The Problematic of the Unproblematic

Anne: Happy Tuesday Everyone! So...quick update on the hurricane that came through Texas. Truthfully, it was a tiny one, and I was lucky. Never lost power, and the trees didn't fall onto the roof. Unlike the poor people two streets down from us, they lost power for over 6 days. Even though it hasn't been as hot immediately after all that rain and wind, after 5 days, it is un-livable without air conditioning.  Anyway... I haven't posted in a while due to a variety of reasons, of which work was just one little constant annoyance on top of my short attention span. Besides my binge watching of the short YouTube dramas, I've also been watching a lot of variety/talk shows. And it's the latter that has been giving me lots of entertainment lately. A lot of these shows that I watch talk about relationships and married life. Granted the couples are in entertainment, so... I tend to take what they say as more entertainment and may not be the full truth. One of the things that

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers! Hope everyone had managed to find something interesting to watch in the last two weeks or so. I spent the last week or so binge watching the Thai BL dramas from 2022. It all started with my YouTube feed, as with almost everything else that snags my attention, where one day a clip of Dangerous Romance  popped up. I don't know why the English title is as is, because the actual drama was about high school/college students. It started as a BL version of Meteor Garden, with the bullying more reminiscent of the Taiwanese version. This led to me being immersed in a second This BL drama, Cutie Pie , which has a very cliche premise, an arrange marriage, between the two MLs. The drama has very positive messages. I enjoyed both quite a lot, although I did FF some melodramatic sections... 😋 At the end of this binge watching, I now am listening to the sound tracks in my car... Ok...enough about my diversion into the non-current dramas. One reason I waited until today

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers! Ok...I was going to post a pictures of the error message that I've been getting for the last THREE days that I was attempting to download the Minecraft launcher for my son.  Why? Because he is doing a Minecraft summer camp, where I'm sure they do nothing but play Minecraft all day... But he needed the Java version of the game (apparently he can't use the version on his tablet), and he needed this multiplayer mode turn on. Understand Microsoft is our corporate OS, I use this thing ALL day long. And I know how to search topics online. I can find almost any information. I even fixed my stuck freezer using Google. I was fairly confident. But THREE days later, I was pulling my hair out, and I CANNOT figure out why the launcher isn't downloading, and I couldn't figure out how to turn on multiplayer mode. Now... why did I say I "was" going to post the error message? Because, today, I called my brother for help. I swear the ONLY thing he

Anne: Happy Tuesday again drama lovers! I've just spent an entire weekend with a sick little boy, and almost no sleep. At 1am in the morning, I heard a thump, and we thought he fell off his bed or something. We walked in to a bed partly covered with throw up and a large part of the side of the carpet... I don't know if he had food poisoning or a stomach virus. And that started a near 36 hours of every two hours of repeated stomach upsetting scenes. I don't think we ever got the smell completely out.  Well...you would think that would be it...but no...after he felt better, I ended up being taken down by something. Also stomach related. The little boy was very sweet after school, telling me that he will make me feel better...I just need a snuggle buddy (in the form of a "creeper"), a blanket, a couch, and TV. Of course, a few minutes later, he asked me to fetch him a juice...me with my tummy still in a riot. At least my issue didn't last as long, and was much be

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers! Hope everyone had a good week last week and, at least, caught some interesting dramas. I've spent the last week binging watching a couple of shows to the end! (I have a patience problem with shows. I hate waiting.) In addition, I've started my next "house" project. Here are the bits and pieces that are currently completed. Most of the prep work for the "stuff" are done, and I'm starting to put together the actual frame for the house. Now...if I can only make this in real life! (Truthfully, I don't know why I even want like a courtyard with plants/flowers and water features, since I'm allergic to pollen and I unintentionally kill living fauna.)  Ok...enough of my hobbies outside of my work...let's wrap up my drama viewing of the week. Blossoms in Adversity I started this a little over a week ago, and swept right through all the episodes, which was a total of 40 in under 10 days. Yes, there was some FFing. My over all

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers! I have not posted for a few weeks. The time is slipping really quickly from week to week. Last Monday, I was with 3 other adults and 1 seven year old as we stared at a cloud covered sky, hoping for a peek if and when the clouds would part a little. This was the last peak of the eclipse before the cloud completely obscured the little bit of sun we could see. At least the light was still visible through the clouds, so we saw the darkness fall. We didn't go very far and was prepared for the cloud cover, so it wasn't unexpected. The experience was still pretty ok. Now, let's take a quick look at the dramas... In Blossom The saddest thing about this whole entire drama was the death of our 2nd ML, who ended up finding someone who loved him as much as he loved Cai Wei. Even at the end, I am still not convinced that Zhou Lan Jiang loved Bai Xiao Sheng. I'm pretty sure he liked her enough. I'm thinking that if he did live, he would have spent his li

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers! Well...the year of the dragon is proving, once again, bringing challenging situations to fellow dragon year born people. Ok, I'm exaggerating, but we are only getting close to April and already have issues where I'm bleeding money to the Universe. On top of that, I feel like my intelligence is going the other way. Basically, I watched myself do the stupid thing as I'm doing it, and knowing that it was stupid, but still doing it anyway. As soon as I hit the "ok" on the change password, the little voice inside my head said...oh...you shouldn't have done that...  Yes, I locked myself out of my work laptop for the entire weekend. Besides dealing with my brain spacing out in my "old" age, let's move on to the shows that I've watched these past weeks. In Blossom I'm all caught up to episode 16 and the love triangle, which, is almost a square, is making everyone antsy. The last "case" with Gu Shan, that was pr

SHUK: After the last episode, I am ready for some sweet times!! Trotwood: After the last episode, I am ready for some Ji-won badass times. Like I'm ready for her to go all Rurouni Kenshin on these people. Why is it just judo? I want weapons. I want her with a sword. EPISODE 10 Weasel has a screaming hissy fit at home, until he is smacked around by WeaselMom. They yell at each other until even I am annoyed. (But at least someone was getting smacked)  Weasel decides to bolt for Ji-won’s place and pound on the door. Ji-won opens the door. Except, it appears she has moved. She is actually opening the door to Sunny and Boss. (I really liked the directorial decision to do this. It really rewards viewers for paying attention and for being emotionally invested--with almost a jump scare because we really don't want her to open the door to him. Really, the relief I felt from this trick)  Boss Tree is lugging a massive amount of paper products and a couple bottles of laundry detergent. Al