Who will love my ironies?

Still so cold. Still so grumpy about it. Really wish I was going to the movies tonight, but noooooooo. I've got a package that I've got to go downtown to pick up that I won't be able to get to until Wednesday at the earliest and I'm sad about it, because I think it's cute wrestling merch. Everything sucks just a little bit right now!!!

At least work is quiet so far. Time is moving at a fucking crawl, though. Just saw a girl wearing an actual tube top like it's 2003 or something. I remain very disappointed that the Merge Mansion tag on AO3 is nothing but Pedro Pascal/reader smut. HE'S NOT EVEN IN THE GAME.

16. What Local ‘Microadventures’ Would You Like to Go On?

......where do you think I live? There's nothing to do here except going to the movies BUT THAT'S NOT IN THE FUCKIN' CARDS TONIGHT.

May Movie Count: 17 (Don't Torture a Duckling, The Assassin, Who Saw Her Die?, Trenque Lauquen, Amadeus, Clown in a Cornfield, Torso, The Best Way to Walk, Donnie Darko, Mind Game, A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)

I would simply like to not be constantly freezing in the middle of May, that's all! I wish that wasn't such a big ask of both man and nature, but here we are!

Work is just annoying in general today, honestly, but the hours are ticking steadily by and we are, in fact, closed for Victoria Day, so I have that to look forward to. Nothing will impede my seeing the Monday Mystery Movie this week!

Torn between rewatching all the final destinations and all of the impossible missions ahead of their respective next installments, I will probably do neither. Is it too early to start thinking about tonight's supper? OH WELL.

( Album #479/1001: Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking )

May Movie Count: 15 (Who Saw Her Die?, Trenque Lauquen, Amadeus, Clown in a Cornfield, Torso, The Best Way to Walk, Donnie Darko, Mind Game, A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)

And just like that, it's Tuesday again. Back to work in the morning. I don't want to do that, but it was a fine week off, good and restful, so I should be able to tackle it head-on.

The weather is nice and the days are getting loooooong. Just a couple more weeks before I bust the deck lounger out and declare basking season OPEN.

For some reason I cannot determine, I have started playing Merge Mansion in 2025. Weird! Will I finally find out what that granny is up to???

Even considering the full-body douche-chills that the phrase 'American Pope' still gives, I do think I'm probably going to like this one.

Takeshita calling El Phantasmo by his shoot name again after Resurgence is honestly so, so important to me. But not as important as Drilla's face. And body. And voice. Ugh!!!!

I'm thinking a bath and a stir fry tonight to end the week right. We'll see what the evening brings!

( Album #477/1001: Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway )

May Movie Count: 12 (Amadeus, Clown in a Cornfield, Torso, The Best Way to Walk, Donnie Darko, Mind Game, A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)

It's so cold! I'm so cold!! And achy, and bleeding, and tired, but! It is Tuesday! And that means tonight I get to sleep the sleep of the just. I've already turned off my alarms, I can't wait to stay up late tonight without that looming sense of dread that otherwise comes with the hours ticking by, each one making the next day at work that much harder. No more!!!

The frigid rain earlier in the week has at least made some of the grass start turning a bit green, which has done a lot to lessen the general sense of springtime dreariness clinging to all those newly-revealed landscapes. Once the trees start blooming, it'll be like night and day.

Ten more hours of pretending to work, I can do this!!!!

15. How Careful Are You in the Sun?

Not... very. I'll slather on sunscreen and pop on a hat if it's real hot/sunny out and I'm going to be really baking on the deck with a book or something, beyond that I don't really bother. Which isn't good, I know, but I don't burn easily and I like to get enough of a tan to keep the pastiness at bay through the long winter months, so hopefully I don't end up all leathery in my forties! GOD I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS TO BE A CONCERN AGAIN, I'M SO TIRED OF BEING COLD.

