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Feb. 11th, 2014 06:06 pmI'm around, I'm reading, but somehow haven't really scraped up the cans to post.
It's ass cold in New England and snowing about every five days or so. Winter, distinguished readers. I'm tired of it though - glad there's only a couple months at most more of it before it warms up and Mother Nature moves to Andee Torture: Spring Edition. But! Snow is pretty and the days are getting noticably longer so that's a plus.
In other news hm. What's been going on... mostly been consumed by stressing over Moonbeam (we're on round two of antibiotics for his UTI from hell), grumbling about money and being an antisocial zombie hermit. There have been bright points though - Burlesque was last weekend and that always is a boost to the spirit, we put in a pretty great bell performance the morning afterward despite being snowed out of rehearsal last week. Last night was also lovely, as cell23 and I met deliriumdeva for shenanigans in Northampton, which mostly just turned out to be us planting our butts in a booth at McLadden's Pub (it's new - opened last year in the old Pleasant Street Theater space), having some warm and rib sticking (if a mite pricey) Irish food and staying for bar trivia, in which we managed to come in third place.
Oh Friday cell23 took me out for a date - first to the movies (If you are reading this and you haven't seen the LEGO movie yet FIX THIS IMMEDIATELY it was fantastic) and then out to the Quarters... yikes. Will not be doing that again on a Friday night I don't think, waaaaaaaaaay too many neckbeards and hipsters with a line of demarcation between them so obvious I expected one group to start menacingly snapping their fingers at the other one a la West Side Story. But I did spend about $4 and some quality time reuniting with an old friend, namely the Addams Family pinball table they'd just put in. Despite some broken lights and a stuck flipper that eradicated any enjoyment out of making the skill shot (seeing as it would immediately drain) I did end up thoroughly enjoying myself, though I do wonder if they have plans to at least try to fix the flipper issue.
I haven't been watching much Olympic coverage - for some reason this year not even the figure skating has my attention. I did catch the Opening ceremonies a couple of days later via an Australian broadcast, and... wow, Russia. *smh* Side note - may start watching international coverage of Olympic stuff as opposed to NBCs - it was refreshing to only have three commercial breaks as opposed to a bazillionty eleven, and also to actually see the entire parade of nations instead of "eh - African country, no one cares COMMERCIAL and then have like 10 whole minutes following the USA athletes around the area instead of paying attention to anyone coming afterward - here it was "Oh and here are the Americans. And here is [next country]."
I'm... both okay with and not okay with the amount of coverage the latest dustup over Woody Allen has been getting. Okay because damn, Dylan, get it on out there. Not okay because I found the whole thing triggering the first time around (I was a teenager when the whole Soon-Yi scandal broke) and even more so now for some odd reason, plus there's the whole sexual abuse survivor thing coming into play as well and ugh. Plus there's no good way that situation can end - it's too late to prosecute Allen and the more Dylan speaks the more she's going to get it from all directions because hooray our rape apologist culture. There's no real justice possible. So... feh. It's not a good week to be either on Facebook or on ONTD.
Tumblr... is pissing me off. Righteously, but still. You read enough social justice stuff on the net and well, if you're not angry by the end of it, you're not paying attention, to quote... someone. On the other hand, there's Reboot fandom and gifs of owls and puppies and an entire hashtag of men in makeup, so it balances out. Tumblr, you are a very strange place.
The bracelet I'm making in between projects is turning out to be a bit of a struggle - it's coming out gorgeous but I have no huge inspiration or desire to work on it. I told myself that I couldn't do my next thing (see icon) until I finished it, though, so I'm grudgingly about halfway through. Seeing as it's blue I may enter it in next month's etsy beadweaver challenge, just as further get-er-done impetus.
But yeah, mostly... I don't know. Definitely still kind of low overall, and unsure how to break on through to the other side. Meanwhile... just keep swimming, I guess. Ah well. Off to make dinner.
It's ass cold in New England and snowing about every five days or so. Winter, distinguished readers. I'm tired of it though - glad there's only a couple months at most more of it before it warms up and Mother Nature moves to Andee Torture: Spring Edition. But! Snow is pretty and the days are getting noticably longer so that's a plus.
In other news hm. What's been going on... mostly been consumed by stressing over Moonbeam (we're on round two of antibiotics for his UTI from hell), grumbling about money and being an antisocial zombie hermit. There have been bright points though - Burlesque was last weekend and that always is a boost to the spirit, we put in a pretty great bell performance the morning afterward despite being snowed out of rehearsal last week. Last night was also lovely, as cell23 and I met deliriumdeva for shenanigans in Northampton, which mostly just turned out to be us planting our butts in a booth at McLadden's Pub (it's new - opened last year in the old Pleasant Street Theater space), having some warm and rib sticking (if a mite pricey) Irish food and staying for bar trivia, in which we managed to come in third place.
Oh Friday cell23 took me out for a date - first to the movies (If you are reading this and you haven't seen the LEGO movie yet FIX THIS IMMEDIATELY it was fantastic) and then out to the Quarters... yikes. Will not be doing that again on a Friday night I don't think, waaaaaaaaaay too many neckbeards and hipsters with a line of demarcation between them so obvious I expected one group to start menacingly snapping their fingers at the other one a la West Side Story. But I did spend about $4 and some quality time reuniting with an old friend, namely the Addams Family pinball table they'd just put in. Despite some broken lights and a stuck flipper that eradicated any enjoyment out of making the skill shot (seeing as it would immediately drain) I did end up thoroughly enjoying myself, though I do wonder if they have plans to at least try to fix the flipper issue.
I haven't been watching much Olympic coverage - for some reason this year not even the figure skating has my attention. I did catch the Opening ceremonies a couple of days later via an Australian broadcast, and... wow, Russia. *smh* Side note - may start watching international coverage of Olympic stuff as opposed to NBCs - it was refreshing to only have three commercial breaks as opposed to a bazillionty eleven, and also to actually see the entire parade of nations instead of "eh - African country, no one cares COMMERCIAL and then have like 10 whole minutes following the USA athletes around the area instead of paying attention to anyone coming afterward - here it was "Oh and here are the Americans. And here is [next country]."
I'm... both okay with and not okay with the amount of coverage the latest dustup over Woody Allen has been getting. Okay because damn, Dylan, get it on out there. Not okay because I found the whole thing triggering the first time around (I was a teenager when the whole Soon-Yi scandal broke) and even more so now for some odd reason, plus there's the whole sexual abuse survivor thing coming into play as well and ugh. Plus there's no good way that situation can end - it's too late to prosecute Allen and the more Dylan speaks the more she's going to get it from all directions because hooray our rape apologist culture. There's no real justice possible. So... feh. It's not a good week to be either on Facebook or on ONTD.
Tumblr... is pissing me off. Righteously, but still. You read enough social justice stuff on the net and well, if you're not angry by the end of it, you're not paying attention, to quote... someone. On the other hand, there's Reboot fandom and gifs of owls and puppies and an entire hashtag of men in makeup, so it balances out. Tumblr, you are a very strange place.
The bracelet I'm making in between projects is turning out to be a bit of a struggle - it's coming out gorgeous but I have no huge inspiration or desire to work on it. I told myself that I couldn't do my next thing (see icon) until I finished it, though, so I'm grudgingly about halfway through. Seeing as it's blue I may enter it in next month's etsy beadweaver challenge, just as further get-er-done impetus.
But yeah, mostly... I don't know. Definitely still kind of low overall, and unsure how to break on through to the other side. Meanwhile... just keep swimming, I guess. Ah well. Off to make dinner.
