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So 2021 huh, people are not exaggerating when they say years fly as you get older. Tumblr has been something special to look back and see what my previous worries, hope, and dreams were. And like I’d forget most of these if they weren’t for tumblr. I barely posted in 2020 and I forgot everything that happened???

This is why I think it’s important to reflect on the highlights of this last year. Last time I did this, it was 2017… fast forward to 5 years later….(like what the heck I got my license in 2017) anyways..

- Never had covid except for the covid scare found out on JAN 1 (I pray I’m not jinxing myself)

- Started @emimontages on Instagram, made a couple videos and hoping to pick it up again one of these days!

- I thrifted my Olympus Mju ii in January, and it’s been single-handly the best purchase of my life

- Released my photography website for a time being

- Hit my first box + rail for snowboarding

- Continued my dental assisting job during winter quarter

- Photographed the girl’s psaa volleyball season

- Played beer pong for the first time of my life, absolutely sucked and hitched grant and Julia together

- Obtained a planet fitness gym membership

- A portrait photoshoot with Sarai!

- I slowly started meal-prepping throughout the year

- Tried golf for the first time, lousy at it but like I get the old white man hype for it

- Went on a photoshoot with Isaac, where I eventually found my shots reposted on Prana’s page

- Learn to tape broken ankles but like.. I forgot everything

- Climbed the dome!! My walla walla dream came trust lmao. And geocached where I left my organic tampon in there to form history. Ran around the green hills at night from imaginary scary farmers, laid in the middle of the street with a friend group to stargaze, and visited abandoned towers

- Lots of rolled down music moments with this friend group. Big shoutout to Julia, grant and Carson. Y’all were the epitome of the best quarter ever.

- I think only one sunrise hike was done lmao, where a potato was boosted into the horizon

- Forced quarantine in yucky Meske where meaningful conversations were held in the halls with vball girls <3

- sneaked out of quarantine 2x which then.. to sneak in again to the Hampton’s hot tub

- shit…I forgot I did volleyball evening practices + volleyball/basketball intrimurals during all this LOL WHAT?

- Planned a trip to Spokane where a core memory was riding electric bikes all over homeless-looking downtown. I swear we saw prison members doing community service hours

- Karina and Yanna met me halfway in soap lake? But then we found the most unreal spot?? And felt like deer and met our fishermen boyfriends who took pictures of us? This felt like a dream

- Had scary campfire stories and s’mores shared in the hills where it was 110% illegal and we could’ve lit all the fields on fire

- Planned Julia’s birthday and made my first coochiechaterie board

- Took my first somewhat senior stranger photoshoot

- Floated down Walla walla’s only river, but I swear it’s 10 miles long

- Found out I have chronic cookie bite hearing loss, love that for me

- Got VAXXED

- For my last official volleyball game, my team won. We won that game set. Unreal.

- Graduated walla and Strobel cried, jk he shed maybe 1 tear.

- Fam bam trip to Bend, Oregon. Adore that place

- Lots of sunset swims, hot tub talks with the girlies

- A surfing session and what seemed like a 20 mile hike to the base of rainier all in one weekend???????

- Fam bam trip to The Bahamas aka Atlantis

- Signed a 2 year contract townhouse in Redlands california with a roommate I’ve never met!

- Airport landings in the middle of the forest, fire lookouts, foggy Baker Mountain, & can’t forget North bend…

- Girlies and I took the best trip of our lives to Vancouver + Whistler. Ethereal experiences. Oh and a flat tire

- Drove 16 hours down to california with a roof tent ⛺️

- Met Kyra. The best roommate ever.

- Got through orientation at LLU, met the people I was to see 60 hours a week.

- Said goodbye to my family, 3 months on my own

- Manhattan beach became my favorite, Karina came visiting for my birthday. 3:00 am start- 11pm end. From Catalina island to shots at a restaurant I still can’t pronounce.

- tried spin. Almost died here.

- Hosted first Halloween party. Best decor, bad host on me for leaving 2 hours later.

