Who will love my ironies?

When will I give up on trying Wendy's breakfast sandwiches? I keep wanting to believe, but I need to stop. Their french toast sticks and seasoned potatoes are heaven on Earth, and everything else tastes like hockey pucks, and I simply need to accept that. This is my biggest concern on this quiet working Sunday.

Went to da movies, and even though I stayed up way too late as a result, it's truly one of the only things that gets me through the week, so.

( woof man (2025) )

7. What Did You Once Hate but Now Like?

You know, I really didn't get Eddie Kingston when he first came to AEW. Hate is a strong word, but I found him kinda whiny and annoying. And then this promo happened and it was like a light suddenly turned on and everything just clicked into place for me. God, I miss Eddie Kingston, PLEASE COME BACK SOON, BOO.

Honourable mention to Kate Bush. I will always remember the first time I heard Wuthering Heights, I had this very visceral 'ugh no don't like that' wince of a reaction when it started, and when it ended, I immediately hit repeat. Just some of the best worst noises ever made.

I managed to lose my phone in my bedding this morning, which necessitated a whole-ass search when my first alarm went off, which led to me just... being awake an hour and a half early for a fun bonus round to start my day. I did some yoga and Duolingo and puzzles and the birds were very loud and it felt GREAT and MAN I wish I was capable of doing it regularly instead of just whenever the stars and fates and REM cycles all happen to perfectly align.

More fucking around in Notion today for me, I think.

19. What Hobbies Have Been Passed Down in Your Family?

Reading, I guess? That's pretty much it, we all mostly just do our own things. I do wish I'd learned to crochet while my grandmother could still do it all the time, though.

Quick TV review since I'm still super behind on my 1001 albums:

Perry Mason (2020) Season 1: It's verrrrry Surf Dracula, especially in the first half of the season, but once John Lithgow tragically gives him his surfboard, it gets more interesting, and the central case was compelling enough throughout that I never got impatient along the way. And then it kinda fell apart in the finale! I guess I get what they were going for, subverting the tropes of the original because court cases don't work that way and real life is much more nebulous and messy and unsatisfying, but... TV should at least be satisfying, right??? I kept checking how much time was left because I didn't understand how they were gonna wrap everything up by the end, and then they just didn't really bother? Reasonable doubt wins the day over conclusive proof and some things just don't go anywhere and people will believe whatever they need to believe to be happy and hopefully our hero learned a lesson about actually trusting the process, FINE, I GUESS. Tatiana Maslany owns so hard.

Oog. So I got absolutely nothing done last night; didn't run, didn't even download Dynamite, still haven't done my naked nails (and fucking shattered one on the key cabinet as a result), I just watched the silly Halloween IWTV thing, ate a burrito and a bunch of leftover candy, and passed the fuck out with all the lights still on like I did back in high school. What a bad scene! But I at least got SOME sleep, so hopefully today will go better now that I'm a little bit more human-adjacent than I was yesterday. Turns out staying up until seven in the morning on... was it Monday? Was maybe not the smartest thing I've done in a minute!

I should do something with my email inbox today, it's getting... bad again.

But first! All the junk I took in during October. I Halloweened really badly this year!

( MOVIES: The Creator, Dark City, Deep Cover, Five Nights at Freddy's, Jewel Robbery, Killers of the Flower Moon, One Way Passage, A Self-Induced Hallucination, Talk to Me, Westworld )

( SHORTS: Back Stage, The Bell Boy, The Butcher Boy, B.L.B., A City of Children, Coney Island, The Dreamer, El Train, The Electric House, The Goat, G.F.C., Hard Luck, Heist, His Wedding Night, Hyperfate, Indigo's Smile (Interlude), Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky, Kids, Lizard Ladder, My Wife's Relations, Native Sun, Nettles, No Ward, Out West, Parsi, Swimming in Your Skin Again, Their Fall Our All, Too Much Cendi (Skit), Trey (Interlude), Univitellin, You and I and You )

( TELEVISION: Dinosaurs, Heels, The Life Of, Our Flag Means Death, The Venture Bros. )

( AUDIO: Run the Solar System, Uncover, Who Shat on the Floor at My Wedding?, Volcano Race; Zombies, Run! )

( MUSIC: Hack of the Year, Javelin )

Back to the grind! The snowing is falling hard and thick, which means it somehow still isn't THAT cold out? Windy as fuck, but still pretty mild for November, all things considered. I'll take it!

Having a tough time figuring out how we're going to see all of the movies coming out this/next week around my work schedule and mom's next round of chemo (she's FINALLY feeling a lot better, so it seems like a week and a half is the recovery period for this second set of drugs). Hopefully I don't just keep watching a ton of random shorts and tv forever!

