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torachan) wrote2025-08-29 08:22 pm
torachan) wrote2025-08-29 08:22 pmEntry tags:
Daily Happiness
1. Four day weekend! I'm very excited about that.
2. I had a chance to get over to the Torrance store to say goodbye to the manager who's leaving. Asked her how things were going with her possible transfer to Hawaii and she said she's had web interviews with a few people and it's basically confirmed, just have to finalize where she'll be, so I'm glad they were able to find a position for her.
3. Tuxie was so cute this morning! He loves those planters, but usually doesn't get right up under the tree like that.
2. I had a chance to get over to the Torrance store to say goodbye to the manager who's leaving. Asked her how things were going with her possible transfer to Hawaii and she said she's had web interviews with a few people and it's basically confirmed, just have to finalize where she'll be, so I'm glad they were able to find a position for her.
3. Tuxie was so cute this morning! He loves those planters, but usually doesn't get right up under the tree like that.
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-08-29 08:08 pm
torachan) wrote2025-08-29 08:08 pmEntry tags:
2025 Disneyland Trip #58 (8/28/25)
Last night we went down there later in the evening, arriving around 8:30. It was an Oogie Boogie Bash night, so DCA was already closed to non-event guests and it was also almost time for the parade to start, so Disneyland was crowded when we first got in, but once we got past that clog on Main Street it wasn't bad at all.
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Travis (torachan) wrote2025-08-28 11:57 pm
torachan) wrote2025-08-28 11:57 pmEntry tags:
Daily Happiness
1. Just one more day until my four day weekend!
2. We had a nice dinner at Disneyland tonight. Waited until later to go down there, so it wasn't hot anymore (though it was still pretty muggy) and the traffic wasn't bad.
3. I feel like I'm already making good progress with tasks for this new project at work and the IT team was very happy with my report today. Also it seems there's interpersonal trouble again at one of the stores and I'm super glad it's not my problem anymore.
4. Silly Jasper.
2. We had a nice dinner at Disneyland tonight. Waited until later to go down there, so it wasn't hot anymore (though it was still pretty muggy) and the traffic wasn't bad.
3. I feel like I'm already making good progress with tasks for this new project at work and the IT team was very happy with my report today. Also it seems there's interpersonal trouble again at one of the stores and I'm super glad it's not my problem anymore.
4. Silly Jasper.
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-08-27 10:08 pm
torachan) wrote2025-08-27 10:08 pmEntry tags:
Daily Happiness
1. I had a meeting at 6pm today, which I stayed at the office for but was then told everyone was just joining from their own desks (only four people in the meeting were there in the building, the others were in Japan) so I could have done it from home, which was annoying as my meeting before that had ended at around 3:30. But I did get a lot of work done on a project in the time between those two meetings, wheras if I'd gone home, I would have just said I was done with work for the day and did non work stuff until the meeting.
2. Gemma's soaking in the sun.
2. Gemma's soaking in the sun.
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-08-26 09:15 pm
torachan) wrote2025-08-26 09:15 pmEntry tags:
Daily Happiness
1. I'm definitely starting to feel a lot more comfortable with this new project at work, though it's still a lot of unknown territory. It's been good having this team here from Japan for this month to help hammer things out, but I will also be glad when they're gone and there are less meetings (I've literally have two hour meetings every day with this one guy for the past two weeks; they are productive, but still).
2. It was much nicer weather today. Even when I came out to the car after being at work, I didn't have to blast the AC to get it bearable for the drive home.
3. Yesterday's episode of Game Changer was so good. This season has really been hitting it out of the park, but man. That was amazing. I can't wait to watch the behind the scenes episode next week. The episode also involved mentioning a lot of previous episodes, which made us want to do a rewatch, so I think we'll be doing that soon.
4. I love Chloe's little foot freckle.
2. It was much nicer weather today. Even when I came out to the car after being at work, I didn't have to blast the AC to get it bearable for the drive home.
3. Yesterday's episode of Game Changer was so good. This season has really been hitting it out of the park, but man. That was amazing. I can't wait to watch the behind the scenes episode next week. The episode also involved mentioning a lot of previous episodes, which made us want to do a rewatch, so I think we'll be doing that soon.
