10 March 2023 – Yes, I know . . .

I missed a day. I did mean to blog yesterday (honestly), but then I was watching dramas (and doing a jigsaw) and by the time I decided to do it, it was gone 1 am, so too late anyway . . .  and I didn’t really have much to talk about.

The dramas I watched were Kokdu: Season of Deity, which is a very silly Korean supernatural romance and features another really annoying female lead, who is so incredibly stupid for a doctor that you can’t help but wonder how the hell she qualified. But I’ve seen most of it and it’s quite fun – although it’s just reached the end game, so it’s suddenly gone a bit dark and intense. I then went back to Warm on a Cold Night, which is still just about maintaining my interest. I do quite like the lead male’s performance, but I’ll be honest, I really want to watch something with Zhang Binbin (Vin Zhang) because I miss seeing his pretty face.

The most important thing to happen today was that the last batteries on my Christmas plant fairy lights finally gave up the ghost. I can’t remember if I mentioned the plant before (I should have done at least once) but I’ve been having a running battle with the batteries for some time now.

So, to recap, the Christmas before last my line manager bought me a plant which vaguely resembles a Christmas tree but is only about a foot high. It had a string of 10 yellow lights on it but looked so weedy that I added another 3 sets to give it something like 150 multicolour lights (possibly overkill given its size, but who cares, they look pretty). I changed the batteries (3 x AA per set) just before Christmas last year, so they were festively bright, but by January they were beginning to wane again. However, instead of replacing them as most normal people would do, I decided to leave them on to run the batteries down completely before changing them.

And thus began my battle with the batteries because I was torn between wanting pretty lights again and a sudden obsessive need to know just how long they would hang on (all the colours but green had died by the time February arrived). The answer was 57 days of the lights being left on for 24 hours a day, which just goes to prove that when we replace the batteries as soon as performance dips we replace far too early.

This morning I realised that the only light still visible during daylight was the 1 hanging by the container, all the ones on the plant itself were so dim they could no longer be seen. I finally got to change the batteries and it looks pretty again.

1 sad light all alone on day 57 and the full glory of new batteries

I haven’t got any further with Hogwarts Legacy, but I am intending to play it this evening, as soon as I finish this, as I feel I’m finally getting somewhere and want to press on and get my Room of Requirement up and running. I also have a side quest to meet Sebastian (another Slytherin 🐍) and practice illicit spells with him 😉 – honestly, he’s such a flirt.

Before I go, I want to say a very happy birthday to my BtoB best boy, Peniel, who is celebrating today.

Happy birthday, Peniel 🎂🎁🎉

It’s also the first anniversary of Tan, who wowed me with their debut track Du Du Du. They have released a special anniversary digital mini album called Essege, and dropped this MV for the lead track, Fix You, of which part was originally an intro on their first EP.