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At work again! For one lousy day! And have a bunch of new duties! What the hell!!!

Quite busy, but yesterday was pretty chill and good (compared to some Ghost of Christmas Past bad vibes that very nearly derailed NYE, why the FUCK can't my family just be normal jfc), so 2026 is going pretty well so far. Trying to revamp my life once again. Here's to the weekend, and Wrestle Kingdom 20!

Album #506/1001: Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo )
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Okay, goodbye, 2025! You were... okay! A lot of bad things happened all around the world, but I also got front row seats to an AEW PPV, a thing which will probably never happen again, and also a new job that actually pays more for the first time in nearly a decade, so good things can still happen, too! Let's see what 2026 brings!

Album #505/1001: Femi Kuti - Femi Kuti )

See y'all on the other side!
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Christmas is done and gone for another year, and thank goodness for that, but god, those four days off were nice. The horrible cold snap has finally broken, which means TRULY INSANE AMOUNTS OF SNOW. The movie theatre is closed due to a burst pipe. I fucking hate winter so goddamn much.

Things at work are way too quiet. Not for my sake, because I love doing nothing, but because my techs have barely any work to do. Hopefully sales can get their asses in gear and things pick up soon.

Worlds End was a great show with a dogshit ending, much like last year's, only more so on all counts? Maybe I will do a post about it later this week. Long live Mixed Nuts Mayhem.

I need to get back into Stardom properly this year, starting with Dream Queendom tonight! Also gonna jump back into Nooj with Wrestle Kingdom, since I fell off regularly watching back when EVIL was dominating the G1 lol. Maybe I should start sneakily watching wrestling at work to get more in, the days are simply too short!

Album #503/1001: Magazine - Real Life )

Movies Watched in December: Anaconda, Avatar: Fire and Ash, KPop Demon Hunters, The Housemaid, The Mastermind, They Live, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Song Sung Blue; Silent Night, Deadly Night; Starman, In the Mouth of Madness, Ghosts of Mars, Prince of Darkness, The History of Sound, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A., Zootopia 2, Escape from New York, Christine
merridia: (Throw some glitter; make it rain.)
Three days until pre-sales for the AEW shows in Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver in April! Finally, I have something long-distance to look forward to again! Time to tighten my belt, post-holiday splurges, so that I can actually afford to go (or at least pretend that I can afford to go). Trip planning will begin tentatively next week (after I hopefully have tickets), and then begin in earnest come the start of 2026. DYNASTY!!

Mom bailed on the MMM last night because it was snowing (lame excuse), but I hopped on a bus and went all by myself and had a great time anyway with an insane melodramatic mess of a movie (complimentary???). I definitely overdid things with my back a bit, though, and should probably go back to taking it easy for the rest of the week to keep recovering. Things hurt! It's cold out! An outing was extremely necessary for my mental health!

Album #502/1001: Soft Machine - Third )

Movies Watched in December: Song Sung Blue; Silent Night, Deadly Night; Starman, In the Mouth of Madness, Ghosts of Mars, Prince of Darkness, The History of Sound, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A., Zootopia 2, Escape from New York, Christine

Six more hours until I can go home and make delicious noodles and put on a movie and also a heat wrap. BACK TO BASICS.
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Gotta be a legendarily terrible weekend in the news, huh? What with the multiple mass shootings and the tragic Hollywood parricides and whatnot? Definitely a Monday to just kinda tune the world out and focus on work and/or my rich inner life.

Back is doing much better! Spent some of the weekend with spiking pain from my neck to my thighs, but I think those were just normal sore muscles and knots from coping with the initial injury. I'm mostly just very stiff now. May even try walking home from work during this brief break in the -40 degree weather, but we'll see how I'm holding up towards the end of the day.

Monday Mystery Movie tonight! I think it's probably gonna be the Hugh Jackman Neil Diamond impersonator one? Weird!

