Nothing here but my musings about daily life, books, anime, and food.
Did I tell you I hate Tuesdays too? You know what, might as well just say I hate weekdays. Period. Why do we have to work five days a week? I’ve been hearing about companies that changed to a four-day work week. Am I jealous? Yes. Yes I am. Why am I still working five days a week??? WHHYYYYYY???
Also this will be a short post. I feel like my brain is empty.
I was in meetings today. We had too much samples. And I was just not happy to be at work today. Granted I’m never happy when I’m at work, but DUUUDE, I got frustrated with one of my meetings that I just kind of shut down the whole afternoon. I was not the only who frustrated, but other people in the meeting too.
I read one page of Forrest Gump. ONE PAGE.
So what do I do when I’m feeling off? Have something familiar playing in the background. So, Bob’s Burgers is currently playing.
Hun is also feeling slight off today. But since we are currently doing this long distance thing, we cannot just cuddle in bed and just feel off together. No, instead we are both sulking in our own beds, thousands of miles apart.
I’ve been pretty transparent that I think Mondays suck. And regardless of how I’m feeling, does not matter if I had enough sleep, does not matter if I had fun over the weekend, I will always hate Mondays. The thing that I find funny is the fact that I never really hated the start of work week this much until I started working days. I mean I was working overnight for the longest time but I never had this kind of problem. Weird how that happened. But then again, I should not really be surprised, I always considered myself a nightowl. The only reason why I sleep at night now is because I have to be at work in the morning.
I did have a rough night last night – well a slight rough night. I woke up at midnight with a sharp stomachache. I’m okay though. That sudden awakeness kind of messed up my rhythm. I do not think I have to describe how my morning went. Yes, I dragged my ass out of bed. I do not have a choice. I needed to be at work by 7:30 AM for a meeting. Came in five minutes late, but oh well. They can deal, they should feel lucky I was even there.
Work was busy-ish enough. Actually, pretty busy for a Monday. The fact that I ate my lunch at almost 1:30 PM should be an indication. My team was also understaffed. For a hot minute, I thought I only had one person onsite to run the team. But another person decided to come in – BOO, I really rather have the team be super understaffed than see this person’s face. Especially on the day that I have zero patience. Okay, that made it sound like I just do not like this person. I mean, you’re not wrong but I just do not like the way this person works and the work ethic, uggghhh. Yeah. Enough said.
I got home, and pretty much just did the regular things I do when I get home. Chores. After that, I just sat in front of the computer and decided to start making my spreads for my bullet journal. But then quickly realized that I’m kind of done with manual bullet journaling. So I am stuck. I do not want to bring my chromebook to work everyday to access the Notion website, since I am not a fan of the mobile app. But I also cannot stand setting up a page for a manual bullet journal. Yeah. I guess I can try to use my tablet and see if I can use the Notion app better on a bigger screen compared to using my phone. I guess all I can do is try.
I also really need to workout. I need to squeeze it when I get home. I did the early morning workouts before and that schedule did not really work for me. I found that my body prefers the afternoon workouts. Again, I am not a morning person, and consider myself a night owl. Working out just kind of gotten shifted to the side when I went back to school since my classes were scheduled after work. But I have no excuse now. I just need to start. I plan on losing 60 lbs. Pretty hefty and with my age, I would need to work harder to get there.
Hopefully I get to hangout with my hun tomorrow. Probably a good time to think what to watch since for some reason we do not have any show lined up. Well, we do. But we do not have any preference of what to watch lately. We’ll see.
I was so lazy today! I woke up, fed the fur babies, and folded my laundry. And after that, I just lounged in bed while watching The Hills. I was supposed to hang out with my hun earlier today but they had some company so he chose to sleep instead.
I am definitely getting invested again with The Hills. I felt myself roll my eyes at unnecessary drama, get annoyed at questionable decisions, and get frustrated when these girls choose their boyfriends over careers. Like seriously, sneaking your friends to a work party, choosing to stay with your boyfriend for the summer instead of going to Paris to join your editor for a career opportunity, drinking and being smashed while on the job, and letting a great career opportunity pass by because the boyfriend does not want you to move to Las Vegas. SERIOUSLY! Or even forcing your two best friends to be friends despite them not having anything in common except being friends with you. Yeah. I was in my early 20s once and I know I wouldn’t have made the decision as these girls. And I don’t know what it is but none of these boys even go to work – at least it was not shown. One of the boyfriends – who I think was one of the main casts – was home all of the time. Just being a couch potato and just doing nothing but play games.
