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omens ([personal profile] omens) wrote2025-07-25 01:53 pm

A meme, seen on my network page

I've definitely done this before (and not super long ago, I think) but oh well, a lot of the answers change! Evergreen!

Last song I listened to: I woke up to Lor's $hrek 2 in my head on a loop, so that, I guess.

Favourite colour: nature colours

Currently watching: a terrible playthru of Stardew Valley, S5 of Lower decks (halfway thru, have four days to finish it), episode 2 of Amphibia (lol, also halfway)

Last movie: *consults the document* oh dear, it's been a while. C'è ancora domani (There's Still Tomorrow), from April. (There are 4 movies that I planned to see in July but lbr, it’s the 25th.)

Currently reading: I just finished Piranesi, and I'm just starting A Sweet Sting of Salt

Coffee or tea: both

Sweet/savoury/spicy: savoury-spicy

Relationship status: married

Looking forward to: September, I think. Seeing the Murderbot show. A couple books. Not being responsible for 424892482764 plants at some point.

Current obsessions: a terrible playthru of Stardew Valley?? LOL, not really. But it is language learning 24/7.

Last googled: I tried to find out if anyone else is annoyed by that no Caesars shirt that bsky is selling in the comments of basically every popular post. I love muting shit and I muted that bsky shop 20000000000 times before I realised it was unmutable. Which is rude. Anyway, it appears no one else is bothered, lol.

Last thing you ate and really enjoyed: gochujang chicken last night, w/cucumber salad. Cucumber from my garden :D they're kinda sweet ones, these mojito cucumbers.

Currently working on: no writing, no embroidery, only language suffering :D also working on cleaning a lot bc strangers thru the house today and my uncle visiting in a couple weeks.

I went to add a picture to this post but I spent 10 mins taking 40 pics of a very goofy looking robin today and they are all just ART (VERY goofy) and will have to be their own post at some point!

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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ([personal profile] merridia) wrote2025-07-24 11:30 am

re: Real long lines

Woo! After a long yesterday wherein I was basically ghosted by the sales department and could get nothing done, I'm back down to work inbox zero and my techs are busy on sold units, so I can focus on the years of silly training videos I have to go through now that I'm technically a service advisor.

I'll also probably read a bit, too, because c'mon. If they didn't want someone for this position who was on their phone constantly, they would NOT have hired me in the first place, because after all this time, they know exactly who I am.

When I bought all that MUBI bullshit the other day, I was not expecting yesterday to be the day I got the book I preordered from them almost three months ago! Really luxuriating in the pretentious bullshit right now, I am! It's a genuinely beautiful object and came in a comically huge box and I'm looking forward to digging into it.

Contemplating a Mystery Wrestling Patreon subscription just so that I can rewatch all of their shows ahead of attending one, since they are only sporadically available on the high seas. Maybe if I can find a way to download them myself?

2. What Would You Be Willing to Wait in a Really Long Line For?

the duty of all Real Americans
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omens ([personal profile] omens) wrote2025-07-24 12:54 pm

yard friends post!



I love mourning doves. Not many babby pigeons last year, at least not yet. There were so many last year but we are making it up with babby robins, I guess!

15 more birds and bugs )

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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ([personal profile] merridia) wrote2025-07-22 02:45 pm

re: Terrible pursuits

Spending money to feel more in control of my life, woo!* Jumped on the latest 'two free months of MUBI' offer and then decided to really indulge my pretentious cinephile bullshit by subbing to their semi-annual Notebook magazine, and then also bought a few old issues from the TIFF store so they wouldn't be lonely, and then grabbed the novelization of MaXXXine and a film journal just to hit the free shipping threshold and... poor decisions were made, I admit, but I don't really regret them so SHRUG.

Also got my ticket to Mystery Wrestling 18 for the day after All Out and a couple of Stratford shows for the day before, so all I need to do is book some plane tickets and my September trip will be all squared away with two months to spare! HYPE HYPE HYPPPPPPPPE

Hmm. It's only Tuesday. That's unfortunate.

1. What Do You Gain From Pursuing Something You Do Really, Really Badly?

If you enjoy doing it regardless, then fun and enjoyment. If you don't... character, I guess? Ew, gross, no, just stop doing it in that case.

*the real solution is just to clean my room, I know, I KNOW
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my love, I am the speed of sound ([personal profile] newredshoes) wrote2025-07-20 07:00 pm

The highest and sharpest mountain

The neighborhood is hosting the 18th annual BurgerFest, where you can get burgers made of gator, ostrich, bison, boar, lamb and virtually anything else you want. Gingko is madly obsessed with it, not just for the free smells and opportunities to make chaos, but also for the adoring masses who all want to know what kind of dog she is and remark on how chill she is. That is a ruse; she is a criminal mastermind and is straining to just go apeshit and devour all the display burgers on counters and the plates of fries little kids are pulling behind them in wagons.

It is making both of us wildly overstimulated, though, and I've spent the whole day trying to grab enough time to write down some thoughts on a show I started last night. It's called Our Generation, and I was only going to watch it because the leads are both fantastic — they have fabulously intense, deliriously delightful chemistry both in real life and in their previous project, The Princess Royal. I love a costume drama, but I don't so much care about youth dramas, and I fully expected this one to be sort of sentimental and sloppy, to be honest.