- Attended a laguna hills mansion “party” same night with epic views

- Met amber and Rachel, and Des. They are key characters

- Got white coated. Guess it’s a big deal!

- Planned the best day yet at california. Including one of the best hikes involving climbing ladders, canyons and off road driving.

- “Star gazing” with roomie

- Decided to say yes to follow a homeless looking man in order to see a secret local spot in the mountains. We still think of you georgio <\3

- 5:30am mornings consistent for all the 3 months.

- Last minute big island trip with fam during thanksgiving break.

- Ran and screamed through old mine tunnels

- Board games untill 11pm with somewhat of a new friend group?

- Finished all A’s for my first quarter of dental hygiene. With my last 3 finals being over 97%.

- Watched sing 2 back at home with the girlies and it was life-changing.

These are the core memories, engraved in my mind. Mainly with the help of pictures as well.

Wow. What.a.year. Life changes real quick.

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December 23, 2021:

this day has brought me back to tumblr. I have to write it down. Today, Karina, yanna, and Sonya started a tradition. Sing 2 is our thing. This movie inspired us, left us with chills, we laughed together harmoniously… and so much more. We truly found the characters within ourselves.

For the 2024 release of Sing 3:

“I want to meet the director”

“We are dressing up… like the met gala”

“We will also arrange for a limo….. and a photographer”

“It will be in Vegas, Canada, New York, or Paris”

A pinky promise was made sometime at 11:30pm.

3 or so hours earlier, I was figuring out how to separate my left and right brain cells from drumming sequences. Drumming is so underrated. Perhaps on my life bucket list… is to learn how to play the rhythm for Mr.Brightside. It will happen. Thankful to Mr. Sergei for introducing this new hobby to Karina & Yanna.

While Ollie was hurling, us girlies were discussing shopbop, Sonya’s sleepy confession, and why eating chocolates with your tongue is the right way to go around it.

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August 23-26, 2021:

Okay wow this glitches so much I can’t event type

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August 22, 2021:

What a day. I just have no idea what’s to happen when I’m with these two.

Not to brag or anything but we are signed into the airport binder with I quote “we laid on the track(:”

In this secret place we met Jason on a plate and sweet Riley. Riley did not invite us to dinner like we hoped. The rope swing was simply a blast and better than any sunset lake zip line.

Suntop was again a push for me even though it’s 0.25 miles. It got my heart heaving but I kinda love that feeling. We got the best seat over 5000 feet above and pretended to not be cold. I need to buy brevite.

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August 21, 2021:

It feels surreal to be typing this but also so freaking rewarding to be back on here. 7 months have passed and yet so much has changed. I mean I was still in physical therapy for crying out loud in the beginning of the year.

I can’t lose track of a diary and this will always be mine. Unless tumblr completely disappears off the earth.

The desire to go backpacking really came out do me on this day. The desire to cook began as well. I will always remember the analogies Yanna and I used for our lack of cooking. “It’s like you drive a car without its wheels” “or try to draw without a pencil”

Karina’s basement with everyone gathered around Rosie also became a core memory. I really love bringing up this artificial vs natural talk.

That’s it for now. Looks like tumblr is glitching more often

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January 11-15, 2020:

This week was really unexplainable. Another covid scare, deep cleaning with new podcasts, underdeveloped photography ideas, realizing how much pants I actually own, no power, honestly this one was a toughie

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January 10, 2020:

Noah really wanted to visit masha e medved, so we went and saw medved himself. 20 foot tongue bisons and cute little gopher looking nuggets were so sweet to experience.

I showed my parents one of the most well-kept secrets in Washington state. So good for surfing for camping. They adored it so much and bought a tent that goes on top of your car the very next day on Amazon.

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January 9, 2020:

Really knocking on my brain to remember all the conversations. I jus remember talking during the sermon over Vitali’s Greek letter.

