🍣 WIR: 2/9-2/15

best day of this week: 2/14 obvi

Feb 26, 2025

i initially thought that this would be the easiest column for me to keep up with but boy was i wrong lol.

this is massively overdue and i accidentally skipped january entirely but nevertheless i am persisting, so please enjoy 💋

READING: Solanin by Inio Asano

Solanin is a manga about a 24 year-old girl who’s pretty much having a quarter life crisis for no real reason. me asf! the author/artist created this when she was also 24 which i loved.

the main themes of the story are immortality through memory, the relationship between freedom, boredom and death, and happiness in the ordinary. isn’t that sooo relatable? ok maybe just me. but anyways, you should read this.

EATING: turkey and cheese lol

for someone who’s scared of pretty much every form of protein, you’d think deli meat would freak me out but (un)fortunately, i am a deli warrior 🙂‍↔️

of COURSE i did stop eating it for 4 months after finding a piece of cartilage in a slice last year but i am recovered and back on the turkey train.

u will never catch me eating sausage tho

also, it feels remiss not to mention that i also recently went through an american cheese era 🧀 and have some recommendations:

🏅 best: whole foods, from the deli counter
🥈 reliable: whole foods, from the fridge section
🥉 worst: trader joe’s brand - do NOT eat this

PLAYING: mind games

i’m just kidding but i think my future sister in law is torturing me psychologically 🙂

she named her first born after me (changing only 2 non-essential consonants) and in the same breath suggested chris and i seek help for our weight problem.

safe to say, i’m less than thrilled but i’ll spare you the rest of the details.

OBSESSING: over finding a specific dress

i know i’m probably being so annoying about this but i literally cannot stop thinking about this Zimmermann High Tide Mini Shift Dress.

chris and i are getting engaged soon (!!!!!!!!) and since my engagement ring will have a yellow diamond, i would love to wear something yellow when we take photos. i’ve had my eye on this exact dress for over 2 years 🙃

but like everything i like, it is a) originally $1,200, b) so last season aka sold out everywhere, and c) borderline impossible to find second hand for a reasonable price.

putting this into the universe so maybe the cosmos will decide to side with me and i can find one on poshmark for an amaze deal 🙏

RECOMMENDING: going to Uchiba!

chris and i went to Uchiba, sister restaurant to Uchi, for valentine’s day this year and LOVED it. so much so i felt compelled to make the shitty collage below 😍

their tasting menu was so fun and i only skipped one course (the pork dumplings bc i do not eat dumplings or pork lol but chris loved them!)

fun fact, i used to do social media for uchiba! and their head chef is one of the only american sushi chefs to have actually trained in japan which is pretty cool.

TREATING: my spine deformity

how lame. but i’ve been having some pretty consistently terrible back pain since high school and finally convinced a doctor to take me seriously and started physical therapy! never have i ever been prescribed a massage before so if you have recs, LMK.

i’ve also been dabbling in reformer pilates and despite costing my life savings, it’s helped marginally with the pain so i’d say that’s worth it 🤝

that just about sums up my month. february is one of the worst months of the entire year imho and valentine’s day is barely enough to make it worth it. but alas!

here’s to hoping march is amazing 🍒