4. I love Chloe's little foot freckle.
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-08-25 10:58 pm
torachan) wrote2025-08-25 10:58 pmEntry tags:
Daily Happiness
1. Got my hair cut this morning.
2. I just remembered next Monday is Labor Day, so I've got a three day weekend coming up! And Carla has a very early doctor's appointment that Tuesday at a location that's not super far but also not really close, so I offered to drive her, and was at first thinking I'd just go to work after that, but then decided to put in a sick day request for that day and just take the day off, so I've now got a four day weekend. :D
3. Molly has been really into my chair lately.
2. I just remembered next Monday is Labor Day, so I've got a three day weekend coming up! And Carla has a very early doctor's appointment that Tuesday at a location that's not super far but also not really close, so I offered to drive her, and was at first thinking I'd just go to work after that, but then decided to put in a sick day request for that day and just take the day off, so I've now got a four day weekend. :D
3. Molly has been really into my chair lately.
perpetually late to the party (nanslice) wrote2025-08-25 06:57 pm
nanslice) wrote2025-08-25 06:57 pm
Hello, friends!
Requisite "omg how has it been so long since I updated, blah, blah" shenanigans, time is weird and I don't understand how it goes so quickly.
I've drawn several things recently but I'm gonna share thing th
I took a silly little personality quiz that ended up being extremely accurate! I love personality quizzes and I used to do them all the time. It helps that the design is super cute. <3
I've been on the hunt for a new MMO as my interest in FFXIV wanes (it never really recovered after the shenanigans with the grifter) and have fallen firmly into Elder Scrolls Online. I love the Khajiit so much! I started the game as a dude but since I don't really have a group to play with (Will is playing but they're on PS4 and I'm on PC and there's no crossplay - YET) and I prefer playing as a girl. So I created a second character - also a Khajiit. Whoops!
and also, Razum-Dar is adorable and I love him.
I also started replaying Pokemon Violet, since I didn't get very far along in it. I tried to make my character look like an office worker, lmao. I don't know how old these characters are meant to be but I don't think it's fourteen, right? Like. Maybe.
Also: garden producing a lot! This is just one bowl of five that has been harvested. <3 I'm really pleased with how it's been going! I also have at least four spaghetti squash and six mini-pumpkins! And another six pocket melons! And lemon cucumbers!
I'm definitely going to be expanded the gardens for next year; with the way grocery prices are going it's better, I think, to take advantage of the space we have for vegetables.
Let's see...I'm sure there are more things, but that's all I can think of! I have art to post but some of it is NSFW and should have its own post. :3
I've drawn several things recently but I'm gonna share thing th
I took a silly little personality quiz that ended up being extremely accurate! I love personality quizzes and I used to do them all the time. It helps that the design is super cute. <3
I've been on the hunt for a new MMO as my interest in FFXIV wanes (it never really recovered after the shenanigans with the grifter) and have fallen firmly into Elder Scrolls Online. I love the Khajiit so much! I started the game as a dude but since I don't really have a group to play with (Will is playing but they're on PS4 and I'm on PC and there's no crossplay - YET) and I prefer playing as a girl. So I created a second character - also a Khajiit. Whoops!
and also, Razum-Dar is adorable and I love him.
I also started replaying Pokemon Violet, since I didn't get very far along in it. I tried to make my character look like an office worker, lmao. I don't know how old these characters are meant to be but I don't think it's fourteen, right? Like. Maybe.
Also: garden producing a lot! This is just one bowl of five that has been harvested. <3 I'm really pleased with how it's been going! I also have at least four spaghetti squash and six mini-pumpkins! And another six pocket melons! And lemon cucumbers!
I'm definitely going to be expanded the gardens for next year; with the way grocery prices are going it's better, I think, to take advantage of the space we have for vegetables.
Let's see...I'm sure there are more things, but that's all I can think of! I have art to post but some of it is NSFW and should have its own post. :3
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-08-24 08:13 pm
torachan) wrote2025-08-24 08:13 pmEntry tags:
Daily Happiness
1. The heat was not as bad today as yesterday (in fact we went for a walk a bit ago and it was quite pleasant) and it's supposed to be either high 70s or low 80s for the rest of the ten day forecast, so hopefully that holds up.
2. I made a rhubarb custard pie this morning before it got too hot. Now that we have the Breville oven, it doesn't heat up the whole house to bake things the way the regular oven did, but I still wanted to get it done early, especially since it always takes so long to cool and set up (it was good and ready by this evening for dessert, though). I still have a bunch of bags of already chopped up rhubarb in the freezer, so can make the pie (or something else) another couple times.
3. I finished another puzzle this morning. This is the first one of this brand I've tried and it was very interesting. The pieces were very irregularly cut, including some with straight edges that were not border pieces. It made for a little additional challenge, but for some really odd shaped pieces, it made it easier to find where they went just by shape rather than color.
4. He looks like he's having a good dream.
2. I made a rhubarb custard pie this morning before it got too hot. Now that we have the Breville oven, it doesn't heat up the whole house to bake things the way the regular oven did, but I still wanted to get it done early, especially since it always takes so long to cool and set up (it was good and ready by this evening for dessert, though). I still have a bunch of bags of already chopped up rhubarb in the freezer, so can make the pie (or something else) another couple times.
