Vitamin D and Banh Mi
Picnic Journal #26
Hello and Happy Lunar New Year!
We celebrated at home this year for Seollal (Korean Lunar New Year) and enjoyed tofu and zucchini pancakes, beef barbeque and delicious noodles. I am so excited about all of the things 2023 will bring and I hope it brings a lot of luck and joy to you too. I am actually just mostly excited about dressing my baby in anything with a bunny on it (my favourite animal). Fun fact! I had a childhood pet rabbit named Maisy (named after Maisy mouse obviously) and she was my archenemy for a good chunk of my adolescence.
We went to Vietnam!
My doctor told me that I have a Vitamin D insufficiency (not to be confused with a deficiency) so I have been snorting lines of vitamin D powder for a few weeks. Luckily we had already booked a trip to Vietnam which helped immensely with my lack of Vitamin D and also helped with my Banh Mi deficiency. I actually didn’t eat any Banh Mi because the meats looked super sketchy and, as a pregnant woman, I had to play it safe. This was my first time going to a resort and I am now a resort person. I didn’t know it before, but I know it now. I thought I was a cultured traveller ~ the gallery-hopping, photo-taking travel type. No. Fuck that. I want a pool, I want a beach within walking distance and I want to float under palm trees and swing in a hammock.
10 Things I Will Be Doing Instead of Reading Prince Harry's New Book
We can all agree that this so-called ‘book’ is a cry for help. I will be abstaining from all things Meghan and Harry by finding ways to be more productive in my own life. Here’s what I’ll be doing instead:
Get an extra hour of sleep every night for a week
Watch Ratatouille in reverse (a devastating documentary about a culinary prodigy rat floating away to the French countryside to live with a new family of rats in an old cottage)
Make a family-sized portion of tortellini and eat it alone in my bed while doing the New York Times crossword puzzle (let’s face it, I was going to do this anyway)
Buy a new eyeliner and never use it because I just don’t get it
Try to read through my university thesis without feeling physically ill (impossible)
Finish making my design portfolio that has been incomplete since before I was born
Attempt to go for a jog in minus six degrees Seoul weather while 5 months pregnant
Reply to my YouTube comments from 2020
Take up Swedish lessons on Duolingo on purpose (we’ve all accidentally been there after an exhilarating IKEA visit)
Buy a beginner’s crochet kit and make little rabbit toys and force my baby to do milestone photoshoots with them for the rest of his life (you bet I will be doing flat lay photoshoots with my son on his first day of university)
What I’m Watching
Little Women (2022)
We started watching this Korean drama this week and oh boy is it full of mystery and so many questions. I haven’t finished it yet but it’s a very new style of Korean drama for me. I don’t feel like I’ve watched this before and that is exciting. I also can’t binge-watch it because of the tension so that is also doing wonders for my productivity.
Whiplash (2014)
Whiplash is a stressful rollercoaster of a film but in all the good ways. It made me want to practice my flute for the first time in ten years but also reminded me that I absolutely despised music class and orchestra practice. Such a great film and I don’t know how I had never heard of it.
An appropriately unhinged recap of Gossip Girl (Season 1) - Mike’s Mic on YouTube
Good news! We never have to rewatch another season of Gossip Girl ever again because Mike’s Mic has us covered. If you’re a GG fan, watch this! If you’ve never seen it, I envy you because you get to hear the plot lines of Gossip Girl for the first time from Mike’s Mic’s perspective. I also recently listened to Conan O’Brien fangirling over GG with Penn Badgley on his podcast and that was another fun moment.
Latest Video
Watch my latest YouTube video about week 12 of my pregnancy! I am working on editing my pregnancy videos, a Vietnam travel video and also a day in the life at my new job (I got a job, yay, more on that later though). It’s rough looking back on these videos because I was so exhausted but hopefully, my content will get better soon! Thank you for supporting my channel and newsletter and I’ll see you in the next posts!
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