Hello! :) I hardly ever go on here anymore, but if you happen to stumble across my profile... hi! I'm Chrissy. Feel free to message me!! I'll reply... eventually. lol. <3
hey! nice to hear from u! it went well and is going great in that I'm still here lmao, but things haven't gone exactly to plan.
I planned to do work on a lot of passion projects while unemployed here which didn't go as well as I'd hoped lol, &it's taken me longer than I anticipated to find and start work here, so defo been a huge drain on my savings and left me almost totally broke atm :// my current visa also expires in June, so I need to find something soon that can sponsor a work visa if I wanna stay! I do have a few "leads" on jobs which could work out so hopefully I can start something soon and get to stay out here longer! Anything to avoid having to return to my family home in london, I had always thought if returning to U.K. I'd wanna get my own place somewhere else in the u.k. far from London lol, like maybe Cambridge or somewhere in Scotland. But since I'm kind of too broke for that to be an option now anyway I feel like it would be better to stay on here longer, and at least return with a bit saved and some more refined and marketable language skills to help me set up a new life somewhere back home!
how are you? what's the latest going on ur side? wish u all the best and hope everything is all good!
I've been using twitter and IG for so long now I've forgotten what life was like without them haha. I've actually never had a personal tiktok myself, but I have been looking into it more recently as I was considering making one for my business! I do have an fb although I am lil inactive, I could DM you it, but if you'd rather keep that private I totally understand that also. Social media all sucks tbh anyway, all my accounts are just relics of when I was younger and more social, and now I'm more a recluse and they're wastelands, except for twitter as I'm still pretty active there looking at art and putting my shit opinions out there into the void. lol.
Yes I've got myself a small pad in Tokyo! The rent including bills comes to like 850 a month which is literally unheard of here lol, you could just about get a house share for that maybe. Ofc the living space is smaller, but the location is great and really looking forward to the privacy and finally having my own place! (Long overdue haha, wanted one for so long, just been off the cards really here). I'm gonna be staying in a Ward called Minato, it's very central and hopefully will be good for what I need it for!
I don't use Snapchat either anymore unfortunately! I did use it years ago (in my younger years haha) mostly as a teenager til I was like 21 maybe. But no worries I will try and share some here somehow! :))
I'm open to anything that gets me out of the U.K. & I'm not the only one haha. A lot of people I know fleeing here! It's basically always been impossible (without generational wealth) to own/rent your own place here and the cost of living just keeps going up with wages ofc stagnant. I had been planning to get out to Japan a lot sooner, but glad I'm finally almost there! Japan is ofc exepnsive too, but idunno something about the state of the country here where I am (london) made me feel like I couldn't really see a future for myself here, but Japan is somewhere I've always been open to living at as there's so much I want to see & do/explore there! I don't see myself living there indefinitely tho but I guess u never know!
If I do end up returning to the UK it defo won't be London and I will look into some other options!
aw they both sound super cute too! we could send eachother pics of them on IG or twitter or something if you're comfortable with that? (idm if not anyways!) [just a slightly longer pain in the ass uploading them here haha]. Been nice catching up with you still Chrissy! Hope your job isn't too stressful and you can plan a nice break for yourself!
oh that's cool, how do you like it?
Minimum of three months, potentially a year, but I will have to see what I wanna do after having lived there for a while! After 1 year I might decide to try and apply for a different visa to stay longer, look at returning to the U.K. (but a different town/area lol), or even look into going somewhere else! I do have some family in Canada, and I have wanted to live there too, but that might be a more far off thing tbh. I also wanted to travel and explore much more of Asia too!
aw that's so cute! We have two cats here in London, they are both senior citizens tho! A grumpy old tortoise shell girl; Mu & and a retired shogun; Q. I will definitely miss them a lot when I go :'(
ah how comes you're so familiar? Most of my friends who ask about it have no idea what it is lol, but I guess it is relatively common as far things like this go. But I totally understand because sometimes people tell me about their health conditions and I have no idea either, I guess unless you or someone close to you has it, you don't really need to know about it & most people aren't gonna research random illnesses that aren't affecting their lives atm. Unless ofc like you said, it's your job to know, what is your job?