Album #501/1001: Paul McCartney - McCartney )

Movies Watched in December: Silent Night, Deadly Night; Starman, In the Mouth of Madness, Ghosts of Mars, Prince of Darkness, The History of Sound, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A., Zootopia 2, Escape from New York, Christine

ANYWAY THEY JUST ANNOUNCED AEW DYNASTY WILL BE IN VANCOUVER IN APRIL, SO I HAVE PLANS TO MAKE AND CELEBRATORY WOK BOX TO ORDER, BYEEEEEEE~

(There's too much fucking perspective now.)
merridia: (I feel you bro.)
Still at work. Still cold. Still in pain, but it's steadily pivoting to just a deep soreness in the muscles of my back, which is a big step up from the seizing agony whenever I move, so hopefully that means whatever the fuck I did is healing up nicely. Getting my eating back under control to start easing gently back into my goals. I had such high hopes for the month and they were all derailed so abruptly!!!

Finished reading The Lord of the Rings. Started watching Sailor Moon from the beginning for some reason? 10-year-old Leshia is thriving right now while the current version falls the fuck apart.

I really like the idea of the Letterboxd Video Store and hope it does well, even if twenty bucks will always be way more than I can justify for a single rental. I think five dollars is probably my ceiling, especially for something without a dedicated streaming app. Blockbuster prices, you know?

Album #500/1001: The Velvet Undergroud - White Light/White Heat )

Movies Watched in December: In the Mouth of Madness, Ghosts of Mars, Prince of Darkness, The History of Sound, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A., Zootopia 2, Escape from New York, Christine
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All is pain, and cold. So, so cold. I'm a little bit better at being upright with each day that passes since The Incident, but the horrible seizing death stabs when I move wrong have given way to a general ache in a whole bunch of muscles that I've never noticed before, probably from the strain of having to hold myself so stiffly for so long. And also still a fair bit of seizing when I move wrong. And winter has finally arrived in earnest so I'm just so damn cold at work and so damn hot in my bedroom at home and I've been stress eating like a motherfucker so I get to feel like garbage in a whole host of different ways all at once!! I'm even more tired than usual, too! I blame Christmas for all of it, personally. It's a shame that McDonald's commercial was AI garbage that got bullied off the internet, because I really appreciate the general sentiment (but also the bullying).

Winter is Coming tonight. Rooting for the Babes of Wrath as inaugural women's tag champs.

Album #499/1001: Neu! - Neu! 75 )

Movies Watched in December: Ghosts of Mars, Prince of Darkness, The History of Sound, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A., Zootopia 2, Escape from New York, Christine
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Today I learned that referring to things as gong shows is largely a Canadian thing, and it has rocked me to the core. TGIF!

It's almost December and I still don't think the temperature has dipped below -20 degrees yet. There's snow on the ground, but very little of it, mostly compacted into uneven layers of ice. There's still grass visible all over the place. It's honestly kind of insane? But at least it gives me something to focus on other than the current span of ~3 months in which I basically never see the sun, because I both arrive at and leave work in pitch darkness, and I no longer have every other week off. Things should start to get better towards the end of February. God I hate winter, even unseasonably mild ones.

Finished season 7 of Black Mirror, and not that anyone cares, but my ranking of the episodes goes Eulogy > Common People > USS Callister: Into Infinity > BĂȘte Noire >>> Plaything >>>>> Hotel Reverie.

Saw Wake Up Dead Man, the first of the Knives Out mysteries to play in a theatre here, and absolutely loved it.

Album #498/1001: Garbage - Garbage )

Okay, I should probably try to do some work. It's (dare I say???) a bit of a gong show!!!
merridia: (I can't take this kind of pressure.)
Just a quickie update today, since Marvel Move has folded and I refuse to let any part of my emotional support fitness app become lost media so all my free time at work for the next couple of weeks (or until I finish) has to go to painstakingly pulling mp3s from the source code of the website.

Inception on the big screen again was so fucking sick. Truly a movie that emphasizes the ultimate power of the rule of cool over all else.

I have last night's Dynamite ready to go on Plex when I get home, hype! Another belt, though, Tony??? Really???? THIS IS JUST THE INTERNATIONAL TITLE ALL OVER AGAIN, WHY NOT UN-UNIFY THAT ONE INSTEAD????? Whatever, at least the casino gauntlet match for it should rule.

