Like The Tomato
Nothing here but my musings about daily life, books, anime, and food.
All I did was nap the whole day. Sure I did some dishes but honestly, all I did was lie down in bed. Hun was working so we didn’t get to hang out. I did get to marathon Derry Girls with Chris. And that show was funny. There are not really enough good 30-minute shows out there anymore. So I really appreciated Derry Girls.
This will be a short post since all I really did was be a lazy bum all day. I am still reading some BL webtoons. Found out that there were mature versions of the stories I was reading. And I was like “wwhhhaaaatttt??” And yes, I had to find out how to get them. And yes, I have subscribed to them already so I can see them on my phone app. HIHIHI I guess that is the highlight of my Sunday?
There was really nothing else to say aside from the fact that it was a lazy Saturday. I went to the store in the morning, did the dishes, worked a little bit, and finished my laundry. I did get the chance to hang out with my love. We just watched The Great British Baking Show.
We finished Collection 8. We did episode 8: Desserts. The bakers made 12 mini cheesecakes for their signatures, two Sussex pond puddings for their technical, and a jelly art design cake for their showstopper. Let me just say, I was scared. Peter had a tough time during these challenges. Hermine’s showstopper was amazing, and yes it was something that I would buy. No surprise that she was the star baker for this week. I was pretty sad that Marc went home but also pretty happy that Peter stayed.
We also watched episode 9: Patisserie Week. The bakers made 12 Pate a Savarin, a Danish Cornucopia for the technical, and 25 cube-shaped cakes. Most of them thought that it would be Hermine’s week since patisserie was her specialty. She definitely struggled. It was almost painful to watch. Peter however bounced back since he almost got eliminated the week prior. He got a handshake for this signature challenge – 12 non-alcoholic savarin. Dave’s cornucopia bake had us (meaning me and love, as well as everyone in the tent) laughing because of how he displayed the phallic cone. Dave’s and Peter’s cube cakes definitely looked good. My hun preferred Dave’s cube cakes, while I definitely preferred Peter’s cube cakes. Hermine ended up getting eliminated while Peter was the star baker.
For the finals of this season, it was Dave, Laura, and Peter. We had some opinions about Laura being on the finals but oh well. The bakers were asked to make eight custard slices for their signature bake, eight walnut swirls, and a dessert tower for their showstopper. Both males did well on the challenges and then there was Laura. But anyway, Peter won the season. But I would not have been mad if Dave won since he also did really well.
We also watched two episodes of the latest season – the one that is currently ongoing on Netflix. We think the contestants were interesting. We already have our favorites. And there were already two bakers that I am annoyed with. One of them got eliminated on the second episode – thank goodness. There is still one more remaining. I’m actually kind of annoyed that they didn’t eliminate two on the second episode.
Happy Hour. Nothing more I could have asked for to end a helluva week. The place we went to was called Navy Strenght. Yes, the first time I heard it I thought it was gym. I mean look at the name?! Anyway, it was a tiki bar. I did not see any female servers there. But there were female bartenders. The servers were wearing tight shorts and button-downs. A lot of people were in costumes, I mean Halloween weekend so no surprise. And yes, to say that I was distracted just because I want to see all the costumes was a huge understatement.
I only had one drink. It was called hot needles. It has scotch, gin, wine, and some other things. And they light it up when they serve it. It was pretty cool. And pretty strong. Hence just having one drink. I originally planned on having two drinks but after the first drink hit me pretty nicely, I decided to not have a second drink. I wanted to unwind, not be irresponsible. It would be a different story if I live downtown and I could just walk to my apartment. But no. I still had fun. Ordered some nachos, a musubi steamed bun, and a chicken steamed bun. They were so good. Food prices were pretty good. The drinks were a little bit on the pricier side but after that one drink, I understand why.
So Navy Strength had their Nightmare on Wall Street event. This started from October 1 and will end tonight, October 31. They served some scary movie themed cocktails. I ordered Hot Needles (on the left) which was inspired by the movie The Thing, 1982. It has scotch, aquavit, branca menta, lemon, cardamom, and smoked tea. Two of my coworkers ordered SS Georgie based on It, 1990. And another one ordered The Candyman based on the movie The Candyman, 1992.
I really had nothing else to share. Work was busy as fuck. And really have nothing else to share considering that I was swamped with work.
Today was still a mess at work. Still too crowded for my liking. Sure some left, but they got replaced. And the new group will be in the office until the end of next week. So yay…I decided to eat out again just because I want to not be in the office because of too many people.
I was still pretty busy, with two people out, who actually do a lot of the advanced processes for the team. So I have to do their jobs and then do mine. That meant that I did their tasks, but neglected mine. I will have to work this weekend to catch up on my work. Which is something that I don’t want to do, but also I have no choice.
