Forgot to mention that during the VC we were searching on the Macy’s website (because the chain has let me down) for stuff and we stumbled upon the Disney section. For WHATEVER reason, Hello Kitty and her friends were on there. It was hilarious!

Also WhiteReshi and all of us started to find characters that could collab with Dora the Explorer. Check my last feed for context.

I was having a VC on my server and I stumbled upon a video of Jim Cummings having a conversation with the OG voice of Dora! I found out that she has her own YouTube channel and it turns out she’s a nerd! She loves Disney and she loves Final Fantasy!

Everyone had their hearts healed.

Well… it’s officially August which means the kids are going back to school. The area where I work has them going back to school on Tuesday, but the area where I live has them going back on Monday.

What I’m trying to say that my availability is going to change again. I’ll be working during the mid afternoon to the early evening so my activity will be limited during that time frame.

For whatever reason it always thunderstorms after I get home from work. I don’t know if that’s a blessing because my client does not like thunderstorms… but it does make it hard to sleep at night. Last night we ended up having a freak storm which kept me up.

I'm starting to believe that Ryan and I aren't going to be able to see each other for the rest of the year.

I talked it over with Ryan and he told me that his parents have been urging him to save money because he already went on four trips this year. Three of those trips were furry conventions and the other trip was the recent Disney one. Now I can understand why Ryan's parents are saying that but I don't want to waste all the PTO I've accumulated. The last resort is to use it for myself, but I usually save all of that for Ryan. Now I'm not sure what to do.

We've hit a bit of a roadblock when it comes to Ryan and I seeing each other next. Originally we planned to meet up at the end of the year but that has to be canned because of his parents going to the UK during that time. Unfortunately both of our workplaces don't allow us to carry over PTO to the next year so we HAVE to use it up this year. I suggested we see each other around my birthday since we met up last year for Ryan's birthday.


I'm really not sure how we are gonna play our cards for this situation but I know we'll figure something out.

After doing some more research on Chuck’s Arcade, it turns out that the location I went to on Sunday wasn’t thought out very well. Some locations of the arcade actually serve food and have some vintage posters and stuff. I don’t know if they have any vintage merch for sale at the other locations, but that would be cool if they did. My assumption is because of the location I went to being so cramped, they weren’t able to add in a lot of things such as food or posters.

If I had the ability to go to some of the other locations, I would go for it because I kind of low-key miss old Chuck E. Cheese

#ChosenWonAdvancedExam

I’m home and my thoughts on Chuck’s Arcade are as follows…

I applaud CEC Entertainment for trying, but I feel like their efforts are kind of low. For starters, they gutted the animatronics and confined them to a glass case for display (The location I went to had Chuck E Cheese in the case). The other problem is that there weren’t many retro arcade games: There were about 4 or 5 of them. Most of the games were claw machines which I understand are in right now, but I feel like there’s not much variety of games in there. A good chunk of them were claw machines. I feel like claw machines are kind of rigged, not gonna lie. And the biggest problem? You can’t get food or any vintage merch! It’s a letdown because they have the old logo plastered everywhere. The only place you can get vintage style merch is on their website. Food wise, I understand it’s a small location and there’s no room for pizza or whatever, but yeah it’s kinda sad…

Continued in comments.

Chuck E Cheese has a new arcade for adults called Chuck's Arcade and one of the locations is relatively close to me. I'm going to check it out later today with a friend. I told Ryan about the place and he seemed interested in the concept, but we don't know if it's worth going as a couple. I guess it's up to me to figure it out!

[Addendum to Previous Feed]

I'm not gonna sugarcoat this, but Dress to Impress is SO HELPFUL. The game gives me a chance to at least experiment with outfits that I could use for my OC, and it's given me a lot of pose ideas too!

I'm in my Dress to Impress era

Just to clarify, if a lab Pokemon evolves twice (say like Caterpie or the starters), do both evolutions count for the Paradox research? Or just the first one?

[Unpopular Opinion/Ramble]

I feel like I'm the only person that didn't get on the Labubu train hype. I don't even understand why on Earth they became popular. Like I get the hype is reminiscent of the Troll dolls from the 90s, but it's just so confusing!

On another note, when I saw the dolls for the first time, I was LEGIT terrified.

We had a Game Night on my Discord server since we didn’t finish all the games during July 4th. Once we finished all the games that we were supposed to, we ended up jumping on Minecraft Bedrock, and wow we were surprised! We ended up finding a TRIAL CHAMBER while trying to stock up on iron!!!

It was insane!!!

So... I guess I have a free moment. I'm not home but I'll share my thoughts on the Disney trip.

For a last minute trip, it was fun for what it was. On the plus side, I didn't run into my client which was GREAT. I clearly didn't want to run into them when I was on vacation too. Another plus side is that we got to knock out some rides we didn't do last trip. Unfortunately there were some downsides. The first downside is that we didn't get to do everything on our list. Ryan and I wanted to meet Phineas and Ferb but the line for them was ridiculously long. The biggest downside was the heat. Ryan almost keeled over from heatstroke several times even though we packed Powerade and bought portable fans.

If we ever do Disney again, I think we'll have to go during the off-season.

Well everyone, this trip has finally come to a close. We're packing the truck and Ryan's family is ready to drop me home. I'm going back to work tomorrow but Ryan isn't going to go back to work until Tuesday. He and his family have to trek home after they drop me off, and that is a VERY long route. I'll probably share my thoughts on the trip overall once I arrive back home

Well… this Disney trip is almost over. Today was my last full day with Ryan before he and his family drop me home. It was partially a wreck because of my strep throat (I am confirming that) and both of our emotional states. But on the plus side, we shared some beignets, which were delicious and we explored Disney Springs. While at Disney Springs, I got myself a Dole Whip Float to potentially ease my throat pain. I admit it did the job because pineapples have a ton of Vitamin C!

I really hope I can see Ryan again soon because we love each other a lot!

I still have throat pain. And on the last day of my vacation. I have no idea how this happened and now Ryan won't even come near me.

I feel like I've screwed up.

Today was a mixed bag. We moved back to our OG hotel and we tried to go to the pool but just as we arrived, the lifeguard said they were closing the pool due to storms. That wasn’t fun. We ended up going back to Hollywood Studios since it was our last park day. Some of the rides broke down, but we still had fun. The major downside is the potential sickness that I have to deal with. That makes me angry because I’d have to ditch the thing I wanted to do with Ryan when his parents and brother are out.