I read somewhere that the #1 movie on your 10th birthday is how your 2025 is gonna go. Welp, it looks like I’ll be skipping the gyno this year 😅

I have a tiny ass kitchen. I’m taller than my fridge, I have a single-bowl sink, my stove/oven’s electric and only 24″ wide, and there’s barely any counter space. I just bought two more dutch ovens to bake sourdough in, and I have no where to store them.

My sister bought the biggest model home in her community, so she has a gourmet kitchen with all Kitchen-Aid appliances, two full size ovens, a convection microwave, a wine fridge, a dishwasher, a double-bowl sink, a huge quartz island counter, a Kangen Water System… You could fit 9 of my kitchens in her kitchen 😅 I do all my baking at her house, and I keep a lot of my appliances there, too—my Vitamix, slow cooker, Japanese knife set, dutch oven (plus the two I just bought), charcuterie boards, cookie sheets…

I’ve lived in this studio for over a decade, and it might be time to move into a place with a bigger kitchen. Maybe even a place with a bedroom 😜 My friends from the east coast are visiting LA in a couple weeks, and they asked to stay at my apartment while they’re here. I don’t mind, of course, but they’ve been to my apartment before so they know it’s gonna be tight. Plus, they’re a couple and I only have one bed. I was like, ‘Someone’s gonna have to sleep on the couch. What side of the bed does your husband sleep on?’ 😜

On Sundays, we bake sourdough! He is risen 🙌🏼

When I first moved to LA, I worked with this guy from SF who made his own sourdough. He would bring a homemade sandwich to work every day for lunch, and as the days passed, his sandwich would get smaller and smaller as he got towards the end of the loaf 😂 We only worked together a few months before his dad passed away and he moved back to his hometown to help out his mom, but I still think about him and his little sandwiches whenever I have sourdough 🥹

Update: You guys, it turned out sooo good. We already ate half the loaf! My sister’s husband said he’s gonna slang it at the farmer’s market and Chel said she’ll sell her earl grey calamansi juice (that she makes from the calamansi tree in her backyard) and we can go halfsies on a booth 😆

I was weary because I haven’t had much luck with yeasted doughs in the past—the first (and last!) time I made babka, I was in tears because I started so late in the evening and didn’t know the dough had to rise multiple times. I finished at like 3 in the morning and was so tired. Now, whenever I’m super tired, I say I’m ‘babka tired’, and my sister knows I’m not fucking around. I also tried to make homemade cinnamon rolls from scratch once, and it just didn’t rise like it was supposed to. Now I just use the pop tube cinnamon rolls and do the TikTok hack for it to taste homemade 🤪

Anyway, this is the first of many homemade sourdough loaves to come!

I have two sourdough starters that I feed daily – regular and gluten-free (for my seester). To differentiate between the two (the regular starter is fed with whole wheat flour while the gluten-free one is fed with brown rice flour), I’ve added pictures of the Property Brothers to the lids of the jars (since that’s who the starters are named after). Jonathan is regular and Drew is gluten-free, obvi 😆

Fun fact: I just googled, and Drew actually follows a gluten-free diet!

Few things make me happier than seeing a dog in a car while stuck in traffic…

Except seeing two dogs in one car 🥰✌🏼

May this kind of magic find me ♥️

I was at my old friend Kelley’s apartment in the mid-2000s, and we were perusing Craigslist’s Missed Connections ads LOL and stumbled upon a post that was about her! She would roller skate around her complex with her dog, and someone described a girl who looked like Punky Brewster LOL (she totally had Soleil Moon Frye vibes) rollerskating with a dog around Mission Valley 😅

I used to watch her dog when she’d go out of town, and he was the goodest boi. That had to have been nearly 20 years ago, and my parents still talk about him to this day 🥹

I used to have this picure of him printed out on photo paper and pinned up in my office cube like he was my dog 😆

I would take Rocky to her apartment for play dates, and I found him in one of Kelley’s pictures of Q 😭 Q always froze in place whenever you’d try to put clothes on him 😆

This hat was Q’s, but Kelley gave it to Rocky because he didn’t mind wearing clothes 😆

