Awards Season: Week 1
Dec. 9th, 2019 08:22 pmWas feeling really burned out heading into Monday, but it's here and so am I and here we are! Keeping on keeping on.
Officially owe the government $800 for not being able to adequately prove I lived here in 2012, likely more to come as they reevaluate other years too, but I'm still not as stressed out about it as I was before. Yes it sucks, but at least it's DONE, I've got credit to lean on if I need to, and I never would have been able to get the house without the returns I got at the time, so if I've got to pay back part of them now, fuck it, it was ultimately worth it. Also, I found my 2010 and 2011 T4s in a box, so I can at least TRY using those for those years, and then come 2015 I have credit card statements, which had BETTER be enough. Still, I'll worry about all that shit if/when it happens.
In a similar monetary vein, Stratford tickets are on pre-sale to the general public for this week only, so I could actually get shelling out for those out of the way now if I really wanted to (they open up for sale fully next month), but I'd have to figure out the logistics of my trip first; when I'm going, how I'm getting there, where I'm staying, etc, so I know when to get the tickets for. I want to take at least a week off, maybe two, and it can't be earlier than August, since The Miser doesn't open until then, but beyond that, I don't have much to work around outside of... work. ANYONE WANT TO JOIN ME IN A FUN ONTARIO ROMP? PLAYS! SWANS!
It finally got cold, so thinking about August makes me happy right now. Even so, it's so late in the year I don't hate it? It only started getting below -20 a couple of days ago so I'm not totally exhausted by it yet, and the wind hasn't been bad enough to make it unbearably miserable yet. Just brisk winter days with a light dusting of snow! How novel!
Mad dehydrated, think I may be coming down sick. Mom's been deathly ill for about a week, so it was probably only a matter of time. Drinking lots of water to try and combat it, I guess!
Bought a soundbar right before the tax news came down, so I can enjoy 'better than before if not as good as proper speakers' sound in my bedroom for my final big purchase until these money issues are sorted out. Definitely no more nighttime burrito orders for the foreseeable future. :o( Also, Christmas is cancelled at our house? But that's unrelated, mom's been super stressed out by it so me and Dominic pretty much just told her not to worry about it, we'll just exchange cards and go to the movies or something. I'm mildly bummed, but honestly, I just desperately want to get all our shit unpacked and put away (it's been more than half a year! I refuse to let this place get like our old one!) far more than I want to deal with putting up decorations at the moment. Once the house is clean, it'll be a different story, you know?
Movie trailer hype checks!
Black Widow: Hyped!
Wonder Woman 1984: Surprised to be hyped as hell!
Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Disappointingly unhyped?
Anyway, my quest to end the decade by watching ONE HUNDRED MOVIES IN A MONTH continues, even if I'm falling slightly behind:
( From Russia with Love, The Bear, Goldfinger, Diary of a Chambermaid, The Hitch-Hiker, Thunderball, The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers, Richard Lester!, Not Wanted, The Bigamist, You Only Live Twice, Burning Bush, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Iron Man 2 )
So that brings my total to... 23/100. Not even a quarter of the way there, nine days into the month. Gonna have to step it up, Decembond will only take me so far on its own!
Officially owe the government $800 for not being able to adequately prove I lived here in 2012, likely more to come as they reevaluate other years too, but I'm still not as stressed out about it as I was before. Yes it sucks, but at least it's DONE, I've got credit to lean on if I need to, and I never would have been able to get the house without the returns I got at the time, so if I've got to pay back part of them now, fuck it, it was ultimately worth it. Also, I found my 2010 and 2011 T4s in a box, so I can at least TRY using those for those years, and then come 2015 I have credit card statements, which had BETTER be enough. Still, I'll worry about all that shit if/when it happens.
In a similar monetary vein, Stratford tickets are on pre-sale to the general public for this week only, so I could actually get shelling out for those out of the way now if I really wanted to (they open up for sale fully next month), but I'd have to figure out the logistics of my trip first; when I'm going, how I'm getting there, where I'm staying, etc, so I know when to get the tickets for. I want to take at least a week off, maybe two, and it can't be earlier than August, since The Miser doesn't open until then, but beyond that, I don't have much to work around outside of... work. ANYONE WANT TO JOIN ME IN A FUN ONTARIO ROMP? PLAYS! SWANS!
It finally got cold, so thinking about August makes me happy right now. Even so, it's so late in the year I don't hate it? It only started getting below -20 a couple of days ago so I'm not totally exhausted by it yet, and the wind hasn't been bad enough to make it unbearably miserable yet. Just brisk winter days with a light dusting of snow! How novel!
Mad dehydrated, think I may be coming down sick. Mom's been deathly ill for about a week, so it was probably only a matter of time. Drinking lots of water to try and combat it, I guess!
Bought a soundbar right before the tax news came down, so I can enjoy 'better than before if not as good as proper speakers' sound in my bedroom for my final big purchase until these money issues are sorted out. Definitely no more nighttime burrito orders for the foreseeable future. :o( Also, Christmas is cancelled at our house? But that's unrelated, mom's been super stressed out by it so me and Dominic pretty much just told her not to worry about it, we'll just exchange cards and go to the movies or something. I'm mildly bummed, but honestly, I just desperately want to get all our shit unpacked and put away (it's been more than half a year! I refuse to let this place get like our old one!) far more than I want to deal with putting up decorations at the moment. Once the house is clean, it'll be a different story, you know?
Movie trailer hype checks!
Black Widow: Hyped!
Wonder Woman 1984: Surprised to be hyped as hell!
Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Disappointingly unhyped?
Anyway, my quest to end the decade by watching ONE HUNDRED MOVIES IN A MONTH continues, even if I'm falling slightly behind:
( From Russia with Love, The Bear, Goldfinger, Diary of a Chambermaid, The Hitch-Hiker, Thunderball, The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers, Richard Lester!, Not Wanted, The Bigamist, You Only Live Twice, Burning Bush, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Iron Man 2 )
So that brings my total to... 23/100. Not even a quarter of the way there, nine days into the month. Gonna have to step it up, Decembond will only take me so far on its own!
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