When 3:30 PM hit, I finally decided to drag my ass out of bed to actually do some cooking. Cooked some honey garlic chicken wings and chorizo with potatoes. The honey garlic chicken actually came out good. I was nervous for a hot minute. My hun messaged me that most of the people left their house and he can hang out.
We ended up watching the last two episodes of Inventing Anna on Netflix. I still like the show, still enjoyed it but now that I read My Friend Anna, I am able to see Rachel in a different light and I’m not as annoyed with the character from the series. I will not stop saying that the show did Rachel dirty. And honestly, I find myself feeling for Rachel – the real Rachel. I feel like we could’ve been friends if we are in the same circle.
We then watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I liked it. I mean what’s not to like about a composer trying to create a Dracula musical and using puppets! And my hun questioned why the movies we watched yesterday and today had cheating/affair in them. Coincidence. LOL
I didn’t read today. I tend to take a couple of days off from reading after I finish a book. Just to give myself time to digest the book that I just read. Internalize how I actually felt about the book. So most likely tomorrow I can start reading Forrest Gump.
Tomorrow is the start of the work week and all I remember is that I have a meeting at 7:30 AM. So I definitely can’t leave later that 7 am. I hate having 7:30 meetings, I feel like these people don’t realize that we technically don’t start our day until 8:00 AM!
I woke up this morning wanting some Filipino Food. So I decided to get groceries first. Get some coffee. And go to a craft store while I wait for the only Filipino store in town to open at 11 am.
I love craft stores. It’s always a very dangerous trip when I go…I tend spend money there. For things like sketch books, art supplies, stickers…You get the idea. However, today, I let myself peruse the aisles. Grab something that I would normally buy, hold it for a bit, and actually decide if I need it or not. And I find myself putting it back on the shelf. Hooray for some self discipline! The three things that I decided to get today were a dot grid journal, a 12 inch ruler, and a 6 inch ruler. Why? Well the rulers, I really need new ones, the one I have is broken. Why two? One is for home use and the shorter one goes in my pen case that I bring everyday. The dot grid journal is because I am itching to go back to manual bullet journaling. Why? I already have some kind of version of this digitally through Notion but I find the mobile version and the view for the template I’m using is not something I find usable. And no way in hell I’m opening that on my work laptop. I just find it relaxing when I’m doing it by hand. Granted I don’t go crazy creative on my bullet journal, I just find comfort in using pen on paper.
My hun and I played It Takes Two today. Apparently for almost 3 hours. I thought it was shorter than that to be honest. But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Time tends to move faster when you’re having fun. And I did have fun regardless of the fact that I am a potato gamer. I got frustrated at times, I cursed, and I died a lot. My hun had to constantly coach me. I do hope he doesn’t get tired of coaching me if we’re playing together. I enjoy playing video games with him. I like trying out things that he enjoys doing.
We watched a movie today…Crazy Stupid Love. There were cringe moments for sure but I enjoyed it. Obviously, there were some problematic parts that would not fly if that movie came out today. One of my favorite scenes was the Hannah’s and Jacob’s PG-13 one night stand. Why? Well instead of them actually having sex for that night, they just ended up talking until Jacob falls asleep with Hannah putting a blanket on him and kissing him on the cheek. Another one was when Emily called Cal and lied that there was something wrong with heater when in truth she just misses him.
We also finished Cells at Work Season 2. I still couldn’t believe that there were only 8 episodes. But it’s all good. That anime definitely is so precious to me. It really did a good job of explaining the functions of the cells in the body. And I appreciated that so much. The only thing that I really missed in the 2nd season is the lack of interaction between Red Blood Cell AE3803 and White Blood Cell U-1146. The relationship or interaction between these two cells was so pronounced in the 1st season and I felt like they barely interacted in the 2nd season.
Tomorrow, we’re planning on watching Bourne Identity. My love hasn’t watched it yet, and I watched it a long time ago so I really don’t remember much of the story. All I remember is that I loved that movie after watching it. So if we end up watching it tomorrow, it will feel like I’m watching it for the first time. I mean, even if I had watched something multiple times, I still have the same reaction anyway. So it’s not going to matter.
