Hello!
Gracious me! I keep meaning to post and keep putting it off. But I wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to the Yanks, so I figured I'd take the time to do a proper post while I'm here. Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks!
I feel like both a lot of stuff has been going on and yet nothing's really happened, which is weird. It's more, there's a lot of activity but not a lot of progress, I guess. I have my new mattress and a new fan, and we got my old bed out of my room. Unfortunately, my new bed did not work out. Flat pack furniture is always hit and miss and the central support of this one was flimsy and poorly made. I had two nights before it gave out, thankfully not while I was in it. Much drama was had, but we think we can salvage parts of it to make a new set up. We got it on very good sale, so if we can get anything out of it, the money won't be wasted. Right now my mattress is on the floor, but I'm having my best sleep in months, possibly years down there, so we're thinking we might see if we can rig something lower for me. I feel like my room is a doomed venture; every time I try to work on it, something goes awry. But I am always grateful that I at least have a place to sleep and that we have the means to experiment.
We also had a family friend pass away. My sister-in-law's aunt, Barb, died a few weeks ago. My SIL's family has always been kind enough to include us in their gatherings, so we spend quite a bit of time with her, despite the distant connection. She was developmentally delayed and lived in a care home, and was such a bright, happy spirit, always very fun to be around. She was seventy-two and lived a good, adventurous life. She even went to the Special Olympics as a swimmer, which we didn't know until the memorial service. She will be missed.
Mum's health has improved; she went to the doctor and got some extra meds and is feeling a lot better on them. My stones have been pretty good, but the weather has made me migrainey. Any fellow migraineurs get deja vu or presque vu with their auras? I've had some weird bouts of that lately that I think are related.
Also, Paxie had graduated from the kitchen at last! We still put him in there at night and when none of us are home, but otherwise, he's allowed to wander as he pleases during the day, except in the bedrooms. Mostly because they're messy and full of temptation, which is our fault not his.
I've been watching a show on CBC Gem called "Miss S". It's a Chinese version of "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries", which Mum and I watched all of and loved. "Miss S" is set in 1930s Shanghai instead of Australia, but otherwise the characters and stories are mostly the same, just localized. It's been just long enough since I watched Miss Fisher for me to forget who the culprit is, so I don't mind the stories repeating, and I find the changes they make to suit the culture really interesting. The actors are really great and the leads are adorable and have great chemistry. There's a bit of a cultural gap on my part, not so much within the show, but the differences between Chinese and western media. Like, whenever a character comes on screen for the first time, their name pops up next to them to tell you who they are, and one scene had the lyrics of the song being played on the screen. I had to figure that out by screenshotting and running the picture through Google Translate, because the subtitles were not giving me the names or the lyrics and I didn't know what was happening at first. The subtitles are a little hit or miss, mostly just in that they are awkward sometimes. 'That's very sorry' instead of 'that's very unfortunate' and inadvertently making me laugh when a character describes his brother being murdered in a somewhat brutal fashion and follows it up with 'it really gets me down', to which Miss S agrees 'yes, it gets me down, too'. I feel like there was probably a more appropriate way to translate that sentiment than something akin to 'what a bummer, dude'. There also seems to be a trope that if anything romantic is happening it turns to slo-mo and soap opera-like music plays. They only made one season, apparently, but there are 30 episodes (15 stories of two episodes each), so lots to watch, and I've enjoyed what I've seen so far. CBC Gem is region locked, but it looks like it's on Prime, Apple, and Max, so if you have any of those, you can check it out. It's a lot of fun, not too too violent, and the recurring actors are all adorable and have great chemistry together.
Anyway, hope all are doing well in these continually crazy times. Enjoy your festivities if you are festiviting and take care of yourselves!
I feel like both a lot of stuff has been going on and yet nothing's really happened, which is weird. It's more, there's a lot of activity but not a lot of progress, I guess. I have my new mattress and a new fan, and we got my old bed out of my room. Unfortunately, my new bed did not work out. Flat pack furniture is always hit and miss and the central support of this one was flimsy and poorly made. I had two nights before it gave out, thankfully not while I was in it. Much drama was had, but we think we can salvage parts of it to make a new set up. We got it on very good sale, so if we can get anything out of it, the money won't be wasted. Right now my mattress is on the floor, but I'm having my best sleep in months, possibly years down there, so we're thinking we might see if we can rig something lower for me. I feel like my room is a doomed venture; every time I try to work on it, something goes awry. But I am always grateful that I at least have a place to sleep and that we have the means to experiment.
We also had a family friend pass away. My sister-in-law's aunt, Barb, died a few weeks ago. My SIL's family has always been kind enough to include us in their gatherings, so we spend quite a bit of time with her, despite the distant connection. She was developmentally delayed and lived in a care home, and was such a bright, happy spirit, always very fun to be around. She was seventy-two and lived a good, adventurous life. She even went to the Special Olympics as a swimmer, which we didn't know until the memorial service. She will be missed.
Mum's health has improved; she went to the doctor and got some extra meds and is feeling a lot better on them. My stones have been pretty good, but the weather has made me migrainey. Any fellow migraineurs get deja vu or presque vu with their auras? I've had some weird bouts of that lately that I think are related.
Also, Paxie had graduated from the kitchen at last! We still put him in there at night and when none of us are home, but otherwise, he's allowed to wander as he pleases during the day, except in the bedrooms. Mostly because they're messy and full of temptation, which is our fault not his.
I've been watching a show on CBC Gem called "Miss S". It's a Chinese version of "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries", which Mum and I watched all of and loved. "Miss S" is set in 1930s Shanghai instead of Australia, but otherwise the characters and stories are mostly the same, just localized. It's been just long enough since I watched Miss Fisher for me to forget who the culprit is, so I don't mind the stories repeating, and I find the changes they make to suit the culture really interesting. The actors are really great and the leads are adorable and have great chemistry. There's a bit of a cultural gap on my part, not so much within the show, but the differences between Chinese and western media. Like, whenever a character comes on screen for the first time, their name pops up next to them to tell you who they are, and one scene had the lyrics of the song being played on the screen. I had to figure that out by screenshotting and running the picture through Google Translate, because the subtitles were not giving me the names or the lyrics and I didn't know what was happening at first. The subtitles are a little hit or miss, mostly just in that they are awkward sometimes. 'That's very sorry' instead of 'that's very unfortunate' and inadvertently making me laugh when a character describes his brother being murdered in a somewhat brutal fashion and follows it up with 'it really gets me down', to which Miss S agrees 'yes, it gets me down, too'. I feel like there was probably a more appropriate way to translate that sentiment than something akin to 'what a bummer, dude'. There also seems to be a trope that if anything romantic is happening it turns to slo-mo and soap opera-like music plays. They only made one season, apparently, but there are 30 episodes (15 stories of two episodes each), so lots to watch, and I've enjoyed what I've seen so far. CBC Gem is region locked, but it looks like it's on Prime, Apple, and Max, so if you have any of those, you can check it out. It's a lot of fun, not too too violent, and the recurring actors are all adorable and have great chemistry together.
Anyway, hope all are doing well in these continually crazy times. Enjoy your festivities if you are festiviting and take care of yourselves!