re: Fantasy Inventions

Dec. 22nd, 2025 01:55 pm
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I'M SO GODDAMN COLD. But we've made it past the shortest day, so at least I have a few extra minutes of daylight to look forward to every week. Christmas in two days. I need to get some cards together and also ask my boss if I can leave early Wednesday, because Mom is really on my ass about it. Slept so much last night, but I'm still yawning constantly? Unclear whether it's because of too much sleep, too much cold, or some miserable combination of both.

Enjoying my stupid expensive yoga mat so far. Still have a ton of laundry to do. Need to journal more. Got seven inches of hair chopped off on a whim! Trying to convince someone to take me to the movies tomorrow because it's cheap hot dog night. Failing! Really just want to go home and watch some wrestling; I want to get back into NJPW with the Road to Tokyo Dome shows ahead of WK20, and I'm sure I won't have time over Christmas and then Worlds End weekend.

Those four days off of work are gonna be nice.

Movies Watched in December: The Housemaid, The Mastermind, They Live, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Song Sung Blue; Silent Night, Deadly Night; Starman, In the Mouth of Madness, Ghosts of Mars, Prince of Darkness, The History of Sound, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A., Zootopia 2, Escape from New York, Christine

22. What Fantasy Invention Would You Want to Exist in Reality?

brb inventing the torment nexus

re: Outsourcing

Dec. 19th, 2025 02:35 pm
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At the beginning of the week, I had zero plans for the new year, and now I have tickets to three fresh wrestling shows in April, including my third-ever pay-per-view! Life comes at you fast!! First row in the corner for Dynamite and Collision in Winnipeg, dead centre ringside for Dynamite and Collision in Edmonton, then third row behind Spanish commentary for Dynasty 2026 in Vancouver!!! I will begin planning things like travel and accommodations once January rolls around (when I start my new additional work duties, ugh), though I will probably request those two weeks off of work immediately. Something to make getting to 37 worth it!

This week has pretty much been an entire blur aside from that??? I really need to get my life back into some semblance of order now that my back is mostly feeling better. I can make it about two thirds of the way home before I start to feel a twinge, and a heat wrap with a movie settles it right back down, so I should be able to start being a person properly again. It's very cold, and very snowy, and very... heavy outside. Just that overwhelming pall of light grey diffusing through everything for the six or so hours of daylight we have, and then just the most oppressive pitch darkness the rest of the time. We're going to be deep in the -35 to -45 degree trenches for the rest of the year with little to no reprieve, so it's really time to turn my attention inward and just try to feel good. Which unfortunately means doing a lot of laundry, god adulthood is lame.

Movies Watched in December: The Mastermind, They Live, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Song Sung Blue; Silent Night, Deadly Night; Starman, In the Mouth of Madness, Ghosts of Mars, Prince of Darkness, The History of Sound, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A., Zootopia 2, Escape from New York, Christine

The Housemaid this weekend, probably? And then the new Avatar with my brother. I don't particularly want to actually see it unless it's at a theatre with the fun moving seats to make it into more of a ride, but I figure if I just make sure to get really, really high beforehand, that should be just as good.

21. What Would You Outsource if You Could?

Uh... the money-making part, obviously. Is this a trick question?

re: Kondo

Dec. 17th, 2025 11:06 am
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One week out from Christmas, and I'm getting the blues about it all. I keep trying to write about why and deleting it all because I can't get it quite right, but basically a lot of years of miserable Christmases has led to us just not really bothering this time around, which is probably for the best because it greatly reduces the likelihood of my having to spend Christmas Eve running between different rooms to try to get everyone to stop crying again, but I'm sure my mom is quietly disappointed about it regardless. Probably doesn't help that this is our first Christmas without a pet, like, ever? We've got to at least get a tree next time.

Just got pulled in for a meeting with my managers because I've been doing my job too well and they're giving me more to do starting next month, damn it! More techs to work with, a whole other department (in a whole different building) to manage internal work orders for and coordinate with, whyyyyy? I spent a decade keeping my head down just to avoid this sort of thing!