3. I finished another puzzle this morning. This is the first one of this brand I've tried and it was very interesting. The pieces were very irregularly cut, including some with straight edges that were not border pieces. It made for a little additional challenge, but for some really odd shaped pieces, it made it easier to find where they went just by shape rather than color.
4. He looks like he's having a good dream.
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-08-23 07:55 pm
torachan) wrote2025-08-23 07:55 pmEntry tags:
Daily Happiness
1. Got a decent farmer's market haul this morning. The lemonade place did not forget their lemonade twice in a row, and they've added some flavors, too, so I got a yellow watermelon lemonade (not sure if it will actually taste any different to the regular red one) and a cucumber lemonade. I did drink the latter already and it was a bit disappointing as it was too chunky for my liking, but the flavor was good.
2. It was hot today but aside from my trip to the farmers market in the morning (I went right when they opened at eight but it was so muggy and gross already) we stayed in the house and kept relatively cool.
3. Ever since we had the pizza pockets with cajun ranch dip at DCA, we've been on the lookout for that kind of sauce in the store and could not find any, but the other day Carla finally did find some (Hidden Valley Kickin Cajun Blackened Ranch) and we got pizza tonight and it was perfect!
4. Look at this little face!
2. It was hot today but aside from my trip to the farmers market in the morning (I went right when they opened at eight but it was so muggy and gross already) we stayed in the house and kept relatively cool.
3. Ever since we had the pizza pockets with cajun ranch dip at DCA, we've been on the lookout for that kind of sauce in the store and could not find any, but the other day Carla finally did find some (Hidden Valley Kickin Cajun Blackened Ranch) and we got pizza tonight and it was perfect!
4. Look at this little face!
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-08-23 06:14 pm
torachan) wrote2025-08-23 06:14 pmEntry tags:
Weekly Reading
Currently Reading
What Happened to Lucy Vale?
5%. A girl and her mother move into a house where sixteen years ago another girl disappeared and her mother was found hanged in the house. The story will be told in alternating timelines, but I haven't gotten that far yet, so it's just present day. Sounds interesting. I read another book by this author and liked it, though I blank out on what book it was literally seconds after looking it up each time, so I don't think it was that memorable.
Our Hideous Progeny
41%. A sort of Frankenstein fanfic. Victor Frankenstein's grand niece decides to follow in his footsteps and try to create life, but this time since she and her husband are paleontologists, they decide to create a dinosaur rather than a human. That said, while that is the main plot, it's only a small part of the book, which is more about the MC's struggles to be taken seriously as a woman who is interested in science. I'm really liking this so far. I'm listening to the audiobook and the narrator is great.
Suddenly a Murder
9%. A group of friends from a ritzy high school go to a 1920s themed party and there's a murder. I decided to pick this up because the 1920s themed party aspect sounded interesting, but I have quickly (within the first few paragraphs) become annoyed by rich teens being obnoxious (though the MC is a scholarship student and not rich herself). I'll finish it because I dislike not finishing things, but I doubt I'll really like it that much.
The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
No progress.
Recently Finished
How to Survive a Horror Story
This was an interesting premise but I never felt like it really got good and I didn't think the twist was all that. It was fine, but doesn't make me want to run out and check out more by the author. Also, this didn't really have an impact on my enjoyment of the book, but I could not believe that the author couldn't take two seconds to google to see if a store they are mentioning by name exists in the place they are saying it does. No one in LA is going to the Piggly Wiggly, because it is very famously a southern grocery store chain. She could have just said grocery store, or she could have checked to see what stores exist, but nah. (The same character also lives in his parents' basement, which is not quite as unbelievable as the Piggly Wiggly, because I'm sure there are at least a couple houses here that have basements, but it just added to the general vibe of carelessness.)
Newcomer
I found the format a little tedious at first, but ended up enjoying this.
Shady Hollow
This was definitely a miss for me. Too much focus on describing the animals and their town compared to the rest of the story.
DeadEndia vol. 1-3
I reread the first two books because the third is finally out! Apparently it came out last year, but I just realized it was out a week or so ago. It's been too long since I read the others, so I had to refresh my memory, and I'm glad I did, because I would have been struggling to keep up if I'd just jumped right in to volume three. This was a good conclusion and I really love this series.
Skip to Loafer vol. 12
Hen na E vol. 3
What Happened to Lucy Vale?
