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Almost time for Christmas shenanigans! I'm going home tomorrow to spend the holidays with mom. I think I'll come back to here on Friday. That's such a long time to spend over there, I'm not sure it's a great idea, but we'll see. I'll need to pack a lot of books and other stuff to amuse myself with.

I have become totally addicted to Youtube, even more than I've previously been. (I just binge watched like 5 hours worth of Jenna Marbles videos yesterday and today. It might be even more like 7?) I think I should just cancel all my streaming services, it's not like I watch anything on there anymore...

Shows I plan on watching, even though I haven't so far:

• the his dark materials show
• the witcher
• expanse seasons 3 and 4
• gentleman Jack
• Killjoys (I have 1 season to watch, unless a new one has come out)
• and I feel like there's something else on HBO that I've been meaning to watch, but can't remember now
• The Untamed, if it was on freaking Finnish netflix!!! why you do this to me netflix? It's not like some finnish tv channel has the rights to it, so what gives???

Oh the drawing tablet I ordered on a black friday sale finally got here on Wednesday and I played around with it a bit. I also got the free trial to skillshare, so I can look at drawing tutorials. It seems fun, except my computer only has one HDMI slot so if I use the tablet I can't use a screen at the same time, which is the whole point of the thing! I need to update my computer, but I don't have the money.... *whine* (but like seriously it's 5 years old) also somehow the tablet messed up my computer, which now doesn't think I have speakers, so I need to use headphones to watch videos, wtf computer, why?

I'm debating whether I should bring my whole computer with me to mom's or not... she has a laptop (my old one) but I have a feeling it might not even have and HDMI port and I wanna draw now that I have this freaking tablet. At the same time, it's winter and maybe I should not take the computer and new tablet on a long cold drive... I'll decide tomorrow.

There's this service where you can use an app to order real photos out of your phone photos, so I did that and got like 130 something photos. Most are from the trip to Italy. I'll need to get a real photo album again and organize them... eventually. But it's really nice to look at physical photos you guys! Also camera phone photo quality is really good these days. Some of these photos look amazing.

Randomly, I was thinking about BTS and how being a fan of them makes me feel a bit better about myself because some of them are getting close to 30 so they're not actual teenagers, like 1D were back in the day (even though I think all of them were in their 20's when I got into the fandom). Also why do I always pick the least popular guy as my favourite, or at least I never pick the most popular person. I always end up shipping rare pairings, even when I don't know it yet... anyway Kim Namjoon is my favourite. He's just such a goober.

Let's end with some work related news, because I'm a whole ass grown lady with a real job and everything! anyway the solution focused therapist training program emailed me on Friday and said I'd been accepted and that I needed to confirm that I was gonna take the training course by the 30th, which is messed up, like everyone is on holiday lady!!! this deadline is too soon! Also they said I need to have confirmation from my employer that it's cool for me to do this (I need to get clients through work). I did email my boss about this in early December but she hasn't gotten back to me yet and now she's on holiday obviously, like everyone is! If I confirm that I'm doing the training and then have to cancel I still need to pay half the fee, which is 2k! I can't afford that! I need to email them back and be like 'are you serious with the deadline date, everyone is literally on holiday right now?' but in a polite way.

Anyway, hi new DW friends from the friending meme!

* Came back from Italy; had a good time, but didn't like it as much as I liked Spain. Also there seems to be a critical mass to how many marble statues I can look at before it all becomes a blur (I'll make a photo post later)

* Got offered two of the jobs I've applied for, so I'm definitely moving again this summer, keeping up with my recent course of moving every 6 months (I really should get rid of more stuff if this is going to continue, but to me, I don't actually have unnecessary stuff)

* I've been reading this super epic Vorkosigan saga fanfic (I've read more than 200k by now), which is pretty funny considering I've never read any of the books

* Good Omens, the tv show is out and I think I'll spend some time this weekend watching that. I've seen on tumblr that it is very heavy handed with the shipping, which I'm sure I will enjoy a lot. :D

* I think I will try to read some books this summer. I've read almost nothing this year and it makes me feel bad. I think I'll make an easy goal for myself, three books a month, so that would be 9 books by the end of August

* I would also like to write something, so I asked for a kink bingo card. I think writing short and smutty things will be fun. I should make a list of fandoms I want to write in, so it could help me narrow down things a bit more, to help me combat indecision

* I feel like there might have been something else I wanted to mention, but it's gone now...

