Seattle Trip

Not an awesome weather

Not an awesome driver

 Not awesome hair & face

"Hello"
Seattleee!!
I had tons of school works on the weekend, so we had to stop by McDonald's couple times to submit my homework on the way to Seattle. (-□-)=3 *sigh* I could get to see different parts (/different McDonald's) of Washington states, so that was good :) We did some tourist things last time when we came up here, so we wanted to do something different. different.. different...

Garfy got new boyfriend

Look at this giant pumpkin! haha
I really like Seattle. I wanna say Seattle people are fashionable but don't live in crazy busy life. Since it is a tourist place, people are more comfortable to deal with people from different countries. Well, correct me if you live in Seattle and find different sides of Seattle. I just visit Seattle, so I don't know the deeper side of Seattle obviously. Anyway, it's always fun to come up here for me. I can always be relaxed and excited at the same time. Or maybe... I should say .. I am a huge fan of coffee and coffee shops, so the fact of "Seattle is known for coffee" makes me happy! Did you know that there is a first Starbucks place in Seattle?

When I found out about that, I was very excited. haha

There are many tourist places where you can visit in Seattle. Pike place market, Space needle, safeco field, and ... many more places. The best part of this place is that you can find a FREE map for tourists EVERYWHERE! I find this very helpful. Otherwise, I have to research super many things for a looong time before I go there. I might need to buy tourist travel books to plan things because.. nobody wanna miss gorgeous things at that place you are visiting, right? So, I always grab it when I am there. (^^) You should check it out too! Maybe, you can find it useful as I did! It was so much fun!
Also..

1 year anniversary happened.

This trip was part of my presents that he prepared. I gave him some surprise presents (^^) hehe
Maybe, this is the main reason why I enjoyed this trip. hehe

Hope you have a happy trip to Seattle

smile!
:)

a creative way to celebrate anniversaries

This post is especially for these people who aren't good at surprising partners or are looking for cheesy ideas for celebrating anniversaries. (If you are not interested in reading cheesy blog post, you should read some other my blog posts. I write about almost everything that I experienced and almost everywhere I visit. I share my international student life in the US here!)

1. Dress up

You don't have to dress up with very expensive stuff. It's OK if you don't wanna dress up. Nicer clothes add a little spice to your night and help you feel a little special with nicer clothes even though you are doing something very simple. Garfy and I dressed up nicely and were super ready for our special night. I wasn't even looking at the camera.. haha

2. Make a special MENU

You can actually make MENU and show it to your partner. Or you can just keep it secret and surprise your partner. Garfy surprised me with a wonderful course.

MENU

Eggplant Lasagna

Israeli Couscous with Green Onion

Green Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette

Iced Tea for me

Beer for him

Cinnamon Cookies for dessert

3. Make your own dining room into a Nice Restaurant

The night, we went to Garfy's Special Restaurant. It's a local restaurant in the US. It's actually pretty close from our place. It is at our dining and kitchen. hehe Garfy cooked such a gorgeous dinner for us!

3. Light up Candles

He is actually a really good cook. Plus, the night was very special, so he made it very romantic with a lot of candles. The pictures might be too dark to see because we didn't use lights to light up the space. I love his presentation here!! Very simple, but very romantic.

Candles sure have a magic to make a normal place become a romantic place!!

5. Enjoy your Special time with your partner
The food was super tasty!!! I felt very special. I highly recommend you to do this for your girlfriend. Especially for those people who don't usually cook! Especially for those people whose partners love cheesy stuff! I know this is very cheesy, but I appreciate how much efforts he put into prepare for this dinner. To add to that, I am the girl who loves cheesy stuff so much. haha!

Happy 1 year Anniversary

To

Garfy

*** love (●´･ω･｀)(´･ω･｀●)love ***

Our 1st picture. It's from last year when we weren't really good at taking pictures of us at all. haha Look at our awkward faces. Well, we are still not good at taking our pictures by ourselves as you already saw on the beginning of this blog page. bahaha

This was a part of the presents from him, so I should say.. . To be continued. hehe

How do / did you celebrate with your partner? What is the most memorable anniversary to you?

I would love to read that (^^)

Smile!
:)

Autumn Make-up

Trees are changing colors and putting the world many many colors! Because the west side of Oregon has a lot of nature, it's just so beautiful. Red, Yellow, Brown, Green!! Nature of the art (> H <) I didn't have a camera with me today. But I still wanted to share how beautiful it is, so I took some with my phoooone!

hmmm.. Hope you can feel the beauty. haha I really love stepping on and walking on these crunchy leaves on the ground. It's super fun to make the sound of crunchiness. The dry, light, but fun sound that these leaves make. Now, I feel the Autumn is here.

So, I decided to try new make up style for Autumn. Since school has started, I wanted it to be

1) quick, 2) simple, and 3) natural, but 4) gorgeous.

These are my keys for dairy make up during school.

I selected warm and kind colors that these leaves shows.

Yellow-ish gold, Warm dark brown, and Red!!

I used the gold one and the brown one for my eyes (^^)

At first, I put gold one on my entire eye lids, not under the eye brows. Then, I put the dark brown on and applied this instead of putting eye liner, so this dark brown eye shadow will make your eyes look soft and gorgeous. I blended two color in the middle of the eye lids, so that it's not completely separated species. It gradually changes color. I picked reddish pink lip stick to put gorgeous color on my face. haha Here is the picture. Hope you can kind of see what I did here.

(I forgot to wear mascara when I took this picture though)

Put your mascara on our eye lashes A LOT or apply false eye lashes.

Lighter colors of eye-shadow will help your eye lashes to stand out well.

So.. why don't we let them stand out as much as they can? Right?

& that's it. Isn't it easy?

(There, my face with mascara on!! oh, the lip stick and my sweater are gone though.. haha)

Hope you like it!

smile

:)

Halloween Haul

People in the US usually celebrate Halloween on the weekend before the actual Halloween day when the actual day is during the week day. This year, Halloween is on THURSDAY! so, there are many many many Halloween events going on this weekend. I decorated my apartment with paper-pumpkins. I, personally, am not a big fan of Halloween because I hate ghosts and other creepy scary things. So, My decoration is very simply and cheap way, so that my apartment looks fun not scary (^^)

There are 7 pumpkins being cute here. Just placing the paper pumpkins gives cute halloween looks! I also bought this cute socks to enjoy Halloween in a fun way! I'm waiting to wear this until Halloween weekend!

But I loooove to do fun things & events, so I can't say that I dislike Halloween. I love these events, but at the same time, I just hate hate hate them. My first date with Garfy was around this time. I was super happy, excited, & nervous while I was waiting for him. ... I didn't know that there was a Zombie walk thing going on the night. As soon as I saw these Zombies, my happiness disappeared and my fear said "hello" to me. It was so bad. They destroyed my first date... I guess Garfy was kind enough to deal with me since we are still seeing each other. haha This is why I don't have any scary costumes with me. haha

This year, I bought several things for Halloween. Guess, what or who I will be (^0^)!

smile

:)