Lately I haven’t prioritized my blog and writing daily like I normally like to do. My list of topics I want to write about has been growing faster the days elapsing, which is pretty cool, huh? It feels like life has had one thing after another these last couple of weeks, both good and bad. It has been wonderful finally having the whole interior of the house painted (as it looks and smells way better after the kitchen fire) but it has created a lot of house work with packing and moving, and unpacking belongings in addition to the usual requirements. That said, I’ve been running and went to the Wildwood Trail today for over 12 miles to avoid the sun and get some time jogging. Marathoning again this year is tbd, but feels great to try to stay in good shape nonetheless, especially for the Cascade Relay coming up which I’m joining upon invite!

The Oura app finally gave me my chronotype and body clock since my last post. I am officially a “morning type” based on its assessment, and supposedly my ideal sleeping time is 9:53pm, midpoint at 1:53am, and awake at 5:53am. It’s kind of cool to know this. My Oura sleep stats have worsened the last week or two as I think the scores are more calibrated to my baseline rather than the generic person, although I am very fortunate to sleep mostly well most nights. My weekend scores are invariably better with not waking up at 4:45 am. It will be cool to see more as things progress.

Also, I rarely watch TV, but now that we have a TV in the bedroom mounted, I started watching and listening to the sitcom “Kim’s Convenience” when folding laundry and puttering. It’s about a Korean-Canadian family running a convenience store in Toronto. It is hilarious! And has the cringey, ridiculous style humor of The Office, which I love. I never even knew about it. I guess most Canadian TV shows just aren’t very popular here in America? Since this family is stereotypically Korean-Canadian, both in the show and real life, it is full of their own good-natured Korean and Canadian stereotypes. Now how about some kimchi bulgogi beef bibimbap with my ketchup chips and Molson, eh?