life ·

Autoimmune disease woes and Cool Internet Stuff™

Woman in kitchen image by rawkkim from Unsplash
Photo by rawkkim on Unsplash

I promise I’m not dead yet, even though this blog and my Instagram account beg to differ. My proof of life would be the latest issue I sent out in my Kdrama Girl’s Notebook newsletter. Even though that was sent out first of April, that issue has zero jokes.

My kdrama watching and other creative passion projects are on pause. My fingers still hurt as I type this, but making zero progress on them is making me feel restless. I figured that today, while I’m feeling better, then I might as well take advantage of this time. Autoimmune disease can be such a drag.

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kdrama, life ·

The 3 AM curse of the weekend, a quirky kdrama, Park Hyung Sik, and no, his car isn’t yours

I need to stop trying to sleep early during the weekend, only to wake up at past 3 AM, and then go back to sleep at 8 or 9 AM, body sore and exhausted. Even though all I did was watch a kdrama or two (or a hundred) and then doom scroll through my phone. Anybody else go through this?

As I type this, I have finished the first episode of “Chicken Nugget” kdrama, played a bit of Sim City Build It, organized around 30 out of 7,567 photos in my phone, and had some rice and sisig tofu + Milo. Would I start another study session on Korean language? Maybe. My brain cells aren’t themselves when lacking sleep at past 3 in the morning. Next thing I know, I’ll be contacting aliens. *cue “The X-Files” intro music*

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kdrama, life, reading ·

After Dark Dispatch: Featured frenemies in “Doctor Slump” kdrama, a multi-hyphen life, and yet another story in the making

Photo by Riza Gabriela on Unsplash

January’s closed. A done deal. February waltzed into the scene faster than I could say, “Stop!” For the most part, I still pause every time I type or write “2024.” That’s the general state of my mind this year.

In the past couple of days, I managed to get sick and overwrite my blog. Thank goodness for modern medicine and automated back-ups. I am forever grateful for those two. Meanwhile, I am going to have a talk with my remaining two brain cells.

Also, what do you think of my new header? I have fully embraced my persona as a millennial kdrama girl. 😁 But let’s talk about other things that spark joy and creativity. I mean, the world could have more of those, right?

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kdrama ·

Kdrama report: Mafia game gone wrong, multiple lives, and time travel

Photo by Andrea De Santis on Unsplash

How’s your January going? Mine’s okay, I guess. Sometimes, it doesn’t sink in yet that it’s already 2024. Or maybe it’s just me. Does time seem to fly faster the older one gets?

I’ve been taking things easy on my creative/passion projects. I know I’ve been working too much and too hard, because the number of unread emails in my (personal) inbox shows that. Burnout is real, folks. 10/10 do not recommend. 😅 Now let’s talk kdramas, shall we?

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kdrama, writing ·

Naming one thing + November inspiration, with a side of revenge kdramas

South Korea at night, view of Namsan Tower
Photo by Yohan Cho on Unsplash

November started off like any other months this year: Unassuming. I wasn’t expecting life-altering news, but I also wasn’t expecting this month to be a playground of creativity. I’m not complaining, though. This month, I joined NaNoWriMo. I even talked at length about that here, theme song included. I was excited and ready, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Except that the more November shed its days, the more I realized that I will never reach the 50k word count by month’s end. Will I continue to write “Love % Of”, though? Oh, absolutely. I just won’t be waving my first draft in triumph this month.

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