Album #497/1001: Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die )
merridia: (Blame the alien)
Finished Poker Face last night. Good shit. Also did some yoga in a long-overdue attempt to stop being as goddamn sedentary as I have been since taking this new position. Also ate some pizza. It was tasty. Currently craving a tuna melt, though. And shopping online. And doing some actual work on the side, I guess. Heading to the movies after work, unless mom bails, since it's at 6pm and I would be unable to take the bus in time to go by myself. Unless I leave work early. Maybe I'll leave work early in that case. The concept of being salaried is still very strange to me.

Album #496/1001: Kelela - Take Me Apart )

NYC went ahead and elected the certified sicko mayor, which is pretty rad. Have a random wrestling video to celebrate, because it is SO IMPORTANT to me that after years of scrubs on the internet saying that Kris had to drop the alien gimmick to make it to the next level, she dropped the alien gimmick, won the world fucking title (right in front of me and my salad), and then IMMEDIATELY went back to being an alien, tripling down on the gimmick instead, with her insane Australian girlfriend recording a '70s sci-fi intro for her very first title defense followed by an entrance with sexy Dune boys???? God, this was everything to me (starts about 15 seconds in, though obviously Toni's entrance rules, too).



It looks like our usual seats at the theatre have been purchased! Inception is presumably a go! Okay, that means it's back to work time, and refilling the popcorn tanks will be my reward~

ETA: Actually, fuck work, I'm still thinking about that WrestleDream match again, because for all that it's still frustrating to see the 'two steps forward, one step back' steady progress of the AEW women's division, that progress should still be celebrated and it's just so fucking cool that two women were allowed to work such a subtle, deliberately-paced match as that one was without being given like, eight minutes to get it over with? All three (!) women's matches on the card were a solid 15/16 minutes long and all had wildly different feels to them, and that's just great. It's great! And that bit at 2:50 where Kris counters the Storm Zero by bracing herself with her arms at the last second is some amazing, blink-and-you-miss it wrestling, OKAY BACK TO WORK FOR REAL NOW.
merridia: (Looking at you.)
November and still no snow lingering on the ground. We've had a few hardcore blizzards, but it keeps warming up enough right afterward for everything to melt. Madness. Beautiful, climate-change-induced madness.

Work's alright. Still getting the hang of juggling three techs on three different schedules, but we're getting a lot of work done.

Weight is way up. I am extremely sedentary of late and desperately need to do something about it, because it feels BAD. God, I miss my weeks off. Maybe shopping some more will help! (I may have randomly signed up for a fourth credit card)

Movies I saw in the theatre since my last update before yesterday: Corpse Bride (still neat), The Nightmare Before Christmas (still the best), Shelby Oaks (mid as fuck, but enjoyably spooky nevertheless), Black Phone 2 (rad as hell), ParaNorman (SO GOOD, why do I always forget how good it is), Christy (solid), Frankenstein (it's a goddamn travesty this is a Netflix movie, but at least it actually came here), Back to the Future (hell yeah). Inception tomorrow!

Album #495/1001: Frank Black - Teenager of the Year )

Also I have finally started using my long-ignored StoryGraph account, we'll see if I stick with it! I want the cute monthly charts everybody flaunts everywhere! Add me if you want to keep an eye on whatever public domain nonsense (with the occasional wrestling autobiography and House of Leaves reread) I'm currently picking my way through!
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Oops, I disappeared again! Keeping on keeping on. Going to the movies a lot. Mad we didn't get Bugonia, though. There's lots that I should be doing, but also, I don't wanna? Maybe I'll just take a Monday night bath.

Album #494/1001: Circle Jerks - Group Sex )

Wrestling remains very good. May I interest anybody in some shameless Hangman Adam Page propaganda?

merridia: (Believe to my soul.)
Gonna be a sad sort of day. Said goodbye to Little Bear this morning, because she won't be there when I get home. Looked at a bunch of pictures of her when she was a puppy last night and cried a lot, so hopefully I can keep it together well enough at work.

