Beach Trip! - Tumblr Posts

When my anxiety gets the best of me I spend a week at the beach, and you guys get a lot of pictures 💕☺️

Sorry for the lack of art or anything haha, I'm tired and have to get ready for a beach trip so I might just have small things for a while.

FIRST ACTUAL POST GUYS!

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Alright, so like, I always see stuff about like, the Outsiders gang going to like the beach, or like the pool, or whatever, and it’s always like “Pony/Soda/Steve got so sunburned!!”

But like.

Dally.

Sir is blonde as hell. Sir is from NEW YORK CITY. Sir is practically albino. Sir would be burnt to a crisp.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

My Very Short Beach/Fall Break Trip(2024)

So today i just got back from my surprisingly short beach trip for this year's fall break and it was a short experience. We left near noon on the 21st of this month and arrived near late afternoon.

Of course the beach was nice for the four(Technically 3 or 2) days we were there and i of curse got many shells and some pretty nice pictures(Which will of course bee seen in this blog and my upcoming video).

9/21/2024 - Day 1

A repeat of hat i just said, and after that, it was night. I was just drawing in my sketch book because i did not bring my computer or drawing tablet with me(I didn't want to go through unplugging them and then having to set everything back up when we got back home...). Something i was doing tho was having the paper i was drawing on, be touching the table for i did not want the alcohol markers that i use o stain the paper under the drawing.

Sadly this stained a bit of the table and i freaked out a bit(Mostly had an internal freak out that could thankfully not be seen) and tried to clean it off with a wet paper towel, this did not work. Eventually my parents noticed and my mom was pissed because she thought that we would have to buy a new table and stuff like that. But thankfully after looking up ways to remove alcohol marker stains, it recommended toothpaste and it worked thankfully.

But, during the cleaning process my mo0m was still mad at me and saying that she is "Tired of babying me" and "How i should've not done something so stupid" and stuff like that. But then she said one thing that i will always remember no matter what;

"I could punch you right now."

Now, obviously this shit took me and my dad a back and then my mom and dad started to argue and I'm left sitting in a chair, scared that i might have caused a fracture in my parents' marriage. And here is the thing, my mom is not a violent person, she is a peaceful person 99% of the time(I say 99% because the other 1% are her "moments"), so when she said this to me, i was just...Shocked, violently surprise she would say that to her own child.

9/22/2024 - Day 2

For a decent proportion of the day i slept in, waking up somewhere around 12pm and mostly staying inside to draw because good lordy it was hot as fuck out(Because note, we were at IRL Jurassic Park, aka, Florida, the place where my ass was born/forged in). And thankfully my mom apologized for the other night and i forgave her...But i would never forget that moment.

Anyways, this day wasn't that eventful, it was mostly just me staying inside and only going out once to get sea shells and a souvenir in the form of a water bottle holding sand and seas water in it(Yeah i know it's not the most appealing thing to look at but hey, not everything on this planet is completely clean, or nice to look at).

9/23/2024 - Day 3/Pre-Final Day

This was unknowingly the last day/pre-final day at the beach, why? Well it's because there was soon gonna be a hurricane coming soon and obviously, they are dangerous, so my parents were figuring out when we would have to leave(Originally we were supposed to leave on Thursday, but it was then changed to Wednesday, which just so happens to be today!).

On this day i mostly stayed inside and we then later went to this restaurant where we had to wait an hour to be seated(The place did seem to be a bit busy to be fair) and while we waited i got a root beer and mountain taffy from this gas station that happened to be a part of the restaurant(The ironic thing about the mountain taffy being at the beach was quite funny and i was kind of surprised they didn't call it "Beach Taffy" or something).

My parents had oysters and fried mushrooms as servings which was gross to my older sister since she could see the slime from the oysters. Thankfully our food came and i had a cheese burger and fries and HOLY FUCK they were delicious! Mean while my younger sister just had 6 shrimp(There was this whole thing of how she wasn't hungry and stuff like that and after she was done, she was mysteriously hungry and wanted my older sister's fries 🤦).

After this, we went back to the condo we were staying at and played some uno. After all of that and everyone went to bed, i stayed up for a little bit and then went to sleep on the quite comfortable couch.

9/24/2024 - Day 4/Final Day

I woke to my family starting to get things packed up for i discovered that the owner of the condo and seeming several others were ordered to evacuate non-residents(Basically, people who didn't live there) because of the upcoming hurricane. So we got everything packed up and begun the drive home, of course making a few stops and getting some chic fil a dinner(I highly recommend getting a chicken sandwich and mac'n'cheese and putting some mac'n'cheese on the chicken sandwich, it's so good~!).

We then arrived home where i went down to my room(My room is in the basement and the basement is thankfully one of those nice basements and not one of those creepy clown-sex offender basements you'd see in every horror movie ever) and took a shit so fat it would make CaseOh look anorexic then took the family dog on a walk(Because after 5+ hours in a car, my legs needed the movement).

Now it's currently 12 in the morning on September 25th, 2024 and i have just posted my video showing all of the images i took and i will soon be posting some art and another video related to something i happened to make during my trip.

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All Pictures -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS5eMVg1aEQ

Here is the mountain taffy(That was at the beach, lol) that i got. It was really freaking good ^^

I also liked the designs and colors on them, i definitely plan on getting more mountain taffy whenever i can!

Buluan Island, Zamboanga Sibugay (February, 2021)

A getaway trip, somehow unplanned, and random. Cathartic. Got my heart bruised.

Oh, might I add; this was the trip I went on with my workmate crush.

Storytime:

I promised to never catch feelings on my job. Keep it professional, I swore. Boy was I wrong. Well, I was never good at keeping promises in the first place. I couldn't even remember when I started to notice him. But what caught my rather fragile attention was his genuine kindness. Like, I kid you not, he's got the brightest look on his face even with his face mask on. His eyes twinkle in this vivid gaze and you could get lost looking at them. And oh, how nice he was. So gentle. A man of virtue and of faith, that's a plus. What made me start to feel something was how he routinely said hi and even ask me how I was or even how the mundane good morning/evening greetings would be delivered.

It was back in December of 2020, and we were about to start our shift. He came in late, but mind you, from every person during our briefing session, he took notice of me and even greeted me first. This was a room of 20 people, and I was the first one he said "hi" and "good morning" at. I can't believe I fell in love at McDonald's.

I guess you know what my next few weeks would turn out to be. That's right. Endless daydreaming. I never expected I would fall hard, and it had been a while since I had an actual, in-my-radius kind of crush. And he was just so nice and kind that I couldn't help it.

Fast-forward to our Buluan Island trip. I kind of wanted to confess to him. He may have had ideas already because, let's be honest, I am never the most subtle, quiet person. Like, I am so conspicuous and loud. I know, I'm not proud of it. Still am a work-in-progress since 2021 (a story for another post perhaps).

As expected, he didn't reciprocate, though he did offer to be a big bro and we can still be good friends. It did hurt, but not in the way that I expected it to hurt; the kind of hurt that would make me bawl my eyes and soul out. Good news, we're still friends, but I chose to keep my distance. He's doing well now, good for him. He deserves the best of this world because of his authentic goodness.

Oh well, guess I'm always stuck being a hopeless romantic with my unrequited love and desire for affection.

yours,

Christian