I ordered a sewing pattern that pretty closely mimicked the Heaven dress. But I had to make a bunch of changes to it. I got rid of the waist seam and turned the whole gown into princess panels. Changed the location of the zipper. Had to re-draft the entire overlay, which I NAILED and I am really proud of. I did use the commercial pattern for the overlay as a starting point, which helped a lot. Now, I'm on to the embellishments on the overlay. This is proving to be really difficult because the original dress looks like it's done if freaking freehand. I am not that artistic, I can't do that. Here is the dress I'm trying to recreate. http://make-it-count.org/fun/sewing/dinn...

I think I would like to email him to say like hey, I enjoyed meeting you guys or something like that. How long should I to wait before I email? I'm really rusty on dating.

Coming off an intense therapy session (LOTS of tears), I knew I had to get out town asap for bday. Drove to favorite beach to have lunch at my fave roadside joint. While there, I found myself in 3 genuine spontaneous conversations with 3 different groups - we all found at least one thing in common! I was on fire conversationally which is weird for mostly introvert. My fave was the guy (J) with his Dad. J sweetly asked firstly, if he could sit at my empty table, then we all started to chat, found out about 4 cool similarities between us. Then many jokes I was laughing the entire meal, I said how much I enjoyed their banter back and forth between 'em, I even made some dorky dark jokes which they got right away. Then I did something I never ever do, I asked him for his email! Seems like were vibing and we all parted with goodbyes. It felt like J had a longer gaze, but so hard to tell if there was curiosity or interest. I just truly loved every minute with them which was so unexpected!

This evening walk ended ending up making my day. I went over a community garden, saw a couple who proudly gave me a tour of their plot of veggies. Turns out the woman works at a restaurant I’ve been wanting to try. I'll go there tomorrow for lunch and give a nice tip. Later I moved over to bball benches since I was still feeling a lot of stress, was not quite ready to go home. I began to tear up thinking about the accumulated stress maybe years worth being held in. Sitting at the benches, I began thinking about how I missed the simplicity of shooting hoops with family as young girl. Suddenly, a high schooler appears out of nowhere with a basketball. I asked if I can play and he was so cool with it. Just wrapped up games with him and another older friend that joined later! Imagine seeing a 5'3 Asian woman with two guys just shooting hoops. To go from pain to pleasure in 60 seconds is something I won't forget. Life always shows up for you in the most unexpected ways. <3

I gained 20 pounds during lockdown. I've lost seven. I can do it!

Is anyone here a minimalist? I've moved 3 times in the past 3 years. With an even bigger move 2hrs away, I'm so overwhelmed with all the stuff that I've carried for decades still in boxes. Already tired thinking of shlepping it all over again. After hearing and mentioning more about minimalist lifestyle and just watched docs on Netflix, it's finally time for me to do this!

PSA: Netflix has a movie called captain fantastic right now. Viggo Mortensen has a full frontal scene. Viggo peen, only for a moment but fully out there and pausable if you want to take a closer look lol. Also, it was a really good movie. I enjoyed it a lot.

This is so dumb but I'm way too excited - I really like to sew and make garments. I've been asked to recreate the dress Rose was wearing at the first class dinner (the heaven dress) for my 7yo niece. She's a huge fan of Titanic. It's going to be a ton of work, hugely customized, and so freaking CUTE on her I can't wait. And even though it's a huge amount of work, I have fun doing this stuff. I can't wait to get started. I just ordered all the materials today.

I am so sick to death of hearing about how great the keto diet is. SIL is on it right now and is trying to convince me to go on it too. First off, I'm not even close to overweight. Second off, I am very active and I NEED carbs to function. I don't eat a lot of processed/refined carbs; I get most of mine from veggies, fruits and cooked whole grains like quinoa, bulgur, etc. Why can't people understand that not everything is going to work for everyone?? You have to find out what works for you personally and that might be a big combo of a bunch of different diets.

I'm moving back to my hometown to find myself again. I'm sick of the city. I am moving to a smaller city which makes a huge difference. I can't wait to done with my stressful job and to finally relax, work on healing.