#i found it while on the naps sub on Reddit

[phatburd]

The Care Bear Stare is very intimidating, you know.

[loveandlive4eva]

[ ♡ shifting methods ♡ ]

[ Hii, so since I’ve been fascinated by shifting, I’ve found a multitude of methods, but some of them are pretty stupid ngl 😭 but I’ve also found some that’s given me actual results! So here’s three that I’ve found useful over that I hope you do two ♡ ]

[ METHOD ONE : 90% ACCURATE SHIFTING METHOD ]

(I found this method on the shifting Reddit so credit goes 100% to the og creator!)

[ “Meditate for 5 to 10 minutes prior. Just clear your mind completely and if you get any thoughts (which I’m sure you will and that’s okay) just acknowledge them for a second and then put them aside, then go back into clearing your mind by focusing on your heartbeat. If you can’t focus on your heartbeat, focus on your breathing and just clear your mind. After the 10 minutes, after you’ve done the meditation, just lay back and relax all your muscles, and just focus really intently on the emotion of love and imagine your heart center, you can use the word chakras if you feel comfortable with it. If not, just imagine the center of your body expanding outwards and imagine this energy is just bursting forward into the universe. And imagine it’s such an immense feeling that you can’t move. Just pinned to the bed and you can’t move, this energy is emanating out of your heart and at the same time as doing that, hold the emotions associated with what you want to experience. So you could say your desired reality, and just hold it there. Don’t move, don't do anything, just hold that energy there. And that’s all you need to do, just hold that loving energy and your emotions in your heart chakra or center. Focus on your desired reality, (and again, this is after you’ve meditated, so after 5-10 minutes of meditation) hold the energy there and then just release it to the universe.” ]

[ METHOD TWO : ASTRAL PROJECTION ]

[ ok so I know a lot of ppl are scared or unknowledgeable about astral projection, but astral projection can actually be very useful for shifting, void method, etc. It helps your body escape the confines of the 3D, which is literally what shifting and manifestation is all about! I found this astral projection guide on Reddit very useful! And the pinned page on that sub Reddit also has useful information, just be wary to go further because there’s a lot of limiting beliefs and creepy men, as most Reddit pages have. I’ll try and make more posts on astral projection soon so be sure to look forward to that! ]

[ METHOD THREE : NAP METHOD ]

(this is a personal method i made myself!) [ Twice now, i’ve had very vivid dreams from taking a nap, and both were related to some media i recently consumed or a recent experience, so if i get really sleepy or if i haven’t slept at all in a while, meditate, do a guided shifting (or any other type!) meditation or affirmation video and then visualize while it plays in the background. The time I had this dream while doing this it felt like i had the dream for hours and hours even though I only slept for about an hour or two. ]

[ I hope you enjoyed reading, and found the methods useful! pls reblog or like for exposure since I’m a new small acc if you did pls <3 ]

[kellexplainsitall]

Phew. What a lovely, long weekend. I mean, it's not Aruba -  but it will do!

On Thursday, I lifted and taught spinning, came home and then walked Miles. We finished packing and got on the road around 10. We hit a little bit of traffic getting into DC, but it wasn't bad. Fortunately, our room was ready when we arrived around 12:45, so we dropped our stuff off and wandered off to find lunch. We found a restaurant with a gluten-free menu, where we both inhaled sandwiches. I had a DELICIOUS gluten-free grilled cheese and Tim had a burger, it really hit the spot. We also stopped by Trader Joe's to get some snacks and some stuff for home too. I love TJ's so much!

After we wandered around for a bit, we walked back to the hotel and relaxed by the pool for a little - it was nice to lay there and read and then hop in when we got too overheated. I needed a nap after such a #busy day, so I did that and then we headed out to visit the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Tim loves dinosaurs, so he was very content.

After that, we walked to a pizza place called Pi. I was getting hangry, but the pizza was really good - I ate a lot of really good food this weekend. We got home around 8, and I went to bed. It was a long day, I had more than 26,000 steps without any running.

Friday

We slept in a bit then headed over to the mall. The views were beautiful, but stopping every 5 minutes for traffic was not! Oh well, it was an easy day anyway. I got in 7 miles and a photo shoot and called it a day.

Tim and I had breakfast at the hotel (buffet was included with our package) and then I needed 20 minutes of quiet time (aka laying in a hotel bed) and then we walked over to the Newseum. I had been dying to go there for years and it's closing at the end of 2019, so I am glad we made it. Hands down, it was my favorite museum I ever went to. We spent nearly 3 hours there and I could have spent more. There was just so much to look at and learn.