IDK if this is true or if I’m even headed to heaven LOL, but it’s a nice thought. I would love to see these sweet boys again 🥹

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I had on the true crime channel in the background while I worked, and there was a docu of a lady that had been murdered. I didn’t blink an eye when they said that she had been fatally stabbed 80 times, but I audibly gasped when they said her dog was also stabbed once but survived 😅

Update: It was sad to hear that a gunman (posing as law enforcement!) fatally shot Democratic leader and Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband in their home, but I just saw he also wounded their beloved Golden Retriever, Gilbert, so bad that the dog had to be put down because of his injuries 😭 Minnesota doesn’t have the death penalty, but exceptions are made for federal cases. This asshole deserves nothing less than death by firing squad 🖕🏼

Jessie used to work for corporate at SeaWorld, and they would use her sometimes when they needed someone for promos 😆 Might have go to SeaWorld this summer, partly so Jessie can get reacquainted with the beluga whales, but mostly to see the Ying Yang Twins 😂

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Saving all those ‘sourdough’ posts on Instagram really fucked with my algorithm 😅

I have alarm reminders set up several times a day—one to wake up, one if concert tickets go on sale, four to take my meds throughout the day, and now one to feed my sourdough starter 😆

My mom says I would lose my vagina if it wasn’t attached. Nori and I once spent half an hour looking for my car after a Dodgers game because I couldn’t remember where I parked. I never remember where I park, even if I just run an errand at Target. I drop a pin now 😅 Whenever I’m at my sister’s house, I’m like, ‘Do you know where so-and-so is?’ and she always knows, down to the exact location. I’m like, ‘How do you always know where everything is?’ and she’s like, ‘Because I live here!’ I misplaced my Apple watch last week, and have just been walking around with a strip of white skin exposed on my wrist because I still haven’t found it. I can’t even use the Find My app on my Macbook or iPhone, because my watch is dead 😅 You guys, I live in a studio, so there’s not a lot of places it could be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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My sister checks most of the first type of girl’s boxes:

✅ white noise machine
✅ gua sha
✅ rolls her hair in a heatless curling rod
✅ laser light therapy mask + vaseline
✅ beautiful model-home bedroom
✅ evening (matcha) tea

I def check all of the second type of girl’s boxes 😅 #rottingcorpse

Is Marshall Lee, the cartoon gender-swapped human version of Marceline the Vampire Queen in Adventure Time (voiced by Donald Glover) fine as hell, or has it just been a long time since I’ve been with a man? (Don’t answer that).

Fun fact: My friend used to date an animator who was the lead character designer for Adventure Time, and he drew this necklace she used to wear all the time onto Marceline in one of the episodes.

This is the start(er) of something beautiful.

(I’ll see myself out).

I ordered this 233-year-old sourdough starter from San Francisco and have been feeding this baby daily. This bakery near my apartment, Tommy and Atticus, is named after their sourdough starters. I decided to call mine ‘Seymour’ after Little Shop of Horrors since I’m always feeding it. Yes, I realized afterwards that ‘Seymour’ is actually Rick Moranis’ character’s name, and not the name of the blood thirsty venus fly trap, but I’ve already been calling him ‘Seymour’ for 5 days now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I give names to all the dogs I used to see while walking around my sister’s neighborhood. Lucille, Chico, Thierry Henry (named after the French pundit on Ted Lasso), Oksana…

When I first saw Oksana, her pawrents had a Ukranian flag on their balcony. I thought for the longest time she was a he, so I originally named her ‘David’ after David Bogdanov, a convicted murderer I watched a true crime docu of who fled to Ukraine after he killed someone 😅

All that to say, it’s not the first time I fumbled a name 😆

Update: With the daily feedings, the sourdough starter was multiplying at a more rapid rate than one of my quart mason jars could contain, so I had to split it into two jars. I was gonna name them ‘Dylan and Zoey’ after Christine’s twins, but didn’t want her other daughter, KD, to feel left out, so I’ve now renamed them after the Property Brothers, Jonathan and Drew 😆

It took me nearly 4 hours to drive down to SD today. Was it just normal Friday afternoon traffic or because 2 Chainz and Lil Jon have a show at Del Mar Fair tonight? 🤣

I just listened to my sextape playlist on the commute since it’s Chino’s birthday today 🖤

I’ve lived in SoCal all my life and take advantage of the fact that I get to look at the Pacific Ocean for sometimes 4 hours at a time while driving in traffic, and I literally live on Manhattan Beach Boulevard, 2 miles from the beach ✌🏼

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I drove down today to watch Materialists with the girls tonight. It hasn’t gotten good reviews, but I’m just there for Pedro Pascal, the company, and the in-seat service at THE LOT La Jolla (in that order).