Also, I finished My Friend Anna. I went into that book because of Anna Delvey and the con. But to be honest that book is about Rachel’s and Anna’s relationship – the progression and downfall of their friendship. I liked the book and I recommend it. All I’m going to say is the show Inventing Anna did Rachel dirty. Reading Forrest Gump next.
Total cliche but you know what, it’s true. Those of us who work a 9-5 job, a job that is not stimulating, yeah, thank god it’s finally Friday. But no, I’m not going to complain about work. The only good thing right now at work is the fact that the person who I can’t stand has not been onsite for two weeks. And seems like I won’t see her for the most part of next week either. Fingers crossed.
Decided to get out of the office for lunch today. A friend and I went to Shinya Shokudo, a Japanese restaurant. I got rice with curry donburi – really good. There is just something about Japanese curry that always hit the spot. But I think there might be allergen in there, cause now my throat is itchy, my eyelids are again swollen, and I have runny nose. I took allergy pills so I am hoping that takes effect soon.
Almost done with My Friend Anna, I have about 60 pages left. So this book will be done tonight. I’m currently looking for my next read. I have some books from Book of the Month, but I’m very tempted to read Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. I’m still on defense with that book just book it’s a chunker. The edition I have has 817 pages. I get easily intimated by big books, what can I say. It doesn’t stop me from buying them though. We’ll see. I’m definitely not feeling romance right now. Or I’m not feeling a story where romance is the main plot. Again we’ll see.
My hun had a boys’ night. I do miss him but I know how important boys’ night to him. And when I say boys’ night, it means talking in PS party chat, either they are playing some co-op game or doing their own thing. I’m hoping he had fun. They hadn’t been really able to hang out lately because of schedule conflict I think. I personally not had the need for something like friend’s night or something. Like I said, I’ve always been a loner. But I love that my hun has something like this setup with his friends. Friendships are important.
But tomorrow is date night. And I’m thinking that we should go back to playing some stardew valley or it takes two. I personally think I need a break from animes. Nothing really interests me at the moment. My hun do still have a bunch of animes and shows that we need to continue and finish. But I think I have an anime hangover with Trigun, Persona5, and Yuri on Ice.
I didn’t to get to post last night. Broke my streak on that one. Feeling a little bit under the weather. Headache and all that. I was in three back to back interviews yesterday, That drained the energy out of me. I get really tired when I’m in social situations so back to back meetings are definitely not good for me. Yeah. Introvert to the core. I know. I need to have a recharge.
I started rewatching The Hills yesterday. It was the reality show of when I was in my early twenties. Definitely nostalgia. With the headbands. The make up. The clothes. And the drama in this show. THE DRAMA! The show is definitely problematic. But then what can I really expect on a show about a bunch of twenty somethings. The only thing that I ever had in common with these girls was that I went out to clubs too. And I had a job. Other than that my life was never this full of drama. But hey, I ate their drama up! And apparently I still do even though I know pretty much all of the situations in this show were fabricated by the producers,
All I did today was lay in bed. Take naps. And eat. And take more naps. When I said I need to recharge, I need to recharge. Granted, I was also experiencing some headache, but I think it’s really more on the fact that my energy was really depleted from yesterday.
I also had two back to back meetings today, about 45 minutes each. And as you can guess, my energy is also drained right now. I am currently watching The Hills. I will read a bit later for sure. I need to be back in bed again. Sometimes I hate feeling like this. I feel like I should be having more energy than this to be honest. I mean I’m not young but I’m not that old! Well, you know what, yeah I think I’m that old. But I want to sit in front my computer for a little bit.
I need to buy a good webcam. For what? No idea. I used my friend’s webcam for the interviews today and it was so clear. So I need to invest one. I didn’t realize how bad the webcam is in this laptop until yesterday, when I saw myself pixelated the whole time.
I need to line up my next read after I’m finished with My Friend Anna. I more than half way through the book so this will be done quick. I think I don’t have any nonfiction book lined up or on hand…We’ll see. Well, I have a lot of books to read so I really should not be thinking of buying more books. We’ll see. I have time to decide.
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