Time is On My Side
1. My right hand feels like a claw. Since Thursday, I think, my thumb (down to the joint) has been in serious pain. Imagine that you’ve been clutching something tightly or pressing your hand down hard for an extended period of time - that’s what it feels like. Like tight muscles that need to be stretched. Thankfully, it’s not a constant and as long as I’m ginger with my hands, I’m good. I think know it’s due to the way I’m unconsciously holding my hands while asleep. It must be an anxiety thing. Oh well. I’m not sure if this is better than my jaw clenching. Both kind of suck.
2. I’m seriously excited about this new season of shows. Like, I haven’t been this excited in years. So many good shows and so far, I haven’t experienced any overlap. Yay! My favorite new show so far has got to be Revenge on ABC. If they cancel this, I am through. I love long, drawn out, soapy mysteries. My other favorite is Person of Interest. I’m kind of surprised how much I like it. I’m still waiting for Pan Am (saw it, loved it!) and Suburgatory to premiere but I have a feeling I will like.
3. Speaking of new shows, I’m not sure if I like The Secret Circle yet. I want to like it but it’s so god-forsakingly boring. However I am compelled to give it a chance (despite it airing opposite Person of Interest) because The Vampire Diaries was slow and not so interesting during it’s first five or six episodes and then it lit up like fire and I haven’t looked back since. So…yep.
4. I’m finally cleaning out my magazine collection that I have accrued over the last year. I (was) subscribed to a crapload of magazines but I wasn’t reading them. I don’t know what happened. I used to sit down and go through a whole issue soon after it arrived in the mail but I just didn’t have any interest late last year and as a result I have a stack a mile high of everything from Vogue to Vanity Fair to Wired to W to Real Simple (and more still!). I’ve cancelled quite a few of my subscriptions because renewal costs have sky-rocketed. I refuse to pay $30+ for a 1-year renewal when a new subscriber often pays less than half that amount especially when a year ago those renewals were often less than $20. Sure enough, VF has sent me an offer for 12 issues for $12 to reup. Hmph.
5. So far this year, I have cancelled Southern Living, W, and Vanity Fair. Next up on the chopping block is Real Simple and Wired. This will leave me with Vogue, Lucky, and Elle (don’t care for it but I didn’t have to pay for it). There’s a high possibility I’ll end up winding back around to W and Vanity Fair and I’m looking at Harper’s Bazaar to see if I actually like it (loving the fact that they’re going to 10 issues a year). I have a love/hate relationship with Vogue, W, and Vanity Fair. I can never seem to let them go for more than a year at a stretch. ::sigh:: Of course, all of this is my wily strategy to get subscriptions at the lowest cost available which is usually only available to new subscribers. Duh.
6. My hair is so damaged right now probably from a combination of frequent exercising (sweating FTW!) and chemical damage from hair relaxers (boo!). So I’m pretty much resigned to letting my hair grow out until the end of the year at a minimum. Bold statement, I know but technically it would only be five months out and I have gone longer between touchups. Of course, my resolve can be broken especially when it gets harder to comb as the months go by. You’ll see me clutching a straightening comb going, “Screw it; bring on the chemicals.” In the meanwhile, I’m keeping my hair moisturized (thank God for hair grease) and washing it more frequently than normal. I think I have hair products that will help but only time will tell.
7. Somehow I’ve managed to get Lauren to link She-Ra with her visits to my house so now whenever she has a library of Netflix to play with she chooses one of my favorite old school cartoons. Thank you!!!
8. I’m going to have to catch up on episodes of Cowboy Bebop. I stumbled across the soundtracks and fell in love (mmm, jazz) so now I have to watch the show that supported all of that amazing music.
9. I refuse to watch The Chew tomorrow on ABC. Number one, it looks like it sucks and number two, they shouldn’t be rewarded for intentionally destroying their entire soap lineup in order to position new shows. Passive aggressive assholes.
10. At the end of this long diatribe, I bet you’re wondering, how in the world if my hand is actually as painful as I claim (it is), how did I manage to type this diatribe? Very carefully. And yes, I will pay for this later. I usually have claw hands in the morning. Aargh.
2. I’m seriously excited about this new season of shows. Like, I haven’t been this excited in years. So many good shows and so far, I haven’t experienced any overlap. Yay! My favorite new show so far has got to be Revenge on ABC. If they cancel this, I am through. I love long, drawn out, soapy mysteries. My other favorite is Person of Interest. I’m kind of surprised how much I like it. I’m still waiting for Pan Am (saw it, loved it!) and Suburgatory to premiere but I have a feeling I will like.
3. Speaking of new shows, I’m not sure if I like The Secret Circle yet. I want to like it but it’s so god-forsakingly boring. However I am compelled to give it a chance (despite it airing opposite Person of Interest) because The Vampire Diaries was slow and not so interesting during it’s first five or six episodes and then it lit up like fire and I haven’t looked back since. So…yep.
4. I’m finally cleaning out my magazine collection that I have accrued over the last year. I (was) subscribed to a crapload of magazines but I wasn’t reading them. I don’t know what happened. I used to sit down and go through a whole issue soon after it arrived in the mail but I just didn’t have any interest late last year and as a result I have a stack a mile high of everything from Vogue to Vanity Fair to Wired to W to Real Simple (and more still!). I’ve cancelled quite a few of my subscriptions because renewal costs have sky-rocketed. I refuse to pay $30+ for a 1-year renewal when a new subscriber often pays less than half that amount especially when a year ago those renewals were often less than $20. Sure enough, VF has sent me an offer for 12 issues for $12 to reup. Hmph.
5. So far this year, I have cancelled Southern Living, W, and Vanity Fair. Next up on the chopping block is Real Simple and Wired. This will leave me with Vogue, Lucky, and Elle (don’t care for it but I didn’t have to pay for it). There’s a high possibility I’ll end up winding back around to W and Vanity Fair and I’m looking at Harper’s Bazaar to see if I actually like it (loving the fact that they’re going to 10 issues a year). I have a love/hate relationship with Vogue, W, and Vanity Fair. I can never seem to let them go for more than a year at a stretch. ::sigh:: Of course, all of this is my wily strategy to get subscriptions at the lowest cost available which is usually only available to new subscribers. Duh.
6. My hair is so damaged right now probably from a combination of frequent exercising (sweating FTW!) and chemical damage from hair relaxers (boo!). So I’m pretty much resigned to letting my hair grow out until the end of the year at a minimum. Bold statement, I know but technically it would only be five months out and I have gone longer between touchups. Of course, my resolve can be broken especially when it gets harder to comb as the months go by. You’ll see me clutching a straightening comb going, “Screw it; bring on the chemicals.” In the meanwhile, I’m keeping my hair moisturized (thank God for hair grease) and washing it more frequently than normal. I think I have hair products that will help but only time will tell.
7. Somehow I’ve managed to get Lauren to link She-Ra with her visits to my house so now whenever she has a library of Netflix to play with she chooses one of my favorite old school cartoons. Thank you!!!
8. I’m going to have to catch up on episodes of Cowboy Bebop. I stumbled across the soundtracks and fell in love (mmm, jazz) so now I have to watch the show that supported all of that amazing music.
9. I refuse to watch The Chew tomorrow on ABC. Number one, it looks like it sucks and number two, they shouldn’t be rewarded for intentionally destroying their entire soap lineup in order to position new shows. Passive aggressive assholes.
10. At the end of this long diatribe, I bet you’re wondering, how in the world if my hand is actually as painful as I claim (it is), how did I manage to type this diatribe? Very carefully. And yes, I will pay for this later. I usually have claw hands in the morning. Aargh.