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Oct. 8th, 2022 05:34 pmWeekend hasn't quite gone as planned. Wales flaked out on doing anything today, so we appear to be doing "brunch" again on Sunday, which is something - I guess.
I'm cutting her a break - considering I got to take a four day weekend, but she did not. Our schedules just didn't line up as desired. Disappointing. But it is what it is. I feel like I'm saying and hearing that phrase constantly now.
Five things I'm grateful for:
1. Sunshine, blue skies, trees, and a few with all of the above outside my living room - not everyone in the city is so lucky.
2. Brisk cool autumn day - to veg and watch television. Drink tea.
3. Getting laundry done without any issues on Friday, and a good night's sleep (well for the most part at any rate)
4. Momma
5. Wales (we'd been estranged for about nine years - due to a falling out in 2009, that honestly feels like it happened to different people)
Five things about my workplace that I'm grateful for:
1. A raise next week
2. Kinder attorneys (the previous ones yelled at me on the phone and crashed my computer)
3. MS Teams (I'd rather host meetings on teams than travel to and from places and meet in windowless conference rooms)
4. Ability to edit, merge, combine docs, and save files as Adobe Acrobat - there was a time that you'd have to scan everything.
5. Ability to still analyze things and a union that protects my job and guarantees me raises.
**
Watched:
1. Interview with a Vampire - better than expected. The casting of Louis and Lestate, weirdly, works. And Louis - is excellently cast. It actually works better to have Louis be a Black Pimp and Gamboler in New Orleans than a white upper crust plantation owner. Also kudos to AMC for letting Louis be a closeted gay man, and making the homosexual romance textual instead of sub-textual. (I kind of found the whole vampires are a metaphor for LGBTA a little annoying. By making both men gay - it kind of takes it out of the metaphor. The metaphor is now about sexual desire and infection, or AIDs, which it kind of always was.)
It's well produced and well acted. But alas, I've grown weary of the storyline and it is so 20th Century. So, we'll see if I stick with it.
It did very well in the overnight ratings department and pairs well with the Walking Dead.
2. Tried "Help Me Todd" - but I cannot abide Skylar Astin. I've tried. And he's been in multiple things, and everything I see him in - I have the overwhelming urge to smack him. Some actors I just feel the urge to smack.
He's one of them. I also always felt the need to smack the guy who played Ross in Friends. Astin was in Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (I disliked him on sight), Grey's Anatomy (ditto), Pitch Perfect (yep), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (definitely). So it's definitely the actor who isn't working for me.
By by Help Me Todd. Didn't make it past the first five minutes.
3. Monarch (still entertaining, and I rather like the cast, so sticking with it - even if it is recycling one too many pop hits made popular by POP Artists with quite a bit of name recognition. Somehow a country singer signing "Juice" and "Watermelon Sugar" doesn't quite jibe.
The mystery is kind of interesting though. They killed someone to protect somebody else.
4. Alaska Daily - I'm enjoying. Hilary Swank, and they guy from Scandal (a fav from Scandal). It's about a bitter NYC journalist being coaxed by a former mentor and teacher to Alaska to write a story on a Missing Person's case that only involves Indigenous Women. It's a process story - about the investigative process of being a journalist, tracking down stories, etc.
Mother called in the middle of it, and afterwards I chose to take walk to the pharmacy, where I spent far more money then I intended on pecid-ac. It was over $32.77 for the chewables, and the pills.
I'm cutting her a break - considering I got to take a four day weekend, but she did not. Our schedules just didn't line up as desired. Disappointing. But it is what it is. I feel like I'm saying and hearing that phrase constantly now.
Five things I'm grateful for:
1. Sunshine, blue skies, trees, and a few with all of the above outside my living room - not everyone in the city is so lucky.
2. Brisk cool autumn day - to veg and watch television. Drink tea.
3. Getting laundry done without any issues on Friday, and a good night's sleep (well for the most part at any rate)
4. Momma
5. Wales (we'd been estranged for about nine years - due to a falling out in 2009, that honestly feels like it happened to different people)
Five things about my workplace that I'm grateful for:
1. A raise next week
2. Kinder attorneys (the previous ones yelled at me on the phone and crashed my computer)
3. MS Teams (I'd rather host meetings on teams than travel to and from places and meet in windowless conference rooms)
4. Ability to edit, merge, combine docs, and save files as Adobe Acrobat - there was a time that you'd have to scan everything.
5. Ability to still analyze things and a union that protects my job and guarantees me raises.
**
Watched:
1. Interview with a Vampire - better than expected. The casting of Louis and Lestate, weirdly, works. And Louis - is excellently cast. It actually works better to have Louis be a Black Pimp and Gamboler in New Orleans than a white upper crust plantation owner. Also kudos to AMC for letting Louis be a closeted gay man, and making the homosexual romance textual instead of sub-textual. (I kind of found the whole vampires are a metaphor for LGBTA a little annoying. By making both men gay - it kind of takes it out of the metaphor. The metaphor is now about sexual desire and infection, or AIDs, which it kind of always was.)
It's well produced and well acted. But alas, I've grown weary of the storyline and it is so 20th Century. So, we'll see if I stick with it.
It did very well in the overnight ratings department and pairs well with the Walking Dead.
2. Tried "Help Me Todd" - but I cannot abide Skylar Astin. I've tried. And he's been in multiple things, and everything I see him in - I have the overwhelming urge to smack him. Some actors I just feel the urge to smack.
He's one of them. I also always felt the need to smack the guy who played Ross in Friends. Astin was in Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (I disliked him on sight), Grey's Anatomy (ditto), Pitch Perfect (yep), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (definitely). So it's definitely the actor who isn't working for me.
By by Help Me Todd. Didn't make it past the first five minutes.
3. Monarch (still entertaining, and I rather like the cast, so sticking with it - even if it is recycling one too many pop hits made popular by POP Artists with quite a bit of name recognition. Somehow a country singer signing "Juice" and "Watermelon Sugar" doesn't quite jibe.
The mystery is kind of interesting though. They killed someone to protect somebody else.
4. Alaska Daily - I'm enjoying. Hilary Swank, and they guy from Scandal (a fav from Scandal). It's about a bitter NYC journalist being coaxed by a former mentor and teacher to Alaska to write a story on a Missing Person's case that only involves Indigenous Women. It's a process story - about the investigative process of being a journalist, tracking down stories, etc.
Mother called in the middle of it, and afterwards I chose to take walk to the pharmacy, where I spent far more money then I intended on pecid-ac. It was over $32.77 for the chewables, and the pills.