We eventually wandered off to find lunch, ending up at Poets and Busboys, where we both got a salad (so weird for me, but I will take it if I am craving it) and split sweet potato fries (aka I ate 95%).  After eating, we went back to the pool, but I started to not feel well at all, so I went to the room to lay down and it was a rough night. From 4:30 on, I barely left bed. I was so nauseous, I could not even read my book. I just had to lie there. I was super disappointed that we had to nix our plans to go out to eat and visit another museum but I just felt so awful and had no energy.

So I had an almond butter and jelly sandwich and a pint of halo top and Tim had arepas and we sat on the deck and relaxed. Not the night we had planned, but it was still pleasant.

Saturday

I joined a DC running store for their group run. It was .... alright. The store was super unorganized. No one greeted me or was particularly friendly. I ran 10 miles with two girls, it was fine. I had hoped they would have had a better route, but nope. All stop lights again, we were stopped at least every half mile - it's hard to get any momentum. Also, no water fountains or bathrooms on the route? I was disappointed, but you can't win them all.

After a quick shower, Tim and I hit the buffet, where I ate my weight and fruit and then we got on the road. We didn't hit much traffic and were home by noon! Miles was very excited to see us, and Tim went off to the bar to watch the Spurs, while I got organized. I forgot I was supposed to run a nautical mile (1.151 miles, don't even ask) for a reddit thing I am doing, so I set out to do that. Our morning miles weren't particularly fast and my legs were itching to move. I did a 1.151 mile warm up, turned around and went off. I was hoping to average sub-7, and I was so shocked/thrilled to average 6:25 for the whole thing! These legs still got a little bit of speed.

After a short cooldown, I went back to organizing our lives. Tim got home around 3, so we went to Aldi and Giant. At Giant, we were buying things like ice cream (Tim), halo top (me) and frozen waffle fries (me). I was like ... If you can't tell someone is knocked up from this cart, then...

We ate dinner and watched half of Bohemian Rhapsody before calling it a night.

Sunday

I got up early and ran a few before meeting everyone. On my solo miles, I saw: my old running group (LOL), a lot of Muslims celebrating a holiday on the island with a HUGE police presence and then I got stuck in a herd of the cycling club because they were riding SO SLOW they could not pass me. That was stressful. Thankfully, once I picked up Rebuck, Molly, Jenny and Tim, it was fine and enjoyable! The weather was so tame for mid- August, temperatures in the low 60s! Post-run, Tim and I went to Costco and Bed, Bath and Beyond.

I had the best day of eating EVER yesterday. First, I had paleo pancakes (from a mix) with syrup and CHOCOLATE CHIPS. I can't even tell you the last time I had syrup or chocolate chip pancakes (ok, these were healthy ones, but whatever). It's been years. It was amazing.

After that, Miles and I went to Wildwood for a 3-mile walk. He loved it, of course.

Then, I had vegetable soup with nut thin crackers and cheese! For dinner, I had an almond butter and jelly sandwich on TOAST and it was seriously heavenly and I may eat it every day from now on. We also split some waffle fries from the freezer.

It was AMAZING. The best day of food in months! And it was the best I've felt in months. Nausea wasn't as prevalent (still there).

Monday

Another beautiful morning, I actually felt cold when I walked out the door - it's supposed to go back to hot today, but I sure enjoyed this morning's easy run. I have to work 5 days this week, I am not happy.

[prozac-black-blog]

Hell: A Short Story I wrote for Reddit

              I kick around skulls and try to position myself out of her sightline.  I scratch my arm but even though it doesn’t itch, my eyes dart around the infinite landscape of eternal pain, because holy fuck this is awkward.  Does she see me? What’s she thinking right now? I wonder if she’s in pain? I should go comfort her.  Shit, I need to stop being so obsessive over her, that’s what got me down here in the first place.  I mean, how was I supposed to know that the Big G upstairs doesn’t believe in crimes of passion?  Okay, stay calm.  She’s no one to you now, you are over her, she is nothing more than an ex to you. It’s lonely down here, I don’t really know anyone else personally’ and I have no interest in paling by the river of tortured souls and listening to Charlie’s shitty acoustic songs. Eternity is a long ass time.  It’s only been twenty minutes and I’m already having a mental breakdown.  I’m going to have to go say hi to her eventually, I can’t give her an infinitely everlasting cold shoulder.

