This that and the other thingamig

1. Dresser's bottom drawer broke - have to get a new dresser, don't want to, but it is what it is.

Flirting with Oakleigh 7-Drawer Dresser from Pottery Barn. Previous Dresser was a cheap one from Gothic Cabinet Craft - which lasted 23 years. So, not bad. Considering it only cost me $500, if that.

I'm thinking of spending a bit more and getting a quality one from Pottery Barn.

2. Talbots Order came in - and alas, I have to return two of the items - because they look awful. They looked great online, they do not look great on me. Oh well, it should be easy enough. Just need a return label and a bag to put it in, then drop it off at UPS.

I hate returning things, I suck at it. I've lost more money because I suck at returning things. It's why - me and online shopping are not necessarily mixy things.

The items were Pleated Sleeve Crewneck Top ( and no, it did not look like that on me - it looked gadawful.)

And... Indigo Blue Top with Pattern - (also looked horrible on.)

Both have to be returned. I'll try to get into the computer at work tomorrow to print off the label.

It's either that or give them to Housing Works. Considering they cost over $80 together, I'd rather return them. Oh well, at least they were on sale.

3. Finished Blood, Sweat and Chrome: The Making of Mad Max Fury Road via audible. It was okay. Told mainly through interviews, so a lot of voices. After a bit I was able to distinguish George Miller, Charlize Theron, and Tom Hardy (they had actors perform them - it wasn't them).
( review, kind of )

Oh, they are filming a prequel with Ana Taylor-Joy as Furiousa. So if you are into this sort of thing...and feel a need for completion? They are continuing the Mad Max films with Furiousa. (I've seen all the Mad Max films, but don't feel an over-powering need to see more.)

I'm now listening to the audiobook version of The Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grahn (Non-fiction for some reason or other works better for me as an audiobook than fiction. I do not know why.)

This has multiple narrators or readers. They are: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell. I think I bought it mainly for Will Patton's narration. Actually, I didn't buy it - I got for free via audible credit.

It's good. I had tried it previously when I wasn't in the mood. Now I am.
It goes into depth on the Osage Indian Tribe or Native Americans. ( evil white settlers, Osage County Indians, and Pinkertons )

I got all this while doing laundry, putting laundry away, trying on Talbots clothes, and alas - trying to fix my dresser. I sweated like a stuck pig during the whole laundry bit. Also took down the recycling. I had a lot of boxes to take down - due to a delivery of a new air purifier this week - which is big, and apparently required three boxes. I don't know why they had to put it into three boxes but they did.

( here's what Amazon says about the book )

4. I got a new air purifier this week - which is working beautifully.
It is... Conway Air Purifier - which went down in price after I got it, damn them. So you could get cheaper, lucky you.

5. I've not been having a good week. Little annoyances throughout. And struggling with sleep again.

They say insomina is a result of a)being really smart (so if you don't suffer from it - are you not really smart? Tee hee.) or b) ceiliac disease (far more likely) or c) they don't know. (probable.)

For me - it's usually my body or mind don't want to sleep yet and can't get comfortable for whatever reason.

I don't know if mercury is in retrograde - but it would explain it.

Also, I find myself haunted by Oppenheimer. I'd been looking forward to it for months. (Rare that - I rarely look forward to movies any longer). And worked hard to go to it - or out of my way. We usually just go in Brooklyn or the neighborhood. Not an hour and a half away in the city.

And my mother talked incessantly about it after she saw it - now she's done. Damn her. Also as a result - I knew a lot going in. I did not go into that movie blind. I knew it was talky, I knew that the protagonist is a shell of himself at the end. There weren't that many surprises - outside of the fact that I loved it - that surprised me.

It's interesting how that film has taken off. It's breaking records right and left. And critics are scrambling to explain why. I know why - it haunts people. Plays with their heads long after the fact. Also there's something universal about it - that it taps into - a universal rage about the atomic bomb, and an attempt to come to terms with the fact that this threat that has been hanging over all our lives since most of us were born (those who were born before it - are dying off or are dead already, and those who created it - died ages ago). Greatest Generation kind of doomed the generations that came after - and I think there's a collective rage about it? Most of the people seeing this film are between the ages of 18-45. The crowd in the theater I was in - was much younger than me. They don't romanticize the Wars, the way the Silent Generation and Baby Boomers did, instead, much like Generation X, they rage at them for the horror shows they were. And we're seeing that now expressed in recent cinema. At least that's impression - I'm not entirely sure, it's just a gut feeling at this point. Partly due to the popularity of Oppenheimer in Korea of all places.