june favorites ☀️

alrighty, june has actually been a good month for me!

self care first:

philosophy's fresh cream lotion. oh my god this lotion smells so good and i recently started applying some when i'm done showering and i feel so smooth and smell so edible. i finally know what these ladies are talking about.

walking!!! this month i said i'm not gonna wait on my husband to come home to go on a walk with the baby, i just did it. it felt so nice to get out and make it a habit. i downloaded pikmin bloom i think it's called cause of course i had to gamify it.

hobbies:

blogging! why didn't i do this sooner? i have my journal but sometimes it's easier to type and i get to share it with you guys. pretty fun, didn't think i was going to keep up really.

i started scrapbooking to look back on memories of my son's first year. i was just printing photos out and putting them in an album but i kept seeing tiktoks of moms making scrapbooks and i gave in. it helps to keep me off my phone which is a plus.

i've been playing fabledom. it's a very cute city builder and i've had it since idk 2024 and i keep playing on and off. i'm always behind on food production and it stresses me out so i log off BUT this time i've been doing pretty good so i'm obsessed lol.

food:

god i've been downing tacos lately. making them myself cause getting mexican on uber is draining my pockets. i had gotten a chicken shredder to help since before i would do it by hand and i wouldn't even be hungry anymore. it's saved me so much time, tacos are no longer a once in a blue moon thing. 

smores dip!!! i used to make this during the pandemic with my brother when we had an actual dish dedicated to that but i have no idea where that had gone. i went and bought a new one and i've been having it as a snack, it's too good.

tv shows/movies:

i loved the backrooms movie, i was looking forward to it coming out and it was fun. i was anxious the entire time, i would not let go of my husband's hand lollll. i was getting all sweaty in that theater.

last but not least, house of the dragon. i've been waitinngggg for this season to come out. people are saying it's bad but i like it, maybe cause i stuck around and i need to know how it's going to end. 

little outing 🌿

there's this fast food place called Fluffies and it's the most delicious chicken and mac i've ever tasted. my husband and i usually go on the weekends cause it's all the way in the city and don't want to take that trip on a weekday. we got our son ready, took all the essentials, and started driving. it only takes like 45 minutes which is not bad at all but after work? not gonna do it. for a saturday, the traffic was not horrendous. thank goodness honestly cause i was starving. 

i had let my son out of the car seat so he can explore a bit and i'm surprised he didn't go after my food. he goes after everyone's food now!! i was hesitant to eat in front of him but he had his toys. if you're coming to nyc you gotta try this, the sauce isn't terrible but i'm not that big of a sauce person anyway.

we went to barnes and noble in union square to see some board books and board games. there was a lil section for my son to play so we set him down for like three minutes cause he decided he did not want to move. yeah that mat was super dirty but i wiped him DOWN. 

he loves seeing everything and everyone, no fuss. only time he's a good baby is outside which is nice, i can handle his tantrums at home lol

being at barnes and noble is soooo bittersweet to me cause i love reading but i can't do physical books anymore. my eyes hurt, my hands hurt, my neck hurts. i just stare at them longingly :( 

it's nice seeing the city even if it's for two hours but this boy is on a schedule and i will not mess it up. but yeah it was a nice day.

meet the kitties 🐈‍⬛

i realized you guys probably haven't seen my cats! so my dad and i are actually allergic but my mom's been wanting one. she hit a rough patch and my dad wanted to gift her one so he started looking up hypoallergenic cats (not 100% but you know). he landed on sphynx cats and we adopted our first one in 2019. 

i named him squints cause he squints a lot lol. he was actually malnourished when we got him and he collapsed on us but he's a-okay and 7 years old! he's my first baby, he's so loving while also being anti social. he was an only child for a little over a year before we got another two and they were brothers.

we named them pinky and chuckles. they actually took it well on the first day. we had a whole bunch of toys for them laid out and they immediately took to them. they were also attached to squints. they would climb him and cuddle and squints acted annoyed but he enjoyed it.

we were set on three cats until we took one of them to the vet and the doctor there told us that a small sphynx was found wandering brooklyn and was taken in by a shelter if we wanted to check him out. my mom obviously wanted to and we headed there. 

it was the summer so he had gotten a sunburnt :( he was a little sick and we would need to give him medicine but he was very cuddly and not at all scared. maybe a lil on the car ride home but he was exploring in no time away from all the other cats.

anyway his name is bologna and he completes our family. he's such a cuddle bug and he likes perching on our shoulders and cuddling with the other cats.

squints

pinky (left), chuckles (right)

bologna

it's getting hot as hell in nyc

i love the transitional seasons in the city but the summer?? and the winter?? the summer has to be the actual worst though. because we are nicknamed the concrete jungle, it makes sense people think we have no trees except for in central park. we have plenty of trees and a lot of shade but because there's so much damn concrete, it's an oven. 

