Counting down the minutes until I can get off work ... Only 65 minutes left :-D I am so ready for my vacation!
Happy Friday to you all!!

'Tis the season to be a good pal and help Dame Judi get her sparkly tracksuit as her xmas present this year! 

Do a friend a favour and head on over to @leetennant's page here: https://www.dramabeans.com/members/leetennant/ and hit like on as many of the comments and fanwall posts you can (for example, all the ones you can spot on page 1 at least). Hopefully, this will help bring her into the good books of yeDBgods.

LT: eyes, fingers and toes crossed - hope 2020 ends on a glittering note for you!!

Awesome week - Good profits and then we have Test Cricket the best Cricket.
2 good days spend watching 18 hours of live but lively days of Test Cricket. Very much like life. Its when almost no one around me knows or watch cricket and when i watch the less liked form of Cricket.
I won't use the buzzword minority for myself for this little trivial fact but it amuses me how someone not sees the beauty of life in Test Cricket.

I love Run On, True Beauty, Awaken, and Cheat on Me If You Can.

Run On, with our elfin Im Siwan once again carrying the emotion and power of the story, like Misaeng. He commands the stage, wow.

Awaken, also wow. But I’m curious, if someone kidnapped you and had surgery performed “for your good” (with no recovery time or side effects, yeah right), would you be okay with it? I mean, when Jamie finds out that it was Jung-Woo’s doing, she basically just said, “Oh, it was you?” and continued the conversation like it was no biggie. What? Still, I’m intrigued by the laboratory school and, of course sucker-wielding Jung Woo who cannot be the culprit.

True Beauty isn’t bad as a web-comic-made-kdrama. I grew to like Cha Eun-Woo as one of the new season’s cast on Master in the House. He carries his weight on that variety show. I like his steady acting as the cold, popular high school guy who hides his hurts well. Gosh, bullying over looks runs deep. Handsome bad boy Seon-Joon has his own burdens that he covers with his tough image. I’m liking this. Best line, “You shouldn’t play around with someone’s pain” (Im Ju-kyung).

Cheat on Me If You Can is outstanding. Yeo-Joo makes everyone stutter simply by her presence. And how can Woo-Sung be so bad at something he thinks he is so good at which is cheating? He is a stuttering fool over everything because he is trying not to get caught or he thinks he is caught. I love the dynamics of everyone’s relationship with Yeo-Joo. Actress Cho Yeo-Jeong is totally amazing!

Lee Seunggi is a featured singer on this week’s Sketchbook, so adorable! Singer, actor, variety entertainment celeb, and remember when he was and MC on Strong Heart? He has one of the more amazing careers at 33, I just read over his movies and dramas, what a super achiever! His reputation is spotless, too.

Next, for those who want a nice surprise update on Kim Ji Hoon, he appears on Home Alone. He reminds me so much of Orlando Bloom with his flowing locks and totally fit body (**fangirling**) – this may call for a rewatch of Stars Falling From the Sky and Flower Boys Next Door (I kinda miss the kdramas of those days). Ji Hoon, you’re looking sooo good!

So I’m happy with how kdramas are ending in 2020 and leading into 2021. Wishing you all a happy Christmas as we try to find ways to celebrate without some of the usual gatherings and travels. I know even office parties aren’t happening this year, as it is doesn’t seem like the right thing to do with COVID-19. One friend said her boss had lunch delivered to each of the employees and they zoomed for an office holiday lunch from their homes where they are working. Another friend will be one of the first to receive the vaccine this coming week as an east coast ER doctor. So, hang in there, let’s sprinkle some cheer where we can, and let’s support each other with prayers and well wishes all around. Onward and upward, and a merry Christmas, beanies! ♥owl

The plague has gotten scary enough here to make me stop going to the local supermarket (which I was doing only about once every 5 weeks) and try their "ship" and "deliver" options. Both worked. For those who haven't been doing this all along, some detail in a reply.

Wow! I finally made it.

Happy OT everyone. Now that the festival season is here there's so much to do and so much drama to watch. Am currently watching ANGEL EYES and so far am enjoying it. I missed Ku Hye Sun.

Hi all:
Hoping everyone is safe and healthy.

