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Yo! Yes, I'm getting back into the habit of blogging every day or at least at a consistent pace again. Summer's been super harsh for me in the best ways. Hanging out with my mates, reconnecting with some mates from high school, and meeting up with new mates as well as going out with my mum and roomie and just being everywhere and nowhere. This summer's been absolutely and positively lovely and I'm terribly saddened to see it draw to an end. Seeing as I'm in Georgia, summer's already over for the lot of us, but there's always Thanksgiving Break, Winter Break, and Spring Break to come and pass before next summer. And I must admit, I'm looking forward to it.
Anyway, today's post is inspired by two things, the first being Ashley of Modernetta's latest post "Things I'm Embarrassed To Admit, Vol. 1" which I found to be quite an amusing and refreshing idea. Not many bloggers are truly, truly open to sharing the things that embarrass them and it's nice to see someone step out of that comfort zone and delve into this type of ideal. So I think I'll join her in this and put a couple things that embarrass me to admit every Wednesday or Thrusday.
The other part of this post is inspired by a lot of bloggers I follow including VampieVarnish, Ghost Parties, The Nearsighted Owl and others. They like to do posts where share their current loves whether it be things they found online, things in their closets, or things in their beauty collections. I love the idea, so I'm totally going to implement it here on the blog. It'll be done in the same post as my "Things I'm Embarrassed Admit To Admit" posts.
Also, I should make it clear that each post will only have about 5-10 things that I'd be embarrassed to admit. So enough jibber-jabber. Let's get into this, yeah?
I | I live for '80s flicks and Film Noir...but mostly '80s flicks. Out of all the genres and types of movies I choose to sit down and curl up to watch, '80s flicks and film noir films are the ones I choose most aside from Marvel, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or Action movies. I love the cheesiness and absolute predictability of '80s flicks. I love how heartwarming and ridiculous they manage to be while teaching you something on the sly. With film noir movies, I can't even explain it to you. There's just something beautiful about a crime-drama kind of movie in the black-and-white style of visuals. It's so gorgeous. Just, ugh. The embarrassing aspect of this is that most people don't expect it out of me, but I am constantly rewatching The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Back to the Future, Dirty Dancing, Pretty in Pink, E.T., Footloose and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I can probably recite the lines from The Breakfast Club and Dirty Dancing if I tried.
II | I wet the bed until I was about 13. Now, this is stems from something more depressing. From the time I was about 10 to 13, I had really, really bad nightmares. Like night terror nightmares. It was so bad that I used to wet the bed, but because I never told anyone about it, everyone assumed it was laziness. So I just let it go. It's still embarrassing to admit because I'm 20 now and people think that stage of my life was completely purposeful and had no actual motivation behind it. So's life...
III | I used to embarrassed by everything identified as. When I was younger, not much younger...but younger nonetheless, I was easily influenced by what those around me said and what I was told was wrong. Because of that, I spent a huge part of my childhood, teenage years, and even some points in time at my current age, feeling like shit about who I am, what I look like, what/who I like, and everything that makes me me. It was much worse when I was younger because I was dealing with all sorts of things my nightmares, my body shape/being fat, my sexuality (because I've always known I liked both genders, I'm not even gonna lie), my gender, etcetera and hearing that everything I was and felt that I was at that point in time was wrong was just the biggest blow to my already low self-esteem. Sometimes, I used to just get so bad, I'd cut and starve myself and berate myself mentally...I hated myself and I'm really not trying to exaggerate. When I was younger, I used to contemplate suicide so much.
Why is this embarrassing? Because looking back on it, the reason I was so down on myself wasn't because of other people per say. Most of the putting down and made to feel like shit was because of myself. I gave myself that opening to believe the words of people who didn't know me, didn't care to know me, thought they knew everything about me, and were just overall bloody stupid to influence my mind. Now don't get me wrong, depression is serious and it is always going to follow you and it will always be a thing even if it never is as major as it could be or once was and depression is caused by many, many factors, but I can't stress this enough and I mentioned this in my last post: Don't let anyone tell you who or what you are. Don't let anyone tell you who and what you like. Don't let anyone tell you that the way you feel, see, and believe things to be are wrong, especially if it isn't wrong in any way, shape, or form. Accept yourself as yourself because at the end of the day, your happiness is the only one that takes top tier. And this is about any aspect of life whether it be your relationships, body image, sexuality, gender, race, beliefs, religions, outlooks on life and everything in between...whatever. As long as you are happy and healthy, then you do you. Live your life. Always be happy (or in my case, content).
And it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that.
