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So I came back and edited this post. For some reason, the way it was originally was not sitting well with me, so I came back to alter and add on to it. Anyway, this year seems to be moving so fast, I swear it April and then I blinked and May was coming to an end, it's so weird knowing that in 24 days (June 23rd), I'll be turning 20. It seems that the older I get, the faster time seems to move and shockingly, I think I'm okay with that. I'm also terribly, terribly happy that May is coming to an end. It was a horrible month for me, both mentally and emotionally, but that will be touched on in next post. I assure you, it'll be a doozy.
But this post isn't about the trials and tribulations of my mental and emotional state. No, this post is all about me jumping on the bandwagon. Lately I've seen a few fellow bloggers that I follow post their month of May in pictures and I thought, "Hey!! That seems like fun." So I've decided to do this in two ways. This is the first way. I've taken all the pictures I've taken this month on Instagram and am posting them here. Later on, I'll do another post that'll be pictures from my iPhone and my camera that didn't exactly make it to Instagram or elsewhere. I think I'm gonna have some fun with this.
May 16th: Dinner.
If you didn't know, cooking is one of those things that is a major stress reliever for me and I have a tendency to do it the most when I'm not emotionally or mentally content. This was one of the few days that I just cooked because I wanted to cook. So I made ribs. They looked uncooked, but it was the lighting. I had just taken them out of the oven when I snapped the picture. Darn my kitchen for having horrid lighting. They were good though. Really tender. My mum said she loved how tender the meat was and that made me such a happy, little neutrois duckling.
[view here on instagram]
May 26th: Upclose.
Now, if you don't already know who this is and have been an avid reader or even a sparse reader of this blog, I can only say to you: "For shame!" This lovely lady is my best mate, wifey, cuddle bear, other various cute nicknames, Hyunnie. She also happens to blog and you may know her by otto or by her blog, ottobomb. About a week ago, I spent pretty much the entire week at her house while her mum was away (shht, it's a secret!) and on one of the days, I snapped this ridiculous photo of us. I think it accurately describes our ridiculous relationship.
[view here on instagram]
May 27th: Manicure colours.
There's not much to say aout this asie from the fact that I'm so excited to be doing my nails again. I am just ready to show myself in love and good vibes and this doesn't just necessarily lie with just my nails. Again, May's been such a bad month, that I desperately need to love myself a bit and let go so June can be blissful. Manicures are just a small part of a bigger picture. ♥ Also, I have such a huge thing for dark red and black polishes.
[view here on instagram]
May 28th: Megane.
I don't exactly know why I called this picture "Megane". I mean, yes...my glasses are predominate in the picture, but I did cut a good bit of it out. You can't see the straightening that I put the wig through. It originally looked like this, but the curls are easily tangled and I hate that shit cause the more you comb out or brush out curls, the more they fall and loosen. The colour of the wig is so lovely though, oh man. When it's straight, you can see the beautiful colour and it makes me so happy.
[view here on instagram]
May 28th: Christian.
This right here is my little broseph, Christian. He's pretty awesome for being 14 (almost 15) and him being around me for years and years has rubbed off him; you can totally see the similarities in us when you talk with him and I. He hates pictures, but I always manage to get really good pictures of him. Also, can we talk about how you all should be jelly of his lashes? They are too fabulous.
[view here on instagram]
May 30th: Best friends.
This picture...this picture is my favourite out of all the May Instagram pictures. Just, ugh. This bitch makes me all sentimental and shit. Fucking love her. That asshole. ((We're totally abusive to each other. It's love.)) If you really anna know how I feel about this picture, read the caption under it on Instagram.
[view here on instagram]
And that's the end of this post. I'm really glad I came back and edited this post; it feels so much more complete now. Also, I want to say that before the week ends, I'll get the other version of the May images up in completion. Don't forget, the next post will be more personal than anything I've ever posted on here and so if you don't want to read all that text, then feel free to skip it, but it will explain a good bit of why May was so, bleh for me.
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Hello, there!
Welcome to Waiting for June. Waiting for June is a Lifestyle Blog that focuses predominantly on daily life shenanigans and nerd culture, but occasionally dabbles in health & beauty, food, and prattling about serious topics.
Waiting for June is the sixth iteration of the same blog with a different name and structure. The original iteration of this blog was started back in November of 2012 as a purely Beauty and Lifestyle blog under the name Monochromatics which later got abandoned and restarted under the name sumeoseo. With sumeoseo came more beauty and review based blog which quickly lost its appeal. From that point on, there were three name changes, multiple hiatuses, and two blog changes before coming to where we are now.
Throughout this journey, I've learned that this blog shouldn't be limited to what I feel fits in with what I read from other bloggers nor should I put myself in a position to compromise my integrity and the feeling of transparency that I feel should always be there. I've also learned that blogging is probably never going to be a huge source of income the way I always expected it to be. So when I finally returned back to blogging with a fresh blog and an equally fresh name, I decided to make this blog about anything that I wanted to and break the mold of trying to fit into the mold. I can only imagine where this experience is going to take me.