Dramas:

Kairos -- one of the best time thrillers. It has a bit of an issue with repetition with Mom being in danger and nobly idiotically not telling what she knows. But i can deal with it. I am so hoping our heroine ends up with the guy who obviously loves her. Drama better not hook her up with hero since they hardly have a relationship, father-friendship notwithstanding.

Mr Queen: So much fun! It's got what i want in sageuk (scheming old men, machinations and counter-machinations, masked heroines looking for secret documents) and what i want in a comedy. The actress is adorable!

Please don't date him: Good but it's not quite grabbing me.
Goddess of Revenge: Good but not quite grabbing me.
Cheat on Me: Good but am not feeling it

True Beauty: Love the gender role tropes reversals. I forgot how much i love sexy bad boys. I like Cha Eun Woo but am hoping his acting skills improve. Models usually take a while to become good actors. But if Lee Soo Hyuk can become a great actor, which he has become, then CEW can as well.

Run-on: I am loving this. Perhaps because in theory i do like oddball 4D male characters. (In real life, they can wear down the soul but in dramas they are downright charming.) There's such an innocence, sweetness, and a purity to Im SiWan's persona that few other kdrama actors have.

Alice in Borderland: an okay jdrama but not nearly as good as Liar Game because they didn't really play with the puzzle factor as much as they should and they didn't allow room for the audience to play a d puzzle things out. Am hoping when the kdrama Round Six arrives, it'll be fun and puzzly.

Might try Wacko At Law cdrama.
Awaiting: Lovestruck in the City, Sweet Home and Futmalls

Have a great weekend, all.

Beanies, hello! The end of the year begins its wrap up, and I sincerely hope that everyone gets some much-deserved rest and time to enjoy the things you love.

I'm frantically trying to finish my sister's present in time for Christmas. One sister's is done, the other's is somehow taking too much time. No way I'll get them framed in time, but I at least want something to wrap. The best laid plans, and all that (and my own poor choices for prioritizing episodes of Run On, Spies, and Schitt's Creek, I guess).

I'm seeing the pictures in the new of people getting their first vaccines, and so I want to give a special shout out to our Beanies and Beanie family members and friends who are healthcare workers, first responders, teachers, essential retail workers, cargo shippers and couriers - and to everyone else who makes up such an important part of our communities and who is carrying far more than their fair share of the burdens of 2020 on their shoulders for our society. Thank you! It's not enough to say that, but thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Wishing you all a happy weekend ahead. Stay well.

Happy Friday!

I'm finally back home after, what, 355 days? I'm isolating for 2 weeks but hey, atleast I can holler at my family from upstairs and wave at my parents when they arrive from work.

Speaking of work... It's keeping me and my team on our toes. This week I got so engrossed that my dinners have turned into midnight snacks (but I'm snacking on fruits at dinnertime). Le sigh.

Anyway, that's it for my short update. I'm gonna continue watching episode 2 of Run On (Im Si-wan is cute and his character is adorably weird, I'm kinda into it). Kinda disappointed that Uncanny Counter won't air this week and hoping that the next episodes of Mr. Queen are as funny as the first two.

Hope you all have a great weekend, Beanies!

A new beanie here 🙋‍♀️
My beanie level is 'candy' and I have no idea what that means. I tried to understand it by searching through this page but didn't come up with anything relatable. It would be great if one of you can explain it to me.
Thank you 💕

I have only three work days left this year and then I'm on vacation! Yay! I work in the hard-hit aerospace industry and layoffs and shortened work weeks have me dividing my time between two of my boss's companies four days a week. Unfortunately while most of the others have less work to do because of orders dropping in half, my load as Quality Administrator does not lessen. So it seems I should be less tired, working fewer days, but in reality I am trying to cram so much in that shorter amount of time that I am exhausted. I'm really looking forward to my time off. I'm not seeing light at the end of the tunnel yet because if Bill Gates and his ilk have their way, we'll be kept in lockdown until 2022 until everybody in the world is vaccinated. That's what he said anyhow. But you gotta do what you gotta do.

TGIF! I have two weeks off! I have a giant list of dramas to watch, hope to get through most of them.

Have a good weekend!

You can't imagine the ridiculous things I hear everyday at work. A patient came in this week saying they didn't believe in hand sanitizer. What do you mean you don't believe in it? It's hand sanitizer. It exists. I'm holding it in my hands. What is it? A value? A moral? No, it's like saying you don't believe in computers or any other inanimate object. But I'd get fired if I said everything that comes to my mind. So it's just gotten to a point where I say nothing, internally roll my eyes, squirt their hands, and carry on. So, yes, we're a year into the world with Covid and people in my side of the world still can't get over hand sanitizer because this threatens their rights somehow. Geez.