IV | The Sandlot and The Mighty Ducks trilogy are probably two of my favourite '90s movies. As someone who grew up on watching movies and anime and getting in touch with being a child through those things rather through hanging out with other children, I still hold The Sandlot and The Mighty Ducks trilogy high up on my pedestal. Much like '80s movies, I live for these movies. The Sandlot and The Mighty Ducks taught me so much and really made me understand the ideas of what I truly wanted in friendships and I'm glad that it did. If you haven't watched those movies, then change that...now.
V | I eat far less than my friends do. While this isn't as embarrassing to others nor is this part of it embarrassing to me, it's rather upsetting, disconcerting, and saddening when I can get full off the smell of food...no joke. Yeeaaaah, embarrassing in that really awkward manner. What I wouldn't give to eat like my friends and be their weight, sigh. I'm still a bad bitch though. ^0^
II | Lensless Glasses. While I've always been attracted to lensless glasses and wear them often when I'm wearing some sexy ass contacts, I'm really, really eager to get a bloody collection of these babies. I like these (they are too fucking cute. sdkgsdkg) and maybe these (black polished, black & red, or black & purple) ...yes, there will be a wishlist post coming up soon, just saying.
III | Twitter & Facebook. I'm not going to bother explaining this cause I don't even know. Just know they are both becoming terrible addictions, slowly but surely.
IV | Panic! At The Disco's new songs "This Is Gospel" and "Miss Jackson". Listen. If you haven't heard "Miss Jackson" or "This Is Gospel" yet, please fix that by clicking the song titles and being about that life today. A lot of people are complaining about the sound changes and the "lack of meaningful lyrics", but I have to disagree. The sound is different, yes, but I expected that to occur sooner or later. However, the lyrics are very much Panic!. They might not be Panic! when Ryan Ross was there and there was a slew of dark metaphors in pretty lyrics, but the way these songs are, especially "This Is Gospel", it seems more raw to me. It seems far more blunt and direct and I appreciate it because that's exactly what I need from Panic!
V | Neil Hilborn's "OCD". I forgot who I found this work of art from, but I watched it and listening to it just...ugh. So beautiful and deep and I can relate to some extent (OCD is infuriating, but thankfully, mine isn't that severe, but I get it cause even minimally...it's a bother). It takes a lot to make me feel to the point where I want break to down, but this had me really close. Watch "OCD" here.
"Love is not a mistake. It's killing me that she can run away from this and I just can't."
"I want her back so bad, I leave the door unlocked. I leave the lights on."
VI | Demi Lovato's Unbroken and DEMI albums. I don't need to explain, just listen to them. Unbroken & DEMI (read the description; it's actually important). So bloody talented.
VII | Hellogoodbye's "Here (In Your Arms)" and Shiny Toy Guns' "Le Disko" You didn't live life properly if you never experienced the amazingness that is Hellogoodbye's "Here (In Your Arms)" (or the ZOMBIES! ALIENS! VAMPIRES! DINOSAURS! album) and/or Shiny Toy Guns' "Le Disko" (fucking censors). These two songs made my life back in middle school. Truth be told, ZOMBIES! ALIENS! VAMPIRES! DINOSAURS! was the first album I owned as mine after someone stole my Usher's Confessions album (which is my favourite Usher album. 8701 is a close second), so I have a huge love for Hellogoodbye.
VIII | HANNIBAL. I've been in love with the Hannibal franchise for a very, very long time and I loved the show. Although, I've been a huge lover of the show, movies, and books, I realised that I never showcased how much I love it. Now you know. I love all da crazy.
IX | Reading and/or listening to people rant. I have no idea what it is, but I love reading and listening and watching people go off and rant. Something about how passionate people get when they really go in on something and back up it with examples, proof, and do it in an eloquent or humorous manner is really what makes this something I'm loving way too much.
X | Vindictus. I need to do an update post on Vindictus at some point, but my last post, I was like level 5 or something small like that and now I'm at level 49. See the problem here? Nonetheless, I really like the game. I love the story, the art, and especially when I'm playing with friends, it's amazing.
So we've reached the end of this post. So much fucking text. But I hope this was worthy of a complete read. I have a couple reviews saved that are incomplete, but I'll finish them sometime soon to get this blog up and moving as it once was. Especially the reviews I have to do for Postal Service's Give Up album and Hugh Laurie's Didn't It Rain album.
Until next time, lovies. Remember, I love you like I love cream cheese frosting. Well, I love you like I love strawberry cake topped with cream cheese frosting. Nomnomz.
