Week 264 for Fashion Schlub. Week 3,132 for Bettye.

MONDAY

Bushwick, Brooklyn 2010

I’m working from home and just made a little scallion omelet. I have never been able to make good eggs. I feel there’s a fine line between overcooked and undercooked…and my eggs are always somehow BOTH.
I will share this little cooking tip that has proven very useful. I LOVE chives/green onions/scallions, the greens cut up into food. But I’d buy a stalk, use a very little bit of it and the rest of it would turn into a refrigerator science experiment (aka MUSH) before I could use the rest (it’s not like I use them every day). I saw this on TikTok (how did I LIVE before??). As soon as I get the scallions home, I slice the whole stalk up pretty finely (I’m not a patient chopper so things are never as fine as they could be) and put all the little dices into a mason jar with a lid and put into the freezer to freeze. Now, for weeks/months afterward, whenever I want to add some scallions to something, I just shake a few out into my eggs, baked potato, grilled cheese, etc, and the warmth of the hot food thaws them almost instantly cuz they’re so small and fine. Ta Da!

TUESDAY

Bushwick, Brooklyn 2010 – when I used to like to go for walks around the neighborhood

Oh my gosh, this is hysterical. I follow a vlogger named Dave Desci who does kpop reaction and review videos. MOSTLY he talks about BTS, sort of sifting through the predominant gossip of the day, dispelling it, confirming it, or just giving his opinion of it. It’s like low-key E-Hollywood but it’s just one guy in his house with a very narrow entertainment focus. I love it.

ANYWAY. Part of yesterday’s YT video was about how Army’s (BTS fans) were upset by Kim Taehyung’s UGLY CLOTHES!!! Ha ha. After me just saying how inspired I am by his style! Well, I’m happy with my opinion, to each his own, but I just found it so coincidental and funny.

Also, I always read things like this, people making critical or unkind (or worse) comments online about celebrities…and I just always hope THEY don’t see it. Cuz who needs that? Do they (the celebrities) really spend time scrolling through every social media platform looking for references to themselves, probably not. But still. Things have a way of trickling down the grapevine and why say something that’s going to make someone feel bad?? Ugh.

WEDNESDAY

Bushwick, Brooklyn 2010

Well, all good things must come to an end. Partial work from home is ending and in April I will return to the office M-F. Oh the anxiety.

Goodbye, Partial Respite from Humans. Goodbye, lunchtime showers. Goodbye, staying in bed til 7:50am to be “at work” at 8am. Goodbye, jump rope and stretching breaks. Goodbye, nice lunches. Goodbye, music all the livelong day. Ahh, so many things. So many goodbyes.

Other changes at work happening at the same time, so…trying to prepare for the anxiety. I don’t really know how one PREPARES for anxiety. But.

Sigh.

THURSDAY

Bushwick, Brooklyn 2010

Man, I’ve had a lot of boring days lately. I’M not bored. Left to my own devices I am NEVER bored. But this must be boring for you cuz I’m just not doing much. Even most of the pictures are recycled.

FRIDAY

Lower East Side, NYC 2010. Geraniums.

High Point of the Day: It’s Friday. Let’s just leave it at that.

SATURDAY

SCORE! I switched up my jump-rope training this week, and rather than just trying to go as long as I could without missing (record of 39 still holds), I decided to do 5 sets of 10. For a week. No “as long as I could” attempts. Me being the physical fitness expert that I am, this seemed a good method.

Today was the first day I did all 5 sets of ten without missing at all! Woohoo! Is this new technique making me stronger overall? I dunno. In theory it should be. Is a week long enough to make a difference? I dunno. Tomorrow is the last day of the week. And Monday I’ll give “jump as long as I can without missing” a try again.

Note – I do this 1-3 times a day, depending on work schedule. So over the week so far I’ve done this routine 11 times. If I’m off, I can do it once in the morning, again early afternoon, and once more early evening, and my legs have had enough time to recover and give me their best effort.

Anyway, yay me.

SUNDAY

Meat Farms, Northport, NY – grabbing chips and a sunset

A stay-at-home day. I slept late cuz I was up late. It’s drizzly and grey so I don’t feel like going out. Got an Instacart grocery delivery. I have a bunch of clothes to shoot for try-on hauls and “what I bought” and a styling session and it’s already 3:24 and I don’t wanna.

Sometimes I just want to tell stories.

WHAT I’M WATCHING

I watched this kdrama this week – My Mister – but the specific series is not important, I wanted to talk more about “giving things a chance.” I watched Episode 1 and was like, oh, this is not my cup of tea. It was dark in an underworldly sort of way and office politics and there were way too many people (I don’t even like that on tv!). The next night I thought oh alright, give it one more try. Nope, definitely not for me. Plus it’s moving SO SLOW, ugh. I’m moving onto another one. The next night I started a different series. Oh, it’s all high-school kids (sometimes this trope works for me but usually it doesn’t) but it’s already late and I don’t want to spend time deciding on something else, I’ll just watch Episode 3 of My MIster and go to bed. Next night watched a movie that was good, but was over way too early for me to go to bed already…I’ll just watch Episode 4 of My Mister and tomorrow I will definitely pick something else to start watching. Episode 4, OH. Okay, Episode 5, OH MAN. Episode 6 I’M HOOKED AND IN LOVE WITH HER AND HIM AND HIS COWORKERS AND BROTHERS AND THE PEOPLE AT THE BAR AND EVEN THE CREEPY LOAN SHARK WHO KEEPS BEATING HER UP AND THE GRANDMOTHER. Everyone was delightful. And the story was so good. And the ending was not what you hoped for in a typical “love story happy ending” sort of way, but it was strong and realistic and made sense for them and left a door open. It was all Just So Good.

I know no one’s watching this series (ha ha) but the reason I’m sharing the story is to say how much I would have missed out on if I had given up in the beginning just cuz it wasn’t “my jam.” I’m as guilty of this as anyone. I make very quick decisions about liking or not liking something – movies, music, people, books, clothes. My first natural reaction is almost always NO. But sometimes if I can let go of the No long enough to give a thing an actual chance, I find I do like it after all. Not always, certainly, but often enough to remind me to Give Things a Chance….and sometimes even a SECOND chance.

Sermon over 🙂

I also watched Oscar contender Minari. ANOTHER Korean movie, you ask? No. It’s an American movie about a Korean-American family struggling to attain The American Dream. It’s nominated for all kinds of things at the Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay. It’s already won a bunch of Best Picture awards. I liked that it didn’t use any of the usual Asian stereotypes. This was a Korean-AMERICAN family. Living in America. I feel they were portrayed genuinely and honestly and it was good.

I thought Steven Yuen was very good – and I’m glad to see the accolades he’s getting. It’s like kharma for being killed off so brutally from The Walking Dead (that scene still haunts me), ha ha.

I have not seen or even heard of any of the other films that are nominated. I didn’t even realize there really were films released in 2020. I was under the Covid rock.

WHAT I’M LISTENING TO

One Million Roses by Ko Woo-rim. Oh, you’re gonna laugh. This is a song from My Mister, so…it has an endearing affiliation for me with one of the scenes and the characters. The first time I heard it in the show, I was like what the heck is THAT? It sounds like something your parents would have danced to in the 1970s in the den after dinner and the kids would have all been grossed out. But it has grown on me and now I find it delightful. The funny thing is, the main character, Park Don Hoong had this dreamy, deep voice…and at first I was sure it was actually him singing the song. It was not.

The End. See ya later love ya bye.