Oh, new mini-series to watch out for
So, sometimes, b/c I am sort of a royal watcher for some lesser-known European royal families, I check the English new sites for Luxembourg and Belgium. Well, Flanders. But Belgium. It's complicated. ANYWAY, when I checked the Flanders English news site today they had this video clip about a new mini-series being shot there. It's called Parade's End, a BBC/HBO joint production based on the Ford Madox Ford novels. So, basically, a WWI mini-series to come some time in 2012. I am excited. I constantly bitch about the lack of WWI movies, tv shows, and mini-series out there. Granted, I still want a mini-series on women during both WWI and WII and more works focusing on the 442nd Regiment and groups like the Montford Marines, but I'm still excited for this one.
Neal McDonough is going to be on season 3 of Justified. Can't wait for that new season to start.
Still loving Homeland. Very much hooked in.
Due to a bill I thought paid last month and just came out today, I will NOT be going to Ren Fest. I really don't want to request another Saturday off (since I'm taking Nov. 12 off for my brother's wedding)(also taking weekends off that close to Thanksgiving? I'll probably get fired) so yet another year of No Ren Fest. I'm pretty bummed b/c I really, really wanted to go, but so is life. I also looked over my spending from the past 30 days and I've got to cut that shit out. It's all little purchases, but I really can't even afford that, not with my student loan payments and only having a part time job. (I've been trying to get a second one for a year now, no such luck.) I will def. be switching my Federal loans to the Income Based Repayment plan once I do my taxes. Hopefully, that will help some things out. When I selected my current payment plan, I was taking home, pretty much triple what I have now. Hell, I was even making more last year at the same job; my hours have been cut down from near 30 to lucky-if-I-get-20. Times like this, I wish I stayed in Quincy, b/c god, decent paying full time job, but on the other hand, rent, rent, and more rent. I know I still wouldn't have been able to make ends meet, I just think I would be happier. But still, my bills and cost of living were so high there that I was thinking about taking on a second job even when working full time. So, yeah, all about perspective. I've been pretty damn careless these last few months so it's def. time to be an actual-for-real adult again and stop wallowing in self-pity. But since I make so little money and have, in fact, paid my 3 school loans every single month since I started re-paying, hopefully my tax return will help pay down some of my credit card bills. Which is what I REALLY need to work on, b/c that's just basically pissing money away.
Lastly, getting ready to start my Halloween dvd marathon. One Halloween movie or tv series episode per day. I think tonight I shall start with Hocus Pocus
Neal McDonough is going to be on season 3 of Justified. Can't wait for that new season to start.
Still loving Homeland. Very much hooked in.
Due to a bill I thought paid last month and just came out today, I will NOT be going to Ren Fest. I really don't want to request another Saturday off (since I'm taking Nov. 12 off for my brother's wedding)(also taking weekends off that close to Thanksgiving? I'll probably get fired) so yet another year of No Ren Fest. I'm pretty bummed b/c I really, really wanted to go, but so is life. I also looked over my spending from the past 30 days and I've got to cut that shit out. It's all little purchases, but I really can't even afford that, not with my student loan payments and only having a part time job. (I've been trying to get a second one for a year now, no such luck.) I will def. be switching my Federal loans to the Income Based Repayment plan once I do my taxes. Hopefully, that will help some things out. When I selected my current payment plan, I was taking home, pretty much triple what I have now. Hell, I was even making more last year at the same job; my hours have been cut down from near 30 to lucky-if-I-get-20. Times like this, I wish I stayed in Quincy, b/c god, decent paying full time job, but on the other hand, rent, rent, and more rent. I know I still wouldn't have been able to make ends meet, I just think I would be happier. But still, my bills and cost of living were so high there that I was thinking about taking on a second job even when working full time. So, yeah, all about perspective. I've been pretty damn careless these last few months so it's def. time to be an actual-for-real adult again and stop wallowing in self-pity. But since I make so little money and have, in fact, paid my 3 school loans every single month since I started re-paying, hopefully my tax return will help pay down some of my credit card bills. Which is what I REALLY need to work on, b/c that's just basically pissing money away.
Lastly, getting ready to start my Halloween dvd marathon. One Halloween movie or tv series episode per day. I think tonight I shall start with Hocus Pocus