Y2/D290 - Happy New Year
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shadowkatI know, you'd think we'd be on year 3 by now, but I'm counting from March 17, 2020, when I (and NYC) went under lock-down for the pandemic.
Still have mother's pesky chest cold - it will not go away. That lingering cough and nasal congestion - is well lingering. Which means, I may have to do something about it - like ask my doctor for an inhaler. I'm already taking Mucinex DM and Cordicin (it's for folks with high blood pressure), an antihistimine, along with Tynenol Sinus Headache.
Wales asked if I had a New Year's Resolution. Other than getting past this chest cold and handling my crazy workplace, nope. All I want from 2022 is a nice quiet uneventful year. 2021 couldn't wait to throw me back on the emotional roller-coaster from hell, and to add insult to injury - after waiting all year long to see my parents, it gave me my mother's chest cold.
I'm very happy to be out of 2021. Now if I can just leave the chest cold in 2021, that would be lovely.
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It's rainy and in the 50s here, which depending on one's point of view is either cold or balmy. My apartment complex has decided its cold and has the heat on - resulting in the A/C coming on to handle the hot flashes and the allergies.
I spent all day binge watching Wheel of Time on Amazon. It kind of takes off after the third episode. Television series are like this - they either take off immediately then get boring after about the third episode, or they take a while to get interesting - than wham! Farscape? Sucked until the fifth or sixth episode. Buffy? Same. Angel? Same. Game of Thrones - excellent, then petered out in the later seasons. Joan of Arcadia - excellent than horrible. Manifest - Great pilot - then ugh. Lost - Same. BSG - same.
Honestly, it's the rare television show that is good from start to finish.
Even The Wire took until about the third episode to take off.
Anyhow, Wheel of Time kind of surprised me in places. It's very tropey and sort of your standard journey fantasy up until about the fifth episode. Once they split up the characters, things get interesting and less predictable and tropey. Oh, and it has LGBTA romances, which I did not expect from a mainstream fantasy series. (Was this in the books or did they change it?) Also, it's not your run of the mill sword and sorcery medieval fantasy thing. The society is matriarchal.
***
Wales has decided to see The Marriage of Figaro.
Me: You going with anyone?
Wales: Me, myself and I.
Me: Cool.
Wales: I'm also volunteering with NY Cares again. My first assignment is delivering meals to homebound folks on the Lower East Side. My New Year's resolution is to push past my boundaries this year.
Me: Yay. Go you! You're very brave.
I'm not feeling very brave. I'm worried my stupid workplace won't let me back with a chest cough. With any luck it will be gone by Tuesday. Apparently there's a nasty chest cold going around, half my family has had it, along with various folks on FB and online. Everyone is COVID Negative, they just had this wicked cold. Fatigue, runny nose, cough, sneezing.
I don't want to see the Marriage of Figaro. Mother was envious - mother likes opera. I don't. It's the one type of music that does very little for me. Some of it is beautiful, I guess. But mostly it just doesn't work for me. No real ear for it. I like classical music, I just don't like opera. Rock Operas? Yes. Classical Italian, German, French, Spanish Operas? Nope. I like to understand the lyrics. And I've no facility for languages. Wales loves the spectacle, can understand the lyrics, and loves the music.
I want to see The Music Man - but it's been cancelled because both leads came down with COVID.
**
Should I run through things from 2021? I'm just glad it's over. And I'm being super cautious about 2022. No one claim this year, just walk in carefully, step around all the furniture, and pray don't touch anything. Shhh. We want a nice quiet uneventful year.
Still have mother's pesky chest cold - it will not go away. That lingering cough and nasal congestion - is well lingering. Which means, I may have to do something about it - like ask my doctor for an inhaler. I'm already taking Mucinex DM and Cordicin (it's for folks with high blood pressure), an antihistimine, along with Tynenol Sinus Headache.
Wales asked if I had a New Year's Resolution. Other than getting past this chest cold and handling my crazy workplace, nope. All I want from 2022 is a nice quiet uneventful year. 2021 couldn't wait to throw me back on the emotional roller-coaster from hell, and to add insult to injury - after waiting all year long to see my parents, it gave me my mother's chest cold.
