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[daynr.livejournal.com]

I love cats.

what does a frog use to fish with? a tad pole

[daynr.livejournal.com]

In more self-absorbed news, I made all the bad self-care decisions this week and whew did my mental state reflect it. Bless exercise and endorphins, though, bc a Britney Spears spin class reset me back into contentment. Friday, tomorrow, may not suck.

bragging work has gotten a lot more demanding bc I'm working for the biggest boss, but ... at least he keeps telling me he is happy with my work. I've heard for a couple years about how he's difficult to work for, but my experience has been he is awkward, but he wants to treat people like .... people Like, they've always been super supportive about covid stuff, they give full benefits to everyone, he always invites me to give my thoughts (ugh, like I want to think, pass), and so forth. Maybe it's because he grew up half in France (socialists!) or maybe he's just a smart marshmallow, but I think I like working for a particular, awkward guy who treats employees like full humans over a personable boss who refuses people credit or benefits. I remain a capitalistic, but gosh darn humanity should not be this rare in our system.

Also, I may actually move out of this career on a high note.

[waves-of-light.livejournal.com]

I took my parents to get their first vaccine (yay!) this week at the drive thru site The Forum here in Southern California. The billboard outside was still showing the scheduled concerts and stuff, like Monsta X in May =( Guess some shows aren't officially canceled yet? But like, that's not gonna happen. I can't even imagine going to a concert next year either. I'm missing that high you get when you go to a show.

[aures.livejournal.com]

how did it go with your parents? no side-effects? which one did they get? pfizer?

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy for your parents

[daynr.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind me asking, how did your parents qualify so soon? My family in LA, the over 85s just qualified, but the 65-85 have not yet. None of them have medical factors besides age, but it still surprised me it's been so slow. I thought it would generally be over 65s by now.... (I assume your parents are under 70, because I think you're younger than I am and my parents are 65-70.)

[1100003.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy for your parents! Also what a nice to relief to have them get it together.

[frequency.livejournal.com]

ah, good for your parents! hope they're doing well after that

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

that's so great, congrats to your parents!

i also miss concerts so much :( but i don't expect to attend one this year

[aures.livejournal.com]

hi omona, did you have a good week? anything new?

does anyone here have experience with a dermaroller for face or scalp? if so can you please tell me about it? i'm eyeing a set mainly because i want to improve my scalp (/hair loss) but i would love to use it on my face too but i have no idea if it's worth the money and effort.

any plans for the weekend?
take good care everybody ♥

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

Do you have sensitive skin?
I was curious about it too, but since I have sensitive skin my doctor said I should avoid it
Seh also warned me about infections (since you're basically hurting your skin)

What are you reading?

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

I've been reading a lot (more like a few) of books lately (some for ONTD reading challenge)
January was south korea so I read If I had your face since I saw so many people rave about it. And... I dind't like it.
It's not that it's bad, but it's not good either and I felt like I was wasting my time.

I also read the winterwood (by the author of the wicked deep) and it's just as terrible as the author first book.
A lady's guide to mischief and Mayhem was fun but it was rushed and felt more like a draft than an actual book.
Right now I'm reading the hoursemen serie. I finished Pestilence and I'm half way through War. I quite enjoy it (even if it can be probematic at times).

I'm also reading Harry Potter to mini me

Re: What are you reading?

[aures.livejournal.com]

i was just talking to my friend the other day about picking up harry potter again, but then the audiobooks
does she like story time?

[frequency.livejournal.com]

weekly pupdate, which also happens to be my mood this week:
(https://ibb.co/FKFXbcr)

i've been on sulfasalazine for a week and so far... it seems to be working just the same as my old medication, so that's good for me and definitely good for my wallet. 🤪 (especially since i just paid a 400 dollar credit card bill......)
i've only had one side effect and they tell you right off the bat that it's ~normal~ so i won't worry about it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

i wonder if i'll ever have a normal sleep schedule again. ever since the pandemic started, i basically go to bed at 3 or 4 in the morning and sleep until noon. obviously not a physically healthy habit and it definitely hasn't helped my mental health either. (that's a different subject for a different day!) 🥴🥴🥴

have a good weekend, everyone!

