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[dani_meows]

I meant to post before today but this week has been flying by.

I've been busy organizing my space and saying goodbye to older things. It's quite freeing to go through boxes of older things and realize that you don't feel any emotional attachments to older books and can let go of them.

Next up is stacks of papers and old diaries and notebooks. I don't know what I'll get rid of or keep it depends on which items make me happy.

I really enjoyed reading Marie Kondo's the Life changing magic of tidying up... so far the bits I'm using from it are going well.

I had therapy today so I talked about the family drama. There's something nice about hearing your therapist say she's fucking proud of you.

The other highlight of today is that Ian brought home a pistachio frappuccino. It was delicious. Sadly it didn't help my headache. Sometimes they do.

My youngest cat, my little black cat, has been spending a lot of time in Brigid's room because she keeps her electric blanket on even when it's not that cold. She plugged in a new air freshener that's vanila scented and my cat's head smells like vanilla.

Brigid made green bean casserole today and it was delicious. I don't like most green bean casseroles but I do like hers.

Tomorrow I'll be making lasagna. I was planning on making it today but my head hurts. Tomorrow night is dnd night and I'll be playing with the metalic dice set that Ian got me for christmas. Hopefully my new character begins to feel more character like because so far I keep thinking how much I miss Minerva my wizard. She's a druid.

I might watch some Doctor Who tomorrow I'm feeling nostalgic. A little Doctor Who rewatch might be what the Ninth Doctor ordered.

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[immortalje]

I feel you on the time flying by. I just realized that the first week of the year is nearly over. I somehow never get around to do what I planned to do just because I need some time to relax when I don't have to work and suddenly the day is over. Like today. It's a regional holiday here and I had decided to start on my weekend cleaning early after I was gone for two weeks over Christmas - well, I finished my desk. All my craft supplies are on the couch waiting to be sorted into going back into storage (mostly the Christmas related stuff) and still being in my 'use' pile.

I also loved Marie Kondo's books. They were very inspiring even though I ignored some of it. They're about as inspirational as watching clean with me, organization and decluttering videos on youtube. I have no idea why I find it so motivating to watch others do that, but it certainly helps me to get started some days. And it's certainly been very freeing to let go of stuff.

I have a long list of things I want to watch or rewatch, but since early last year (or maybe a bit longer), I never really get around to it because I'd much rather read. I think I just need all of those shows in book format. I've tried reading transcripts, but most I've found are a bit sparse (with only occasional notes of who's speaking or action inserts) and leave me just confused.

(And if my reply is kind of confusing it's because I got distracted halfway through typing it and I think I lost my thought somewhere along the way when I realized I hadn't finished typing it yet)

[dani_meows]

Yay for a vacation day, so early in the year. I don't think Ian gets one for a bit. I've got to put away my Christmas stuff soon but I have to order some better ornament containers first.

I don't even want to think about putting my craft stuff in order. I have a ton of stickers and washi tape and I got more for Christmas.

I ignored the part about getting it all done as fast as possible because if I tried to organize the whole house rapidly I'd burn out and nothing would get done.

For me, I can rewatch old things relatively easy. I know that the writing is good and consistent. That the storylines end in a nice way. I know which episodes to watch and which ones I should just skip because I don't like them. I think the only new thing I watched last year was Bridgerton which was a fantastic show. But I think with how badly Once Upon A Time got (I gave away my dvds and didn't finish collecting them) and how awful the ending for the 100 was it didn't even make sense that the main character would do such a thing...

I have a hard time trusting that the shows will actually deliver a satisfying ending and a good plot. I think part of it has to do with fandom being so vocal on twitter and getting writers attention that they want to please or displease the vocal majority rather than how it was in ye olden days when they didn't know how an audience would react until after it had all been filmed. I think that's why Bridgerton was good since it was filmed all in one go.

Gosh this makes me feel like such a fandom old. Then again I was about 14 or so when I first discovered internet fandom ooh such a long time ago. Ah crap I am old. But I really do think it was better back when the first rule of fandom was never engage with the creators/actors about your pairings/headcanons etc.

Lately I only seem to read fanfiction. I need to get into reading actual books again. I bought Ian Good Omens for Christmas so maybe I'll read that or listen to the audiobook that way I can watch the series. And see red head David Tennant.

I doubt my replies ever make much sense. I just babble all the time.

[immortalje]

I know that feeling. The only reason I will have to get to it soonish is that I need birthday cards and the next person I'll be sending one to has her birthday on the 13th. So, there's at least something forcing my hand :)

When I read the books I was already well on the way, having started with all the cooking magazines I'd collected before turning towards all the notes from school and university that I never threw away. I started when I moved to Munich and I think I was at it off and on for 3-4 years, coming and going between categories and re-doing it regularly. Aside from thanking everything I put away, the one thing I definitely do not and will never do is cleaning out my purse every time I come home. I know I will never remember to put stuff back in the next morning and I use the same one every single day.

I know that feeling about fandom being so much more public. On one side, I think it did good in getting some things to be shown in shows because there's clearly a viewer base present (e.g. gay characters/relationships), but it also makes things feel very much like fan services or produces playing purposefully with the emotions of their viewers, both good and bad. I've come across a couple of youtube videos that look at some of the movies/tv shows for queer baiting and other things.