I'm very happy to be out of 2021. Now if I can just leave the chest cold in 2021, that would be lovely.
**
It's rainy and in the 50s here, which depending on one's point of view is either cold or balmy. My apartment complex has decided its cold and has the heat on - resulting in the A/C coming on to handle the hot flashes and the allergies.
I spent all day binge watching Wheel of Time on Amazon. It kind of takes off after the third episode. Television series are like this - they either take off immediately then get boring after about the third episode, or they take a while to get interesting - than wham! Farscape? Sucked until the fifth or sixth episode. Buffy? Same. Angel? Same. Game of Thrones - excellent, then petered out in the later seasons. Joan of Arcadia - excellent than horrible. Manifest - Great pilot - then ugh. Lost - Same. BSG - same.
Honestly, it's the rare television show that is good from start to finish.
Even The Wire took until about the third episode to take off.
Anyhow, Wheel of Time kind of surprised me in places. It's very tropey and sort of your standard journey fantasy up until about the fifth episode. Once they split up the characters, things get interesting and less predictable and tropey. Oh, and it has LGBTA romances, which I did not expect from a mainstream fantasy series. (Was this in the books or did they change it?) Also, it's not your run of the mill sword and sorcery medieval fantasy thing. The society is matriarchal.
***
Wales has decided to see The Marriage of Figaro.
Me: You going with anyone?
Wales: Me, myself and I.
Me: Cool.
Wales: I'm also volunteering with NY Cares again. My first assignment is delivering meals to homebound folks on the Lower East Side. My New Year's resolution is to push past my boundaries this year.
Me: Yay. Go you! You're very brave.
I'm not feeling very brave. I'm worried my stupid workplace won't let me back with a chest cough. With any luck it will be gone by Tuesday. Apparently there's a nasty chest cold going around, half my family has had it, along with various folks on FB and online. Everyone is COVID Negative, they just had this wicked cold. Fatigue, runny nose, cough, sneezing.
I don't want to see the Marriage of Figaro. Mother was envious - mother likes opera. I don't. It's the one type of music that does very little for me. Some of it is beautiful, I guess. But mostly it just doesn't work for me. No real ear for it. I like classical music, I just don't like opera. Rock Operas? Yes. Classical Italian, German, French, Spanish Operas? Nope. I like to understand the lyrics. And I've no facility for languages. Wales loves the spectacle, can understand the lyrics, and loves the music.
I want to see The Music Man - but it's been cancelled because both leads came down with COVID.
**
Should I run through things from 2021? I'm just glad it's over. And I'm being super cautious about 2022. No one claim this year, just walk in carefully, step around all the furniture, and pray don't touch anything. Shhh. We want a nice quiet uneventful year.
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Date: 2022-01-02 02:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-02 02:43 pm (UTC)But I completely get it - I refused to watch Lupin, until both seasons were released. And I'm on the fence about completing Squid Game. Also, I chose not to watch the Live Action version of Cowboy Bebop, because it got cancelled pretty much out of the box.
I hate unresolved cliff-hangers.
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Date: 2022-01-02 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-01-02 03:48 pm (UTC)And yeah, it's remarkable to me how many shows have one, maybe two, good seasons and then just drag on or even collapse: Veronica Mars (collapses in S3), True Blood (collapses after S2 or maybe even during it), Altered Carbon (collapses in S2). Others, like Buffy, get better over time and I can re-watch them multiple times and learn new stuff.
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Date: 2022-01-02 05:24 pm (UTC)I try not to read series any longer - they either aren't resolved, or collapse.
Agreed on the above. Veronica Mars fell apart in S3. Did I ever finish watching the fourth season on Hulu? I think I gave up on it after the 2nd episode. True Blood - becomes a parody of itself in S5.
And kind of goes off the rails a bit prior to that. The books kind of did too.
Buffy oddly holds up fairly well, as did Farscape. In the commentary to Farscape, the writers mention how difficult it is to hold a series together, and often there's a couple of crappy episodes in the middle.
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Date: 2022-01-02 05:42 pm (UTC)