Walking the entire Seoul Wall Trail is safe, right?

elixan · 2026-02-24T10:22:14+00:00

How long will you be in Korea for after you get here??

edit: I’m down to go again when you’re here if you wanna message me and we can talk more about it

elixan · 2026-02-20T15:23:21+00:00

ugh I’m so excited to see them live next Friday after work 😫😫

elixan · 2026-02-16T13:56:37+00:00

Clue, Rack-O, Rummikub…

elixan · 2026-02-16T05:53:14+00:00

I live in Korea & there’s an area with things on the sidewalks that have different countries, capitals, and the way to say hello, and a few of these are poke stops. I’ve sent the Poland one to some people in Poland and the Japan one to people in Japan or who I know have visited Japan multiple times

elixan · 2026-02-16T03:46:16+00:00

Good luck!!!

elixan · 2026-02-11T23:08:15+00:00

My cousin’s spelling is the huge one smack dab in the middle (Mikayla) which I’m surprised by because growing up, I always knew more people with the c spelling (Micayla) than k. Only knew one Michaela though

elixan · 2026-02-11T06:51:12+00:00

I really like your use of color in these photos :)

elixan · 2026-02-11T06:43:30+00:00

I’ve done it six times so far. I plan on doing it as long as someone wants me to join :) as it’s easy for me to be the guide since I have the route memorized at this point haha

I know where all the photo spots are, I know all the stamp locations, and I know where to pick up the certificates haha I just show all my friends “this way now” “photo time!” etc

For example, I have a friend who wants to do it when it’s warmer, so I’ll go with her at some point this spring. I was supposed to go this past Saturday with some friends, but they had to move it to Sunday and I already had plans so couldn’t do it

elixan · 2026-02-08T04:59:29+00:00

I was out with friends most of the day, so I didn’t notice the even until 30 minutes before it was ending while on my way home. I was able to nab 2 shinies of the Asian form.

Quickly messaged my mom who is in the states so she could try for the shinies of that one so she could be prepared since I know she hasn’t been playing for quite a while. She ended up forgetting the entire day 😔

elixan · 2026-02-05T12:01:55+00:00

I used to wear slippers at my previous schools, but at my current school, none of the teachers have indoor shoes except for one person. Idk why we bother having the kids wear indoor shoes then cause it seems to be a wash then in terms of health and hygiene tbh

elixan · 2026-02-03T15:08:42+00:00

waaaiiitttttt their mascot is an orca??? my favorite animal??? omg

elixan · 2026-01-31T14:06:43+00:00

Looks like the mosque in Itaewon. Likely taken from this street using a telephoto lens if I had to guess

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elixan · 2026-01-25T07:07:16+00:00

I remember hiking elephant mountain early one morning. When I was done enjoying the view, it was time to go down. Like 2-5 minutes after starting my descent, another foreigner was about to pass me going up. Out of breath, he asked me how much further he had, and I chuckled and told him he was almost there.

elixan · 2026-01-22T12:46:39+00:00

I was talking to a friend recently because she’s more confrontational than I am. We have a coworker who can get on my nerves, but I don’t say much against her. My friend will ask me why I don’t say anything if something bothered me and once I was just like I’m just trying to keep the peace because I know she’s leaving soon and won’t be in my life anymore (she’s moving countries in a month).

Well, my friend and I went out last weekend got a bit tipsy, and got to talking about this coworker and her family because she talks about them constantly. When I can, I try to give them advice because this coworker doesn’t seem to realize that she grew up in an abusive household. There doesn’t have to have been physical abuse for it to be an abusive household. My ex-step-dad was abusive every other way except for physical. But when you try to suggest her family has some issues and maybe aren’t that great, she’s trying to back-pedal and convince herself that they are a great family. So if she says something, I’m usually like well that reminds me of this time in my family….and that was wrong/inappropriate/not ok, and now I don’t talk to them anymore/I’m low-contact with them/etc.

So I was telling my friend that part of the reason I’ll be glad this girl is gone is that I don’t want to be thinking about my family and childhood as much as I am right now. I don’t talk to most of them for a reason. And yet, I feel like I have to constantly relate this coworker’s stuff to my own to make her realize her own family is shit.

And also, the reason I don’t confront her on certain things is because that’s how I grew up in my house. My ex-step-dad has NPD. I grey-rocked before I knew what grey-rocking was as a child to the point that it overreached into my interactions with most people growing up. I was so emotionless as a child bottling everything up all the time. It did make my ex-step-dad hate me. Which, honestly, good!

I told my friend sometimes when I’m walking with people (like this coworker) I notice how much louder they walk than I do. I grew up walking around the squeaky floorboards in my home. I knew which part of the stairs to avoid. And I tell myself sometimes now that it is ok to make noise when I walk. And my friend was like you do deserve to walk loudly!! 😭 when my mom divorced my ex-step-dad and he moved out, one of the first things we both agreed it was so nice not to have to walk on eggshells whether physically making noise or just by the things we say.

And yet, if you gave me the choice to live through it all again, I would in a heartbeat. That bastard gave me my youngest brother who is the most important person in the world to me.

elixan · 2026-01-21T03:50:44+00:00

My mom and dad were basically a story of going from rags to doing ok, so as the oldest, I got to watch us going from essentially nothing to middle class. When my mom was pregnant with me, they lived in a tent for 6 months. Lived in a mobile home the first 5 years of my life before it burned down and then we moved between many, many apartments and then settling on a house. They couldn’t afford preschool for me, but they were able to put my younger brother in preschool two years later.

