What I'm Watching and Reading

 It's been a very long time...only a little over 6 months this time.

Quick update...the missing person was found, not alive, my husband has long covid, I had vertigo possibly related to long covid and I had the best Summer vacation ever.

 I'm currently in the middle of my usual September vacation, which means, cleaning, purging and cooking.  

You know what's so funny and odd? I keep saying to my husband how sometimes I just love being an adult.  I can have cake for dinner! Invite my friends over whenever I want.  The other day we moved the living room furniture and I used to love switching up my bedroom when I was a teenager and now I can do the whole house if I want!  And I HAVE A DOG! MY VERY OWN DOG! Who is now spayed and I can take to the dog park. I'm a dog park person! and I interact with other dog park people! It's wild.

 Husband and I just finished watching the Harry Potter movies again. They're so good. I've reread the first 3 books a few times and now I want to reread the last 2. I love The Prisoner of Azkaban and The Half Blood Prince. Those are my favourites. 

This Summer I had an awakening, if you will. I've felt different ever since. More relaxed, I want things to feel like the 80s...I even watched all my favourite 80s movies and am working on a list of ones I haven't see or haven't watched in awhile.

I've also reread some of my favourite books.  Sarah Dessen novels are perfect for Summer...omg, 'Along for the Ride' came out on Netflix this year....thoughts?  Plus 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' came on on Amazon.  I personally loved both. 'Along for the Ride' had a great soundtrack and the cast was great.  I've watched it 3x.  'The Summer I Turned Pretty', I'm watching again...I cried the first time.Both just take me back to my early 20s and give me goosebumps.

I've reread, 'Prettygirl 13' (love this book to death), 'Living Dead Girl' and next is either 'Sybil' or 'Stolen'.

I'm currently on a rewatch of Gilmore Girls, which I've seen over 20 times for sure...I had hit 19x about 10 years ago....I'm a little obsessed.

Besides Husband's long covid, things are good. 

How's life for you?

 

 

Tonight is hard

 Right as I was typing in blogger.com one of my crying songs came on, from the Titanic soundtrack. 

Yes, anything Titanic related makes me cry.  I went to the museum when it was in a city close by, years ago, it's making me cry just remembering it.

Fuck, I'm out of wine and want to watch the Titanic movie. 

That's how you know my night has been rough.

That's great, two of my worst cry songs are coming up...I know this because I tried to skip the first and saw a worse one was after and rewinded to the first cry song.

Cry songs will be listed below, or I might even link you the "Hollow" playlist, because that is what it is called on Spotify. Have fun.

You know in cartoons or movies how they can show a  flashback real fast of what's happened in the last 24hrs/5yrs/20yrs etc.

I get that sometimes.

Right now the flash back is the last 3 years.  It's fucked.  Honestly. The last 3 years are fucked.  Like, how is that real life? I'm now writing this through blurs because like seriously, how fucked.

I don't get it.

How are there so many highs and lows? It's doesn't make sense. It adds ups, like equally and all but how can that all happen in three years?

Oh cool, Hymn to the Sea, my number one cry song is on.  Oddly enough it also calms my dog and makes me bawl at the same time.  Anything written in the next few lines is emotionally driven by this song.  Oh the pipe bags. Here's where I hold my breath and cry, because I'm weird.  Fuck I hate this song.  When I was in my early teens I wrote in my diary how I wanted this played at my funeral.  Yes, I was emo.  Ooo I hate this part, I wish I had more wine.  My dog is sleeping and I'm gasping for air while crying.  Okay, now it's the kinda happy part where I skip.

These past three years, there has been two marriages, fourth deaths (in our family), one missing person(still not found), three births, homes bought, a few breakups, divorces and almost break ups, new fur babies, strains on relationships..etc 

It's been a rough go.

That does not include having covid, dealing with my mental health, stress of buying a house, stress on my relationship, work stress (I work in healthcare).  It's being fucking hell the last few years.  So everything is just running through my head on fast forward, it's bizarre.

I can't even blame it on my period because that sort of just happened (I have an IUD so my period is almost nonexistent.)

I think the trigger this week is that it was my birthday and for the second year in a row my Grandma didn't call me.

Okay, happy things. 

- I love my co-workers

- My dog makes me laugh

- My husband is awesome (sorry to husband for being the third thing on the list)

-We worked hard to get our house and our pup and I love it all

-I am grateful for the parents, siblings, friends and family I have

-Overall I'm happy and in a good place, tonight is just a hard night

Just editing this and noticed I wrote 'pipe bags' instead of bagpipes...yes it's staying in there and yes I had a bottle of wine.  You're welcome.