Happy Friday! Today is National Dress in Blue Day (for colon cancer awareness) and Day of the Dude, which commemorates the release of The Big Lebowski. I adore that film. If I were ranking the hardest I’ve laughed in my life, the way I laughed the first time I watched it would be in the top 5%. I roared. WM bought me a Dude sweater a few years ago and I’m wearing it today. I have a few Zoom meetings, so we’ll see if anyone notices. Maybe I’ll even make a White Russian later!
It’s also National Employee Appreciation Day and I bought e-gift cards for my team. Now we wait and hope TNP’s spam filters don’t flag them.
I usually write these Friday intros before work and answer the Friday 5 questions in the evening. Now that it’s later in the day, I can tell you that nobody noticed the sweater and all gift card emails were received.
Let’s hit the Friday 5: this week’s theme is Rising Sun.
- How confidently could you find Japan on a globe?
Even though I am terrible at geography, I’m 100% confident I could find Japan. I probably could not point to Tokyo if it wasn’t labeled. - Many words from the Japanese language have made their way into English. Which have you used recently?
Emoji for sure. Hibachi. And Pokemon, since it just had its 30th anniversary. - The idea of wabi-sabi is finding beauty in imperfection and transience. Which imperfect items in your home do you absolutely love?
That’s a tough one. Having been in this house for almost eleven years, the imperfect things (cracked patio slab, somewhat-broken screen door, etc) get on my nerves. I don’t like broken, patched, or distressed items. When I see people take lovely furniture and artificially age them, I get a little pissed off.
But we still have Ollie’s old bed in our bedroom. It’s been sewn together a few times and has definitely seen better days, but I have good memories of sitting on the floor mending a torn seam while Ollie supervised. The puppy responsible for those tears is now the mature dog who sleeps there. - In Japan, punctuality is legendary. On a scale from “Five Minutes Early” to “Fashionably Late,” where do you usually land?
I used to be late all of the time but now I’m a fifteen-minutes early kind of person who is annoyed by other people’s lateness. - Which notable people of Japanese ancestry do you especially admire or appreciate?
As I was reading this aloud to WM, he suggested Mako, who was a trailblazer for Asian-American actors. He took the small, stereotypical roles that were offered and gave them dimension and dignity. He also founded the first Asian-American Theater Company in the United States.
And that’s it! This weekend will include the scintillating task of deep-cleaning the kitchen. I’m going to clean the fridge, the “Three Phases of Water” triumvirate of the countertop ice machine (solid), the Brita pitcher (liquid), and the Keurig machine (steam=gas), mop the floor, poke at the oven, and clean the counters.
On the crafty side of things, I’ll be finishing small Easter basket ornaments for Mom’s Easter tree and I’m stupidly excited to see how they turn out. I even sculpted tiny chocolate rabbits out of air dry clay. Who am I?
(copy/paste from last week) I also have four people I need to text because I want to do better at keeping friendships up and running. I can’t always be shy and wait for someone to reach out first.
Enjoy your weekend! Back Monday with Valentine cards!
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