Yesterday marked one year without my Bub, so mood was already low, and then mom bailed on the Monday mystery movie because she wasn't feeling well, so I just rewatched last week's Dynamite to boost my spirits instead. I do genuinely think it might be one of my favourite episodes ever? Between the old man yaoi, Hangman's cow gear and Lee Moriarty officially taking over as the Pittsburgh local hero (the doctor is OUT), FTR continuing to be some of my favourite heels in the company (saying Beth has a microbrawler head is hilarious I'M SORRY LET WILLOW FIGHT THEM), the women's tag title announcement, Orange's return, and Statlander ending the night with main event Mina and a motherfucking FLAMETHROWER, the whole thing just felt like it was booked for me personally, like a fun little post-PPV present. Very much what I needed.

I need to get my shit together and put together a stockpile of change so that I can start taking the bus and go to the movies on my own; they revamped our terrible transit system after many years so (if it all works as it's supposed to) I can theoretically now just hop on a bus and get all the way across town in about forty minutes, including the transfer. Game changer!

Okay, back to random videos of Edge and Christian playing real small in the corner of my screen while I pretend to be gainfully employed and avoid feelings about anything real:



Album #493/1001: Holger Czukay - Movies )

She was a good dog.
merridia: (Throw some glitter; make it rain.)
I am... phlegmy. But feeling a bit better. Better enough to see an almost three-hour long movie tonight, at least! And hopefully do my laundry. And take a bath? And do my nails. THERE ARE NEVER ENOUGH HOURS.

Album #492/1001: Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches )

ALL OUT REWATCH BEGINS TONIGHT. I will probably only do a match or two at a time, though, both to savour the memories and because of the aforesaid never enough hours issue.

merridia: (Sigh.)
Quick update while I take a break from figuring out how to book a B-line AMVIC. Life is boring, but All Out is exactly one month away!!!!! Soon things will matter to me again~

No particularly interesting movies hitting our theatre this weekend, so hopefully Relay is good. If there were any non-singalong KPop Demon Hunters showings, I would try pitching that, but alas! I will simply continue to live in ignorance! At least I've got Forbidden Door on Sunday to keep my spirits up regardless of what's on the big screen.

Album #491/1001: The Style Council - CafĂ© Bleu )
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Okay, time for my... second update this month? Jesus christ, working Monday to Friday is soul-sucking. Money, though! And a bit more time in the evenings after work, I guess? And thirty extra minutes of cozy time in the mornings, there are perks, and I do actually greatly prefer the work, I'm still just adapting, I guess.

I've gone to the movies... five times so far this month? Bad Guys 2 (good!), The Naked Gun (good!), Weapons (great!), Top Gun (Top Gun!), and Nobody 2 (good!).

Been finally catching up on a bit of TV, too: Ironheart (good!), Castlevania: Nocturne season 1 (good!), Yellowjackets season 3 (bad!). This week: I finally finish my Leftovers rewatch (great!).

Forbidden Door will be my reward for making it through the work week and hoo boy, they barely bothered to actually crack that thing open this year, huh? It's basically just an AEW PPV with a couple of special guests, which is disappointing and does a bit of a disservice to the matches themselves, which I'm genuinely hyped for; it's a great card, but a shitty Forbidden Door card specifically. Nevertheless! I WILL BE SEATED.

forbidden door london matches in order of how much I care )

Album #490/1001: XTC - Apple Venus Volume 1 )
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It's Friday, gonna try to get an update in for a change, since there ARE updates to be had!

Was just starting to get settled into my new position and new office, really making it my own for the longterm, and now it's all getting taken away from me, womp womp. Well, not the position, but the office; they're kicking us out of this big, beautifully empty building and moving me and my techs over to the main dealership. Disappointed!!! I'll still have my own office, but it will be much smaller, and with no beautiful windows to the outside, and in the noisy middle of the service department, with people all over the place, ugh. But at least the job shouldn't change much; it's my techs that I feel for, getting cut down to one hoist apiece off in the far corner of the main shop? I genuinely don't know how they expect us to get work done! They're constantly bouncing between two to eight vehicles in various states of repairs and approvals and parts availability, they won't be able to make any money if half their day is going to be spent parking and bringing vehicles in and out! If nothing else, the sales department is suddenly going to find their sold 'priority' units a lot less... prioritized than they are now. I don't know, doesn't seem sustainable to me! Could be really bad! But we'll see, I guess!

