december update

[amovingtarget]

• Is this the longest month of this year? Any year? What do you mean the election was only two weeks ago.
• Have been incredibly, amazingly depressed this month, so much crying, so much not seeing a point to anything at all, so much wanting to die.
• On that note, this has been an incredibly, amazingly depressed year. I'm tired.
• I have been wanting very much to watch The Witcher, but am also weirdly reluctant to actually do it. Pls explain.
• I have, however, started replaying The Witcher 3, which I had first played this time three years ago -- judging by the trophy list -- because of all the nostalgia.
• All seven brats came out to stay the first weekend of the school holidays, which was extremely tough with my constant low mood, but also nice. We played some chess, some Jedi Challenges, watched a bunch of movies -- Rise of the Guardians, Revenge of the Sith, Nativity, Main Hoon Na (an unforeseen turn of events, that one).
• I posted to a friending meme and now I have some new subscribers! [waves hello]
• Have been trying to set goals for next year. It's extremely stressful. Maybe I will post about what I've chosen in more detail, I don't know…
• We had a big family day out -- my parents, my siblings and my niblings -- and we went to watch The Rise of Skywalker, and then had lunch out together.
• I'll have to wait until I can actually watch it with subtitles before I can judge it. There were things I liked, but on the whole my initial impression of the movie was… not great. I was feeling seriously bored and sleepy, which doesn't speak well of the pacing -- I didn't have this problem when we watched The Last Jedi, also captionless -- and quite a few of the performances felt a little wooden, which doesn't speak well of the script.
• It does make me want to do a critical rewatch of the sequel trilogy, or maybe all of the trilogies. That might be fun.
• Speaking of Star Wars. I watched the first episode of The Mandalorian and enjoyed it, so I should catch up with that.
• Also I still have two? four? episodes of His Dark Materials left to watch. I should do that sometime.
• I did watch the BBC adaptation of The War of The Worlds. I started watching it with one eye while doing other things, and then got more and more into it. Great cast, got me in the feels, the shade they threw on British colonialism was a nice touch.
• I made some spreadsheets. Writing tracker. Reading tracker. I love spreadsheets.
• I watch too much youtube. I don't know why I keep refreshing that instead of watching the tv or movies that I actually want to watch.
• At the end of last month, one of my hard drives failed and almost my entire collection of movies, and my entire collection of tv shows, and trying to find downloads of them again is a bit of a nightmare.
• Tried a slow release melatonin the last few days to try and bump me up to 8 hours of sleep, but it somehow took me back down to 5 hours. That's amazing.

Comments

[theseatheseatheopensea]

I feel you! December is such a long, exhausting and depressing month. Ugh. Hang on in there!

[amovingtarget]

Thank you <3

[enemyofperfect]

Great cast, got me in the feels, the shade they threw on British colonialism was a nice touch.

It's always great when a show is not only well made but has worthwhile things to say!

You've certainly had one hell of a month, but you've done some good things with it, too. I hope January's a little kinder to you.

[amovingtarget]

<3