Successfully walked home from work yesterday for the first time since throwing out my back. I was pretty sore by the time I made it, but not cripplingly so, and then mom ordered Boston Pizza so I was able to rejuvenate myself with overpriced pasta and the one-night-only return of AEW Dark (oh my god, I've missed Taz so much).

Experimented with magnetic nail polish again last night. Was still unable to do anything cohesive with it, but it looks prettier than it did last time!

My goal of not spending money that I don't have willy-nilly anymore is not going great so far (I blame the sleep deprivation), but hopefully this expensive yoga mat will aid in my recovery efforts??? I have, however, shut down two very pricey subscription services that I've been on for years to make up for it, so NOW it's time to get serious about saving. Two days to the AEW pre-sales!

Movies Watched in December: Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Song Sung Blue; Silent Night, Deadly Night; Starman, In the Mouth of Madness, Ghosts of Mars, Prince of Darkness, The History of Sound, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A., Zootopia 2, Escape from New York, Christine

In honour of Saya Kamitani becoming the first woman to ever snag the top spot in the Tokyo Sports awards, Stardom uploaded a killer playlist of all the big singles matches from her current run, so if you want to see a bunch of dramatic women beating the ever-loving shit out of each for several hours, fill your fucking boots (the third of the three Tam Nakano bouts is particularly poignant in the immediate wake of John Cena's hilariously lackluster retirement match).

20. Are You a Hoarder or a Minimalist?

All my shit is what separates me from the animals!
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Three days until pre-sales for the AEW shows in Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver in April! Finally, I have something long-distance to look forward to again! Time to tighten my belt, post-holiday splurges, so that I can actually afford to go (or at least pretend that I can afford to go). Trip planning will begin tentatively next week (after I hopefully have tickets), and then begin in earnest come the start of 2026. DYNASTY!!

Mom bailed on the MMM last night because it was snowing (lame excuse), but I hopped on a bus and went all by myself and had a great time anyway with an insane melodramatic mess of a movie (complimentary???). I definitely overdid things with my back a bit, though, and should probably go back to taking it easy for the rest of the week to keep recovering. Things hurt! It's cold out! An outing was extremely necessary for my mental health!

Album #502/1001: Soft Machine - Third )

Movies Watched in December: Song Sung Blue; Silent Night, Deadly Night; Starman, In the Mouth of Madness, Ghosts of Mars, Prince of Darkness, The History of Sound, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A., Zootopia 2, Escape from New York, Christine

Six more hours until I can go home and make delicious noodles and put on a movie and also a heat wrap. BACK TO BASICS.
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Gotta be a legendarily terrible weekend in the news, huh? What with the multiple mass shootings and the tragic Hollywood parricides and whatnot? Definitely a Monday to just kinda tune the world out and focus on work and/or my rich inner life.

Back is doing much better! Spent some of the weekend with spiking pain from my neck to my thighs, but I think those were just normal sore muscles and knots from coping with the initial injury. I'm mostly just very stiff now. May even try walking home from work during this brief break in the -40 degree weather, but we'll see how I'm holding up towards the end of the day.

Monday Mystery Movie tonight! I think it's probably gonna be the Hugh Jackman Neil Diamond impersonator one? Weird!

Album #501/1001: Paul McCartney - McCartney )

Movies Watched in December: Silent Night, Deadly Night; Starman, In the Mouth of Madness, Ghosts of Mars, Prince of Darkness, The History of Sound, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A., Zootopia 2, Escape from New York, Christine

ANYWAY THEY JUST ANNOUNCED AEW DYNASTY WILL BE IN VANCOUVER IN APRIL, SO I HAVE PLANS TO MAKE AND CELEBRATORY WOK BOX TO ORDER, BYEEEEEEE~

(There's too much fucking perspective now.)

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