Cat & Mouse
► This has turned into a tough week. Dean's missed all week and seems dangerously close to another spiraling period, though she seems a bit better tonight and slightly more assured. It's hard enough to try to stay positive and hopeful when she's like this most of the time, but doubly so when I'm fighting my own anxiety and depression funk.
This morning I had a bit of a shock. I've been worried and fearful since I found our old lease last month and noticed the single line at the back of the document that stated tenants need written prior permission before bringing pets into their apartments. Since then I've been terrified about the landlord finding out and possibly evicting us because I now have Stormy. Well he found out this morning.
Shortly after 10:00am the apartment was buzzed and it was the landlord and a handyman. Our balcony has apparently been leaking for some time so the handyman was here to add some caulking. Jai, the landlord, obviously saw Stormy in the apartment, along with the litter box (which I had already freshly scooped), but never said a word. In fact the only mention of the cat came from the handyman as they were leaving to go to the apartment across from us. He simply said not to let my cat on the balcony for at least an hour.
So there. Jai was here, he saw Stormy, and nothing happened. That said, I'm still worried that he might come back in the next couple of weeks because of it, or that I might find a notice on our door one day when I go for the mail. Dad thinks I'm simply being paranoid, and he and Deana both think that nothing will happen as the tenants in all three apartments have cats or dogs. That's true, but I do not have prior written permission, and I have no idea if any of the other tenants had to get it.
So the cat is out of the bag, so to speak, but I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Ahh, mixed metaphors...
► One good thing about today was that my Jordan Carver signed and personalized photo print arrived in the mail. The envelop had been folded in half and crammed into the mailbox, but the photo doesn't seem too damaged. If I do end up going out tomorrow I'll have to buy a new picture frame for it.
► EW Inside TV: TNT orders reality series starring The Rock - First, is the Rock's movie career doing that poorly? Second, it's a reality TV show called "The Hero" with people competing to be The Hero through athletic and physical competitions? In a world where people volunteer in battered women shelters, in animal rescues, in soup kitchens, doing events for charities, saving and helping rebuild lives, this just sounds incredibly contrived, superficial and insulting. I'm sorry, I love Dwayne Johnson, but this show just does.
► CBR: The CW Plans "Wonder Woman" Series - This fall they debut a Green Arrow series where the character and the series is generically named "Arrow" and now they want to make a Wonder Woman series called "Amazon" where she isn't Wonder Woman? All this after a 10 year long Clark Kent becomes Superman series that never actually showed him become Superman? Fuck you CW.
I just do not understand why they're bothering to use recognizable properties if they insist on making the shows as generic as possible and remove all the identifying features from the characters. It's simply idiotic to me.
► TV Line: J.J. Abrams Sells Robot-Cop Drama Pilot to Fox - I'm sure that it's pure coincidence that this is happening when a new high profile remake of RoboCop is in production.
► The Playlist: Daniel Craig Signed On For Two More James Bond Movies After 'Skyfall' - I thought Daniel Craig had signed on for a 24th and 25th Bond movie 2 years ago. Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace are fine films, but I still think they're not quite Bond movies. I have high hopes that Skyfall will be a return to form.
I know, I harp on that a lot.
► GoodReads: C.S. Lewis Quotes - I love this:“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis
► Tumblr: Texts From Super Heroes - My new favourite comedy Tumblr. Here's one I loved:
Quote of the Moment
General McLaidlaw: Good heavens! You can't expect me to remember every detail about everybody, can you?
- Suspicion (1941)
Drinking: water
Last Watched: 2 Broke Girls: Season 1 (DVD set);
This morning I had a bit of a shock. I've been worried and fearful since I found our old lease last month and noticed the single line at the back of the document that stated tenants need written prior permission before bringing pets into their apartments. Since then I've been terrified about the landlord finding out and possibly evicting us because I now have Stormy. Well he found out this morning.
Shortly after 10:00am the apartment was buzzed and it was the landlord and a handyman. Our balcony has apparently been leaking for some time so the handyman was here to add some caulking. Jai, the landlord, obviously saw Stormy in the apartment, along with the litter box (which I had already freshly scooped), but never said a word. In fact the only mention of the cat came from the handyman as they were leaving to go to the apartment across from us. He simply said not to let my cat on the balcony for at least an hour.
So there. Jai was here, he saw Stormy, and nothing happened. That said, I'm still worried that he might come back in the next couple of weeks because of it, or that I might find a notice on our door one day when I go for the mail. Dad thinks I'm simply being paranoid, and he and Deana both think that nothing will happen as the tenants in all three apartments have cats or dogs. That's true, but I do not have prior written permission, and I have no idea if any of the other tenants had to get it.
So the cat is out of the bag, so to speak, but I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Ahh, mixed metaphors...
► One good thing about today was that my Jordan Carver signed and personalized photo print arrived in the mail. The envelop had been folded in half and crammed into the mailbox, but the photo doesn't seem too damaged. If I do end up going out tomorrow I'll have to buy a new picture frame for it.
► EW Inside TV: TNT orders reality series starring The Rock - First, is the Rock's movie career doing that poorly? Second, it's a reality TV show called "The Hero" with people competing to be The Hero through athletic and physical competitions? In a world where people volunteer in battered women shelters, in animal rescues, in soup kitchens, doing events for charities, saving and helping rebuild lives, this just sounds incredibly contrived, superficial and insulting. I'm sorry, I love Dwayne Johnson, but this show just does.
► CBR: The CW Plans "Wonder Woman" Series - This fall they debut a Green Arrow series where the character and the series is generically named "Arrow" and now they want to make a Wonder Woman series called "Amazon" where she isn't Wonder Woman? All this after a 10 year long Clark Kent becomes Superman series that never actually showed him become Superman? Fuck you CW.
I just do not understand why they're bothering to use recognizable properties if they insist on making the shows as generic as possible and remove all the identifying features from the characters. It's simply idiotic to me.
► TV Line: J.J. Abrams Sells Robot-Cop Drama Pilot to Fox - I'm sure that it's pure coincidence that this is happening when a new high profile remake of RoboCop is in production.
► The Playlist: Daniel Craig Signed On For Two More James Bond Movies After 'Skyfall' - I thought Daniel Craig had signed on for a 24th and 25th Bond movie 2 years ago. Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace are fine films, but I still think they're not quite Bond movies. I have high hopes that Skyfall will be a return to form.
I know, I harp on that a lot.
► GoodReads: C.S. Lewis Quotes - I love this:“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis
► Tumblr: Texts From Super Heroes - My new favourite comedy Tumblr. Here's one I loved:
Quote of the Moment
General McLaidlaw: Good heavens! You can't expect me to remember every detail about everybody, can you?
- Suspicion (1941)
Drinking: water
Last Watched: 2 Broke Girls: Season 1 (DVD set);