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[halfcactus]

Pre-CNY successes :')

✓ Donated A LOT of books (...to an Italian restaurant, of all things) and put a few up for sale...

✓ Fiiiiiinally finished 我五行缺你 (My Five Elements Lack You). No more danmei for me for a while after this lmfao. (Also taking a break from cnovels, for obvious reasons.)

✓ Swapped instant coffee for instant matcha latte (but now it's too hot for hot beverages again...)

✓ Journaled (physical) regularly through January ♥

✓ Sorted out the Philhealth thing

✓ Got my hair (bangs only lol) trimmed

✓ Changed my DW layout hehehe (credit: myrtillenne)


January was, for the most part, wearyingly productive. I feel like all the "fun stuff" I did in my free time was scheduled and rotated very rigorously in lieu of taking breaks from one or the another. ^^; A lot of the mental energy was siphoned into work (which has been very busy, problematic, and sometimes sad), decluttering and donating (especially since I tended to fit my donation trips with my other errands for ~*efficiency*~)... and basic human-ing and adulting.

Anyway... mini photodump time.


Found during a decluttering session: Tenipuri things that were gifted to me ages ago—I still use the Oishi nail clipper. :')


I need to share the tikoy cheese turon that my SiL made... We got gifted with tikoy (niangao) that was bizarrely orange in spite of being—allegedly—brown sugar flavored. The mini-turons ended up looking like crabsticks lololol


And a photo of our NYE spread because I'm pleased with how balanced and nutritious it was and how well everything went together... Also my favorite party trick of getting the fancy grapes from Unimart never fails. :P

Comments

[profiterole_reads]

I've bought a lot of foodstuff in the last few weeks. (I celebrate Christmas and Solar New Year with food over a month, and then Lunar New Year with food over a month. lol)

This morning, my mango mochi and my pandan mochi arrived. I hope I'll like them. ^_^ I'm lucky that my local supermarket now has peanut, sesame, red bean and taro mochi. I wanted to try other flavours for a change.

[lassarina]

Oh, that food looks delicious.

I love the idea of donating books to a restaurant. There's a local distillery that has books and board games for patrons to use while they're there.

[halfcactus]

The books are likely for schools/communities, I think? I never asked where they go, they just have a big donation box, and no need for any human interaction. XD

I do like the places you are describing and wish there were more of them! I feel that with books I'd never be able to finish one in one sitting + I'm the type who tends to drop books once I stop reading them haha. But boardgames are always really nice to have on hand.

[lassarina]

Yeah, I sort of wonder if it's a take one/leave one situation, or if people go often enough to finish the book? I might have to investigate, one of these days.