I’ve been really tired lately. The last two days, I’ve been passing out at night and not waking up early to do python. For the last two days, I just missed my hun’s calls in the mornings. Like actually didn’t hear my phone ring. Same with the alarms. It’s really not good.
My hun and I got to watch some anime today after work. We started watching The God of High School. We watched two episodes. I’m still not invested, however, I am interested to continue still. I am already annoyed because there is a character that I can’t stand already. This is a martial arts tournament so each of them will be an antagonist for another character. I don’t understand why they need to put a contender in there who’s just there to antagonize everyone for no reason. I don’t get it. My hun thinks that this guy will be the main antagonist. And I said, why would they need to do that? When the main antagonist should be the person who is organizing the tournament. The character is unnecessary, in my opinion. Not to mention, this is a tournament for high schoolers, why the hell is there a grown-ass man fighting in the ring?
We also started watching Toilet-bound Hanako-kun. This one is cute. I really like Hanako, he is just too cute. I was a bit judgmental of Yashiro just because she’s only 11 (or so I thought, I just found out right this minute that she is 15 y/o in the anime) and all she can think of is her love life. I was telling my hun, I was not like this when I was 11! And then I stopped because I realized what I was doing at that age. Yeah…I was following this poor senior high school boy around campus, making sure that I was in his line of sight. In my defense, I was younger than most of my peers and I was a freshman in high school then. Anyway, I would definitely like to continue watching this anime. It’s fun.
We got to watch an episode of Ouran High School Host Club. I am pretty vocal about how much I adore this anime. My hun got a little glimpse of Tamaki’s background – why he loves playing these games with the members of the host club. I love him. He’s just so pure-hearted and I love the fact that the guys of the host club love and protect him. It was just so wholesome.
Tomorrow is Friday, thank goodness. This week has been long. I am going to happy hour. I am planning on just doing a couple of drinks and that’s it. Not planning on getting drunk. Just enough to unwind from this horrible week.
I feel so distracted lately. I don’t know. I just want to distract myself with other things than what is important. I need to actually make more time to do some python. 2 hrs 3 to 4 days a weeks is not enough.
I watched 3 episodes of Extraordinary Attorney Woo. That k-drama is just too precious. I cannot even describe how much I think that show is a gem. It made me laugh, annoyed, cry, and most of all think.
Also watched a couple of episodes of Carole & Tuesday. Still cute. And I’m really interested in their journey as a musical duo. I’m sort of invested but also not really. It’s one of those anime that you don’t need to pay too much attention to know what’s happening in the episode. Which I appreciate.
Currently, I have Futurama playing in th background. Planning on waking up early to do my python exercise. And I need to stay up after my 2hr mark is done.
The office will still be crowded tomorrow. Because why not. I hid in my office again and went out to lunch just to stay away from the crowd. I hate it. I just want to work from home.
The office was crowded today. And it will be until Thursday. I don’t want to talk about it. But I will however vent because someone decided to take my office and use it for a meeting while I was in an onsite meeting this morning. I came out of that meeting to find my office occupied and I had to wait for quite a while before I could use it again. I think my annoyance really stemmed from the fact my office keys were in there and my vape. 2 hours without nicotine, yeah, I was irritated by the time I got to it. Then I just kind of hid in my office the whole day since I had work to do. Tomorrow will be crazy since my team will be down two people. And their responsibilities will be on top of mine. I am not looking forward to it.
My hun and I didn’t hang out today. I was not feeling good and now my throat is hurting. So I just had ramen for dinner, and then Chris and I decided to watch an episode of Extraordinary Attorney Woo. And it was good. Heartwarming for sure. The only thing that I was surprised about was the fact that an episode is an hour long! So this is a show that is not for a weeknight marathon. Possibly something to marathon on a weekend though. We also watched two episodes of Carole & Tuesday. Feel-good anime, musically oriented sci-fi. And we enjoyed it. We love the artwork, definitely digital. But good nonetheless.
I was not able to read a lot of webtoons today at work, because I was busy. I did manage to squeeze in some readings though. I will continue to read some chapters tonight. Wake up tomorrow again at around 3 AM, like I did this morning. I was fully awake by 3:30. One thing that I need to change though, I really should not lie back down at 5:30 AM after my allotted study time. Just sit in front of the computer and do whatever. I decided to go back to bed this morning, fully awake, reading, and Paco decided to join me and go underneath the blanket. Next thing I knew it was freaking 6:45 AM. Yeah, not doing that tomorrow morning. Too risky especially with management onsite.