              I start to make the trek over, trying carefully to step over any slumbering demon children who might not take kindly to me interrupting their naps.  Her hair was in a bun today, I loved the way it looked when she had it up like that.  Her hair was full of volume, but it always seemed to take attention away from how flawless her facial structure was.  Also, when she had her hair up or in a ponytail, it signified her doing shit. Painting, building, sketching, writing. Her ability to look so amazing while being perfectly focused on a task at hand is what made her beauty so different. She was skipping bones across the blood river, and I approached her perpendicularly.  I wasn’t looking directly at her, but I could see the tiniest glimmer of her blue eyes.  She looked like a golden retriever, but fuckable.  

              Before any greeting could stumble clumsily out of my mouth, she delivered a cold, “Oh…. hey”.  But it was the kind of cold greeting where you could tell that she wanted to give a cold greeting so it really wasn’t a cold greeting at all.  I knew her too well.  I thought of all the things I could respond with, all the things she did after I tore apart any chance see had at having a happy life after she ended things with me.  Guilt has always been a foreign emotion to me, but seeing her unhappy is something that I could never stomach.  But I’m selfish.  I wanted to be the one to give her pleasure, I wanted to be the image in her sub conscious that kept her smiling.  All I could muster out was “Heyooo…”  God, I’m such a fuckin dweeb.  The façade that either of us wanted to have a conversation was quickly dropped, as we found ourselves stuck in equally intense glares.  I could tell she was thinking.  I could tell she had an intense flow of images and ideas streaming through her head, and God, how I’d give anything to crack open her skull and baptize myself in her thoughts.

              I was so concerned with what was dancing around in her mind, that I failed to notice that we had been inching closer and closer together.  When she leans in close to me, it looks simultaneously pure and sinister, she had a way of making me feel like every kiss was forbidden.  I missed that.  It’s that feeling that kept me coming back to her, and when she left, I could never find an apt replacement.  The sides of her mouth curled like a Cheshire cat.  I braced myself for pure bliss.  The juxtaposition of the beauty and intimacy that I was about to experience and the suffering and misery surrounding us made her all the more intoxicating.

              But her head changed course direction as our lips prepared for impact.  That’s cool, a little bit a neck-play.  A little aggressive, but I’m down with it.  I began to kiss her neck gently, when I saw her hand jerk and felt a sharp pain in my neck.  I couldn’t move my head, so my eyes crept down to see the fingernails on her left hand sharply implanted into my neck. She always had a soft voice, real gentle. Her dad used to say she could read the obituaries and still make everyone smile.  This wasn’t that.  Now, her voice was shaking.  Furiously. I could feel the white-hot rage on her breath when she whispered to me, “You disgust me.” She released me from her grasp, but I wish she didn’t.  I wish she would have kept her cuticles pressed into the sides of my throat.  I wish she would have pressed harder.  I wished she would have drew blood.  I’m addicted to her attention.  I don’t care if its hatred, love, or disappointment, I just need her in my existence.  But, then again, this is Hell; and my eternal damnation starts and ends with her leaving.