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“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” — Albert Einstein
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Welcome to the little about me section of the blog. If it isn't obvious by now, I'm Mochizuki and I'm kind of pretty important here. Admittedly, Mochizuki is a nom de plume, but I digress. I'm currently somewhere in my twenty-somethings and doing that thing where I'm learning how to be a proper adult while balancing being a student and a worker. Speaking of school, I'm a Graphic Design major who's concentration is Web Design and I take my classes online. If I'm being honest here, I do everything online because of my apprehension towards too much social interaction.
I'm typically reading something, playing a video game, watching anime, or something otherwise nerdy because that's how I roll. I don't engage with people unless I'm positive there is something in common there simply because I don't want to make it weird for anyone involved. That said, the reason I originally created this blog, or rather, any of my blogging adventures, was so that I could engage with people wo share the same interests as me while simultaneously sharing my own things with people.
I'm not terribly good at about me's, so expect this to be updated sporadically in a lot of ways.
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So I came back and edited this post. For some reason, the way it was originally was not sitting well with me, so I came back to alter and add on to it. Anyway, this year seems to be moving so fast, I swear it April and then I blinked and May was coming to an end, it's so weird knowing that in 24 days (June 23rd), I'll be turning 20. It seems that the older I get, the faster time seems to move and shockingly, I think I'm okay with that. I'm also terribly, terribly happy that May is coming to an end. It was a horrible month for me, both mentally and emotionally, but that will be touched on in next post. I assure you, it'll be a doozy.
But this post isn't about the trials and tribulations of my mental and emotional state. No, this post is all about me jumping on the bandwagon. Lately I've seen a few fellow bloggers that I follow post their month of May in pictures and I thought, "Hey!! That seems like fun." So I've decided to do this in two ways. This is the first way. I've taken all the pictures I've taken this month on Instagram and am posting them here. Later on, I'll do another post that'll be pictures from my iPhone and my camera that didn't exactly make it to Instagram or elsewhere. I think I'm gonna have some fun with this.
May 16th: Dinner.
If you didn't know, cooking is one of those things that is a major stress reliever for me and I have a tendency to do it the most when I'm not emotionally or mentally content. This was one of the few days that I just cooked because I wanted to cook. So I made ribs. They looked uncooked, but it was the lighting. I had just taken them out of the oven when I snapped the picture. Darn my kitchen for having horrid lighting. They were good though. Really tender. My mum said she loved how tender the meat was and that made me such a happy, little neutrois duckling.
[view here on instagram]
May 26th: Upclose.
Now, if you don't already know who this is and have been an avid reader or even a sparse reader of this blog, I can only say to you: "For shame!" This lovely lady is my best mate, wifey, cuddle bear, other various cute nicknames, Hyunnie. She also happens to blog and you may know her by otto or by her blog, ottobomb. About a week ago, I spent pretty much the entire week at her house while her mum was away (shht, it's a secret!) and on one of the days, I snapped this ridiculous photo of us. I think it accurately describes our ridiculous relationship.
[view here on instagram]
May 27th: Manicure colours.
There's not much to say aout this asie from the fact that I'm so excited to be doing my nails again. I am just ready to show myself in love and good vibes and this doesn't just necessarily lie with just my nails. Again, May's been such a bad month, that I desperately need to love myself a bit and let go so June can be blissful. Manicures are just a small part of a bigger picture. ♥ Also, I have such a huge thing for dark red and black polishes.
[view here on instagram]
May 28th: Megane.
I don't exactly know why I called this picture "Megane". I mean, yes...my glasses are predominate in the picture, but I did cut a good bit of it out. You can't see the straightening that I put the wig through. It originally looked like this, but the curls are easily tangled and I hate that shit cause the more you comb out or brush out curls, the more they fall and loosen. The colour of the wig is so lovely though, oh man. When it's straight, you can see the beautiful colour and it makes me so happy.
[view here on instagram]
May 28th: Christian.
This right here is my little broseph, Christian. He's pretty awesome for being 14 (almost 15) and him being around me for years and years has rubbed off him; you can totally see the similarities in us when you talk with him and I. He hates pictures, but I always manage to get really good pictures of him. Also, can we talk about how you all should be jelly of his lashes? They are too fabulous.
[view here on instagram]
May 30th: Best friends.
This picture...this picture is my favourite out of all the May Instagram pictures. Just, ugh. This bitch makes me all sentimental and shit. Fucking love her. That asshole. ((We're totally abusive to each other. It's love.)) If you really anna know how I feel about this picture, read the caption under it on Instagram.
[view here on instagram]
And that's the end of this post. I'm really glad I came back and edited this post; it feels so much more complete now. Also, I want to say that before the week ends, I'll get the other version of the May images up in completion. Don't forget, the next post will be more personal than anything I've ever posted on here and so if you don't want to read all that text, then feel free to skip it, but it will explain a good bit of why May was so, bleh for me.