And I get you so very much on feeling like a fandom oldie. I get that feeling more and more. I'd have to check how old exactly that I was when I first joined fandom, but I'd say that it was somewhere between 14 and 16 because I can place my first English story in 2001 and the first German one in 2000 I think. And I know I was reading plenty of story before that.

I couldn't tell you what the last real book was that I read, but it was possibly Good Omens which I read after watching the series. And while I didn't think it took from experiencing either one, I really would suggest reading the book first (or listening to the audiobook) because it will make you appreciate the additions more (and possibly mourn what was cut).
I also simply adored David Tennant as Crowley.

Maybe our brains just think the same way and it's readable to us :) I've certainly changed thoughts mid sentence and whenever I come upon it and re-read it (when replying to further comments or re-reading stories I've written because I do it there as well) I keep getting stuck on those sentences and wonder what I was thinking. :D

[dani_meows]

Luckily with the drama with my family there are even less people I have to send cards to. I do want to make something special for Ian's birthday in February. But at least that's far away.

Since we'd been moving so frequently we had boxes that had just never been unpacked and I still have more things to go through and put away but our bedroom looks great. Strangely enough I found thanking things that had been useful that I no longer wanted before I put them in the Give Away or Throw Away pile helped me get rid of stuff. I know what you mean about the purse though. When I read that I thought to myself that would never work for me. I have a hard enough time remembering to put things in my purse and bring it in the first place when I go out, let alone remembering to transfer things back into the bag every day.

I agree about the boon that it gave gay pairings and queerbaiting. Hello Johnlock... Although towards the end the Johnlock fandom on Tumblr and Twitter were harassing the actors and crew and insisting to the very end that there was a conspiracy and that Johnlock would be canon so they kind of helped bait themselves. But the lines that the writers wrote into the show were more than once deliberately shippy so I still feel that the writers ship baited a lot but then some people curled up into denial that it wasn't going to happen. Where I became team season 3 sucked and in Season 4 John is unrecognizable as the character he was so I wouldn't want it to happen with this quality of writing.

I always have to read the book first if I know that something was adapted from a book. I've already grabbed a few of your good omen icons I liked for when I watch good omens and become obsessed. I look forward to seeing David Tennant.

Lol that would make sense. I forever wonder what I was thinking when I reread things I write. Ian says it's because I'll jump from point a to point f in conversation without sharing the leaps I made to get there because they seem obvious to me at the time. ^_^

[immortalje]

I'd go so far and say that before I started making cards, there were very few cards sent around. Hand-delivered with gifts? Sure. Sent by mail? Not really. Since then, at least for Christmas, more people seem to be sending cards. I started making cards and needed to figure out who I could send all of them to and once you start, people kind of start expecting them. They probably wouldn't be mad if I didn't send any, but probably (and kind of hopefully ;)) a bit disappointed. I've just hit a bit of point where crafting just doesn't pull me in as much.

I can imagine that. I've got some stuff in the cellar I have where I'm not sure what is in the boxes. Along with other stuff that's too big to put in the trash and needs to be brought to a specific place. I've kind of been meaning to do that and have been pushing it off for the longest time. Because it's not cluttering up my actual place.

I don't think I got through season 3. Is that the one were John gets married in the second episode? I didn't get past the first 15 minutes or so of that episode. I think they did a big mistake in faking Sherlock's death at the end of season 2. The episode was good, but it's not something so easily recovered from. No matter that it's a plot point in the book source (if I remember correctly).

[dani_meows]

Hopefully! A lot of your cards look adorable! I hit that point with my writing and planner two years ago and I'm just starting to get my mojo back. Like icons, all creative processes come and go in my life.

We had boxes that hadn't been gone through since at least 2013... so some of that just went straight to the trash or give away sections. We do have a few things set aside until Ian builds me a shelf to display collectibles. When we moved in 2013 it was such a disaster we got food poisoning and left some of our things behind because we were too sick to travel back and forth so we left behind my collectibles shelf.

I got rid of so many books that we now have empty spaces on my shelf. Which is nice. I'd put my collectibles on shelves but cats are the reason I can't have nice things.

Yep, that's season 3. In season 4 they have John suddenly beat Sherlock and all sorts of stupid nonsensical things happen that it made me glad I'd quit watching season 3. The book version of the death is handled better because it's not treated as a joke. For some reason Moffit and Gatiss decided to write an episode poking fun of fan theories etc. In the book the Johnlock reunion is a beautiful scene with the depth of their friendship serving as a major part. Sherlock pretends to be a bookseller, John is grieving the death of Mary and their unborn child, they hug and the reunion is touching.

In Sherlock on the other hand... Sighs... the first two seasons were great. It's such a shame that the writing did the wonderful cast dirty in the last two seasons.

[immortalje]

Thanks. I think it helped that I got myself a cart for my supplies and put a limited selection of supplies on it. Having less choice tends to help on that front. :)

Well, hearing how the season after that went, I'm glad I never got around to finishing season 3. Did they somehow run out of ideas or did they get too distracted playing with the fans and giving fan service?