Went to see a friend for Easter and that was fun, even though the drive was too long (closer to 4 hours). We didn't really do much, watched some youtube videos, the Beyonce Coachella concert on Netflix and played some board games. We also went to grill some sausages outside, which is the only place where you should ever eat sausages tbh.

It's that time of year when I'm looking for a new job. My current job is okay, but there's to much driving and I don't want to do that for much longer and definitely not for another winter. Also my boss is a jerk, so that is a factor also.

There's a job opening in my home town and I think that might be nice for a while. I think it would be nice to live near my mom, also built in pet sitter for when I want to travel, with much less hassle than it's been for these past few years. I think I'll send an email to the job and ask a few details.

There's also another job I was eyeing, mostly because it has school counselor stuff built in, which I think I might like, but it's really hard to get your foot in the door of without any experience.

Oh and D&D tonight! whoo, maybe we'll get to level 3 after this session. (I want those oath powers damnit!)

Then some TV stuff:

( magicians and disco )

I saw the Favourite finally last Friday and that was one strange and interesting movie! I really had no idea what I was getting into when I went into the cinema, almost like when I went to see the Handmaiden... lol, maybe I should do more research instead of being enamored by the idea of historical/costume dramas and lesbians. :D

But even with all the strangeness and the spoiler spoiler it was all worth it just to see this outfit. That is a cosplay goal for sure! 



Then I caught up with the Magicians last night and omg Eliot!!!! Aaaaah! and Quentin after the mosaic quest was done! Waaah! (but also Margo seemed a bit off in both of the last 2 episodes, what's up with that? I've also forgotten what the horrible thing Alice did was, so I'm kind of confused why they all hate her? She ruined their plan in the maze, I guess? Maybe I just need to rewatch season 3 anyway...)

Also, I'm sorry if you left a comment and I haven't replied... I suck at that right now for some reason. I'll try to catch up this weekend

Aaah, I don't know if I should have watched this or not. It doesn't really spoil the season, but the glimpses we get from this!!! (I'm just so happy to have this show back. It's sometimes objectively horrible, but at other times it's objectively brilliant and almost always entertaining)



Then randomly, have a video of an Irish man playing a city builder. :D This is pretty much how I do at these games. (I love them, but I'm bad at them, especially later in the game if you need to trade, or wage war etc)


I did the dishes today and unpacked the last of my stuff I hadn't done since the move. Now I just need to vacuum and this apartment looks pretty decent. (I've asked a co-worker to come feed my cat on Tuesday as I'm away from home, so that was sufficient motivation for me to actually do all this tidying up and cleaning)

OMG I didn't know the new season had started already!!! I'm so excited to have this show back. <3

Poor Quentin asking the evil thing if he could have Eliot back and evil thing in Eliot being like "I'm gonna murder everyone!"

edit: forgot to say that this gif was made by alicequinn on tumblr


Also, all the characters were fun and had stuff to do. Can't wait to see what happens with Margo's story line especially

I was reading yuletide prompts, as you do, when I stumbled upon someone who had made Outlander prompts and then I was transported to being like 14 maybe when I went through a lot of the series, until I was finally like, dude this is too much drama for two people to have and when it got confusing and there was even more time travel? I think I read until they went to America(?) and then finally abandoned it because I got tired waiting for the next book and found better things to read... But anyway, it gave me nostalgia for the series and also reminded me of the weird (and super problematic) m/m pairings and potential the books had. Now I'm kind of tempted to watch the show just for those reasons??? Also I see Lord John has appeared in the show too. *aaah*


What else happened this week: I saw the new Star Trek trailer and I'm still very confused about why Spock has a beard, but hopefully this will somehow inspire people to write new Spock/Kirk fic. I wonder what the age difference is in this version. I mean in tos Spock is older than Jim, but in the new movies they seem to be pretty much the same age? or at least it's written that way in fic more often than not. idk, I just want new Kirk/Spock stuff to read.

I also really want to go see the new Spider Man cartoon, but I'm not sure the schedule will work out. It came out at a really weird time of the year, or is that just me? I guess Star Wars always comes out around Christmas too...


real life stuff:

Anyway, tomorrow is the last day before Christmas holiday!!! 5 freaking days off work in a row. Bliss! But then it's straight to moving next Thursday, which sucks.

At least I got my permanent contract at work today... I'm still kind of salty though as my boss didn't even congratulate me when I told her I had officially graduated and had my diploma and all the shit she had been insisting I get before they will give me the permanent contract. Thanks a lot, it's not like that would have been basic manners, I guess that's too much to expect at this point.

