a day with dolly and getting mail!!!!

Yesterday, I finally got to meet up with my Diamond sister, Dolly. She's back in the bay area for the summer so we made plans to meet up before I go to Hawaii next month. Spent the day at the Westfield mall in San Francisco by Powell Bart Station, and also headed over to The Castro for the first time. Although we didn't buy anything, it was just nice to catch up and have some girl time and talk. Plus the weather was really nice in San Francisco, it wasn't too hot or cool for a walk.




I kept my outtfit really simple (sort of inspired by the mode look ~ hopefully when I get money, I can actually buy things to makeover my wardrobe) A plain white tee, with my h&m high waisted shorts and my old black belt, my new shoes I got online and my gold betsey johnson bag. I painted my nails with teal nail polish from h&m and wore a black garter (on my wrist) and black bow bracelet and ring. =P I wanted to do something with my boring hair, but damnit it was so hot inside my house even with the fan on that I didn't even want to touch the straightening iron. oh and excuse the grainyness of the pics, these were taken in mac photobooth. and the mess, I was trying to sort my stuff to put on my ebay.



While at The Castro, I saw this cookie shop called Hot Cookie. The cute red undies and the name itself definitely caught my attention. And I guess the plastered pictures on the wall also was a little outstanding. I didn't even go inside which was a shame because later on I read on yelp that the actually cookies were mimicked after male genitalia.. lol. I won't even mention the names of the cookies because I don't know how young some of my readers are. But definitely worth a trip back because I read on yelp that the cookies were actually really tasty.


So the Castro theater had a really cute backdrop with the "Coming Soon" at the top so me and Dolly took a pic here. It looks like Dolly is actually in the glass.


Well the sign says it all.


A window information display on Harvey Milk

anyway, I was really glad me and Dolly got to catch up. I really miss hanging out with my gals. Everybody's just been so busy, or just really far far away (in LA). I must say I am relieved to be going home to my tiny island Oahu for almost 3 weeks next month. I definitely need some girly time.

getting mail

speaking of girly, I got some really girly and cute mail in my mailbox the past two days, a letter from Monica and a cute gift package from PinkyAnela!



Monica wrote me a really sweet letter on the cutest Rilakkuma stationary ever and gave me some purikura. I was so happy when I read it, I haven't gotten a letter for years! Seriously! I literally wanted to cry tears of joy! Thank you so much girl! It means a lot! Snail mail brings back a lot of memories. It makes me want to get back into pen palling or at least writing occasional letters. I plan to write her a letter back soon and finally make use of some of the stationary I have laying around the house. Also, I really hope to see her when I go back to Hawaii. Hopefully she'll be back in Hawaii around the same time too. By the way, is anyone interested in writing letters? if we've spoken for awhile here online, and you're interested, let me know. no packages, just letters.. i would love to exchange letters or postcards. just the joy of getting a letter makes me really happy.


and OMG!! my friend Pinkyanela sent me the most cutest package EVER! i wanted to scream when I opened it!!!!!! She sent me a text telling me she sent me something and she didn't even have to.. she is the sweetest ever!!! Strawberry flavored Lucky Stick, the cutest Charmmy Kitty deco mirror, a purple leopard bow necklace, a hello kitty lock, a pink bow ring, and two cute mechanical pencils......Plus they were all packaged up so nicely in the cutest bags and tissue paper. thank you, thank you so much girl!!!! I am telling you, she makes the best deco stuff ever. Please visit her etsy shop: pinkyanela.etsy.com if you haven't had a chance.

toy story 3

me and my bf ian watched Toy Story 3 today in the theaters. we waited so long for this day ever since we heard it was coming out. There is no other 3d animated movies that touches my heart more than Pixar movies. Seriously, if you seen Toy Story 1 & 2, you are definitely going to love Toy Story 3. I was just so touched because this story is a story every person can relate to. There were moments when tears were welling up in my eyes, because it's just that touching. Just hearing the responses from the other people in the audience (including adults, yes - which I am sure grew up with Toy Story 1&2 while they were kids also), you know it really touches the heart. I'm just so happy that Toy Story is reaching another generation. I highly recommend it! Go to your nearest theater and watch it! Plus I'm a big fan of Pixar shorts too, and the one they showed before Toy Story 3 is one of my newfound favorites (my other favorite Pixar short is "Partly Cloudy" which was featured before the movie Up)

SIDENOTE: im definitely feeling my love of "cute stuff" coming back. Not sure if anyone noticed, I was really trying to simplify and cut down on going overboard with the cute stuff, but i feel it creeping back haunting me. From getting really cute stuff in the mail, and from watching Toy Story 3 today, I feel my love of cuteness (and the kid in me) coming back slowly. <3<3 I guess it will always be a part of me, no matter how much I change or how grown up I want to be. I have to perfect how I want to interlace cuteness with classy and maturity to find that perfect balance. I'm probably looking too deep into it or it might not really make sense if you read this. I'm not really sure how to explain it. But anyway, that's it for now!

edit: and new header but i don't know why. i had this old .psd saved with tinted pink porcupines and some scribbles and decided to throw this really fast header together. pink porcupines? yeah, i like it. i was kind of tired seeing just text. but blogger is making me pissed. instead of replacing the header text with the header image.. it still leaves the text together with the header image. so earlier, it had "life of pinksugarichigo" on top of my new header image.. i tried to leave the header text blank, but it wouldn't let me. so i resulted to putting three dots "..." for the header text. it looked ok with the image, so i left it. it would be better if i could erase it all together or just the header by itself without those damn dots, but it's not letting me take it out!! UGHHHH ok never mind i was showing it to juvy on skype and then she fixed it with her eyes. it's a miracle!