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So many things to natter on about and yet I'm pretty sure that if I sit here for much longer my knee is going to refuse to work and then I'll be hosed. Sigh.
First: did my adulting and paid my bills and set up my calendar of things so I don't slip up anywhere (*knocks on wood*) this month and in the process I found out something good and something bad. The something good is that one of my credit limits went up. The something bad is that my Amazon limit was slashed in half. Which is some fuckery right there considering I'd been pretty careful with it but had I not looked at it before the due date, my Amazon Prime membership would've not gone through. So... great job, guys? In a fit of pique, I paid the whole damn thing off and it's getting used for whatever pre-orders are still pending and the Amazon Prime thing and then they can fuck themselves because no.
Second: after all that adulting, I broke out my salad and realized that it had like... a third of what it normally does. So while I was swimming in crouton goodness, everything else was basically missing. I was so, so not happy about that. :/ Look, I don't even really like salad like that but this one, this one is normally so damn tasty and to only get a third of it was just a kick to the senses. WOE.
Third: This is connected to the first, actually. Sometime around episode 3 of my current TV obsession (well, one of them), I ponied up for the HBO thing on Amazon so I could watch Big Little Lies which is worth the money, btw. Or get yourself a free trial and binge the seven episodes and thank me later. Anyway, last night was the finale and oh. My. GOD.
If I said that I was on the edge of my seat throughout a good chunk of the episode, I would not be exaggerating. I had to kind of look away at times because there's a storyline that is just so painful to watch and yet it's also Nicole freakin' Kidman so no, you can't just not watch... if you're me, anyway.
No. Seriously. Spoilers.
So I've had the book on my To Read list for awhile but figured I'd give the show a whirl first and after the... second episode maybe, I really wanted to grab the book but I resisted. I went in thinking that Renata was going to be the one who died, and she was still my backup btw, but eventually I realized the only way this worked from any sort of narrative standpoint was if Perry died. There were a million reasons why he had to die and why he would, but honestly, the way he went out with Bonnie killing him? Did not see that coming. For half a second after she took off after Celeste and Perry, I thought she'd wind up as a surprise!death. Did not see her pushing him to his death but daaaaaaaaaaamn.
Honestly, this is probably one of the best shows I've seen in a very long while. I think the last show I loved and thought was legitimately good and not just good in a brain candy way (sorry, Riverdale) was Stranger Things. And this is just... holy cow. The scene on the beach made me both long for a second season and not since this one ended perfectly and it was/is a mini series... but getting to watch it unfold was just... I don't have the words. I wish I did, but I am lacking them.
Since I don't know anyone watching it, I've been kind of lurking in the ONTD posts about it and mostly that fills the void but every so often you just read something and can't help but think "wtf?" I gather that when they were sorting out who Reese would play, that she wanted to play Renata until everyone pointed out that duh, she'd be a better Madeline. Which is fine but the chorus over in hell was basically, ha, how could she think she'd be a good Renata when Madeline is pretty much just Reese as is... That strikes me as funny because TV wise (again, no idea about the book) Renata and Madeline are very, very similar. It's why they don't get along. Renata is what the character would be like if she chose a career and Madeline is what you get when you choose home. Both are perfectionists who hate the expectations they foist upon themselves and yet really have no one to blame but themselves for things. And what's more, they know it. It's one of the more interesting things about the show. But no, you go on and think the two are so vastly different.
Finally, the look between Celeste, Madeline, and Jane as Perry appears is nothing short of magic.
I was going to try and clean the downstairs bathroom but I don't feel like it now. My head is still hyped up like "we should totally do that!!!" but the rest of me is giving it a decided no thank you, which means I'm going to feel bad about not doing it.
So maybe later.
First: did my adulting and paid my bills and set up my calendar of things so I don't slip up anywhere (*knocks on wood*) this month and in the process I found out something good and something bad. The something good is that one of my credit limits went up. The something bad is that my Amazon limit was slashed in half. Which is some fuckery right there considering I'd been pretty careful with it but had I not looked at it before the due date, my Amazon Prime membership would've not gone through. So... great job, guys? In a fit of pique, I paid the whole damn thing off and it's getting used for whatever pre-orders are still pending and the Amazon Prime thing and then they can fuck themselves because no.
Second: after all that adulting, I broke out my salad and realized that it had like... a third of what it normally does. So while I was swimming in crouton goodness, everything else was basically missing. I was so, so not happy about that. :/ Look, I don't even really like salad like that but this one, this one is normally so damn tasty and to only get a third of it was just a kick to the senses. WOE.
Third: This is connected to the first, actually. Sometime around episode 3 of my current TV obsession (well, one of them), I ponied up for the HBO thing on Amazon so I could watch Big Little Lies which is worth the money, btw. Or get yourself a free trial and binge the seven episodes and thank me later. Anyway, last night was the finale and oh. My. GOD.
If I said that I was on the edge of my seat throughout a good chunk of the episode, I would not be exaggerating. I had to kind of look away at times because there's a storyline that is just so painful to watch and yet it's also Nicole freakin' Kidman so no, you can't just not watch... if you're me, anyway.
No. Seriously. Spoilers.
So I've had the book on my To Read list for awhile but figured I'd give the show a whirl first and after the... second episode maybe, I really wanted to grab the book but I resisted. I went in thinking that Renata was going to be the one who died, and she was still my backup btw, but eventually I realized the only way this worked from any sort of narrative standpoint was if Perry died. There were a million reasons why he had to die and why he would, but honestly, the way he went out with Bonnie killing him? Did not see that coming. For half a second after she took off after Celeste and Perry, I thought she'd wind up as a surprise!death. Did not see her pushing him to his death but daaaaaaaaaaamn.
Honestly, this is probably one of the best shows I've seen in a very long while. I think the last show I loved and thought was legitimately good and not just good in a brain candy way (sorry, Riverdale) was Stranger Things. And this is just... holy cow. The scene on the beach made me both long for a second season and not since this one ended perfectly and it was/is a mini series... but getting to watch it unfold was just... I don't have the words. I wish I did, but I am lacking them.
Since I don't know anyone watching it, I've been kind of lurking in the ONTD posts about it and mostly that fills the void but every so often you just read something and can't help but think "wtf?" I gather that when they were sorting out who Reese would play, that she wanted to play Renata until everyone pointed out that duh, she'd be a better Madeline. Which is fine but the chorus over in hell was basically, ha, how could she think she'd be a good Renata when Madeline is pretty much just Reese as is... That strikes me as funny because TV wise (again, no idea about the book) Renata and Madeline are very, very similar. It's why they don't get along. Renata is what the character would be like if she chose a career and Madeline is what you get when you choose home. Both are perfectionists who hate the expectations they foist upon themselves and yet really have no one to blame but themselves for things. And what's more, they know it. It's one of the more interesting things about the show. But no, you go on and think the two are so vastly different.
Finally, the look between Celeste, Madeline, and Jane as Perry appears is nothing short of magic.
I was going to try and clean the downstairs bathroom but I don't feel like it now. My head is still hyped up like "we should totally do that!!!" but the rest of me is giving it a decided no thank you, which means I'm going to feel bad about not doing it.
So maybe later.