[073123] sand sculpture and scallop day :)

 Yesterday we went to the beach! I was super excited because it felt like a good idea to destress. The international sand sculpture festival was happening, so we got to see a lot of cool sculptures and have some yummy food while relaxing on the shore. It's a shame we came on the last day, so some of the sculptures had partially collapsed during the heavy rain that happened the day before.

Neat sculptures! The theme is King Kong for some reason. I haven't researched the actual history of the festival so I don't know why.

We relaxed on the beach for a while and made our own sculptures... an elaborate reservoir and river system surrounding a centerpiece mound, guarded by a (dead) crab with a sword and shield. Afterwards we laid the crab to rest in a shell coffin at the bottom of the reservoir. I walked around and found a bunch of pretty shells, especially this mother of pearl bit that I kept. 

Crab defender and my new treasure.

There were little kids who took over our site after we stopped playing with it! It was so cute to see them have fun with our creations. I hope they didn't step on the crab body.

The food at the festival was also really great! I got esquite the moment we arrived, but I was so hungry that I ate it without taking pictures. I also got a wonderful fried scallop roll to eat on the subway back. It was so incredibly good that I want to eat it again and again, but the restaurant the truck was from is all the way in Wellesley, which I can't quite justify taking public transport for an hour just to eat.

Scallop yummies from Captain Marden's Seafoods!

Overall, it was such a great experience to just sit at the beach and absorb vitamin D. Even though the algae blooms in the water were a bit icky, I'll probably come back to Revere more often just because it's so relatively convenient! Our transport home was only 40 minutes because of how perfectly we timed our trains, which made me happy. Functioning T transfers and trains! Yay!

[072923] first post~!

 Welcome to my public diary blog site thing :D

I am going to talk about things I like including the weather and food and things like that of course. This personal diary site is for me to document what's on my mind-- its only intention is to let me have fun recording what interesting things happen every day with some kind of novelty to keep me hooked (like presenting this to a "public" audience, even if not many people will even stumble upon this site...).

I find it hard to write diary entries because I always want to write it at the end of my day so I can summarize everything that happened, which is hard and difficult because I keep waiting until I'm totally tired and fall asleep, so actually I never write anything. So right now it's 4pm and I'm doing laundry so I guess I'll just write whatever σ(^_^;)

My HMart staples

This is what I had today for lunch. I had trouble getting up but I was craving some meat, which I'm pretty bad at cooking for myself. So I ended up getting the strength to go to my local HMart and get curry and an Americano, and that made my day so much better!

Other things that have made my days better include the cute vintage glass pieces I got from the pop up vintage market a couple days back. Well to be honest I don't know if they're truly vintage, but they have the charm of an old woman's cabinet pieces she serves cold iced tea in, so I like it. We used the pieces for a family dinner my roommate cooked that night, and that was great.

We had seafood gumbo, hoecakes, and Brazilian lemonade while it stormed, and then enjoyed the beautiful sunset the rain left behind after we finished.

There are so many great and wonderful things in the domesticity of everyday life (>﹏<) I really enjoy living in a house with some of my bestest friends. Even though I'll be glad to have the convenience of dorms back once the semester starts again, I'll definitely miss the peaceful and comfortable living that this summer has brought me...!

I guess that's all that's on my mind for now. I'll edit this post if I have more thoughts later!