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Hi r/Entrepreneur this is my first post in this sub-Reddit. I hope it is okay to post such a long form story. I am the editor of the Ecommerce community Capital & Growth. It is from our How We Made It in Ecommerce Series. We will eventually do one a week and also publish the resulting podcasts. The pictures can be viewed on the original article.What do you do when you suspect the skincare companies you trusted are actively harming your health? For Trina Felber, the answer was obvious: start a skincare company of your own.“I’m an all or nothing kind of girl,” she says. “When I jump in, I jump in with two feet and two hands, 120 percent. So I literally ditched all my skincare and just started making my own products from scratch.”Her brand, Primal Life Organics, boasted a $4.7 M revenue in 2017, with a three-year growth of 487 percent, earning her a spot on the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies.Felber now has more than 20 employees. But she never imagined that life would lead her here.​Humble BeginningsFelber spent most of her adult life working as a nurse. At age 40, just after getting her Master’s degree in anesthesia, she discovered a welcome surprise: she had unexpectedly gotten pregnant in record time while on her honeymoon in Fiji.She headed back to the States with her husband, excited to face this new chapter in life. But her future was not going to be that simple. “I was seven weeks pregnant,” she says, “and I suffered a miscarriage.”Thanks to her nursing experience, she knew there could be a biological reason behind it. While some people might have simply tried to forget such a devastating setback and move on, Felber was determined to find the cause.​“I’m an all or nothing kind of girl.”When she was seven weeks into a new pregnancy, at the same point when she’d miscarried before, something on the label of a skincare product caught her eye.​“I glanced down at my moisturizer that I was getting ready to put on my face, and I started reading the ingredients,” she recalls. Although it was a natural, organic skincare line -- a brand she trusted -- the ingredients list was filled with things that sounded toxic.​Suspecting that these skincare products were the cause of her miscarriage, Felber immediately trashed them all and started making her own. When she researched the suspicious ingredients on the Environmental Working Group’s website, she found that her concerns were valid.The “natural” skincare products she’d once used contained hidden endocrine disruptors, neurotoxins, and carcinogens.📷Trina’s twins--the inspiration for starting her line of non-toxic products.From Nurse to CEOFelber’s commitment to sharing what she’d learned made entrepreneurship the logical next step. She was the quintessential bootstrapper, starting in her kitchen with no outside capital, making just one or two products at a time.“I was smart enough to put on the website that it’s made fresh when ordered, so it could take two weeks to ship your order,” she says. She invested her own money in her website, products, and ingredients.However, not having capital also meant that every dime the business made had to go right back into the business. “For probably the first year and a half to two years, I didn’t pay myself,” Felber adds. Instead, she used the money to do things like upgrade labels and buy new inventory.📷Trina in the early days of the business. She made each product after it was ordered.Felber’s relaxed confidence when she talks about her brand makes building a company sound simple. However, her entrepreneurial journey wasn’t such a straight shot.​“For probably the first year and a half to two years, I didn’t pay myself.”​When she initially launched the business, in 2009, she named it Olive’s Organic Botanicals.However, she soon realized that the skincare market was already flooded with organic options. “I was out there in this big blue ocean of organic skincare -- and I did pretty good,” Felber recalls. But the brand didn’t quite take off the way she’d hoped.About a year later, her husband introduced her to the Paleo diet. First designed in the 1970s, this diet strategy maintains that eating the way early humans in the Paleolithic age did is the key to health.Paleo eaters avoid processed grains, dairy, and anything else developed after the rise of agriculture, sticking to meats and unprocessed plants instead. In 2010, these diets were just starting to become popular again among health enthusiasts.Like many budding companies, Felber’s brand had struggled because it didn’t have a focused niche. Realizing that she had a Paleo product, Felber did a quick Google search for Paleo skincare. Nothing came up, except a brief thread on a single website, which suggested using coconut oil.“A lightbulb went off in my head,” Felber says. “I said ‘You know what? I have the answer for you -- my skincare’s Paleo.’” She’d finally found her niche.Rebranding Changed EverythingAs soon as she could, she relaunched her business as Primal Life Organics. Her first employee was actually the nanny she’d hired to help out with her three young children. When the kids went down for their daily nap, the two worked side by side to build the brand.📷“I basically created my own ocean,” she says. Instead of swimming in the vast pool of organic skincare, she now had a specific focus: people who wanted Paleo products to fit their Paleo lifestyle. “And that is what turned my company around.”At the time of the rebrand, Primal Life Organics was the first and only Paleo skincare line on the market -- and it remains the most popular one to this day.​“I basically created my own ocean.”​As the brand grew, Felber started learning how to better focus her marketing tactics. At first, she reached her customers using organic strategies, like podcasts and emails. But in just a few short years, the methods for building traffic became drastically different, with the rise of paid posts.