5%. A girl and her mother move into a house where sixteen years ago another girl disappeared and her mother was found hanged in the house. The story will be told in alternating timelines, but I haven't gotten that far yet, so it's just present day. Sounds interesting. I read another book by this author and liked it, though I blank out on what book it was literally seconds after looking it up each time, so I don't think it was that memorable.
Our Hideous Progeny
41%. A sort of Frankenstein fanfic. Victor Frankenstein's grand niece decides to follow in his footsteps and try to create life, but this time since she and her husband are paleontologists, they decide to create a dinosaur rather than a human. That said, while that is the main plot, it's only a small part of the book, which is more about the MC's struggles to be taken seriously as a woman who is interested in science. I'm really liking this so far. I'm listening to the audiobook and the narrator is great.
Suddenly a Murder
9%. A group of friends from a ritzy high school go to a 1920s themed party and there's a murder. I decided to pick this up because the 1920s themed party aspect sounded interesting, but I have quickly (within the first few paragraphs) become annoyed by rich teens being obnoxious (though the MC is a scholarship student and not rich herself). I'll finish it because I dislike not finishing things, but I doubt I'll really like it that much.
The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
No progress.
Recently Finished
How to Survive a Horror Story
This was an interesting premise but I never felt like it really got good and I didn't think the twist was all that. It was fine, but doesn't make me want to run out and check out more by the author. Also, this didn't really have an impact on my enjoyment of the book, but I could not believe that the author couldn't take two seconds to google to see if a store they are mentioning by name exists in the place they are saying it does. No one in LA is going to the Piggly Wiggly, because it is very famously a southern grocery store chain. She could have just said grocery store, or she could have checked to see what stores exist, but nah. (The same character also lives in his parents' basement, which is not quite as unbelievable as the Piggly Wiggly, because I'm sure there are at least a couple houses here that have basements, but it just added to the general vibe of carelessness.)
Newcomer
I found the format a little tedious at first, but ended up enjoying this.
Shady Hollow
This was definitely a miss for me. Too much focus on describing the animals and their town compared to the rest of the story.
DeadEndia vol. 1-3
I reread the first two books because the third is finally out! Apparently it came out last year, but I just realized it was out a week or so ago. It's been too long since I read the others, so I had to refresh my memory, and I'm glad I did, because I would have been struggling to keep up if I'd just jumped right in to volume three. This was a good conclusion and I really love this series.
Skip to Loafer vol. 12
Hen na E vol. 3
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-08-22 10:29 pm
torachan) wrote2025-08-22 10:29 pmEntry tags:
Daily Happiness
1. So glad it's the weekend!
2. One nice benefit of the timing of my promotion/role change is that I don't have to help with inventory. People are busy with inventory this week and next week, but not me! It's not my problem anymore!
3. We had a nice time at Disneyland and I'm glad we went today instead of tomorrow, despite the heat and crowds, because now I have a weekend with no big plans so I can just rest and relax.
4. Jasper!
2. One nice benefit of the timing of my promotion/role change is that I don't have to help with inventory. People are busy with inventory this week and next week, but not me! It's not my problem anymore!
3. We had a nice time at Disneyland and I'm glad we went today instead of tomorrow, despite the heat and crowds, because now I have a weekend with no big plans so I can just rest and relax.
4. Jasper!
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-08-22 10:19 pm
torachan) wrote2025-08-22 10:19 pmEntry tags:
2025 Disneyland Trip #57 (8/22/25)
It's officially the start of Halloweentime at Disneyland. It was also in the mid-nineties today, so crowds and heat, not a great combination, but we still wanted to go, and we had a great time despite the heat (crowds weren't actually too bad once we were actually in the park).
( Halloween! )
( Halloween! )
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-08-21 10:42 pm
torachan) wrote2025-08-21 10:42 pmEntry tags:
Daily Happiness
1. It has been warm and will be warm through the weekend (tomorrow is supposed to be the peak) but then is cooling off through the rest of the month. Thankfully it hasn't been super hot yet, but September is always the worst, so I'm sure that's coming.
2. Chloe and Gemma were so sweet and cuddly today! *_*
2. Chloe and Gemma were so sweet and cuddly today! *_*
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-08-20 10:04 pm
torachan) wrote2025-08-20 10:04 pmEntry tags:
Daily Happiness
1. We got dinner from Shake Shack tonight and they have a really good banana shake right now.
2. I finally got all our lego sets catalogued, so now we can keep track of what we have. (You know you have too many when you need a site to keep track of them.)
3. Molly looks so sweet here! (It's because she is sweet.)
2. I finally got all our lego sets catalogued, so now we can keep track of what we have. (You know you have too many when you need a site to keep track of them.)
3. Molly looks so sweet here! (It's because she is sweet.)