My cat has been staying with my mom for the past month and I miss her! It will be so nice to see her again on Saturday

Then more generally about work, I don't know how worried I should be about this, but I've noticed I'm getting super calloused about human suffering, especially with kids. I mean I think you need to have that sort of attitude to some degree or you just get burned out, but like I really wonder what sort of story I would have to hear now to make me shocked? At this point I'm like, yep, humans are terrible and parents fuck up their kids in myriad ways and pretty often they really have no idea how harmful their behavior even is.

What I am still surprised with is how easily kids/teenagers seem to give up, like they can be like 9 and saying their life is ruined, or they can never become anything, or they are young teens like 13-15 and have just decided that yep, because my parent(s) were pieces of shit that must mean I have to follow in their footsteps. I guess that's at least comforting, I think it's time to change professions when I am willing to just accept that too and not feel angry and frustrated.

I made notes while watching this, so might as well post about it too.

( spoilers obviously )

The Finnish world junior championship team (men's) is going to play for the gold tomorrow! Whee~ But Sweden is scary good, so I won't get my hopes up yet. But they haven't medal-ed in seven years, so a silver medal would be awesome too.

I managed to spill pepsi on keyboard today, but luckily it still works and none of the keys got stuck (this time... I've ruined a keyboard with a drink before) I'm super glad that computers don't work like they do in older movies where the whole computer starts to spark off and is ruined by a drink spilled on the keyboard or someone smashing it (or the screen)

Now that the work practice thing has been going on for a month, I really appreciate weekends a lot more. I mean getting to sleep as long as you want, now that's priceless.

Also, watched the season premiere of Community. It was pretty good and they got Dan Harmon back, so yay? I guess I'll wait and see how it goes. I'm worried about how they are going to handle the Troy actor leaving. What will Abed do then? (now I made myself sad...)

Oh and the new Sherlock episode... It was weird, like super weird to me. I felt like it went into that place where SPN goes sometimes, where they 'wink wink nudge nudge' the audience too much and actually insult the fans by doing it. Urgh I didn't like it at all. I also feel like they cheated with the whole winding John's watch back/hypnotism and giving them extra time... Grr, of course the fans didn't do that in their theories because it would have been laughed off. Like someone pointed out on tumblr that Gatiss seems to enjoy writing Sherlock as extra cruel to John and I felt like it went too far many times. But there were small character moments I really liked so I will continue to watch (of course, I mean for crying out loud, I still watch SPN)

So hockey... The Wild lost to the Leafs and it was super annoying, because the Leafs pretty much sucked, but still won. People are already freaking out in the fan base (I want to say fandom, but it's definitely not the same thing omg) saying that all hope is lost, our goal tending sucks, people need to be fired etc etc. The goal tending might become a real problem though, I won't say I'm not worried... *gulp*

Here is a gif of Mikko petting Granlund and it kind of makes me wish I could ship it, but nope. Not in a million years.


Watched the new Shield episode and yeah, I'm beginning to think the show is not for me. I still don't care about any of the characters (bonus points for the lady scientist now doing surgery... on a patient who's awake. What kind of doctor was she supposed to be?) The only thing I'm mildly curious about is what really happened to Coulson, like is he an android or what? But that's about it. Also why were they so adamant about there being no such thing as mindreading? Don't they exist in the same universe as the X-men? Wtf?

And on a shallower note, I would give this show a lot more rope if it had a potential slash pairing for me to care about, but nope. They seem to keep pushing that hacker girl and the agent guy together, which I find super bizarre. idk...

Supernatural on the other hand doesn't seem like a disaster so far. I don't know what they are planning with Abydon (or however you're supposed to spell that) because really? She's the big bad thing this season? A knight of Hell? What is that anyway? How is it worse than the apocalypse and the horsemen, or freaking leviathan (that is definitely spelled wrong) this is the problem with the show running for too long. You can't keep raising the stakes forever. I'm still side-eyeing the angel inside Sam too, like how long is it supposed to take for him to get better? Can he really be a good guy?

And the vessel thing definitely doesn't make any sense. I mean if you just take Castiel. How many times did that body get destroyed? And somehow Castiel always looks like Misha Collins... I know it's an issue with wanting to keep actors, but they should have made up an excuse for it then, especially now when the angels are such a big plot point again. Also what happens to Angels who die? In an universe where the afterlife is such a big deal it makes no sense. And same goes for demons of course and don't even get me started on purgatory. Argh... Just thinking about this show makes me annoyed, and yet I keep watching. Season nine, yay! /sarcasm