“Things have changed,” Felber says. “You have to know what you’re doing -- you have to have the resources to put money into it in order to get money out of it.” Luckily, Felber’s husband has the marketing expertise to run her social media campaigns. In addition to Facebook ads, the brand uses Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest; email marketing; and a few sales funnels.Although Felber isn’t doing the marketing all by herself, she still takes a very hands-on approach. She writes content for her website’s blog, speaks at Paleo events, and even published an international bestseller: Beauty’s Dirty Secret, available on Amazon.📷She also does a lot of podcasts, interviews, and Facebook Live videos, where her warm, gregarious nature shines.“I like [Live videos] because, of all the skincare companies in the world, I don’t see any other skincare company’s CEO -- the owner of the company -- getting on Facebook Live and answering questions for people,” Felber says. Even in the age of ecommerce, the importance of personally connecting with your customers remains.She recognizes that her nursing background strengthens her ability to build trust with customers. “The way I was brought up as a nurse was to be able to communicate to the patient in a way that they can understand.”These communication skills carry over into her entrepreneurial career, as she teaches people how to use her products to live their best lives.Streamlining for Success📷For Felber, connecting with customers was always the easy part. But nailing down the best tools and technologies for her brand posed a bigger challenge. Today, she names using an inventory management system as one of the keys to success. “I’m a products-based business,” she says. “It’s the life or death of my company.”Another key for success is maintaining focus. “When I started, I made a ton of products -- I wanted to solve everybody’s problem,” she says. But when Primal Life Organics streamlined its offerings, the brand became more successful. “We actually cut about half of our inventory, because we couldn’t focus.”Felber notes that about 80 to 90 percent of a brand’s income usually comes from just 10 to 20 percent of its products. She recommends focusing on those products that truly generate the income, and getting rid of the rest -- even if a few customers miss those products.​“I wanted to solve everybody’s problem.”Streamlining has allowed Felber to invest in new brand goals, like retail and local marketing. With its shorter list of products, Primal Life Organics will soon appear on the shelves of some big-name stores. However, the Shopify store remains the core of the business.The original website required HTML coding, but Felber found that Shopify did everything she needed with a lot less work. A user-friendly platform that minimizes setup time helps aspiring entrepreneurs get off the ground.Felber also recommends taking the time to hire the right people, so you can minimize the need for outsourcing. “Bringing it in-house has its own value, because [your employees] know your culture, they get to work side-by-side with you, as opposed to outsourcing something.” She loves hiring people who have healthy desires to learn, instead of only hiring those who already have certain skill-sets.Even as the owner of a thriving brand, Felber still turns to her community of fellow entrepreneurs for camaraderie and problem-solving. “Sometimes [the] answer just isn’t black-and-white, it’s more gray,” she says. Fellow entrepreneurs can often suggest the right solution or someone who can help.Lessons Learned📷Felber herself has plenty of advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. She strongly recommends getting the trademarks or patents needed to protect your products and company.But the biggest challenge faced by new entrepreneurs, Felber believes, is building the brand itself. It’s simple to start a Facebook page or build a Shopify store, but the hard part is figuring out your message.How can you nail down that message? She recommends taking a couple hours to ask yourself, “What is my mission? What is my message? And how can I convey that to my people?”Once you attract a few people who get your message, they’ll bring in even more people who that message resonates with, she adds. “But you have to know who you are and what your message is to attract those people.”For Felber, Primal Life Organics is more than a skincare brand -- it’s a community of like-minded people who love helping each other out. “I always say that this is an extension of my nursing career,” she says. “I loved nursing because I got to take care of people and help them get better. And by providing healthy products, I’m able to do that now across the world.”​“You have to know who you are and what your message is.”📷​She also loves the other perks of being a business owner, like having the freedom to travel, attend new events, and work from anywhere.Her children and husband often travel with her, and they’re attentive to health on every level, from diet to meditation to, of course, skincare. “We really do live the lifestyle that we have built, that I talk about, and that I try to help people achieve on their own.”Her final words of wisdom for aspiring entrepreneurs? “Don’t give up! It’s tough out there sometimes.” But even if she knew ahead of time about all the challenges she’d face, Felber says she’d go back and do it all again. “My life is better serving the people that I serve right now.”​By the way, for the entrepreneurs looking to raise capital, we also did a series of investor interviews in the past (here) with folks like Y Combinator's CEO and TechstarsFounder but have since refocused on ecommerce entrepreneurs.