Also it was really funny because I thought sveta McFarland was staring at me the whole time and I was mega confused. I forgot there is a projector right above where me and Sophia were sitting hahahah

At Karina and Yanna’s , I was recorded without my consent. Sonya goes over her 5 year plan where she HAS to be at New York at some point.

At this point I was merely trying not to freeze my eggs at their chilly igloo of a house. Ollies fat belly is the only thing that’s warm in that house. But those patties were also really good.

We couldn’t wait to open presents so here is to Yanna’s thrifted clothes all fitting her 🥰 she shook her bootay about 8 times today, but the only time Karina tried was accidentally done I n front of mr.Sergei

Sonya received a very explicit image of Harry styles

We go to Seattle where they kept getting scared EXCEPT all the homeless are tucked away in their tents. It was a wonderful time playing musical chairs in front of the skyline. Also quite wonderful to sit at a dock in front of the skyline as well.

The topic of alcohol comes up and although I don’t necessarily agree with my friends’ opinion that it’s trashy unless you drink it in a castle up high in Victorian era Europe .... I will be documenting the first time they ever decide it’s okay to poison their body a little bit. Whether it’s up high in a castle in Europe, never at all, or when they reach 21.

Love these girlies dearly even if they don’t love me when I embarrass them at every Starbucks drive thru

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January 4-7??, 2020:

you know. It’s crazy how fast life passes when you’re on the computer all day.

I really enjoy motor learning. Strobel knows how to actually teach. I’ve learned I’m very good at manual hand dexterity while my finger dexterity is lacking.

I went to Costco to get my yearly supply of contacts; the lady refuses to let me purchase them after seeing I sneaked myself in with my mom’s card. I tell her she “broke her leg”. “I’m sorry mam but it’s a no-go.” To tell you the truth, Costco is a huge maze for me and I spent hours looking for pecans, which I couldn’t even prounounce it to an employee. It is so stressful in there, plus there’s heaps of people. I wore my N-95. The point of this story is that I became a Costco member, so I could get my contacts. I look like an actual ape in my picture, but for the mems I guess.

I buy brown dickie pants from Fred Myer that fall off all the way to my knees.

- I start my first essay in sociology and it makes 0 sense to me.

- I go thrifting because it’s become my main supply of seratonin and find one... it’s the most organized thrift store I’ve seen. It even had an upstairs. I felt at peace. I snag some last things for yanna, and decide to keep this picnic looking dress-shirt for me.

- lastly, Jean-Paul is the sweetest teacher I’ve sad. He calls out on everyone with a French accent. I have no idea what he taught except that bathrooms are separate in France.

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January 3, 2020:

In the morning I receive 49 missed calls from my dad, because I really let my dog out in the middle of the night and our gate was open. Bruno had a little adventure. Idk how he also didn’t get run over

The covid scare continues to this day where I think I called the girlies like at least 6x.

I also finished euphoria and huh what was that last episode for??? Honestly this show just gives an accurate representation of how broken life can be with toxic relationships and addictions. It’s depressing. 6/10.

Emi the professora was dying for a chocolate crossiant the whole day. I finally let myself loose after shockingly receiving negative results for covid. This was so surreal for me, since my immune system has gone through so many lows last winter. Idk how I made it

A boring some day. I almost tried on outfits just for fun.

Goodnight,

- a covid survivor

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January 2, 2020:

Only picture I have, but it was the best moment of the day.

I get up still as anxious as ever over this whole covid ordeal. Probably the longest day of 2021. I binge watch almost the whole season of euphoria. (HBO do be low key expensive)

I tried taking a bath and made it too hot and it just reminded me how much I hate saunas. Unless Monika’s grandpa is there to make it into a tropical jungle aroma. #soaplake

The girlies, aka Sumba and Forkie, joined at around 12 to watch soul. A masterpiece of what it truly means to live. I could watch this movie 100 times. I wanna be known for the way I “jazz” with others in conversation or dare I say..... cleaning their molars....