12-4pm is the worst time to be outside. the sun is high, there's too many people, there's no wind. you have to go early morning to soak up the 70+ degree air and the slight breeze. like today i actually had to go to the apple store on 5th ave around 7am cause they're open 24/7 for my husband to get a battery replacement. whole trip was a waste cause his phone is "old" (literally 3 years old) and they don't have batteries in stock. that was a bust but i did get to see the louis vuitton bag installment.

anyway, it was very nice around that time and if i didn't have to go back to free my MIL from my son i would've wanted to walk around central park since it's only a block away. there's a castle there I've been wanting to see for the longest but central park is like a maze to me, i had gotten lost with my friend back in high school and we just started following a random road to get out 🙃

OH my husband had also proposed to me there! this was before i found out i was pregnant and i was feeling like complete shit. all the walking while feeling nauseous and lightheaded but we did get donuts afterwards so i felt a tinnnyyy bit better. 

i gotta go out and take pictures for this blog, i think that would be so fun.

weaning off pacifier (help me)

welp, here i am. i knew this was gonna happen but it came so fast i'm not gonna lie. i have to start weaning off the pacifier. NOOO. i'm just doing it cold turkey which might make me lose my mind but i know it's probably the most effective and fastest way to get them used to it. 

my husband's like "oh, he's not very attached, he only needs it when he's sleeping, it'll be easy." WRONG. The hardest part of the day are his naps and bedtime, we need that pacifier for our sanity and so does he to be able to sleep so, yes, he is attached.

i have multiple plushies for him to cuddle with to play substitute and it's gonna have to work because his pacifier dependency will not win. 

for his first nap today, i gave him the binky cause i was just not ready to be dealing with that so early in the morning. his second nap was when i decided to give it a shot. oh my god, he lost his mind. he was crying for like five minutes even when i was there trying to console him and offer the plushie. 

it went on like this for fifteen minutes and in the end i had to shush him a bit for him to close his eyes and drift off. i wanna say that it wasn't a bad first attempt, i thought it'd be worse. we'll see for his final nap and bedtime. i'm actually scared lollll.

26 birthday wishlist 🛍️🎂

i know in my bio it says im 26 but i actually will be next month!! july cancers hello!! i wanted to drop my wishlist cause i love sharing some inspo and just remembering some things i wanted.

starting off with what i want the most: a wallet

- Skelecat's Travelling Ghost Circus Wallet

this is such a fun wallet and my current cardholder can no longer fit all of my cards and cash so now i have to upgrade. it's still small which is great cause i don't need anything really bulky. 

- Witches Pantry Wallet

i know i know im being a hypocrite, i just said i don't need anything bulky but this is too cute to not want. 

- i was seeing all these chala wallets and this one was just calling out to me idk. this one is a lil bulky but it can fit everything i want to bring.

- going into bags. i've been wanting a slouchy, spacious bag and this badblue bag i've been seeing ads on tiktok for looks like it fits the bill. it's so prettyyy

- i just need a new makeup bag. i've been using a grey pencil case i bought from daiso like ten years ago and it's going to burst. 

- another thing i need badly: a phone case. i have the flip7 and i've been using a regular black case. no designs, no whimsy, no cutesy. just plain. so these two are from casetify. i usually will never buy from casetify cause it's too expensive but i can't find anything for this phone.

- next, i collect playing cards! it started off when we used to roadtrip and get a souvenir from each place but it's grown from that to just getting pretty cool looking ones i can find.

and that's mainly it. i would want more oddities but i don't have the space for it right now :( my giftful is where all my links are at on the right hand side if you wanna see more!

trying to get back into grad school 🙃

before i had my baby i was in my first semester of grad school. i knew i didn't want to be in school when i was to give birth and my due date was literally a month into the next semester. i know how i am and if i were to recover from birth, go through the newborn trenches, and go to school, i honestly would've lost my mind. so i took a semester off and then the next cause i was NOT ready. so a whole year. fine.

since april, i've been trying to register for this fall and oh my god, this whole process is so unprofessional. i've called, emailed, had meetings with the right people and for some reason i am not enrolled in anything 🤡 there's apparently one person this all rides on and he's not replying to me or the person trying to help me. 

if this doesn't work out, because of them mind you, i'd have to drop out and then re-enroll. it's so stupid. i just wanna get my masters and be donnneeee.