[kitemist]

Overseas journey pt. 2

Finally back home! After around 12 days of humid air, reverting back to dehydration, a multitude of hot springs, restaurants without water, and lots of escalators, I am back in my own room with central air conditioning.

I sort of made a sketchpad a sketch diary, while I would be at my grandfather’s factory doodling off of Baidu’s image search. I kind of stopped doodling when I was too occupied with going out to wherever my aunt or grandpa would take me and my sister, and every night I actually knocked out pretty hard. Kind of a good thing to sleep at a reasonable time though.

Concerning the great firewall, it wasn’t too hard to find the stuff I liked, because the anime sites I used weren’t blocked and a lot of Youtube content is ripped onto bilibili, which is China’s NicoNico with scrolling comments over the video. There, I caught up on RWBY and got a taste of the bilibili comments, which were mostly really cute people. Even on videos that weren’t subbed in Chinese, they were adorable. There’s no hate or spam. Music MVs on BiliBili on the other hand..you BETTER turn them off. Can’t see a fucking thing. There was also Reddit.

Restaurants do not offer water. At least not cold water. I was so distressed at this that I would mostly pour myself a cup of boiling hot water and then forget about it. I absolutely hated the plain tea, and hated scalding my tongue with hot water even more. Near the end of the trip, I carried a bottle full of cold water everywhere I went. At least my grandpa had soda in the fridge, but that just kicked my dehydration back into gear. Cold soda, or gross not-cold water. I had to pick and choose. My favorite place had room temp water as an option and let me have apple cidra.

I mostly stayed with my sister in the same room when we would be waiting for dinner or for my grandpa and aunt to come back from their errands in HK. Lots of watching cartoons together, talking, and her complaining about politics(which she never bothered doing at home). I did tolerate her more, but the way she just throws people aside the moment they are not entertaining her, or how she considers the word “friend” to be meaningless, I am never going to tolerate her completely.

The hot springs was an AAAA tourist spot. (No idea how their rating works.) It was awesome. Lots of different pools. I soaked in coffee liquor, wine, coconut milk, fruit juice, dead sea mineral salt, and lots of other herbs. Going into all of those and then just splashing into plain cold water is the most refreshing feeling ever. They also offered free snacks. I am such a pansy with a regular jacuzzi but coffee liquor at 41 C ended up being my favorite.

But something strange throughout the entire trip: I was not talkative, and most of the time I didn’t feel like I was there. The weather was horrible because I hate humidity, and that never was a problem in Socal. My sister kept commentating whenever I did talk to my aunt or grandpa, so I stopped, only for her to commentate on how quiet I am and how rude I am, whether I do talk or not. I did seem cold and distant but I did NOT want to be that way. She’s just so insistent on watching over me because she doesn’t trust me for a second to be by myself in a foreign country. Even though she did have better chinese after having been there for 8 weeks, I do not like her just shadowing over me every possible moment that we’re out.

When we stepped over into Macau and their version of the Venetian, it looked exactly like the one in Vegas. Here’s a stupid story: we wanted to use the restroom, but the restroom we were headed towards was also part of the casino, and I was the only one in my group of 4 that was not 21. I had to be 21 just to use the fucking bathroom. The rest of them laughed their heads off on the way to another one. god dammit. We also had a nice pho dinner there and it was pretty damn hard to get rid of 500HKD just on us 4.

We stayed up all night neatening 3 suitcases, and made up for the lost sleep on the boat ride. After sitting around at HKIA, we were bound for Incheon. The girl that sat beside me looked almost exactly like my best friend Joy. Same height, hair color, body type, and she was Chinese. I didn’t get her name from her boarding pass but her macbook name was wansin. wansin was also lax-bound, but she was working on a word document in chinese the whole trip so I didn’t know if she spoke english. Well, the feeling of having my best friend next to me for 3 hours felt nice...and squishy. ;v; I need to see the real Joy again.

In Incheon we only had 30 minutes so my sister and I converted money and dashed to starbucks, with the same barista there. Her nametag read Zio. So Zio took my sister’s order when there wasn’t enough korean won for the both of us, and she ordered a java chip frap with 3 shots. intense shots, when she let me try. We decided that it would be too intense for the 14 hour long haul and threw it away halfway through. And those shots kicked in when my attempted naps only lasted an hour.

The trip was nice, we sat right next to the bathroom in the back left corner of the central block of seats. I watched Gifted, which was a heartwarming 9.7/10. But after that, I couldn’t feel awake enough to watch another movie, or sleepy enough to take a nap. 14 hours later, I threw up and had to gargle using what they had in the bathroom. I dragged myself through the hallways, immigration check, escalators, and waited around 40 minutes in the carousel for my luggage. We went even further down hallways with thousands of people staring at us and finally found our parents’ car. We happily talked about our experiences on the way to In N Out. Missed that the most.

Although that was quite the experience and did change my perception of China, I will not go there again. I would definitely not survive. At least let me go into a country with decent weather, or extreme cold, or weather leaning towards colder temperatures, without as much of a language barrier.

At least I got this from Taobao:

A lovely Wacom Intuos Draw Medium. Thanks Grandpa. <3