Hello! God its been forever, how are you?

Im exhausted to be frank but i have a record of starting posts like that (or at the very least Ive done it more times than Id like to admit) im hesitant to start like that.

But really, I am. Over two weeks of my mom living with me, a trip to london, and I’ve been scraping by some studying but not nearly enough, all three felt enormous. It still does, but I just get to type it out now :p.

So, london. Honestly we barely even had the hotel planned, and by that I mean we didn’t plan it at all, we just happened to get one that was discounted the day before from an airbnb. It was a hassle to find a place but we did.

And it turned out alright! I mean,

uuuuuuhhhhhh,

sort of?

We arrived at the place and it seemed alright, but my mom complained about the hospitality in our entrance. I thought nothing of it, but it came up again the next day, and all till we left the staff seemed kinda miserable. Also maybe they lied?????

Ill get to that, but at the very least the room was pretty nice, again only sort of though. There was an airdryer, both beds were comfy as hell, AWESOME bathroom and plugs in the right places. They hissed when you used them though, so that was kind of annoying though.

Some complimentary snacks, instant coffee and a kettle too, made mornings much cozier :D.

The problem was mainly in the air conditioning though. You see, the place DOES have an AC, but on the first day, while me and my mom were out cold, sunken in dense blankets, maybe around halfway we through the night??, it shut off,

and we started DYING.

Im not kidding, the blankets were GOOD, but a little too good, and given its beginning to get warmer in the uk in general, especially for london compared to leeds, neither of us were ready for it.

I was drenched in sweat, fading in and out of consciousness similar to how you would when your bedsick, shuffling from side to side trying to get in a position that would possibly make the situation I was in a but more comfortable.

Then we woke up the next day, and had our coffee.

Of course, we went straight to the staff to ask, and apparently, APPARENTLY ACCORDING TO THIS DUDE, the AC turns off every 3 hours, and theres nothing you can do about it.

What?

WHAT?

It was baffling, ITS STILL BAFFLING, BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHATS CRAZIER? HE WAS WRONG.

The next day we went to bed THE AC STAYED ON ALL NIGHT.

AND GUESS WHAT? WE SLEPT LIKE WE WERE GETTING ESKIMO KISSES FROM AN ARMY OF ANGELS.

NUTS.

Obviously when I went to ask about it again, they just said they didnt know it could do that, though frankly you’d expect that answer whether or not they ACTUALLY knew how it worked. Its not like theyre gonna admit fault (though that would certainly be a lot nicer).

Thats what I meant by weird service.

Otherwise, good hotel!

No joke, for your money’s worth, its pretty solid! Ignoring the fact that I forgot the price though of course, I remember knowing it was good though :p.

Besides, the rest of it was pretty great, and the sleeping got easier after the first day, not to mention the morning coffee and general cleanliness of the place, it was nice.

As a side note before I get into the trip itself, I looked into my phone after writing the first sentence of the next paragraph and realized I took NO photos, DAMN. I could probably ask my mom for the millions of photos she took, but I’d rather if I DID post photos hear that they’d be mine. Ill keep this in mind from now on (;n_n).

Now, about the trip itself, I’ll be honest it was just A LOT of shopping, in mainly what I can safely assume are some of the poshest places we could go (not THE poshest, we went to selfridges and realized FAST that the main building was out of our league).

It was mainly selfridges and harrods, as well as a mall and random cafe visits. The first day the most hectic (at harrods if I remember right). We went around trying a LOT of clothes, I wandered off midway to play street fighter 2 at urban outfitters and sucked ass, then came back and bought some of the clothes after my mom was done trying stuff for herself. Afterwards we tried joe and the juice as well as visiting the mall, my mom was able to get some stuff for my sister, I got to study a bit (and I mean a BIT cause I had to help out before I really got into the weeds), and we headed home about 7 hours after we’d started.

The next day, we did some similar seeings at selfridges, and much less buying. We wandered quite a lot, and it was a pleasant breeze too, pretty chill. Got some snacks and headed home.

The last day was neat too (at least, the last proper day for my mom). We ended up in china town near the start, and wandered like we did the day before, before deciding to have her try wingstop. We ate A LOT, so we ended up having to walk it out afterwards.

Quick aside, but the new flavor is AMAZING, its genuinely best of both worlds from the korean and atomic flavors, not too sweet and not too spicy with all the seeds. It was delicious.

Wingstop. KEEP IT.

More walking ensued, We looked around for stuff to buy, particularly my mom wanted to buy us shoes, but I declined when it was specifically footlocker. Frankly, that shits way too expensive and I wasnt into any of the shoes myself, they all looked lame to me personally. Feels sort of samey? Like the shame sports shoes repackaged in different colours and slightly different shapes.