[aures.livejournal.com]

pup looks adorable, is she doing better now?

you got new medication? hope everything will go well <3

[cosmicdaze.livejournal.com]

every week it’s some shit with the churches here in sk. i cannot wait until we get the vaccinations going. i heard they could start as early as after the lunar new year weekend (so after feb 14)!

anyway, where are my atinys at?! the teaser they just dropped has me so excited but so worried now. as much as i always want to see ateez and get new music i feel like now is really not the time for a comeback :(

[daynr.livejournal.com]

Also, I can't read anymore. I'm struggling. I am a reader. but getting past 3 chapters .... I miss it, I want it, I yearn for it.

can we talk about bringing back omona book club. maybe a book a quarter? a month? NO, I don't know how to choose if we don't have straight kpop princess memoir, but I wonder sometimes if I still have a soul if I can't read .... help?

[aures.livejournal.com]

yes! a lot of us here are readers and i would love this!
I think Beni will join too?

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

how are you doing omona? hope you'll have a great weekend ahead of you!

i'm pulling through this week, busy with grading, meeting new students, preparing a new course (for which i already got some cool guest lecturers).. i'm tired! i've been exercising a lot this week which did wonders for my mental health

can't wait for the weekend though! i've had some nice walks with friends this week and more planned for the weekend, including a snack tour in my neighborhood :) also thinking of baking cookies this weekend — food is on my mind!

we're expecting a lot of snow which is exciting but will make cycling and thus getting from a to b will be a struggle the next couple of days.

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

also i've got this one student who failed my course even after his resit who wants to appeal to the examinations board because he does not agree with my assessment of his paper. ughhh his essays are just not explained well but rather than taking up my feedback, he is convinced that he's some sort of amazing writer. i even let a coworker read his resit essay because i started to think i was being too harsh on him but she was like, "nope, i totally understand why he's is doing a resit for this course"

[camouflagecat.livejournal.com]

A guy met off of tinder that was into board games and comics etc had actually heard about not just GOT7 but their contract ending lol. Idk why it's always so surprising to me to find other ppl knowledgeable of kpop in the wild.

Too bad I think my depression is worsening thru this whole lockdown + unemployment period. Having to seek jobs and look thru study places when I have a hard time believing I'm qualified for anything atm. It's also hard to socialize and keep up social interactions let alone get to know new people. I just I have nothing to bring to the table.


I realize my situation is also making a little bitter and envious of other people. (I wrote a whole thing but decided that maybe it's just tmi so I deleted half of this comment)

But basically, rn I'm just living with no job, no study place, no active social circle beside one friend living abroad and another friend who only contacts me when her bf has other plans, and I've thought about trying to do some side huzzle online with art commissions, but my creativity has taking a really big hit so I can barely draw stuff anymore. The people around me all have at least something going on for them in their life.
I realize that bc I feel so unfulfilled in my life rn that I pay more attention to these small things that weren't problems before. Also been thinking how this corona situation also forces everyone to work/study at home so the social interaction I need in my life wouldn't prob even be there. And on top of it all my skin is breaking out like crazy as if I needed that rn.

It's just hard to stay positive instead of being bitter that my life is in this situation.



On a COMPLETELY different note, has anyone any tips to preparing banana peels to eat (that improves their taste)? Other than a smoothie.

[a-suitcase.livejournal.com]

I am also struggling with depression, and lockdown has made it so so much worse. I wish I could say something that might help, but I'm just sending you lots of sympathy <3.

[imahurricane.livejournal.com]

the marketing team just dropped a bomb and said we need to do rebranding and it should be done by next month. my team’s work is already crazy without this!!! i keep having to postpone our daily work cause there’s always something urgent coming up. i hate that my boss always wants things in an instant. they don’t care about the process ugh. i’m tired.

[em-cavey.livejournal.com]

Hi omona, hope you all have a good weekend lined up!

