The Problematic of the Unproblematic

Anne: Happy New Year, Drama Lovers! It has been a crazy last few weeks! And just in time for the end of the 2025. The nine year old came down with some odd stomach issues that went on for a good 4 weeks and the cause remains elusive. After the symptoms were controlled with medication, we started to take detailed notes to find what could be the food trigger. Well... nothing was really found because he's all of a sudden, fine now. So my most likely conclusion was a stomach virus that probably disrupted the gut flora, and it took a while before it finally got back into a good balance. So...sigh, at least no more throw ups at 2-4 am in the morning. (Yes, I have superior hearing... and my husband never hears anything...)  A new year has started, and as everyone who has noticed in 2025, I have watched very little traditional dramas. Not a lot has caught my attention, or if it did, I will only watch a few episodes before losing interest. Despite this, I am still hopeful that 2026 will be ...

Anne: ...Another month has passed since my last post... And K Pop Demon Hunters became the number 1 album for a week. The phenomenon of this thing continues to amaze me. And the songs continues to invade my home and ears. Not that I mind too much anymore... I mean it is K pop... so... you know... I can always find a way to like it. If you are in the US, Halloween this year fell on Friday... and we went out dancing at our usual spot. What I did not expect was how freaking long the line was at 9:30pm. The line wrapped around one city block. We have gone to the same place for Halloween nearly every year, not always on Halloween night obviously, but I'm pretty sure we have been there on another Halloween when it fell on Friday night. I seriously do not remember looking like this... (Picture is blurry as I took this as we left a little after 12:30am... And the line is only about a third of the way. You can't see the club because the end of the building is on the right.)  The line di...

Anne: Happy Tues...ah...Thursday Drama Lovers! (I started this post on Sunday... took me FOUR days to finish it...)  How has it already been over a month since I last posted? All of my days have been filled with all sorts of work issues and work stuff, sucking all my motivation for drama watching out of me. I've been discovering that the more stress I have at work, and less likely that I want to spend too much time watching dramas that are longer than 4 hours...yes, my attention span has now been significantly impacted by YouTube videos. Couple this with my bad memory...which I attribute all to stress. In order to find some interesting outlet at work (and to give myself some thing else to do instead of stressing out about things that I cannot solely control, I've started a weekly puzzle contest for our global team. The funny thing is... I always thought I would be pretty good at these, and I swore I seem to remember that I did quite well with these when I was in high school...b...

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers! It is another week, and school has started again! Unfortunately, the little nine year old did not have the best first day at school. There were a bunch of miscommunication and the school sort of "lost" the little person for about 40 minutes. Basically, everything that could fail, did. There are several option for release of the students, and apparently, someone forgot to look at the electronic permission form I submitted in it's entirety, and made an assumption that wasn't true. A little fright, but at least everyone is safe and sound at the end. (The second day went much better.) Now...while I am far from the type of person to believe in anything supernature or otherworldly (I mean I expect when I die that I would just disappear), I do tend to correlate a lot of events with karma. During the meet the teacher event on the Friday before, a little girl, who couldn't have been more than 3 or 4, stopped right in front of me as we walked out t...

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers! It's been over TWO months since I last posted. Now...what have I been up to since then. In the early part of July, I went to Netherlands for a work trip. I swear...I don't know what weird cloud of luck that surrounded that trip...but it was a trip full of all sorts of "kinks". First, when I was booking the flight, I thought I got a great deal: business class for under $3000, round trip. Well...it has been a while since I traveled for business...I didn't realize that I landed in Reagan and had to take off from Dulles. Situation 1 : Yep, I didn't realize that I had a connection that was in two different airports. (And I live in HOUSTON, where I've advised OTHER people to watch out for the exact same thing.) And how I found OUT, was after I wondered around for 45 minutes in Reagan trying to find a gate that didn't exist. Yes, you've read that right, it took me FORTY-FIVE minutes! Now, the good thing was I have a thing about a...