May Movie Count: 6 (A Fish Called Wanda, All the Colors of the Dark, Thunderbolts*, Until Dawn, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, The Fog)

That was not enough sleep! But it was worth it??? Somehow I finally saw a movie where a good chunk of the audience clapped at the end and it was... Until Dawn???? I was extremely confused, but I'm not here to talk about that one! Here there be spoilers~

( Thunderbolts* (2025) )

It's Friday! At least all the snow is gone. My brain is really starting to short circuit, I think, I'm just bouncing between the same three phone games and screwing around in Notion; every time I try to put any actual thoughts together, my mind just goes completely blank. Real FOOTAGE NOT FOUND hours up in here.

Just ten more hours until I can go home and make some perogies, I guess!!!

( Album #474/1001: Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth )

May Movie Count: 1 (The Fog)

And I'm back! Back at work, back from my brilliant, movie-filled weekend in Edmonton, back on my bullshit, just back back back!

It was... an intense weekend. The bus ride went nice and smoothly with no delays for a change, I met up with my aunt, visited my other aunt in her sprawling new care home, grabbed supper at some packed and insanely delicious Italian place, and then hit the movie theatre for some late-night Cronenberg before crashing for the evening. Saturday and Sunday were then spent pretty much living at the Cineplex for over twelve hours each day? It ruled. I ate so much junk food and was so emotionally wrung out by the time I got back to my hotel room that I slept better than I think I ever have in my life? I didn't oversleep, just slept... so so well for a change. I've seen all of Lynch's movies so many times now, I really did not anticipate just how heavy an experience mainlining six of them in a dark room in two days would be! It was genuinely amazing, though, well worth the whim. My heart remains heavy, but only because it's so full.

I also got really high for Dune and the Pink Floyd concert movie, which was totally the right call, and I fucked up my left foot from walking for over half an hour in four-inch heels each day, which was not the right call. Neither was packing a denim jumpsuit YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM BETWEEN MOVIES, DUM-DUM.

Anyway! On Monday I killed a bit of time at Indigo (finally got a proper copy of MOX now that I'm a quarter of the way through the audiobook version as well as that Hank Green TB book everyone won't shut up about and fresh copies of Wuthering Heights (because I collect them) and On Writing (because I didn't actually have one of my own), yay books!) before the theatre opened and then caught one last movie, something light and easy to offset the existential dread still lingering from getting out of Eraserhead at midnight the night before. Then I grabbed a quick lunch with my aunt and was back on the bus home, trying and mostly failing not to obsessively refresh election results whenever there was a decent enough signal. Everything worked out okay! Everyone here is very mad about it, which is how you know it was a good result~

Yesterday was nice, one chill day to unpack and relax properly before flipping back into work mode. I watched the first Road to Wrestling Dontaku show and was completely unprepared for how much Jeff Cobb cried, oof. Also a lot of BuzzFeed Unsolved for some reason?? Not sure what the plan for tonight is going to be. Will have to just play it by ear~

( Album #472/1001: Screaming Trees - Dust )

And ten hours of sleep later, I feel like a person again, just like that! Finally watching Windy City Riot, getting some laundry done so that I have something to wear on my weekend in Edmonton, and picking out what I'm going to dump into the bath today. Looking forward to poking through the basket I got from work for Administrative Professionals Day, I think those caramels will serve me well tonight.

( Album #470/1001: The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen )

work still busy, why work busy? :(

already almost lunch time, the time when I go sit in the lunch room and if I'm really lucky nobody bothers me for an hour straight

back now

still busy

urge to get home and just play some random game until the morning is rising

ONE MORE DAY.

12. Do/Did You Collect Anything?

Sure! Pokemon cards, Criterion disks, unplayed Steam games, regrets. Lots of things!

Cracking open The Count of Monte Cristo on a lovely Saturday morning at work, as one does. My day off for Jesus was very nice; lunch with the family followed by Sinners, which is, in fact, my favourite movie of the year to date, followed by a trip to Mac Island to do some voting and then McDonald's and an episode of Dark Side of the Ring before toddling off to bed and staying up way too late anyway. And now it's the weekend! Hopefully it'll be a chill one.

10. What Have You Made Yourself?

I'M TRYING TO WRITE AGAIN, LEAVE ME ALONE.

Remember two years ago, when Hangman stuck a crown of thorns on Adam Cole's head in a Texas Death Match on Good Friday? lol that ruled