I'm gonna steal so many fuckin' office supplies when I'm back over there. At least it's a long weekend. THREE WHOLE DAYS OFF, WOWWWWWW.

Also got my first proper salaried cheque, and while it was not as comically oversized as my first one (since that had my training week on it as well), it was still about a 50% increase from what I was routinely making before, which is frankly insane. Time to pay off some friggin' debt!! After my All Outstravaganza next month, anyway.

Skipping ahead a few albums in my 1001, because I'm lagging way behind anyway, and, well:

Album #503/1001: Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath )
merridia: by <user name=ancientgate> (International politics.)
I'm still alive!! Honest!! Largely MIA and unavailable because it turns out completely upending your schedule and life overnight takes some getting used to, but I'm doing okay! I think! I hope???

The new job is interesting! I'm not good enough at it yet to really be comfortable and have time to fuck around online that much (a little more every day, though!), but I think eventually I'll be able to settle into a nice routine once I get the hang of things. I'm technically a service advisor now?? I just only deal with used vehicles coming into inventory, so I'm more of the middleperson between the techs and the salespeople (and also the body shop and sometimes parts depending on what's going on). It's kind of a lot! But it's not bad, and I think I can be good at it if I keep working at it. We'll see how things go, I guess????

I still don't know how I feel about the schedule. Having my number of days off nearly halved is tough, and while the extra time to get stuff done in the evenings is probably ultimately better for actually getting stuff done, I don't like how it feels like my entire life revolves around going to work now. Two days off is not enough! I miss that nice, sharp divide!

Album #489/1001: Dagmar Krause - Tank Battles )

Okay, I've got a bunch of work orders to open now, byyyyyye~~
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So I've been training at my new job for the past two days??? It honestly seems like it might be... pretty easy, although we'll see what I'm saying next week, when I'm cut loose on my own in a giant empty office building with three mechanics and a porter all the way down the street from the main dealership. Updates to come, I suppose?????

Saw a couple of movies. 28 Years Later was fantastic, Jurassic World Rebirth was not. F1 tomorrow night, mostly for my brother's sake, since there was a free screening of some random native romcom that my mom really wanted to go to, too.

Things are going to be pretty erratic for me until at LEAST next month, when I can (hopefully!) settle into my new position and start rearranging my entire life piece by piece, because seriously, everything has been arranged around the seven-on, seven-off for like five years now, and this is a really abrupt change!!

Haven't watched the entire show yet (or the Death Pain Invitacional, for that matter), but I did manage to squeeze in Tomohiro Ishii vs. Drilla Moloney, so I can breathe easy on that front. Whatever else may be happening in my life, at least I've got my #1 wrestling crush in the G1 to look forward to (and of course All Out, but seeing as how that's all the way on the other side of summer, I don't want it to get here too quickly).

Album #487/1001: The Associates - Sulk )

June Movie Count: 12 (Jurassic World Rebirth, 28 Years Later, 28 Weeks Later, 28 Days Later, Materialists, Cinemania, Ballerina, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Will-o'-the-Wisp, The Life of Chuck, Tetsuo: The Iron Man)

Not enough by any stretch, but I got other shit going on now I guess.
merridia: (He does sleep!)
Settling into the 'brain-death' portion of the work week. Need to snap myself out of it. Not sure if I will. Not sure if I'll be going to the movies tomorrow, either, since I'll want to see Materialists, my mom will want to see How to Train Your Dragon But It's Brown Now, and neither of us want to see the other's choice even remotely. Hopefully I can convince her to meet me in the middle and just go see the OG HTTYD, which is also playing, and in an improbably late enough slot for me to go after work. We'll see! It's Friday the 13th, why are there no horror movies out this weekend???

Album #488/1001: The Young Rascals - Groovin' )

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