Hi bub!!! Congrats on wrapping up Phantasy part 1 promotions!!! Lip Gloss era will always be so special to me for obvious reasons 🥲🥰 Not only that but I just really love the songs on this part of the album. I hope you can rest a little bit before part 2 starts 💗 Excited to hear all the certified bops you’ll be gifting us in part 2 and 3!!
To commemorate the closing of Phantasy part 1, I baked what we spoke about on our call!! I proudly present, Walnut Maple Buns, a recipe by our fave Claire Saffitz.
I edited together a really cute shorter clip of us talking about this and added the videos of me actually baking it. I’ll post it to weverse and to twitter because I honestly love that exchange of ours so much. 💗 These came out so good and I so wish I could share them with you!! The bread is so soft and the maple caramel adds a really nice sweetness to it. The toasted walnuts are the perfect crunch and added texture. There’s orange zest in the cinnamon sugar that adds a citrus brightness to balance out the sweetness of the maple caramel. It all works so well together.
I want to show you my lip gloss challenge too!! It’s silly but makes me laugh and I hope it makes you laugh too.
So I’ve been commuting into the office again 😭 Thursday and Friday last week was the first time I had to travel into NYC to work in an office in over 3 years. It’s so wild. The subway station that I get off at is the same station that you and Q got lost in during Come On The Boyz NYC lmao. I always think about that when I have to go to work now. It helps me stay calm when I’m uncomfortable on the subway.
Being in the office though is such a waste of my time. I travel 2 hours into NYC and 3 hours home from NYC. My team that I work with don’t even work in the NYC office. Except for my VP who I don’t work with day to day and my assistant that I manage but she only comes into the NYC office 1 day per week. I really just keep to myself. I also leave work at 4pm for the days I’m in office which I like but I’m still commuting for soooo long. I have a check in with my VP tomorrow so I’ll let you know how that goes. For now, it looks like I have to keep coming into the office just so I don’t get fired 🙄 Apparently the quality of work I present and my contribution to the team doesn’t count for much… (sarcasm).. and the only thing that matters is whether I’m physically in the office (also sarcasm) 🫠🙃 But whatever! If the company wants that then fine. I’ll play by the rules and won’t go above and beyond bc that doesn’t do anything for me in the end, does it? 🤪
Annnnyway!!! #KEVIN_RWT!!!! LET’s GOOOOO. Our Kevin Moon decked out and radiating in silver attire WILL see our queen Beyoncé. We are ✨manifesting✨ we are putting it out into the universe. This is happening. We will see photos of you there thriving and living your best life!!! You’ll be there!!!!
I’ll end this letter here. As always be safe, stay healthy and rest well now that this part of promotions are done!! Keep a look out for my TheB-aker video on weverse. I’ll hashtag it with “#TheBaker”. I hope you like the video! I have a lot of fun editing and filming them for you 💗 You worked hard today and I’m proud of you.
Love ya like XO,
Justine