Hooray I’m on holiday till next year! I am looking forward to relaxing after tomorrow when I have four events to go to 😔 who planned that?!

It’s been a pretty unpleasant few weeks in our household with broken limbs and horrifying dentist visits and restructures at work....so I’m looking forward to a bit of a break and hanging out with the family.

More pleasant has been LSG releasing a whole lot of live versions of his new songs - I basically live on YouTube at the moment, I guess you never really grow out of being a fangirl 😅 (https://youtu.be/pCIrvxluyc0 .....just one of many)

Hello Beanies! Happy Friday! I hope you're all well and looking forward to the end of 2020 as much as I am. (I realize Jan 1, 2021 is as arbitrary a day as any other, but hope springs eternal and all that).

I'm very late to this, but I'll probably do some holiday-specific baking today. Anyone have any cookie recipes to share?

I just started watching Run On and kind of love it so far. I'm a big fan of Im Siwan, and especially his work in Misaeng, so I got a laugh out of the fact that my Beanie level right now is "Jang Geu-Rae."

Morning, beans!

The most exciting thing that happened to me this week (other than the crazy @pickleddragon bean count I had when I logged on this morning - sparkly tracksuit incoming!) was that Fangirlverdict posted my long love letter to the School Nurse Files.

I'm so excited by this and if you haven't already you should go and have a read and let me know what you think of the show and whether you agree or not.
https://thefangirlverdict.com/2020/12/14/guest-post-the-school-nurse-files-an-alternative-lens/

Hello beans *waves*

It's the third week of the last month of the year. I hope everyone had a good week and a good weekend!

And....join me watch Kairos~ only 2 episodes left. I'm not ready for it to end 🥺😭.

ps: @db-staff can Sungrok image be included in the open thread or WWW banner image folder too? ☺️

Spent last week mildly sick, at home, with my mildly sick kids. Being back at work today was an awesome taste of freedom, even if work itself was a killer. Going into Christmas week, I feel work will be like giving birth; Breathe and push through.

However, the week wasn't a complete waste. Finally finished FFX for the third time and began FFVII (this time on switch) for the nth time. A real shout-out the the Nintendo Switch, the parent-gamer's wet dream. A pause, just a button away, anytime, anyhow.

I'm not sure I like RUN ON quite yet, but then Im Shi-wan smiled in ep 2 and now I just have to follow through, no matter what.

Happy weekend Beanies and keep Beaning On!

In order to start a career well, one has to start off with a blunder of the magnitude that will make sure people can tease you until you retire. Facepalm and laugh along with me as I share that crowning moment of my career.😂

My boss has been showing me around inside all our software programs and assigned some cases for me to solve to put all that formation theory into practice. I had to consult the cases that I could find inside my personal task basket on our main software, but I had to solve them on paper because I am not qualified yet to use the software without supervision. So I opened case after case in my basket and wrote down my case solving strategies to present to my boss for correction this morning.

While working on them this week I realized pretty quickly that my boss had given me more than double of the amount of cases she had originally decided on and that they were also a lot harder to solve than what we agreed on. Despite finding it strange I tried my best, but even after working overtime I had to give up and admit to my boss this morning that it was impossible to finish everything. Her confused reaction and some investigating quickly confirmed everything.

It turns out that instead of selecting cases from my personal basket I had been selecting cases from the wrong basket. You know, the huge never-ending one that contains all the yet unassigned and unsolved cases in the country... 🤦‍♀️ Selecting one of those cases means you assign yourself to solving it, without knowing what kind of case you will get. In summary, I got my share of practice this week by solving every available case in the country except the few I was explicitly told to solve.😆 Luckily my boss could fix the situation with a few mouse clicks, after laughing uncontrollably at my blunder first for 5 minutes straight.🤣 At least it broke the ice?😅

Hi Beanies! So glad to have gotten through another week!

The pandemic situation is pretty dire where I am. It's even worse compared to when we first started.

I'm looking forward to the results of the KBS Entertainment Awards next week. Rooting for the 2D1N cast and crew!