Update: Good drinks, great company, and excellent movie! I actually loved it. I think people were just salty there wasn’t enough Pedro Pascal in it, but I loved the storyline and was entertained throughout the whole movie. 10/10. Highly recommend 👍🏼

I’ll allow it 🤪

Does anyone else get unreasonably angry whenever they see a CyberTruck on the road, or are you normal? 😅

Tried to watch the Padres/Dodgers game, but it was blacked out in LA 😒

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So I doomscrolled instagram instead and found this narcoleptic dog named Toast, and now I has a sad 🥺

In unrelated news, I started my period today.

Every month when I’m on my period, I ask Nori to rub my tummy, and every month, she respectfully declines LOL.

I’ll just be in bed with my hot water bottle in case anyone wants to come over and be the big spoon.

Update: The Padres lost again 😔

When you bring your own crab scissors and vinegar to dip the crab in. Yes, that’s Datu Puti, yes, I’m Filipino as fuck, yes, I remade that logo in Illustrator and cricutted that sticker, and yes, I know I’m extra ✨ Next question 😜

We took my dad to his favorite seafood buffet for Father’s Day. Since my sister’s been on a gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free diet, there’s not much she can eat at the buffet, but she can eat her weight in crab legs (without the butter dip, of course). The legs were hard for me to open last time (that’s what he said LOL they aren’t pre-cut like the ones I used to eat on Sycuan Sundays pre-covid 😅 and the stroke caused weakness in my hands—it doesn’t really affect my day-to-day unless I’m opening a jar, cracking crab legs, or taking a cardio pop dance class where I have to use my hands and arms LOL).

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This is me except with my dad 😅

Every time I get off the phone with him after he calls me (weekly!) with a computer question, I always tell myself, ‘You need to be nice and calm the fuck down.’ He thinks since I’m a graphic designer, I know everything about computers. He has a PC, and I’ve been using a Mac for the past 20 years. Also, how am I supposed to help him from LA??? It’s not like he’s facetiming me with questions. I can’t see what’s going on.

Anyway, happy Father’s Day to all who celebrate! I hope your kids are nice to you today 😆 (Please don’t facetime us).

POV: When 3-year-olds play carnival arcade games 🤡

No clowns were harmed in the making of this video (literally, not a single clown was hit 🤣).

The perfect graduation card doesn’t exi- 🎓✌🏼

Today is the ONLY Friday the 13th in 2025!

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Celebrate accordingly 💀🔪🍎

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I didn’t even know there was a curfew in place until I checked in with my coworker, Thalia, who lives in DTLA, to make sure she was safe. I’m so disgusted with everything happening right now, and these posts on social media are fueling my rage 🤬

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And as if Instagram knew I needed some reprieve from all these videos, my algorithm showed me this sweet genre crossover cover that I never knew I needed in my life 😆

I used to LOVE Linkin Park in my twenties, and was heartbroken when their frontman, Chester Bennington, committed suicide in 2017. I didn’t want to like them when they got a new lead singer, Emily Armstrong, especially after it came out that she supported Danny Masterson during his rape trial (that he was convicted for), but I do understand that the show must go on. The rest of the bandmates still have to make a living and have families to feed. I loved Mike Shinoda’s solo endeavors, though, and I wish I saw him live at the inaugural Dia De Los Deftones Festival.

Golden hour ✨🌿🔮✌🏼

Love, love, love my new gemstone hanging from Fierce Forward. It came just in time for the Strawberry Moon 🌕

Christine suggested I try making sourdough bread, and I never back down from a challenge.

