7:03am: Wow hopefully my first non-whiny woe is me blog post in quite some time will be playing out today because we are officially on our way to Chicago to see Taemin!! I am sitting upright, in a car, outside of the house! I’m wearing makeup! My hair is done!

SHE’S ALIVE.

I did bring a mask to wear tonight though because I still have a slight cough and I really don’t want to chance spreading this amongst my fellow Taemates.

Anyway, on Friday at work Sue sent me that picture of Taemin and I thought it was so sweet of her, it made me giggle because 45 year old women can still giggle stop trying to suppress our joy. God.

7:44am: I just ate a tropical fruit cup from Sheetz, and a protein bar. This is the most nurishment I’ve had in a week. I feel so powerful. It was also super weird walking into a store after being a sick person shut-in for a week and a half.

Super M bag full of Taemin freebies! I’m so excited to pass these out! Been going to kpop concerts once 2017 but this is baby’s first freebie participation event.

9:42am: somewhere in Ohio, gross:

Not much is going on. Listening to Taemin and reading “The Trunk” a Korean novel. It was adapted into a kdrama on Netflix and I wanted to read the book first before watching it.

11:20am: we are STILL in Ohio because the snowstorm had us doing a steady 40MPH so we’ve made no progress. But it’s given me lots of time to reminisce about my years as a Taemin fan and one of my favorite/dumbest memories is from when we landed in Korea in 2019 and my literal first order of business was to find the Taemin birthday billboard in the Hongdae subway (hats off to my friend Jiyong for finding out its general vicinity for us beforehand!). We were all jet lagged and exhausted but I was like NO MUST KEEP LOOKING until we finally found it and then I made Chooch stand in front of it which pissed him off because “girls were walking by” lol.

12:34pm: Chooch waited until just now to ask me if I have any recent pictures of him he can use for LinkedIn “wearing business casual or something”. Um excuse me would he like me to photoshop him into a sweater or something because why would I have a picture of him like that when he refuses to wear anything nice?

I asked him if we could just take some shots when he comes home next month for spring break and he goes ITS DUE TODAY LOL.

Jesus Christ. I told him to just borrow a button down from a friend and get a girl to take his picture because I cannot help him when I’m in a car in Indiana. (Are we in Indiana yet???)

1:11pm: I always guess the same person first on Spotle everyday and today it was finally that person so I got it in one guess and Chooch, surly in Philly, said, “wow ur so cool.”

1:46pm: Ugh we just stopped at some disgusting 7-Eleven that had next to no veg options, got disgusting cornbread as a confession and immediately passed it off to Henry because NOT WORTH IT. The biscuit from whatever “Roost” is was disgusting too. The guy working there had to go in the. Ack to get me butter and when he came out the swinging door hit him in the stomach and he was soooo dramatic about it, leaning against the counter, hugging himself, repeating “the door hit my stomach ow” several times and I said, “oh no, aw” to him and then whispered to Henry, “does he want me to rub it for him or what??!”

Anyways fuck American 7/11 honestly. It’s such a great example of how LESSER THAN America is to other countries just based on convenience stores alone. I could have dined heartily if this was a Korean or Japanese 7-Eleven but go off with your nasty ass taquitos, US 7-Eleven. Barfarama.

I even started to loudly complain about how IF U DONT EAT MEAT, YOURE LESSER THAN and Henry was like, “Well yeah, in Indiana at least.”

Ugh don’t defend 7-Eleven, CarnivorHank.

2:49pm: Just left HMart with food and beer praise be. Checking into our hotel in a few minutes and mukbangging our faces off.

3;31pm: WE CAN SEE IT FROM THE HOTEL WINDOW.

Adding candy!

You guys. This place is adorable.

Free cookie during “pineapple hours!”

Also here’s the beer lineup we procured at HMart. I’m obsessed with the Gumiho IPA ever since we got some for Chingumas and was so happy to see them at this HMart!

You guys I am sooo ready. Also excited to go downstairs in a bit and get our free beers because Henry is a VIP somehow.

4:39pm: I had this when we were in Chicago for Riot Fest in 2023 and FUCKING HATED IT. I guess my palate has been conditioned because now I find it to be quite delightful.

Also!

5:08pm: there are people behind us at a table not from America talking about how fucked America is and I want to go sit with them and ask them to take me home with them.

7:08pm: Hey I’m posting this now because we’re inside the theater and it starts in like 29 minutes so ciao ciao for now now.

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