A Pasadena Easter

3:47 am

april 22, 2019

monday

Hello blogary,

I had a really beautiful day yesterday. Since my dad was working, it was just me and my mom. We ended up going to Pasadena, a place I rarely go but now want to go all the time!!! There is so much art and books and antique things that I felt very at home walking its streets. At first we want to go to this italian restaurant called Mi Piace, but after walking in there, we both felt very out of place. So, we just walked down East Colorado street and ended up going to Barney's Beanery.

Now this place was cool. The seats had different colors on them that made them look like rainbow flowers and it was dark inside, but lit up by strings of red lights. It was pretty large, so while it may have looked empty, I think it looked more empty than it actually was because the people were spread out. It also had a van inside the restaurant that you could eat in.

I ordered a grilled cheese with fries on the side and my mom ordered a vegetarian burrito with ranch. We also ordered calamari, but I think the waiter forgot to write it down because they never brought it out. That's okay though haha.

Overall the grilled cheese was pretty average, but because I loved the whole experience on the place, I would go there again. Next time though, I'll probably order something different. I'll lookup what's best on the interweb.

I feel like I've been really cold and distant and kind of mean to my dad lately. I'm not sure completely why, but he just has been annoying me lately. This I must fight, because I love him a lot and he doesn't deserve this. I will be kinder to him today. I honestly think the cruelty stems from a character flaw inside myself rather than him. I tend to isolate myself from the people that hurt me, and maybe this is just a product of my unconscious doing. But this is not the way to treat your relationships with people, and so here are some ways I am going to improve myself so I can treat him better. In one of my classes, my teacher has a sign up that says something along the lines of: how you treat other people is a reflection of how you feel about yourself. I agree with this one hundred and ten percent, because not only have I seen this, but I've felt it.

1. Get 8 hours of sleep every night (i get irritable when i'm tired)

2. Say yes when he asks to go driving

3. Don't be lazy and do the things that you love (when i'm lazy i start to feel bad and then i start to treat other people with that badness)

4. Recognize that he is human and flawed too and so you shouldn't hold these massive expectations over him (he is just a person not a superhero)

Anyways, I need to start The Hobbit today. Also, I watched the documentary Free Solo yesterday. It was okay. I probably would have enjoyed it more if I had not known the story, because I had seen many videos on Alex on youtube before watching the film, so I knew what was going to happen, which pretty much took away all the suspense, which was basically the main emotion the film was trying to convey.

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