Unfortunately a couple of my friends are being really disappointing, I need to vent and this place has no overlap with my irl so here we go


I had plans this weekend to meet with a few friends for the first time in a long time. Seoul currently restricts personal gatherings of more than 5 ppl but there’s four of us so we were okay. Then just today, one friend casually mentions that she recently went to a goodbye party for a different friend who’s moving away and there were like 15 people there and they ate together. She said she felt “guilty” but she also wanted to send her friend off. Her friend’s moving all of an hour away btw 🙄 There was recently a case that got a lot of news coverage where a family of 12 or so met up for a birthday party and like 9 of them got infected. Plus a (pregnant!!) friend of ours recently contracted corona from another friend that had also been somewhere they shouldn’t so we know this shit happens but for some reason she just thought it’d be okay?? People casually assuming the rules don’t have to apply to them like this is part of why we can’t get this pandemic fully under control and the lockdowns keep getting extended, it’s so thoughtless and selfish and ugh I’m so disappointed in her. She just doesn’t seem to grasp the basic problem, she’s like yeah I know it was risky and I felt bad but we’re all fine so nbd. She’s not at all stupid so I cannot understand why she is being SO FUCKING DUMB


She’s another close friend and I’ve known her close to half my life. But we don’t talk as often as we used to esp since we’re on different continents/time zones now. Over the last couple months or so though when we talk she’ll sometimes bring up some bizarre stuff that seems like she should know better than to believe. A while ago we were talking about the US election / transition / inauguration and she just pops up with “okay but how do we really know the election was fair? It feels like there would be so much opportunity for deceit.” She’s not even pro-trump at all so I was just like ???? And then a few days later she’s like, “I heard a rumor that Biden’s planning to resign in like a year so Kamala can be president” and I’m just like 😳??????? She’s not leaning into this stuff, it’s more like I just heard this but like where the fuck is she hearing this from? It’s kind of freaking me out bc I’ve been lucky enough so far to not have anyone close to me really fall into “alternative facts” or conspiracy theories or the like and I did not expect this from her. I don’t know what my role or obligation is here or if I even have one. I don’t know if I’m just overreacting or really what to think at all. I’m kind of dreading our conversations now bc I’m afraid she’s going to say something that’ll make me lose a lot of respect for her.

Sooo with all of that, I’ve been thinking maybe I need to realize that even if we’ve been good friends for 10-15 years, I may not know people as well as I thought and it sucks to confront that 😔
....

That’s a bummer to end on so here’s the best thing I saw this week and I’ve been sending it to everyone I know who deserves joy:


May we all one day attain a fraction of Nonoka-chan’s poise and confidence.
Happy weekend!

[a-suitcase.livejournal.com]

I have a fb friend who I used to be real life friends with about 10 years ago, and she's been posting anti-vacc stuff and things about COVID not being so bad and it's just blowing my mind. I can't be bothered to engage with her, because I haven't talked to her for a decade, but it surprised me that she got caught up in this nonsense. (also personally offended by it, seeing as my wife is in a death-adjacent profession and has buried to many people this past year).

[greasetastic-x.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I feel like the only person that doesn't find wonho attractive. I want to share the excitement but it's just a nah from me dawg. Besides that realization


I'm finishing up my first week of my last semester of classes in professional schooooooooooool. I still have an entire year of clinical rotations to complete after this semester but no more class and exams every few weeks? sign me up

[a-suitcase.livejournal.com]

Heh I am also decidedly Not Into Wonho, so I just skip any posts that include him.

[dior-chic.livejournal.com]

I checked my statsforspotify page like I usually do and yesterday shocked me since so much changed!

I might ramble so I’ll put under a cut:

- how I noticed was I looked at my top 50 all time listened to songs. Big Bang’s Bang Bang Bang has been the bane of my existence, it was at #3 or #4 for forever and I’ve been working hard to remove it. I got it down to #10! So to my surprise, I wake up and see it’s gone 😳 I was like wow, did they change it to if you delete a song they won’t keep it on the list anymore? I was excited it’s gone lol but I was like how? But then I looked at the rest and a bunch of more recent songs appeared and some others dropped off!

