you know how scientists grow bacteria cultures in a petri dish? yeah, we're doing that. i don't even know if i swabbed myself properly but oh well.

then, i had organic chemistry lab this afternoon, and i was in there for about three hours. we were like separating acids and bases. it was kinda fun ig, but i still don't like chemistry..

honestly, working in a lab is so overwhelming to me. there's just too much to think about! you have to be precise with measurements, there's so many dangerous chemicals, labwear is overstimulating to wear after a while, and i just have never liked it lol.

before i got online, i was working on a report for bible class. i'm sooo not wanting to do it but unfortunately it's due tomorrow so i gotta lock in.

ALSO!!! i realized yesterday that i only have like three weeks of school left before winter break. like that's insane!!! i'm so excited tho, i hope i can finish the semester strong. i'm lowkey worried abt how i will do in ochem tho..  (ó﹏ò｡)

hopefully i have more free time tomorrow, because i'm thinking about going home for a little while. but what have you been up to?

- nara ❤︎