Wow. I have not posted in about a year, but Welcome!

I hadn’t noticed I went so long without posting. At this time i’m currently along with millions if not billions of people across the world, within quarantine.

Earlier around march slightly before quarantine started here within San Francisco, I developed covid-19. Its a major understatement to say it was a terrible time. If you’ve avoided getting it thus far, congrats. Stay that way. Don’t take any chances with it.

I’m going to post some photos, just to show what was happening in my tiny life at that time.

Corona Meme
covid-19 meme
Some lovely person hung a painting within our floors trash room.
My Cats
Cats being cats. Don’t mess with them.
Another covid-19 meme. Video game: Death Stranding.
Wearing a IronYokai top
I took this while I was sick with it, and yea despite not looking sick, I felt like shit.
Top: IronYokai
Face: MyFace.
Playing Deep Sky Derelicts. I’d recommend it if you enjoy dungeon crawlers and being frustrated.

Aside from being frustratingly sick. I was studying the whole time to pass a entrance exam into a coding camp (FlatIron school). I unfortunately did not pass the first time, but the 2nd time a few weeks later, I made it in.

Currently i’m studying to prepare for the 1st actual day of “class.” Its within quotes, because covid-19 will most definitely still be a problem around then. So I will still be doing all of my work online as I am now.

Of course months later, covid-19 is slightly dying down within areas that had harsh quarantines in effect early. So San Francisco at this time is pretty decent. More people are coming out with masks of course. Stuff is slightly opening up with very restricted rules, but opening none the less.

To keep myself better on track with blogging, within the week I will post about what my area of San Francisco was like during the looting/riots. It was a very interesting time. Listening to the police scanner, hearing the weirdest things that people were doing and the massive confusion amongst the police.

I’ll be ending this post with a photo of one of my cuties on a cloudy day.

If you’ve read this far, I appreciate you : ) Thank you!

Spring AAU Costume Carnival~!

One school I work at consistently as an Art model has whats called a costume carnival once a semester. This year was my first time taking part in one. Can you guess the theme?

The main stage

If you weren’t able to immediately figure out the theme, don’t worry. Take one more guess….then scroll down~!

You may recognize this scene from a certain movie~

If you still don’t have it, scroll down one more please.

Piece by Mark Stimmons

Its Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory~!
For the day, many models are brought in to pose to a costumed theme. Students and whoever else wants to draw for the day, can come in and have 6 hours of non stop drawing time.

There’s a lot of photos for me to show you so, let’s get started. 🙂

It was a long and hard day. We did have a pretty great time, but it would be a understatement to say we were all tired. I’m happy I got to experience it with one of my closest friends.

I ended the day in the bathroom at work happy I had my own clothes back on and I could finally go back home and relax. I’m sure there is more I could , but I’m pushing this out a bit late ;p, Sorry.

You can also find this post on my Instagram @miqotez


Thank you for reading :)!

10 Ways to ‘Reach Out’ When You’re Struggling With Your Mental Health

I needed this. Hopefully, it will help someone else out.

Let's Queer Things Up!

I’m a mental health writer and advocate, and a suicide attempt survivor. I’ve told people on this blog many times, “Keep reaching out.” I’ve written multiple articles preaching the importance of vulnerability, defying stigma, and owning your struggles.

This is my whole thing, okay? This is what I do.

So when one of my closest friends died by suicide a few weeks ago, I wasn’t just shocked — I was completely gutted.

I thought there was never a question of whether or not my loved ones could reach out to me. But the very person who I’d talked to so often about mental health… didn’t call me.

Not even to say goodbye.

Screenshot 2018-03-03 at 10.30.59 AMThe last night I spent with them.

In the weeks following their suicide, my grief took me to dark places. I soon began having my own suicidal thoughts. And even then, when it was my turn to…

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Art night! (+ wine)

Pinot’s Palette~!

Last night we ventured off to Pinot’s Palette. A lovely place to unwind, drink some wine (or beer) and paint a piece for 2 hours. Grab your loved one, your mom, or a giant group of friends (as some people did) and paint~!

