home sweet home

So considering I spent last Christmas with a sick cat and working, yes working on Christmas Day, I was more than just a little excited to head back to Georgia to spend the holidays with my family this year.

To be perfectly honest, the flight was awful. My touchscreen didn't work and I spent 14 hours desperately trying to watch whatever the screen spazzed onto. It ended up being The Wolverine. Please tell me how you drove from Nagasaki to Tokyo in 25 minutes because I don't understand.

For the last 4 hours of the flight I ended up getting a migraine so horrible that I could barely stand up when I got off the plane. The new international terminal is about a 10 minute walk from immigration and by this point all I wanted to do was sit down or lay on the floor. Aaaah, long story short I ended up going through immigration in a wheelchair because all the airport attendees outside the gate thought I was going to pass out, haha. The guy wasn't nearly as entertained as I was, though XD

Thankfully, things got much better--if not insanely busy--after that.


the pre-christmas

homemade cappuchino @ my little brother's place

christmas card from ande!

two of the greatest people you will ever meet

and maybe the greatest book

christmas eve & day

Fagan's Biscuit Barn. Painfully Southern and I love it.

One-eyed weirdo

Mom handmade a lot of the ornaments! That's my little brother and I at the bottom and my grandparents' wedding photo at the top left ♡

Breakfast Christmas morning :3

Sunday gravy, om nom.

Mom's homemade cheesecake

the haul

I really only asked for shoes and running clothes for Christmas but my parents had a few surprises waiting for me under the tree!

This is really awesome! Technically it's the older version but it works with my iPhone, Mac and the only downside is that when the bass is too loud it wiggles off of bookshelves and tables XD

Okay, so this is probably one of my favorite gifts, no joke. 

 

Just a simple devil's trap but fill it with hot water and then...

SAM N' DEAN. Look at those male modelin' sons of bitches.

Saw these ↓ on bloomzy's blog a while ago and though I was always planning on getting red All Stars, after I saw these I couldn't shake them. So happy with them!

Also ended up getting these. First pairs of Vans I think?

Then my parents basically just bought me Nike :D

Headed to AE and back to Victoria's secret with my remaining Christmas money!

Ended up spending waaay too much in Victoria's Secret but I'm happy to finally find bras that fit again. Sad that apparently the PINK line doesn't come in my size buuuut...they still have the cutest panties so yay.

Clothes below but no bra and panties. Nobody needs to see that ish XDD

and on

So after that, my dad bought me the Sims 3 and I basically fell off the earth until we went to Florida for the remainder of my break. It's the beginning of the end, I tell you.

Part II in Florida coming soon!


I hope everyone had a lovely holiday season and New Year's! I had a few existential crises when I was home and leaving this time was really, really hard but I plan on doing a lot more this year with blogging and photos and whatnot so hopefully I'll be able to keep it up!

♡ miss wave

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nikko onsen | part i

I love living in Tokyo but I really miss being able to see fall colors. So! This past week my friends and I took a trip up to Tochigi for fall colors and onsen.

We decided to take the long way from Tokyo to Tochigi to cut the train price in half. Four hours but only 2000 yen! Steal. I should also probably mention that because it's dark, as in completely dark by about 5:00pm here, by the time we arrived at Kawaji-Yumoto Station the sun was already setting.

A shuttle service from our ryokan came to pick us up and dropped us off here. My face was basically like :o no lie. Our friend Mittan arranged everything for us and she picked a really, really nice place. I've never stayed in such a fancy hotel in Japan before. We still had about 2 hours before they brought us our dinner so decided to explore the grounds.

Fall in Georgia is gorgeous and every year that I've lived in Japan I've really missed seeing the leaves change. We hit Tochigi at just the right time; the colors were absolutely perfect.

When we got back to the room, we have about a 1,000 course dinner waiting for us. Two kinds of soup, appetizers, delicious roasted(?) eggplant, fish, rice, sushi, steak. I've been trying so hard lately to diet and go to the gym regularly but ohmygod. So good.

Part II coming soon! Have about a million things to do today so it'll have to wait til later. Until then!

♡ miss wave

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oki-fucking-nawa part IV

Last day in Okinawa! Last tacos, delicious coffee and the "best fuckin' ice cream followed by our last day at the beach.

So let's just overlook the fact that we went to Okinawa at the end of June and I'm just now getting this post up. Never said I was really on the ball there with punctuality, though so hey. Plus I have a lot of other stuff going on right now which I'll expound upon later. For now!

My other favorite day of the whole trip! To be perfectly honest 4 days is not nearly enough time but this day and day 2 were my absolute favorites.

I'm so sure.

Our first order of the day was tacos for breakfast. Literally.

Followed by a really cute cafe! Should've probably done this the other way around but, well. Coffee is coffee and, I mean. Tacos, man. TACOS. Priorities.

taama taxi

After that, our friend Taama came to pick us up so we could get our bags from the hotel before setting out for the day. Despite almost dying (but not really) on Saturday night--and all for the sake of root beer--some of the best & lulziest times were had in this car that day XD

Claimed to be the "best fuckin' ice cream" in all of Okinawa by our lulzy tour guide and he wasn't lying. Apparently I just can't eat it without it melting everywhere. I was thoroughly bullied for this.

After that we thought we'd try our luck at getting to the beach one last time before we had to leave.　Cue about 30 minutes of aimless driving, some Fallout Boy and christening him the "Okinawa Asshole", we finally rounded a corner that looked promising. 

The shadow really sells it.

The beach here is really just so, so beautiful and the water is so clear and so blue. We hung out at the beach for a while before making our way back to the clubhouse like area.

Where apparently Taama made a friend...

 And apparently Lisa and I made two. Dat guy.

On our way back into Naha we picked up our now mutual friend Erykah from getting her tattoo done and started making our way to the airport.

USA USA.

So though we honestly spent most of the day driving around southern Okinawa, it was seriously the perfect way to end this vacation. Finally being able to take this vacation with Ri like we'd always planned, finally getting to hang out with Daisuke and Taama in their hometown, and meeting the amazing and lovely Erykah, I seriously couldn't have asked for a better "first time" for Okinawa.

We'll definitely be back next year :3

♡ miss wave

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