Maybe I should post something?
(for some reason this didn't x post from DW)
We're going to do this in list form. Lists have always served me well.
~ I have a dentist appointment today. Blergh. I guess dentistry is one of those things you can't really do remote visits with ahaha. At least it's just a cleaning.
~ 2020 is quite the roller coaster. I mean, among all the many things it is, keeping one's equilibrium through the ups and downs and twists and turns is proving to be a challenge. And here I used to say I liked roller coasters. No end in sight either.
~ When the George Floyd protests began across the country, I developed a UTI. I haven't had a UTI in....I might have been in my twenties. Anyway, for various reasons that have mainly to do with me not realizing what was going on until too late, it got pretty bad. Luckily it got fixed with a strong dose of antibiotics. The kind where the side effect is ruptured tendons wtf. So I was like petrified of even walking. Not that I could walk anywhere what with the curfews. My town had 5pm curfews all week. We did have several protests, which I had to support by donation since, you know, no walking.
~ For all of March, April, and May, and most of June, work has been BONKERS. Genuinely. Thankfully, my crazy workload is lessoning now though not for the higher ups as we continue to try to fucking negotiate in this mad world.
~ Speaking of my job... guys. I got mixed up in some crazy HR situation. I wish I could talk about it. I'm afraid to talk about it even under a locked post. It's nothing to do with me, personally, thank god. But it's like prime gossip. lol. Ugh.
~ I have no idea how I managed to finish writing The Lifetimes of Steve Rogers. Sheer stubborn determination. Thank god I did. I've gotten lovely feedback, which is nice. I do wish there were easier ways to promote one's writing. We need better ways of launching stories than just effing tumblr. Anyway I recently reread it, and it's pretty good! I love rereading my own fiction. I mean I wrote it for me so I get to fucking enjoy it, damn it. 'Course I was still finding typos wtf. Anyway, I am a genius and that story is LONG AS FUCK. But great. I love it. I fix everything. I recommend it.
~ I have more MCU stories ideas to write. But I am still decompressing after the whole of last year. Plus work and quarantine brain aren't helping. I have started horseback riding again!
~ I finally got a chromecast and can now watch Disney+ and HBO Max. Good thing I went with the chromecast and not the roku option since that's still a no go with the HBO Max. I could live without HBO max to be honest but the parental unit really wanted it. Still no Apple TV for me -- haven't figured out that one yet but in no rush at all.
~ What this means for me is that a) I finally got to watch The Mandalorian. and b) I watched all the old Batman films. I am now currently lazily watching the Star Wars saga in chronological order. I'm somewhere in the middle of The Clone Wars. The disconnect between the Anakin of the movies and the Anakin of the Clone Wars is pretty huge. They're not even the same character imo.
~ Of course the 2 Disney films I really wanted to watch are not available on Disney +. At least not yet. The Watcher in the Woods and In Search of the The Castaways. Hrmph.
~ I didn't fall in love with the Mandalorian as much it seems everyone else did. I mean the baby's super cute, I get it. I like Gina's character a whole lot. She was my favorite. It was very Star Warsy so that was nice.
~ I am also watching a lot of scary films. For some reason I find them comforting. And to be honest, almost none of them actually scare me, I think I have a pretty high tolerance.
~ Mom and I are surviving quarantine. The city is supposed to be opening up (and then closing again) but it still feels like lockdown over here. Mostly I've come to realize that my purpose in care for my mother is a) paying for her groceries (the woman eats 3 times as much as I do), b) serving as IT for her, c) making sure she goes out for walks, d) trying not to argue with her when she's talking total nonsense. e) paying for everything
~ Actually I'm noticing her mental functions decreasing slightly. Mostly it's just simple forgetfulness but she's also losing some of her ability to follow logical thinking about day to day functions. It is glaringly obvious with the IT stuff, but it's easy to be confused by computers and technology, so I can't quite tell how bad it is just yet. Also she smokes and eats a lot of pot, which is not helping in the mental functions, though it helps her with her anxiety so, whatcha gonna do.
~ Ugh have to go get ready for the dentist now.