The piece we tackled~

Our choice for the night was painting a cute floofy trash panda (raccoon)!
I have barely any painting experience. I know how to mix colors at the very least.

My partner is an art school drop out, so I thought his painting would be miles ahead of everyone else, but you can judge that for yourself (lol).

My raccoon looks like a corgi.

We started off slowly. Just painting the background in an attempt to make it look like a lush forest. We outlined our raccoons and painted something somewhat resembling the bark of a tree.

Mine on the right and my partners on the left.

By this point, I was a bit tipsy and forgot to take more in between photos, but I take a lot of the end for everyone. I hope you enjoy them.

As you can see, someone painted Pikachu and Totoro~! They were the cutest. My partner’s trash panda looks like John Lennon for some reason, but I can’t deny the glasses were a nice touch.

We made our way home afterward while still tipsy, and upon getting home he took a photo of me laying with our paintings. All in all, it was a great date night, and I recommend going if you’re in the bay area. I’ll link their location at the bottom. Thanks for reading~!

Glasses: Warby Parker, Top: Widow/Dollskill, Pants & Belt: Diesel, Boots: DVF

Pinot’s Palette: Address: 1981 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA 94115
Pinot’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pinotspalette/?hl=en

A terrible morning turned into a great night.

Yesterday I woke up feeling terrible. When I don’t get enough sleep, my body feels as if it wants to faint at any moment. Its not great. Mixed with my inability to take naps (for whatever reason) and you get a day where doing anything feels impossible.

A cutie known as Chonk does help though.

The prior night, I said I was available to model for a class someone had already canceled for and I didn’t feel right calling out the day of, so begrudgingly I went in.

Well, that turned out to be a great decision.

Quick drawings by Mark, Stimmons.

I HAD A LOAD OF FUN~.

I was so giddy. I haven’t worked a class in a while where I became excited and got really into my character modeling.

Time for a bunch of photos~ Enjoy!

Me dressing up as a miqo’te~!

My night ended up being a blast. I got home by 10:30pm and my lovely partner had dinner prepared just as I got in. We enjoyed a meal from Plated (Roasted Salmon with Bok-Choy rice and Jalapeno lime glaze).

Heres the recipe card if anyone is interested. https://dusyefwqqyfwe.cloudfront.net/public_uploads/recipe/region_schedule/downloadable_recipe_card/45762/recipe_card20190201-10-1q90jh9.pdf

I hope whoever is reading this, had a great night too and to have many future lovely days~.

Thank you for reading. : )~

All pieces are by Mark, Stimmons. ~

Today was weird

Newrock, Damascus, Unif, Diesel

My day started off like normal. I usually walk my partner to the bus stop before he goes to work. We like to get coffee, talk, and then I go back home to work on stuff.

Well, while i’m walking home, a man decided it would be a great idea to stand right in front of me and corner me to ask questions. I’m used to people stopping me just to talk here in SF. Its not really surprising…Well, this man decided to ask me if I could give him a tour of the area. I tell him no because I have somewhere to be. He started to just ask me non stop questions. For example “well why can’t you? Whats so important? Is it work? Where do you work? What do you do for work? Why do you have to go to work?”

At this point, im just trying to get out of this. So I said ” I have to go now.”

Well this mother fucker decided to say “Oh okay, well i’m going to follow you, i’m nosey.”

I did walk off, and he did follow me. I was really scared, but luckily I didn’t have very far to go. As soon as i’m getting close to one of the doors to go inside, this dude decided to ask me for my number.

Excuse me what now?

I said really loudly “NO” and ran into the door past a woman who was already going in. Luckily with these doors, you need a key fob to get in. I didn’t turn around to look back if he was still there. The entire thing just freaked me the fuck out and now I don’t feel safe enough to go out without my partner or a friend.

Seriously fuck people like this.

Newrock, Damascus, Unif, Diesel
Bonus photo~~~~~~
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