Mostly just to travel really, the visa I'm looking at will allow me to work tho, but I'm mostly going as an extended holiday and to explore the country! I will look at what work is available to me while I'm out there. But I've also just started a small business, so I will be hoping to work mostly on that if I can! Maybe that's part of why I'm a bit nervous, there's still a lot of uncertainty, but there is so much about it I'm looking forward to as well! I'm sure the other stuff will work itself out, at least it has so far anyway, so I have to try and be optimistic! I can always adjust my plans to accommodate anything unexpected anyway!
awww well make sure Sam & Sasha gets lots of love and cuddles! sorry the message got a bit chunky!
haha yeah I bet! Idm, it's an auto-immune disease called Graves Disease, it causes hyperthyroidism and Graves eye disease, but my Graves eye disease is currently inactive (it goes through phases) and I take medications to manage the other symptoms.
My flight is July 14th! Super excited but also a bit scared haha (but I think that's normal!)
ooo that's great! Exciting Kitten times, do they have names yet?
I don't like this Chrissy! Wake up!! (sorry I couldn't resist)
What I have is a lifelong condition, but yes I've gotten much better at handling it, and am doing much better than I was back then! :)) other than that I'm doing well, I'm moving to Japan soon lmao! Can you believe? Simultaneously excited & shitting myself. Nice to hear from you anyway, hope everything in your life is going okay! :3 x
oh wow yeah I've been there with losing access to old accounts plenty of times on various sites! haha.
Not too bad, I've had some issues with my health but am slowly getting back to my old self! Has been a long process but hopefully be in a much better place soon! Hbu?
Oh no you should defo try and finish Shippuden it's amazing!
Thanks I had this idea of my story taking place in the gap between The legend of Aang and Korra, with the main villains being a group of extremists consisting mainly of a newly developed type of bending called Glass bending, an deadly evolution of Sand bending which involves bending the sand within glass to weaponise it. It would be quite a bit darker than the actual series but I didn't get much further than the ideas & notes for the first few chapters.
Aw I hope things look up for both of us soon! I actually booked my dream holiday this summer with my gf so hopefully I get a much needed pick-me-up from that. We're going to Japan for two and a half weeks!
I log in quite often to update what I've watched but I always forget to check my profile comments, what's your take on the end shippuden & boruto? Personally Mirai is one of favourite characters from the new generation. I kinda feel like Boruto could be a lot better and keep having ideas for my own plots for it haha, I'm into creative writing and storytelling quite a lot so I've even considering writing up the story for a bortuo doujinshi, been jotting down some ideas for one at least.
I wish there was a bigger market/scene for doujins where I am in the U.K. but it's only really a thing in Asia :/ , I saw from your tumblr you're into Avatar I was also thinking of writing my own story from that! :))
Life could be better for me atm, but I have faith that it will be soon, learning to believe in myself more and just go for the things I want to do.
<3
Hey, honestly I don't really remember exactly how I came accross your profile but saw we were the same age and thought to send you a message!
I always really liked Takuma & Zero as well when I watched Vampire Knight and Hidan is definitely an interested character R.I.P. Asuma though, that is one of best shippuden arcs.
How's life?
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I planned to do work on a lot of passion projects while unemployed here which didn't go as well as I'd hoped lol, &it's taken me longer than I anticipated to find and start work here, so defo been a huge drain on my savings and left me almost totally broke atm :// my current visa also expires in June, so I need to find something soon that can sponsor a work visa if I wanna stay! I do have a few "leads" on jobs which could work out so hopefully I can start something soon and get to stay out here longer! Anything to avoid having to return to my family home in london, I had always thought if returning to U.K. I'd wanna get my own place somewhere else in the u.k. far from London lol, like maybe Cambridge or somewhere in Scotland. But since I'm kind of too broke for that to be an option now anyway I feel like it would be better to stay on here longer, and at least return with a bit saved and some more refined and marketable language skills to help me set up a new life somewhere back home!
how are you? what's the latest going on ur side? wish u all the best and hope everything is all good!
I've been using twitter and IG for so long now I've forgotten what life was like without them haha. I've actually never had a personal tiktok myself, but I have been looking into it more recently as I was considering making one for my business! I do have an fb although I am lil inactive, I could DM you it, but if you'd rather keep that private I totally understand that also. Social media all sucks tbh anyway, all my accounts are just relics of when I was younger and more social, and now I'm more a recluse and they're wastelands, except for twitter as I'm still pretty active there looking at art and putting my shit opinions out there into the void. lol.