( FILMS: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Nadja, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story )

( SHORTS: The Cage, The Diary of an African Nun, Dustin, Four Women, Jonah, Kapaemahu, Laocoon & Sons, Lira's Forest, Les Mains négatives, Monkey Love Experiments, The People United, Praise House, The Sand Island Story, Standing at the Scratch Line, Swallow, Sweet Ruin, Touch; Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) )

( TELEVISION: Black Mirror, Bob's Burgers, Dark Side of the Ring, Fuller House, The Life Of, Marvel Studios: Assembled, Minx, Queer Eye: Brazil, ReBoot, Russian Doll, Star Trek: Prodigy )

lol I barely slept okay back to work

This weather is blowing my mind; we've had plenty of frosty mornings, but walking home last night, it felt like a windy summer evening at WORST. It is October 20th! What the fuck!

Didn't get to do much with my night because I had to make my mom supper and then play Entanglement for three dang hours for the ORG, so hopefully tonight will suck a bit less. My first full week off post-vacation madness is gonna be so nice come Wednesday.

My hair is being stupid today and it's aggravating me, but a coworker brought me a cookie, which helps.

( FILMS: Amsterdam, Don't Worry Darling, Top Gun: Maverick )

( SHORTS: Another Day at the Office, Anti-Objects, Atlantis, The Curse of Quon Gwon, Dislocation Blues, Division Avenue, Fainting Spells, Fire Ted Cruz; Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song; Limbo, Méditerranée, Venite et Loquamur, wawa, Werewolf by Night, When you're lost in the rain )

( TELEVISION: Bob's Burgers, Fuller House, Grace and Frankie, Harley Quinn, Heels, Minx, Orange is the New Black, Rick and Morty, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Star Trek: Lower Decks )

Tired, but scratching along. HOTEL BOOKING TONIGHT. IT'S GOTTA HAPPEN. And hopefully I can get my weekly budget stuff done before Dynamite tonight, fuck I'm just behind on absolutely everything after the last week.

Still extremely sad about Teddy. Man I wish I was anywhere but at work right now!!

1. Do you have any currency that’s not from your native country?

I think I've got some American bills stashed away somewhere? Shit, it's been a real long time now, where did I end up putting it all??? Plus the usual assortment of fun foreign coins that regularly crossed my path that I pocketed working retail over the years when paying with cash was more of a thing.

2. Do you make changes all at once, cold turkey style, or incrementally?

Make changes? Moi? Why isn't 'poorly' an option?

( FILMS: Jaws, Mack & Rita, Phantasm: Ravager, Top Gun: Maverick )

( SHORTS: Ida Western Exile )

( TELEVISION: Fuller House, Grace and Frankie, Harley Quinn, Heels, The Masked Wrestler, Orange is the New Black, Rick and Morty, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Star Trek: Lower Decks )

I don't think I have ever wanted to be at work less. Mom had a claustrophobia-adjacent panic attack in the bone scan machine yesterday, and she has a CAT scan and echocardiogram and oncologist meeting today to power through and I'm just... here! At work, 400 kilometres away! Sucks real bad! I had a couple of moderately stress-nausea-free days in the middle of my week off, but those are behind me once again.

Still. I got a tan and Kenny Omega back and a new phone and also Tim Hortons' new maple bacon breakfast sandwiches are so fucking good, so hey. We hang in.

( FILMS: Beast, Champion, Midnight Run, Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Niagara, Sátántangó, Ten Nights in a Bar Room, Western )

( TELEVISION: Fuller House, Grace and Frankie, Harley Quinn, Heels, The Life Of, The Masked Wrestler, Minx, Orange is the New Black, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Star Trek: Enterprise )

A chilly, foggy summer day, out of nowhere, just what I wanted. Time for another frivolous shit update, because life goes on and I am desperately trying not to think about all the foods I could be eating.

( FILMS: Bullet Train, DC League of Super Pets, Prey )

( SHORTS: Tord and Tord )

( TELEVISION: Better Call Saul, Fuller House, GLOW, Harley Quinn, The Life Of, Marvel Studios: Assembled, Queer Eye Germany, Star Trek: Enterprise, Westworld )

Back at work after a not great week off. Just endless binge-eating, possibly out of stress over mom's ongoing medical stuff that we are still waiting for concrete answers on? Either way, I feel like utter garbage and have 80 hours of this shit to get through before I can even try recovering again on the other side, so onwards I guess??

Watched some good stuff, at least.

( FILMS: Body Heat, The Clock; Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; Fat City, Nope, The Pirate )

( SHORTS: The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins, The Bronze Buckaroo, The Symbol of the Unconquered )

( TELEVISION: Better Call Saul, Disenchantment, GLOW, The Life Of, Marvel Studios: Assembled, Queer Eye Germany, Riverdale, Star Trek: Enterprise, Westworld )

Morning updoot as I continue to mull over Fyter Fest developments and digest the FAR TOO MUCH pasta I partook in last night. This is gonna be a long one.

( FILMS: Minions: The Rise of Gru, Thor: Love and Thunder )

( SHORTS: A Reggae Session, Washingtonia, We the Ragamuffin, We're Going to the Zoo )

( TELEVISION: Better Call Saul, Disenchantment, GLOW, Grace and Frankie, The Life Of, Ms. Marvel, Orange is the New Black, Queer Eye, Riverdale, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Westworld )