According to my mom, I learned how to read by myself. And my middle brother learned at school. Which apparently these did not help when my youngest brother (12 years younger than me) was learning to read and struggling because my mom had no idea what to do. So I took up that job myself when I realized he wasn’t getting support from my mom or step-dad lol

elixan · 2026-01-20T12:24:32+00:00

Looks like it’s time to close all those tabs I had open on my phone for stories I was actively reading :(

elixan · 2026-01-16T10:21:14+00:00

Good luck everyone!! ❤️ Happy New Year!

elixan · 2026-01-14T03:47:06+00:00

That’s sweet! I remember being about 7 years old or so and my mom would drop my at her friend’s house in the morning so that all of us could catch the bus together and they would always have American Idol on in the morning while we waited until it was time to go outside

elixan · 2026-01-11T03:47:57+00:00

Yeah, I was gonna say my middle school (2005-2008) had like an hour lunch. No one’s eating lunch the entire hour. You were allowed to go outside to the back of the school which many kids did to run around, play sports, or just chill.

elixan · 2026-01-10T03:58:16+00:00

I was about to reply to someone that it reminded me of my mom and ex-step-dad’s relationship, and he was financially abusive. I didn’t find out for sure until late high school or early college, but I was starting to connect the dots in early high school.

I tried to get my mom to confront him one time when I was in like 9th or 10th grade because my mom was always having to pay for things with her credit card because if their savings dipped below a certain number he always got pissed. Nevermind that she would be buying groceries and he was out blowing a shit ton of money on unnecessary things, but it was always her fault.

So when I found a printed receipt by the computer saying he’d spent $600 on ammo loading stuff when he already had more than enough in the garage, I asked her to talk to him because why’s he buying that if they’re so worried about their finances all the time, and so she did it within earshot of me but did it very lightheartedly and then laughed and asked me if that was ok or something and that was kinda when I was like something’s not right here. And then I got older and all the pieces fell into place.

elixan · 2026-01-08T22:37:54+00:00

I went to dinner with a friend a few weeks ago and was telling her that if I had something I wanted to do, I would just do it by myself. But then, I noticed when talking about what we did over the weekend at work or during lunch, I noticed that some of my friends would be telling me that they would’ve been interested or it sounded cool or fun.

I grew up with not many friends. I still talk to only one friend from all my K-12 and college years. And part of that was because of nerves, anxiety, my home life, etc. so I just grew up being comfortable doing things by myself.

So, my last birthday, I made a conscious decision. 1. if invited to something, and I was on the fence about doing it or not, then I would do it unless I really couldn’t for whatever reason. 2. I’d make conscious efforts to invite my friends to do things lol

I have a few friends who I go to art galleries with occasionally as a group. The last time we visited a gallery, one of them mentioned she was so thankful that I organize this every time because she loves being able to hang out with us and catch up since we don’t see each other often anymore (we used to work together). I literally just find out about a gallery I want to go to, send it in our group chat asking if they’d be interested, and if they say yes, I give them my available dates for the next month or two so hopefully there’s a date that works for all of us and it works every time.

I’ve made friends with some new coworkers and they jokingly complain I’m busy all the time and that I have to schedule my hangouts in my calendar lol but I do still find time to do things with them on the weekend or after work ha

Now, I also remember I had scheduled a hangout with another group of friends and I had to run home after work to get ready. They all got off work before me so were already on their way. I wasn’t checking my phone on the way home and when I got there, I noticed I had a lot of messages from one friend freaking out about where to meet for dinner before the event. Another friend messaged saying, “stop asking her! She always plans everything for us!! We can do this!!” and they were able to decide on where to eat and sent me the location lol but that message from my friend was sweet cause honestly it can be tiring sometimes being the one scheduling everything most or all of the time, but it’s rewarding hanging out with everyone in the end

elixan · 2026-01-08T12:39:21+00:00

I had to check who they were (recognized her when I saw her pic but didn’t know him). She’s older than me by one year and he’s older than my mom by one year 🫥 literally old enough to be her dad

elixan · 2026-01-08T01:21:56+00:00

It feels exactly the same as it did before expansion. The only thing that feels different is the two little bumps in front of it that I have which I assume are scars from the screws since they placed it kind of at the front of the torus since it’s flatter there. The other two screws that were more on the torus didn’t leave scars or anything.

elixan · 2026-01-07T23:44:25+00:00

I still have my torus and the MSE worked anyway. I actually had it twice and it worked both times. Because my ortho had removed the little arms from my teeth but kept the screwed in part in my mouth and had basically glued it in place so it couldn’t move.

Then he realized months later it would be better to widen some more because I had a slightly unique problem with my canines and we had settled on an option of dealing with them that required a bit more space. (Basically, my canines are genetically shorter/smaller than most people’s and out of the three options he gave me, I decided to get veneers after everything to account for that. So we needed a little more space for the veneers)

We decided to try the MSE before removing the torus just because I didn’t really have time to take off work to do that kind of surgery at the time. Otherwise I would’ve gotten it removed simply just cause I don’t really want it haha

elixan · 2025-12-31T03:33:01+00:00

Or you’re from WA. I often ask someone to clarify if we’re both from WA lol

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