This is also the day I officially sent an email to my advisor that I’ll be switching to dental hygiene. So long walla walla, hello CALI

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January 1, 2020:

January 1 is the easiest post to do. No school. The determination to keep this up is at its highest peak. This high usually ends about three days later. But boy, let me tell you about my high at the Shirokova’s house.

Now was it from Karina’s raw banana bread or simply because my friends are the best company to be around, we may never know. Oliver and me both had a little to much to eat of Karina’s delicious poison. After talking about Daniel for too many hours and his long list of Icks, karolina and Attila bring the party over.... with the pilgrim Oregon trail board game ..... HOUSE OF CATAN.

I wasn’t too enthusiastic about this since i was counting on Sonya to bring the Blitz. But emi does love her games. I can’t count how many times brick and stone was confused. Or was it wood and brick. But the important detail is that emi won. Fair and square. It was all cause of Karina and Yanna’s gracious free wood supply.

After trying to understand Attila’s talk about stocks (or more like trying to spell them), the tea time conversation leads over to how far tech has come. Karina decided she’s applying for a Roblox internship AND brought up my love for mr.bensta. While Sasha decided to spill a family secret. But the evening slowly ended with us deciding breast milk is more beneficial in the skincare department (and maybe sperm as well). We got to this point from refrigerated sperm and who we’ll one day marry.

IMPORTANT* the new pact: whoever we engage to must be brought to THE river float with karolina and Attila. They must also walk across THE log.

From brushing our teeth together to YANNA aggressively tucking me in goodnight, there is no other way I’d spend New Year’s Eve.

* also I don’t know why the video turned into a pee colored filter

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Hahaha 2020 was hard to post about.

Fresh start. Fifth year now.... sorta

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September 27, 2020:

it’s communion day at the church, but there sure was no commitment to being 6 feet apart.

Sonya and I hurry to Karina and Yanna’s where plans kept changing. However, I enjoy peering over Sonya’s beauty sleep, appreciating oli’s thicky self, oooooing and aahing at Yanna’s school notes, and modeling masks as bonnets.

We also decide to receive a car wash from the Mormons missionaries.

Conversation never gets old with these three, my meeeelas.

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Continuing........PT. TWO

Oherwise, I spent most of my summer days playing sex music with Jordan in the car full blast, while heading to the taq, .....watched my roommate decorate her webkinz rooms while I eat bagels with pastrami everyday between practices, ...... felt like throwing up the whole time during Walla walla’s only fun event in the summer (the fair)...... lost more games.........became #1 in best stats for practices (shhh don’t tell Schafer, brenden told me)......our bus rattling for 6 hours straight to the point where you can’t hear your own music........got A HOT TAN.....showed my boobs (plus photoshoot;) ) in the Umatilla forest....ok ok Crater lake was pretty cool too...

Wait this wasn’t so bad?

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“The important decisions are those made directly after bad ones. These next decisions are the ones that define us. Be dominated by your mistakes or choose to dominate them.”

- Zion, a guy from NZ

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January 13-18, 2020:

This week was a toughie, not gonna lie. I felt like a loner, homeless, without proper healthcare, sad, constipated, cold to the core, and wanted to go home more than ever.

Made me really consider la Sierra to tell you the truth. Maybe I just mentally excel when I know there’s a large body of water nearby.

Some (high)lights (sort)

- i was diagnosed with strep throat. Therefor I missed class periods. Each class period is equivalent to 76$ so yep

- I cried in front of the Walgreens pharmacist because he wouldn’t accept my healthcare

-I refused to eat thinking I was going to throw up, a mummified walking skeleton is emi Bezman currently, my face smaller than usual.

- on a positive note, taco night was really great. An older couple introduced me to GeoGuessr. It basically puts you somewhere on google earth and you have to keep going forward untill you find hits for yourself. It’s so exciting that me and Julia played for like 2 hours this Saturday afternoon. Below is what I thought was Africa. It wasn’t.

Yep. Google street views was my highlight of the week:)

-also my roommate is going to teach me how to cook.