I don't use Snapchat either anymore unfortunately! I did use it years ago (in my younger years haha) mostly as a teenager til I was like 21 maybe. But no worries I will try and share some here somehow! :))
I'm open to anything that gets me out of the U.K. & I'm not the only one haha. A lot of people I know fleeing here! It's basically always been impossible (without generational wealth) to own/rent your own place here and the cost of living just keeps going up with wages ofc stagnant. I had been planning to get out to Japan a lot sooner, but glad I'm finally almost there! Japan is ofc exepnsive too, but idunno something about the state of the country here where I am (london) made me feel like I couldn't really see a future for myself here, but Japan is somewhere I've always been open to living at as there's so much I want to see & do/explore there! I don't see myself living there indefinitely tho but I guess u never know!
If I do end up returning to the UK it defo won't be London and I will look into some other options!
aw they both sound super cute too! we could send eachother pics of them on IG or twitter or something if you're comfortable with that? (idm if not anyways!) [just a slightly longer pain in the ass uploading them here haha]. Been nice catching up with you still Chrissy! Hope your job isn't too stressful and you can plan a nice break for yourself!
Minimum of three months, potentially a year, but I will have to see what I wanna do after having lived there for a while! After 1 year I might decide to try and apply for a different visa to stay longer, look at returning to the U.K. (but a different town/area lol), or even look into going somewhere else! I do have some family in Canada, and I have wanted to live there too, but that might be a more far off thing tbh. I also wanted to travel and explore much more of Asia too!
aw that's so cute! We have two cats here in London, they are both senior citizens tho! A grumpy old tortoise shell girl; Mu & and a retired shogun; Q. I will definitely miss them a lot when I go :'(
Mostly just to travel really, the visa I'm looking at will allow me to work tho, but I'm mostly going as an extended holiday and to explore the country! I will look at what work is available to me while I'm out there. But I've also just started a small business, so I will be hoping to work mostly on that if I can! Maybe that's part of why I'm a bit nervous, there's still a lot of uncertainty, but there is so much about it I'm looking forward to as well! I'm sure the other stuff will work itself out, at least it has so far anyway, so I have to try and be optimistic! I can always adjust my plans to accommodate anything unexpected anyway!
awww well make sure Sam & Sasha gets lots of love and cuddles! sorry the message got a bit chunky!
My flight is July 14th! Super excited but also a bit scared haha (but I think that's normal!)
ooo that's great! Exciting Kitten times, do they have names yet?
What I have is a lifelong condition, but yes I've gotten much better at handling it, and am doing much better than I was back then! :)) other than that I'm doing well, I'm moving to Japan soon lmao! Can you believe? Simultaneously excited & shitting myself. Nice to hear from you anyway, hope everything in your life is going okay! :3 x
Iroh then Azula and Toph are my favorite characters. goodbye. Miss ya
Not too bad, I've had some issues with my health but am slowly getting back to my old self! Has been a long process but hopefully be in a much better place soon! Hbu?
Thanks I had this idea of my story taking place in the gap between The legend of Aang and Korra, with the main villains being a group of extremists consisting mainly of a newly developed type of bending called Glass bending, an deadly evolution of Sand bending which involves bending the sand within glass to weaponise it. It would be quite a bit darker than the actual series but I didn't get much further than the ideas & notes for the first few chapters.
Aw I hope things look up for both of us soon! I actually booked my dream holiday this summer with my gf so hopefully I get a much needed pick-me-up from that. We're going to Japan for two and a half weeks!
I wish there was a bigger market/scene for doujins where I am in the U.K. but it's only really a thing in Asia :/ , I saw from your tumblr you're into Avatar I was also thinking of writing my own story from that! :))
Life could be better for me atm, but I have faith that it will be soon, learning to believe in myself more and just go for the things I want to do.
<3
I always really liked Takuma & Zero as well when I watched Vampire Knight and Hidan is definitely an interested character R.I.P. Asuma though, that is one of best shippuden arcs.
How's life?