- then I head to top 50 all time favorite artists and that has been really changed up too! BoA is rightfully now at #3, BTS had that spot but I haven’t listened to them consistently in years so they dropped to #13. Still kinda high to me but I’m glad they’re out of the top 5. Red Velvet dropped to #5, which I was waiting for since Irene’s scandal I just not into listening to them right now. It wasn’t budging for awhile so I’m glad they dropped a bit. But now the top 50 includes much more artists that mean a lot to me (though not perfect. Sophie is one of my all time favorite artists — their death left me shaken 😞 — but they’re passed up by Stray Kids? A group that I like two songs from?? That really doesn’t seem right to me. So now I’m just gonna stream the hell out of Sophie to pass them up lol)

- I was wondering why songs and artists I listened to predominately in 2015-2017 was ranking much higher than stuff I listen to now. Sure my library is much larger now than back then so some songs might not get replayed as much since I have more options, but even then I stream my music through Spotify way more now than I did in 2015-2017. My library was smaller since I wasn’t using the app as much as I do now. So my theory was some of the tracking was frozen or considered ‘not genuine’ streams or something. But I’m glad whatever update they did reflects more of what I listen to now in the last few years. Like Heize I’ve streamed so much of her work but she’d never appear on my top 50, but now she has a solid spot. So if it was tracking properly she should’ve appeared awhile ago

- Despite the update and the lists looking more accurate now, they still didn’t remove the Twice duplicate trackings on my top 50. Like hahaha I know their name is Twice but I feel like this could’ve been a good opportunity to remove the duplicates. Oh well they’ll drop off eventually

- Gfriend is in my #9 which now after their controversy I don’t want them there since I’m done with them currently. I wonder if I delete their discography will they drop off. I’ll have to test that later. If they don’t, it just means groups like Big Bang I stopped listening to them enough that they finally fell off due to lack of streams.

I know none of this matters but idk I find this stuff so interesting!

[a-suitcase.livejournal.com]

I love this kinda stuff!! I wish I still used last.fm or some other listening tracker, I used to love looking at artist counts and everything like that (I don't use spotify unfortunately).

Also, Sophie's death was so shocking :(. She was a visionary.

[theweebdream.livejournal.com]

Do yall remember way back when there was a hot takes post and we all got to criticizes our faves in the comment section? I just want yall to know I think about that all the time and we’re long overdue for another one 😏

[dior-chic.livejournal.com]

Oh yea I have one I’ve been waiting to say haha! It’s towards Kpop fans in general though so idk how hot of a hot take it is

[violoncelliste.livejournal.com]

I've had a week off so i finally cut off my hair which actually made me feel a bit better.
i was also very lucky with my vacation timing because my boss has been feeling under the weather since Monday but he kept coming to work and only admitted today that something's wrong. he already did a covid test and tbh considering he has a runny nose it's probably just a cold, but you can't be 100% certain in a freaking pandemic. he's so fucking stupid, it's not the first time he didn't tell my team that he was in contact with a covid positive person so we continued coming to work and meeting with older family members. i wish i didn't have to handle this professionally because he's a selfish dick.

has anyone seen sweet home? i'm watching it rn and i like the music and editing, but i wonder if there will be something more to the story other than fighting monsters? tbh i'm getting kind of bored and i'm not sure if it makes sense to continue.

it's getting warmer here and the sun even appears from time to time, which is doing wonders for my mood. I've been depressed for so long it doesn't register most of the time, unless i have a good day. then i'm like 'oh wow so that's how i should feel". i can't wait for spring.

[rosiemotleymind.livejournal.com]

Hi Omona. Also happy Black History Month!

Today I got my first vaccine shot today. I don’t know if the migraine I have is normal migraines that I get it from it but other that I’ve been fine.

What been hurting me is my tooth and the dentist I decided to go to that took my insurance is terrible. I’m at this point of not waiting for them to comeback to me and finding a new one because I’m tired of being in pain. I’m just afraid the next dentist will tell me the same thing and I end up having to wait again for insurance to go through. It sucks and I wish everything was faster than what I’m dealing with. I’m ready to yank my own tooth out 😂 have a good weekend everyone.

[hozrien.livejournal.com]

Howdy! I haven't posted here in a hot minute.


I'm trying to find a korean music video which is of a woman singing and it has her kind of edited into scenes from old historial movies/dramas. It's a couple years old I'm pretty sure and I don't think it's from IU?

Would anyone know what I'm talking about? D:

[dior-chic.livejournal.com]

Lizzy “not an easy girl”?

[babyjenkski.livejournal.com]

Happy weekend Omona! I miss old school kpop and I remember watching this Chuseok special. I watched again and still laughed so much