Anne: OMG it's been over a month since I last posted?! Where did all the time go?  It's a stupid question...because I KNOW exactly what has been sucking up the minutes and seconds of my day.  WORK. Nothing but WORK. Well... and also the depression after I saw the ending of The Demon Hunter's Romance ...seriously, was that ending really necessary? The stupid obligations to your clan type of thing... This was the same crappy thing that ended The Rise of Phoenixes . At least I knew the latter had a different ending in the book. However, I am too lazy, and BUSY right now, to even track the down the actual ending of the former. I have enough stress in my life with MY obligations, I don't want to spend time watching a show that keeps reinforcing that concept. I don't want my entertainment to mimic my life, I want to escape from it! 😈 And this is partly why I've been so drawn into the short dramas on YouTube (and I see a LOT more skin on those then the traditional one...

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers, it has been quite a few weeks since I've written. And it is all due to work and the craziness that is surrounding my life. Have anyone ever been in a competition with your co-workers at work for a position? It wouldn't be so bad if one of the competitors is someone whom I cannot stand. I'm making contingency plans while also figuring out how to make my application and myself stand out among the others. Sigh... I really am not looking forward to this process when it starts.  Now, enough of my problems. In the middle of the whirlwind that is my life, I did manage to catch a new drama that I was actually waiting for since last year, when I saw it was "upcoming" in the list. The Demon Hunter's Romance   So... we all know why I clicked on this show... the ML is played by Allen Ren! It has all the elements of my genre. Fantasy with crime solving.  The story centers around Ban Xia, the daughter of a fairly wealthy family that was "sent ...

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers! How did all these weeks go by so quickly?! After dealing with a lice infestation and a bad case of the flu. And all the other crazy things at work ... I am tired. Yes, you read that correctly... Lice! Now, I was always under the impression that the school nurse checked these things. It was this way when I was in elementary. I guess a few things changed in the last 30 years because I never saw any notice. And here's how I found lice in my son's hair. About 4 months ago , my son asked me what lice was. Told him that there were many different types , and the ones that little kids usually get live on their hair. Now, I still have no idea why his teacher brought up the topic. I certainly didn't get any notice or note from the school. So, this talk about lice made the boy thinks that he has them. To be fair, I did look at his hair. But because I thought the school would send me a note, I didn't look that closely. So, a few months go by, and in late J...

Anne: Tuesday morning and this is what I woke up to in South Texas... And yes, the entire city pretty much decided to close because we can't handle this weather. Remember the whole electric grid failure in 2021? Good thing this won't last more than like 2 days. Any longer and we would be in trouble again. But it was very cool to see my son with a look of astonishment and excitement when he saw snow outside his bedroom window. And in completely inappropriate clothing...(I mean who here would have any appropriate clothes unless skiing was a sport for the family...and no, don't get me started on on why I tried skiing once and hasn't tried it again)...he made a snow angel. He quickly changed all this clothes after this activity. This will be a quick post as I only watched one show this entire time. Under the Moonlight This was a surprise for me. I stumbled on this not through any of the apps. The reason that I started was simply because it is a period detective story with a...

Anne: Hope everyone spent a great new year's! I, on the other hand, had a great new year's eve.. And ended up sick for the next two days. I still can't tell if I caught something or it's my usual sinus infection due to bad drainage and being allergic to my general environment. At least everything is back to normal...to a point.  Is it my imagination or did the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 just dumped a bunch of new dramas all at the same time? Blossom How great was the ending? It was one of the most complete ending of a drama in recent years. And how glad am I that our silly Ji Yong turned out to be a good guy after all. A real A-hole for all the scheming that he did, but I guess, it goes right with his character build up. He ended up still going into the monastery. While I feel a little sad that not everyone made it to the end, the characters did follow their paths based on their character setup. While it is also sad that some of these people, who could have c...