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I just thought sourdough bread was something white girls started making during covid. Am I wrong??? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m just waiting for the 233-year-old sourdough starter I bought from San Francisco to come in. You guys, I don’t half ass anything—I always use my whole ass 😜🍑

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BRB, buying an XL Tom Wilson Capitals Jersey ✌🏼

My mom called me to make sure I was safe from the protests happening in LA right now. I’m v far from DTLA. ICE isn’t doing any raids in Manhattan Beach! Is this really where Trump wants to focus his resources? 🙄 Deploying the National Guard and Marines to LA? Where the fuck were they during the January 6 Insurrection that Trump incited???

I was eating at a cafe the other week, and they were playing Spanish radio. I almost spit out my turkey and brie croissant when I heard a commercial of the secretary of homeland security threatening illegal immigrants:

Are they buying ads on Spanish radio now??? I get emails from Redondo Beach News Update, and I can’t take them seriously when they allow Kim K. to buy ads in their emails. Everything I know about the Kardashians, I learned against my will.

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Also, this Trump-Elon Twitter feud is wild. I used to be active on Twitter, but I left after Elon Musk acquired it, changed its name to ‘X’, and reinstated Trump’s account (he was banned while I was using it). I still can’t believe this man-child is our president (again).

God help America 🇺🇸

If this graphic designer thing doesn’t work out, I’ll probably build charcuterie boards, or become a private investigator IDK ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t usually commit to things like exercise on a Saturday morning, but I ended up signing up for the class, partly because everyone else was doing it and I have serious FOMO, but mostly because I’m extra and made the girls self-care gift bags.

All the gift bags contained everything below, but I added some goodies (like Scotchmallows for Shi and fake lashes for Christine LOL):

• Spa Headband
• Face Masks
• Eye Masks
• Stress Relief Hand Cream
• Goli Apple Cider Vinegar Gummies – when we had our wellness weekend in Joshua Tree, we were talking about how good apple cider vinegar is for you, but most of us couldn’t stomach the taste. IDK if these gummies have the same nutritional value as actual apple cider vinegar, but they taste like candy! If I could take all my medication in gummy form, I would 😆

Also, is this a flex??? Because this is how I swallow my meds every day (16 not counting the 3 I take in gummy form LOL). Should I add this skill to my Tinder bio? 😜

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Update: The last time I took a cardio dance class was before covid with this same instructor at Culture Shock in Old Town. I walked 2 miles with Pammie around her neighborhood afterward and my knees were cracking like glow sticks.

Actual footage of me after all that exercise:

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If you thought I was gonna doordash Randy’s Donuts on National Donut Day, you weren’t wrong 🍩

Wait, they don’t love you like I love you

The world’s a roller coaster
And I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care
But my hands are busy in the air saying
I wish you were here

I’m not a perfect person
There’s many things I wish I didn’t do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you

You’ll drive in my car
Just tell me we are going somewhere

Used to know you well, now I’m chasing a ghost
Dancing with your skeleton’s rattling bones

What do you say?
Is this the time
For one more try
At a happy life

My concert lineup’s looking stacked. Is it summer yet???

‘Cause sooner or later, this is bound to stop
Come on, let’s savor what we’re falling for

I have loved Young the Giant since my twenties, and I’ve seen them live several times since then across different cities – LA, SD, OC, SF, Tempe… Their ‘In the Open’ live acoustic sessions fill my heart with so much joy, and they’re taking them on tour this summer. I’m def gonna see them, but where should I go? Hawaii for their first show at the Waikiki Shell? Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown (the only drivable option)? At The National in Richmond, Virginia (Poppy the pygmy hippo lives at a zoo over there LOL)? Their last show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado (a beautiful venue I’ve always wanted to go to, but it’s right before my dad’s birthday)? All of them? 😜

Update:
✅ Tickets purchase to Pappy and Harriet’s show
✅ Room booked at Pioneertown Motel

Dealbreakers:

• Trump supporter
• Raiders fan
• Super religious
• Eats Hawaiian pizza
• Vegetarian
• Drives a Cybertruck

IDK though, I’ve said I’d never do stuff before, and I did them 😅