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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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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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Yo! Yes, I'm getting back into the habit of blogging every day or at least at a consistent pace again. Summer's been super harsh for me in the best ways. Hanging out with my mates, reconnecting with some mates from high school, and meeting up with new mates as well as going out with my mum and roomie and just being everywhere and nowhere. This summer's been absolutely and positively lovely and I'm terribly saddened to see it draw to an end. Seeing as I'm in Georgia, summer's already over for the lot of us, but there's always Thanksgiving Break, Winter Break, and Spring Break to come and pass before next summer. And I must admit, I'm looking forward to it.
Anyway, today's post is inspired by two things, the first being Ashley of Modernetta's latest post "Things I'm Embarrassed To Admit, Vol. 1" which I found to be quite an amusing and refreshing idea. Not many bloggers are truly, truly open to sharing the things that embarrass them and it's nice to see someone step out of that comfort zone and delve into this type of ideal. So I think I'll join her in this and put a couple things that embarrass me to admit every Wednesday or Thrusday.
The other part of this post is inspired by a lot of bloggers I follow including VampieVarnish, Ghost Parties, The Nearsighted Owl and others. They like to do posts where share their current loves whether it be things they found online, things in their closets, or things in their beauty collections. I love the idea, so I'm totally going to implement it here on the blog. It'll be done in the same post as my "Things I'm Embarrassed Admit To Admit" posts.
Also, I should make it clear that each post will only have about 5-10 things that I'd be embarrassed to admit. So enough jibber-jabber. Let's get into this, yeah?
I | I live for '80s flicks and Film Noir...but mostly '80s flicks. Out of all the genres and types of movies I choose to sit down and curl up to watch, '80s flicks and film noir films are the ones I choose most aside from Marvel, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or Action movies. I love the cheesiness and absolute predictability of '80s flicks. I love how heartwarming and ridiculous they manage to be while teaching you something on the sly. With film noir movies, I can't even explain it to you. There's just something beautiful about a crime-drama kind of movie in the black-and-white style of visuals. It's so gorgeous. Just, ugh. The embarrassing aspect of this is that most people don't expect it out of me, but I am constantly rewatching The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Back to the Future, Dirty Dancing, Pretty in Pink, E.T., Footloose and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I can probably recite the lines from The Breakfast Club and Dirty Dancing if I tried.
II | I wet the bed until I was about 13. Now, this is stems from something more depressing. From the time I was about 10 to 13, I had really, really bad nightmares. Like night terror nightmares. It was so bad that I used to wet the bed, but because I never told anyone about it, everyone assumed it was laziness. So I just let it go. It's still embarrassing to admit because I'm 20 now and people think that stage of my life was completely purposeful and had no actual motivation behind it. So's life...
III | I used to embarrassed by everything identified as. When I was younger, not much younger...but younger nonetheless, I was easily influenced by what those around me said and what I was told was wrong. Because of that, I spent a huge part of my childhood, teenage years, and even some points in time at my current age, feeling like shit about who I am, what I look like, what/who I like, and everything that makes me me. It was much worse when I was younger because I was dealing with all sorts of things my nightmares, my body shape/being fat, my sexuality (because I've always known I liked both genders, I'm not even gonna lie), my gender, etcetera and hearing that everything I was and felt that I was at that point in time was wrong was just the biggest blow to my already low self-esteem. Sometimes, I used to just get so bad, I'd cut and starve myself and berate myself mentally...I hated myself and I'm really not trying to exaggerate. When I was younger, I used to contemplate suicide so much.
Why is this embarrassing? Because looking back on it, the reason I was so down on myself wasn't because of other people per say. Most of the putting down and made to feel like shit was because of myself. I gave myself that opening to believe the words of people who didn't know me, didn't care to know me, thought they knew everything about me, and were just overall bloody stupid to influence my mind. Now don't get me wrong, depression is serious and it is always going to follow you and it will always be a thing even if it never is as major as it could be or once was and depression is caused by many, many factors, but I can't stress this enough and I mentioned this in my last post: Don't let anyone tell you who or what you are. Don't let anyone tell you who and what you like. Don't let anyone tell you that the way you feel, see, and believe things to be are wrong, especially if it isn't wrong in any way, shape, or form. Accept yourself as yourself because at the end of the day, your happiness is the only one that takes top tier. And this is about any aspect of life whether it be your relationships, body image, sexuality, gender, race, beliefs, religions, outlooks on life and everything in between...whatever. As long as you are happy and healthy, then you do you. Live your life. Always be happy (or in my case, content).
