Who will love my ironies?

Would you look at that, it's Friday again! Work remains utterly insane. All In was great. I think Wednesday was probably the last nice day of the year that we're going to get, so I made sure to fit a good half hour of deck time in before I scampered back inside for a solid Dynamite. It hasn't been too cold since, at least, just grey and windy and muggy. Could be worse. Will be worse. For now, I will paint my nails in bright fluorescents to hold onto some summer vibes for a little while longer.

I am insanely tired, but I'm sucking down Red Bulls so I'll be good to go for Buddy tonight, then a Clue/Cars throwback double feature tomorrow morning. THEN I will be able to sleep again, three-day weekend, baby!!!

Oh yeah, there's also an EVE show going on right now that I'll need to watch tonight, I almost forgot! Kris is their champion now, so I am invested.

( Album #529/1001: Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) )

Something a little more recent for today's lunchtime joshi match, Syuri vs. Megan Bayne from All-Star Grand Queendom for the IWGP Women's Championship back in April! I strongly feel that this was the best match of a very great night of wrestling, though that just may be my Kurara haterade leaking through. English commentary in exchange for Megan's entrance music being muted, though, boo.

I made it to Friday! Everything at work is still insane, and it's a chilly, rainy summer day, but I'll have some British women's wrestling waiting for me when I get home and I think I will order myself some expensive takeout for the occasion, so I just gotta tough it out for a few (seven) more hours.

Have purchased tickets for local fringe shows tomorrow, as well as the EVE and RevPro PPVs, and All In is included in my illicit VPN-assisted MyAEW sub, so I'm all set for the weekend. I should take a bath tonight, too. Bath and Wok Box and wrestling, mmmm.

Resisting the urge to self-soothe with shopping and buy a bunch of stationary shit and become a washi tape person. Resisting for NOW.

11. What Are Some Recent Moments of Happiness in Your Life?

How recent are we talking? I'll keep it to a few months, since most of them are gonna be vacation-based, and those marked the gap where I stopped updating here. Seeing Weird Al in Montreal for free, singing along to The Saga Begins with thousands of other people. Taking a train MOST of the way across the country, sometimes with Mennonite women randomly singing a few rows behind me. Clark Connors damn near throwing himself in our laps at Redemption. My grandmother telling me that she 'doesn't care about Minions' when asking me to move a picture in front of her TV while an ad for Toy Story 5 played. Meeting El Phantasmo in Vancouver. When the WB logo came up at the mystery movie and I realized it was Coyote vs. Acme. Getting to see Francesco Akira jump off a ladder on a random Wednesday in Edmonton. It's the little things!!!

Finally, a nice summer day! Likely one of the last in this, the shittiest summer on record since that time it snowed a foot in June, so I shan't waste it, I'm gonna hit the deck with a book and Hangman's new playlist the INSTANT I get home from work. Since Dynamite is pre-taped tonight, I should get an extra hour out there before I duck back inside and order myself some Indian food. Hooray!

Work remains dizzyingly busy, and one of my techs quit last week and has not been replaced, so I don't really know what I'm going to do with all these sold units. Dolly Parton and Tim Curry back-to-back is brutal. I should probably get back to the grind now!

9. What Food Would You Like to Judge in a Taste-Off?

PEROGIES.

Insidious 6 was not good, but I had a good time with it, even if we were almost late because of the constant insane traffic due to all of the construction all down the highway. Shotgun ghost lady ruled. I need to take a couple of days away from all the large buttered popcorns, though, oog. The twin tanks that power me are overflowing.

It's Friday! Monster of the Week game tonight! Bob Odenkirk on InfoWars last night! Much to be excited about!*

My plans for the weekend include attending a public stream of the rebroadcast of the final Tragically Hip concert for the 10-year anniversary of the last time Canada was united as a nation, RIP Gord, and then a trashy Mutiny/The Fast and the Furious double feature as long as I can find someone willing to pick me up from the theatre at midnight, since the buses don't run that late.

7. What City or Town Most Captures Your Imagination?

Pretty much any one that isn't this one will do it. Although we're technically neither city nor town!

*Even if I remain devastated at Nigel having to drop out of Death Before Dishonor because of his ankle. IF HE RETIRES AGAIN AT WEMBLEY, DOES THAT MEAN HE'LL NEVER FINISH HIS TRILOGY WITH LEE NOW??? Their iron man match from last year is easily Nigel's best since coming out of retirement and I almost cried when he gifted Lee his old pure rules belt! Whatever happens or doesn't happen at All In, I really hope they still get their final battle at Final Battle.

WHY IS MY OFFICE SO FUCKING COLD AGAIN? I THOUGHT WE HAD MOVED PAST THIS. Ugh, fuck air conditioning forever. It's already been a shitty rainy summer (while the rest of the world burns for a change) and it's even more consistently miserable inside, this fucking SUCKS. It's time for another colourful McDonald's Red Bull mixed drink, I think.

Visiting my grandmother and then going to see Your Name tonight, which means I will either be missing Dynamite or staying up very late to watch it afterwards. It's probably gonna be the latter, let's be real here, I gotta get my Continental Cup fix in, especially since I've also gone and double-booked myself for the ROH PPV on Friday.

5. Do You Think You’ve Forged Your Lifelong Taste in Music?

Mostly, I guess? But just because something has already been forged doesn't mean it can't be further tinkered with forever, I'm still finding new shit that I unexpectedly click with on the regular.

