5 / 19 / 20 - Due to the quarantine, there haven’t been many exciting or happy events to journal about, so during this time I’ve started journaling about less “extravagant” events, like little things that make me happy! One of those things is a package I got in the mail on this day! A Bert and Ernie Action Music Box by Enesco! I had seen this music box (it’s not a box at all, but I don’t know what it’s actually called… a wind-up musical device??) online before and thought that it was the epitome of kidcore, which was right up my alley!!! I was lucky enough to find it in near-new condition with its original box! I was so happy to finally receive it! It’s much bigger than I thought!!! Roughly 8 x 8.5”! When you turn the wind-up key, a music box rendition of “One and One Make Two” plays, the teeter totter goes up and down on its own, and Rubber Ducky slides back and forth between Bert and Ernie! Super cute!! The only thing that confuses me is the song that it plays... I’ve tried to hear it, but it doesn’t sound anything like “One and One Make Two” to me at all! I’m not sure if the music box got switched or something, but the songs don’t sound the same in the slightest to me. It’s still a pretty tune, just drastically different from the original… I love it regardless though! The colors are suuuper bright lively and it really couldn’t be cuter!!!

11 / 17 / 19 - I visited a small, local antique mall on this day! Parts of the interior were super cute!! It was a fairly small store, but carried a surprising amount of goods! They had some really cute displays, such as a vintage playroom-esque corner with a pastel knitted blanket sprawled out on the floor. Surrounding it were some old Little Golden books and woven baskets containing dollhouse furniture pieces. Another little shoelf nearby was super kitschy and was covered in yellow and red dining room items. Very cute!! There was also a cupboard that displayed a ton of miniatures, including a spilled paint bucket, kitchen appliances, and a fish tank. All of them were immensely cute and well made!! I ended up buying a pair of strawberry earrings, a miniature plant, my first Kewpie doll, and a 1966 Fisher-Price Roly Poly Chime Ball! I had seen this ball months prior and started doing a digital painting of it because I thought it was so pretty, so when I saw it in person, it was lovely!! I thought it was absolutely adorable, and hearing how pretty the chimes inside sounded gave me all the more reason to make the impulse buy .

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9 / 6 / 19 - This journal essentially documents a few particularly good experiences I had at school! I had made friends with some really lovely people, I started playing badminton with some friends, and Grace gifted me a few super cute kandi bracelets she made! Just for the fun of it, I brought my POSCA pens to school so my friends and I could draw on each other and give each other little temporary tattoos . My 8th hour this year felt particularly special, considering that it only had 3 students total in it. Since this was basically a free period for us, we typically ended up watching old vines, playing games, talking, and visiting various websites, including the lovely www.nyan.cat for nostalgia’s sake. B] It felt somewhat surreal. Good times. Partly because of this class alone, I felt that this was going to be a very enjoyable school year for me (//Covid-19: *cracks knuckles* let me at this bitch). A few days later, my father got me a cute, A-shaped helium balloon! And, I cannot stress this enough, I fucking love helium balloons. Soon after that, it was his birthday. Part of my gift for him was a set of acrylic paintings depicting the “Dirty Dan” exchange from Spongebob, which is one of his favorite Spongebob scenes!