Fall Season: Week 12

Feeling a LOT better with that tax stuff behind me. Even if I'll probably still end up having to pay, at least I'm DONE with it, it's out of my hands, I can move on with my damn life. I even wound up a doing (gasp) a couple of tags! Wild.

Skipped the work Christmas party for the second year running, and I'm not entirely sure why. Last year, it was because that was the day we found out about Lys, but now I'm wondering if I wasn't just using him as an excuse to get out of social obligations? Hopefully he would appreciate that. Anyway, this year, idk, I just wasn't feeling it. Between the fact that I'd have to skip working late on Saturday (meaning no overtime and I'd be drowning in paperwork come Monday), mom's ongoing mobility issues (we could have made it work, though, what with the wheelchair and the fact that it would be her first year not needing to take constant smoke breaks (which reminds me! the 19th was the one-year anniversary of her last cigarette! I should have done something! I should do something belated! maybe I'll make her a card or something tomorrow)), and the idea of dressing up and going out all night to hang with a only a small handful of people I like enough to want to see outside of work making me miss going out with actual friends because none of you live here (YES I KNOW THAT'S SAD), I just... don't know. Wasn't feeling it! We went to see Frozen II instead, which was probably the right call, but I know I WOULD have had fun if I'd gone out and it feels like such a waste of one of the very rare occasions I have to go all out, so I'm not feeling great about it. Christ, I need a vacation, that's probably all it is.

Speaking of mom, she saw a guy commit suicide at work last week?? She had to take her van through the car wash because there was blood on it. And tonight she brought a whole bunch of his food home??? I don't know, everyone copes differently I guess. But MAN.

Weather remains insane. We got an even WARMER warm snap, all the way up to, like, 8 degrees at one point, so absolutely EVERYTHING melted, we were all the way back to bare grass and asphalt, just... madness. It has since dropped back to normal November temperatures (though still not particularly cold ones), and combined with the fact that it snowed all damn day, I am back to navigating a large, lumpy ice rink all day, covered in all this beautiful fluffy whiteness that makes it impossible to see where the bad patches are. Hooray! Honestly, though? The warmth was fucking worth it.

All of comic Twitter randomly remembering that piracy is a thing again got me rolling my eyes so hard. Piracy and theft are two fundamentally different things that can maybe be equally damaging in certain circumstances and it's always so annoying to see good arguments undermined by silly false equivalences. People who feel the need to justify their downloads to the people being harmed by piracy are jackasses regardless, though. Keeping your damn mouth shut is free for everyone!

Anyway, TO THE MOVIE SPOILER ZONE. None of them were pirated this week, but that is not always the case! The theme this week is MUSICALS!!!

( Sunday Bloody Sunday, Midnight Cowboy, Viva, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Love Witch, Klute, Frozen II, The Harvey Girls, An American in Paris, The Band Wagon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, SparkShorts x4 )

Hey, remember that time I wrote over a thousand words about Seven Brides for Seven Brothers? I sure don't. Don't look at me.

and the women were sobbin', sobbin' sobbin'...