Today's lunchtime joshi match is, since I've been all about last year's 5*STAR Grand Prix while I continue to struggle to keep up with the current tournament season, the FINALS. Momo Watanabe vs. AZM. A completely unexpected final matchup, and a fantastic match; we love an unexpected tournament arc, and we love a hot black peach summer.



Impulse bought a bunch of Zebra gel pens and highlighters. Maybe this will be the purchase that fixes me.

TGIF. My grandmother's condition is now such that my mom is getting us to pre-emptively start cleaning out her room because it could be a matter of days. She was sleeping pretty peacefully when we visited yesterday, though? I am very tired, both physically and emotionally, while also feeling like I'm not being performatively sad enough for my mom's sake? She's constantly on the verge of tears, but I'm mostly just numb and I think she feels like I don't care that the woman who largely raised me as a kid is dying, but I don't really know what to do about that!

Drinking way too much Red Bull at work today, looking forward to staying up super late tonight and then sleeping in tomorrow, really luxuriating in the crash. Also to checking out the wXw PPV and going to see a showing of La La Land on Sunday. Little things!

Also? I think it's time to finally start looking into getting a passport again.

3. What’s Your Comfort Food?

Whatever's in front of me. It's kind of a problem!!

No lunchtime joshi match, because the streets are saying that yesterday was the five-year anniversary of the AEW Rampage premiere, which means five years since Kenny and Christian's iconic opener, so I will give the Canadian boys a bit of love today instead. Regular programming to resume on Monday.

Still nothing going on between my ears but a dull buzz as I struggle my way through the work week. Possibly visiting my grandmother tonight, depending on how my mom's feeling. Dynamite when I get home, whenever that may be. Excited, but also bleeding a lot and it's sapping all of my energy. Everything is just so much WORK right now, and also I'm so bloated, I feel like I'm going to explode like Alex Jones (we're all watching the new InfoWars, right? it's so good).

1. How Often Does Your Family Eat Together?

If you mean 'at the kitchen table', then maybe a couple of times a year, if you mean 'in the living room watching TV' or 'in the van after driving through somewhere on the way to the movies', then it's more like a few times a week.

Today's lunchtime joshi match was Konami vs. Sareee from the opening night of last year's 5*STAR Grand Prix! A fantastic, hard-hitting slugfest, way above the level I've come to expect of Konami these days, honestly.

Ooooof. What a long weekend that was, and not in the fun way. Aunt's visit went well enough, my grandmother's situation has regressed again, lots of very long afternoons spent wishing I was anywhere else in the world, but at least I got a couple of decent nights of sleep and now I'm back to work, with a Monday Mystery Movie to look forward to. It's Tony, right? It's gotta be Tony.

This whole day seemingly just went up in a puff of smoke, lord.

( Album #527/1001: Arcade Fire - Funeral )

Today's lunchtime joshi match is Rina vs. AZM from the semifinals of last year's 5*STAR Grand Prix, because I got tournament fever, baby, and the only cure is more tournaments!!! It's a total fucking banger, the final later that night was even better, and Rina isn't even 20 yet, which is crazy.

Oof, this day really got away from me. As did last night, as I got stuck in traffic for an hour in an aborted attempt to visit my grandmother (aborted because we got a call right as we got to the hospital informing us that she probably has lung cancer??? and figured that she had enough going on at the moment, will be visiting after work today to make up for it and probably getting stuck for an hour again because most of the highway running through downtown is currently torn up for repairs) and was late starting Grand Slam Mexico as a result, and while the show was very awesome and the burrito I ate during it was very awesome and did a lot to save my mood, I really fucked my diet up in the process after doing pretty decently for the first few days of the month. Today's another day, though! in which i already housed a mighty mcmuffin just to get through the morning shut up

I miss watching anything other than wrestling, but also, it's truly all I have the brainpower for most nights. Went home to watch MLP on my lunch break even though it was cold and rainy just because if I don't physically leave the building, salespeople will literally never leave me alone. Gonna try to read a bit more tonight to make up for it (after the PRODUCE show that I missed on Monday to go see BND again, obviously).

My great-aunt is coming over from Edmonton tomorrow to visit for the weekend, given everything going on with her sister right now, but we're hoping Mémère will be released from the hospital back to her care home across the street around the same time; from what the doctor said yesterday, all they had left to do was wean her off the TPN they had her on and then she'd be good to go (aside from the (probable) (additional) cancer, at least).

The only movies playing this weekend that I haven't seen are Super Troopers 3 and Moana, so I will probably not be going to the movies, sadly. At least there's a Monday Mystery Movie on the other side to make up for it, though!

30. Does Buying and Accumulating More and More Stuff Make Us Happier?

I mean... it makes me happier, I'm not about to speak on behalf of the whole human race. I actually think attitudes like this have led to some pretty fucking troubling trends on the whole that have had pretty dire effects on society. NOT ME, THOUGH, I'M BUILT DIFFERENT.

So I got back from vacation and kinda just dropped off of the planet a bit? Maybe I needed the time to disconnect for a spell, but given how poorly I've been keeping up with other aspects of being a person in the same time period, I suspect it was more just a symptom of a wider problem. NEVERTHELESS, WE BACK. It's been so long since I updated that I went on a whole DIFFERENT cross-country trip to go attend another AEW PPV, so there is much to blog about, should it come to that.

For now, simply have an album that I listened to at... some point. Keeping it simple!

( Album #526/1001: Justin Timberlake - Justified )