And it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that.
IV | The Sandlot and The Mighty Ducks trilogy are probably two of my favourite '90s movies. As someone who grew up on watching movies and anime and getting in touch with being a child through those things rather through hanging out with other children, I still hold The Sandlot and The Mighty Ducks trilogy high up on my pedestal. Much like '80s movies, I live for these movies. The Sandlot and The Mighty Ducks taught me so much and really made me understand the ideas of what I truly wanted in friendships and I'm glad that it did. If you haven't watched those movies, then change that...now.
V | I eat far less than my friends do. While this isn't as embarrassing to others nor is this part of it embarrassing to me, it's rather upsetting, disconcerting, and saddening when I can get full off the smell of food...no joke. Yeeaaaah, embarrassing in that really awkward manner. What I wouldn't give to eat like my friends and be their weight, sigh. I'm still a bad bitch though. ^0^
II | Lensless Glasses. While I've always been attracted to lensless glasses and wear them often when I'm wearing some sexy ass contacts, I'm really, really eager to get a bloody collection of these babies. I like these (they are too fucking cute. sdkgsdkg) and maybe these (black polished, black & red, or black & purple) ...yes, there will be a wishlist post coming up soon, just saying.
III | Twitter & Facebook. I'm not going to bother explaining this cause I don't even know. Just know they are both becoming terrible addictions, slowly but surely.
IV | Panic! At The Disco's new songs "This Is Gospel" and "Miss Jackson". Listen. If you haven't heard "Miss Jackson" or "This Is Gospel" yet, please fix that by clicking the song titles and being about that life today. A lot of people are complaining about the sound changes and the "lack of meaningful lyrics", but I have to disagree. The sound is different, yes, but I expected that to occur sooner or later. However, the lyrics are very much Panic!. They might not be Panic! when Ryan Ross was there and there was a slew of dark metaphors in pretty lyrics, but the way these songs are, especially "This Is Gospel", it seems more raw to me. It seems far more blunt and direct and I appreciate it because that's exactly what I need from Panic!
V | Neil Hilborn's "OCD". I forgot who I found this work of art from, but I watched it and listening to it just...ugh. So beautiful and deep and I can relate to some extent (OCD is infuriating, but thankfully, mine isn't that severe, but I get it cause even minimally...it's a bother). It takes a lot to make me feel to the point where I want break to down, but this had me really close. Watch "OCD" here.
"Love is not a mistake. It's killing me that she can run away from this and I just can't."
"I want her back so bad, I leave the door unlocked. I leave the lights on."
VI | Demi Lovato's Unbroken and DEMI albums. I don't need to explain, just listen to them. Unbroken & DEMI (read the description; it's actually important). So bloody talented.
VII | Hellogoodbye's "Here (In Your Arms)" and Shiny Toy Guns' "Le Disko" You didn't live life properly if you never experienced the amazingness that is Hellogoodbye's "Here (In Your Arms)" (or the ZOMBIES! ALIENS! VAMPIRES! DINOSAURS! album) and/or Shiny Toy Guns' "Le Disko" (fucking censors). These two songs made my life back in middle school. Truth be told, ZOMBIES! ALIENS! VAMPIRES! DINOSAURS! was the first album I owned as mine after someone stole my Usher's Confessions album (which is my favourite Usher album. 8701 is a close second), so I have a huge love for Hellogoodbye.
VIII | HANNIBAL. I've been in love with the Hannibal franchise for a very, very long time and I loved the show. Although, I've been a huge lover of the show, movies, and books, I realised that I never showcased how much I love it. Now you know. I love all da crazy.
IX | Reading and/or listening to people rant. I have no idea what it is, but I love reading and listening and watching people go off and rant. Something about how passionate people get when they really go in on something and back up it with examples, proof, and do it in an eloquent or humorous manner is really what makes this something I'm loving way too much.
X | Vindictus. I need to do an update post on Vindictus at some point, but my last post, I was like level 5 or something small like that and now I'm at level 49. See the problem here? Nonetheless, I really like the game. I love the story, the art, and especially when I'm playing with friends, it's amazing.
So we've reached the end of this post. So much fucking text. But I hope this was worthy of a complete read. I have a couple reviews saved that are incomplete, but I'll finish them sometime soon to get this blog up and moving as it once was. Especially the reviews I have to do for Postal Service's Give Up album and Hugh Laurie's Didn't It Rain album.
Until next time, lovies. Remember, I love you like I love cream cheese frosting. Well, I love you like I love strawberry cake topped with cream cheese frosting. Nomnomz.