Maybe im asking for too much but I mean, go off the rails you know? Give me mario shaped boots, long boots, thin boots, MORE BOOTS.

Clown shoes would kind of go hard too.

AH WHATEVER, POINT IS WE DIDNT GO.

We kept walking and talking and walking and talking, and eventually we headed to another joe and the juice. My mom got the same drink she got at the first, it sucked, and the barista was kind enough to tell her that yea, the one she got was ass, and set her up with a better one.

And that was the vacation in a nutshell!

She left quite early the next day, my mom, and I went with her just to make sure things would go alright. Then I got on a coach myself back to leeds.

Should go ahead and mention that now, but coaches are SO MUCH BETTER for pricing, my goodness its not even a little smidget bit close. Paying 10 pounds over the 40 ish really makes a difference, especially on a day or two’s notice (I guess you could try to match the price by paying, I dunno, 2 months in advance for the train ticket, but fuck that).

I enjoyed the ride home anyways, I got to finish kirby planet robobot :).

Also, the meta knight side game is SICK, its really fun zooming through the levels as him! There’s this flowstate that you can achieve that you just cant with kirby since he’s slower, and I think its really cool that despite the game obviously fitting and being made for kirby, you can still have such a good time with an entirely different character, who himself makes FULL SENSE in this context! Even if he obviously wasnt made for it ahead of time, it rocks!

So yea, that was basically how the trip went. It was alright, and I enjoyed the time I had in london, especially the mornings and late night walks.

The places that we visited, admittedly, were way too posh for me to be honest, most places felt like a glamorous crowded overpriced hodgepodge of goods, but in the brief moments in between the hassle of the crowds, or consuming and spending, there was a lot of joy to be found in london’s blocks. I hope I get to visit again sometime and see more of it, away from all the hassle, and maybe meet some cool people too.

Because GOOD GOD am I getting shown up.

Seriously, tell me why on the coach to london, in my raggedy ass clothes trying to survive my first coach, someone comes in with a MIMIKYU PLUSH STRAPPED TO HER WAIST????

The aura, omfg. I had to pull out the 3ds just to make sure I stood a chance, wasnt fucking ATOMIZED.

That, and at the mall there were two girls with yellow and pink dyed hair, and the one with pink hair had a gengar purse.

Come on. People, please, im trying, I really am, I just bought a bunch of new clothes this trip I swear that I’m making an attempt to look my best in public could you PLEASE either not outclass me THIS BAD or teach me how you do it????????

Genuinely didnt know there were people with this much swagger. I aspire to be like yall some day.

(Especially the dyed hair cuz omfg those girls rocked that shit hard, holy hell. I wonder if it was dyed or not, im not knowledgeable enough to know at a glance).

Anywho, thats all from me for now. Its not obvious at first blush, but theres an extra large emotional and mental toll to having my mom over that’s become a lot more apparent this week, and im glad its over.

Long story short, I AM POOPED.

Before I go though, I am HONORED to share with you a new fan music animation that came out the other day, a song from pinkpantheress from poplako.

https://youtu.be/MnN3GUvfFhs?si=TmgXG3RCKOQYC7dD

I fell in love with this at first sight, even in the thumbnail.

LET ME TELL YOU, ITS GORGEOUS.

The art is beautiful, the whole video is super jumpy and more than that, FUN. ITS SO MUCH FUCKING FUN.

The backgrounds are really cool and fit the mood too, the cats are ADORABLE, pinkpantheress is always doing some sick shit in the video too, the dancing is cool beyond any measure of description.

Also, the artstyle reminds me of a certain someone from instagram, if you know you know :p.

As for pinkpantheress, the artist, I like her stuff a lot. I havent listened to much honestly, mostly some of the mixes of her stuff from clark rainbow and attracted to you, and obviously stateside, but the small amount that I have listened to is always really nice, She definitely has a cool style and a great voice, and it comes across in all her songs.

Her style specifically is really sweet, like a nice dessert. Probably has to do with how she makes it, I heard she does it all herself, the producing lyric writing AND the singing! Stuff like that, and her dedication (I mean really I feel like I’ve known about her forever now) makes you appreciate the craft quite a lot, AND HER OBVIOUSLY SHES AWESOME >:).

Ill squeeze in some time to listen to more of her stuff, aside from just the stuff I get on autoplay.

That being said, I DO have to go do just that, squeeze it in later. It’s getting really late, and god knows im not ready for the upcoming exam even with the studying I’ve done. I seriously need to up the scale some more, A lot more bragg building visits this week.

Anyways, ill let you know how that goes next time, see you next week!