monday

I JUMPED 16 JUMPS!!! Ha. Jumping rope. Well, really “skipping” rope. And 16 might sound like nothing, but for the past month I’ve been stuck on 5-6. It is HARD  for me to get this body up and off the ground. So I’m really happy with 16.

Sixteen rope skips today. New York Marathon tomorrow (or maybe the day after that).

tuesday – December 1

I’ve done a couple days in a row of bouncing around so today is yoga. Oh, I put “ON” to the side. For now. I was struggling to even follow that easy-peasy looking tutorial and in looking around for another one (Boy Band Choreography for Dummies Who Are Also Fat and Old and Awkward and Can’t Remember Two Things at the Same Time) I heard two different people say that the ON choreography is some of the Very Hardest to learn. Ugh. Of COURSE that’s the one I picked, ha ha. So, now I just bounce around to that one (cuz the song is still incredibly energizing) and I’m trying to learn this other one that has more “moves” and less “jumping around.” At the very least I’m on my feet and not on the sofa for a little while every day.

PS: it’s December.

wednesday

I’m sorry that Week in Review has once again become a grocery list of what I do in the house every day. It’s part weather and part covid. I’m just not doing much out in the world right now.

By the way, has anyone seen my black turtleneck? I set it aside a couple weeks ago to handwash and I haven’t been able to find it 🙁

thursday

This week has thrown me off so much because I worked in the office two days in a row!

Thank goodness I’ve got some views where I live or these days I would never see anything pretty.

friday

An unspectacular day.

saturday

Rainy day at home catching up on some blog work. Watching the dirty dish pile grow both vertically and horizontally.

sunday

Thank goodness for Sunday Funday so you guys have something besides my trees to look at!

Brunch! It was freezing! We were the only dummies sitting outside! But we’re also not getting covid, all you indoor-eaters! FYI: Caramel Cinnamon Apple Pancakes. And lovely lovely bacon.

We walked up and down Main St and in and out of little shops and art galleries. Christmas is coming so I bought myself a couple little presents 🙂 Mainly pretty smelly things for the apartment: a new scented oil for the diffuser and a reed diffuser for “this end” of the apartment. The diffuser is on the tall dresser in the bedroom which is probably 2/3 of the way back from the front (living room) and the scent from the diffuser mostly wafts towards the back (towards the kitchen) and I barely smell it here at the computer even though I’m only 10′ from it. Weird. Now I just have to find a spot for it where Janey won’t knock it over. Cuz knocking liquids over is her passion in life.

This was an exhibit of art created during quarantine. I especially liked this little lake scene. Here’s what the creator said: “The first few weeks of COVID-19 lockdown I was too consumed with the news to paint. I then decided I should be more productive and escape a bit from the negative world and decided to resume painting. My subject matter was places I have been that I remember feeling relaxed in. So, I looked through my many photos and chose a few and realized they all had something in common which was water and they all had a reflection in the water. I thought this is a good time for self-reflection and a time to slow down and a time for myself. Instead of allowing the isolation of the pandemic to take over my life I now had my painting to look forward to.”

Twinning.

Apparently “Frostbite Sailing” is a thing. Who knew.

Kyle.

Town is all Christmassy. I’m already behind. As usual. Can’t Washed Dishes be The New Christmas Tree??

WHAT I’M WATCHING

All I can, between the hours of 9pm and 6am, pretty much. I’m trying to limit the series dramas to the weekends cuz there’s just too much “just one more episode” enticement for worknights. So I’ve been watching movies during the workweek, as I’m (usually) able to limit myself to one per night so that’s just two hours. Except for the nights I watch two. Then get in bed and scroll through TikTok for an hour. Then am reminded of a series I’ve been watching on my phone that’s broken up into like 10-15 segments so I say “I’ll just watch one or two” HA HA HA HA HA and the next thing I know it’s light out and I go to sleep for an hour before the alarm goes off. It’s insane.

Anyway, I did watch three movies (oh alright, and one short 4-episode drama) this week I would recommend if you’re someone who will watch a movie with subtitles.

I always liked watching foreign/subtitled movies for two reasons: 1) the subtitles FORCE me to pay attention. There’s no peeking at your phone or doing anything other than staring at the words flashing on the screen, or you quickly lose the thread of the story. And 2) I have some trouble hearing the tv – even at high volume cuz that’s increasing all the ambient sound as well so I still struggle to hear/understand what the actors are saying.

What’s funny with the subtitled movies…obviously, I can’t understand Korean (or Japanese Chinese Thai etc), but when I can’t really HEAR them clearly, I still turn the volume up. LIKE I COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY WERE SAYING IF ONLY I COULD HEAR THEM BETTER 🙂

Anyway:

Us and Them. I’m going to say all three movies were touching…but this one was also so sad.  That’s my movie comfort zone. If I didn’t cry…well, why did I bother? Netflix called it emotional and romantic, which seems a little white-washed to me. This one shows the evolution of a relationship from teens to adulthood – how relationships weave in and out around one another, around events.

Always

Gritty. Sweet. Sad. A little dark. She’s blind and charming. He’s an ex-bad boy “loser” trying to turn his life around. He makes an incredible sacrifice for her. That’s all I’ll say. I never want to give endings away.

The Beauty Inside

This was so…so…lovely, quiet, gentle, sweet, sad – all those good things. The premise is this man wakes up every day looking like a different person – young, old, fat, thin, male, female. And he meets a woman. And how they manage this impossible situation. It sounds silly. Like a Kate Hudson Matthew McMonaughey romcom…but this was done so quietly and sensitively, not as a silly joke…you feel like it’s a perfectly believable but oh so challenging situation. If you were only going to watch one of the three, I recommend this one.

what i’m reading

I read something somewhere that I wanted to share with you. But what that might be? I have no idea. I did order two books. Even though I have several small stacks around the apartment waiting to be read. But maybe something new will spark something.

WHAT I’M LISTENING TO

Same. Nothing new. Well, a soundtrack to a Kdrama I have watched twice. But…

First December week. Wow. Three weeks til vacation. But I have a 3-day weekend next weekend so that will break the time up a bit. It’s 5:30 and I’m yawning so much I’m crying. I only had 90 minutes of sleep last night. Want to wrap up early and go to bed soon.

Night night sleep tight.