That's my prejudice against the genre. It's — incredibly moving, beautiful and unsparing. Everyone just calls her Cherry. )

It's on Netflix, for those who don't have Viki. I've only seen three episodes, but it's made a huge, strong impression on me. Even if you don't like youth dramas or realistic shows, this one already seems many cuts above. It's also only 24 episodes, versus the usual 40, so it's not as heavy a lift. I will be watching it for a while, probably, and thinking (and hopefully writing) about it for a long time.
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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ([personal profile] merridia) wrote2025-07-18 11:30 am

re: History

It's Friday! Five-day work weeks still feel inordinately brief to me, but I'll be back before I know it because weekends are NOTHING. Sales is bombarding us with sold units that are somehow ALL to take priority, and 50% of my techs are gone until Wednesday (he's proposing to his girlfriend, aww). At least soon it won't be my problem for 48 hours!

Eddington tomorrow, then my mom and brother ditch town for a day so she can go get a mammogram because that's yet another thing she somehow can't have done within 400km of here.

I need to book my plane tickets for September, and make sure my time off request is amended as it's no longer for a Wednesday-Tuesday stretch. Mystery Wrestling tickets for the day after All Out go on sale Monday, so maybe I'll do it all while I'm back at work then.

Back to my highest weight ever and feeling bad! I went off my intermittent fasting kick when all this random upheaval started, so I guess it's time to get back on that, since it's the only thing I've ever found that works for me. Starting... tomorrow.

31. How Much Do You Know About History?

I'd say about 8.
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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ([personal profile] merridia) wrote2025-07-17 11:13 am

re: Go-bags

Two updates in two days? What is the world coming to? Don't answer that question, I know it's nothing good!

It's Thursday! I have purchased new t-shirts (but not the expensive trenchcoat), and am drowning in used vehicles. The company wants us to have a five-day average turnaround from opening to closing work orders, which seems patently impossible with the sheer volume of units we receive and the fact that I only have two dedicated technicians, but oh well! Look at this insanely cool website which comprehensively documents the movesets of every single wrestler in AEW via gifs!!!

Overcast at the moment, but it's supposed to be nice and hot this afternoon. Finally. I'll have to make some time to go read outside after work. And then finally finish season 1 of Arcane, maybe? And then keep obsessing over All In for a while. Naturally!

The building I work in being very difficult to find is very good for reducing my urge to constantly order delivery burritos. But is it enough???

30. What Would You Put in Your Emergency ‘Go-Bag’?

You'd think I'd have thought about this more after that time I went to work one day and didn't get to come home for a month, but idk, as long as I've got my phone, wallet, and a charger, I can get by. With time to react, I'd probably throw my journals into a backpack with some clothes, but I don't have anything specific prepared. Now that I'm better about keeping a cloud backpack of ALL my various hard drives (that last external death killed me, I STILL haven't found another copy of Baka Gaijin + Friends Vol. 6, sob), those are less of a concern than they used to be.
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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ([personal profile] merridia) wrote2025-07-16 03:02 pm

re: Panhandling

Still busy with work, but slowly carving back my sense of self. There was a barbecue over at sales today! Hot dogs make all the annoying emails go down easier.

Saw Together on Monday and our theatre is getting Eddington this weekend (I wasn't sure if we would), so I'm set on the culture front until Fantastic Four (also still riding high from Superman and The Godfather, it's been a good cinemonth!). Still thinking obsessively about various parts of All In Texas (currently: the camera waiting by the heel entrance for Hangman only to have to rapidly pan over when he finally comes out of the good boy hole instead).

Have juuuuust enough free time between work orders to do some windows shopping. I missed the PPV merch sale, so I really shouldn't buy more wrestling t-shirts, particularly one I already own a version of, but A) I can actually wear them at work now!, B) SNAKESKIN PRINT. I've also got a very expensive trench coat open in another tab that I will probably not pull the trigger on, but hnnnng look at all those pockets. I got my first cheque of being salaried the other night, and I'm guessing it was just way higher than usual with my training week on there, too, because it was fully more than twice what I would have made in my old position and I think it's going to my head a little bit. Gotta wait until the end of the month to know how much more I'll actually have to play with on the regular.

Just a couple more hours until I can go home, make noodles, and watch this video of all the best entrances from Y'all In! Ecstasy of Gold almost made me cry when they played it at the pops orchestra concert my mom and I went to a few months back, so this is long-term storytelling, here.

Also, the Internet Archive uploaded a whole bunch of old Canadian fanzines, which rules a whole lot, actually.

29. Should People Give Money to Panhandlers?

Sure, if they want to.
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omens ([personal profile] omens) wrote2025-07-16 11:14 am
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media update

A book: Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid -- Macbeth is my least favourite Shakespeare, and I don't like horror, but I did enjoy this AU. It's neatly divided in five which made it ideal for scheduling and bathtub reading. What a normcore compliment, lol. Also, she's a dragonfucker. Sadly, did not fuck a dragon (I don't want to falsely advertise this book), but it certainly seemed like she might, at one point. And who knows what the future might hold?!

unrelatedly: A squirrel!



I put out watermelon so that I could take pics of them eating it with their tiny cute hands but they just DUMPED IT ON THE GRASS and ate the sunflower seeds and then dug a giant hole in my peppers