Leaving It Behind
Feb. 23rd, 2025 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senashentaIt's warm today (comparatively) and I haven't had to spend all day wrapped up in blankets or wearing layers of cardigans like a total tool. It was nice to wake up this morning and NOT be shivering in my bed and able to see my own breath because it was so cold in my room.
My window doesn't keep heat in at all in the winter (or OUT in the summer) and my bed is pushed right up against it, so I get all the cold winter air directly over me all night every night. Doesn't help that my bed also sits right over top of the furnace vent, so UNDER my bed is probably toasty warm but the rest of my room suffers. Thank God I have a couple of really good blankets.
Sometimes I worry about the birds in the winter, on the really cold days and nights, because they can be very sensitive to temperature, but every morning I get up shivering and they just chirp at me like it's NBD.
At least I don't need to worry about the axolotls in the winter months, since they need such cold water anyway. They seem to be thriving (accidental chemical issues notwithstanding) in these temperatures, but I know I'll have to worry about them more in the summer when it's ungodly hot, instead. I do have an air conditioner for my room, though, and a cooling fan on their tank, so hopefully it'll be okay.
And I'm not concerned about the CATS at all, even in the basement overnight where it gets relatively chilly, because they cuddle up together in a nest of blankets and keep each other warm. They do fine.
The next few days are supposed to be warmer, anyway, so that'll be nice after the winter we've had so far.
.....
I scrapped like 10 of the post-Storm Season one-shots and I'm considering scrapping a couple more, but even as I do that I also ADDED a new one, so I'm working against myself, there. The new one is just titled "Baby" and it's your stereotypical Human Impala fic in a lot of ways, just... smutty. Because that's how this series is. I've written a few pages for it in the last 24 hours (I had to edit parts of Wayward Daughters because Baby changes some of the canon I'd established) but I really need to put it away and finish off Hunting Souls, keep working on them in the order they're supposed to be posted, you know? Chronologically. (Even though I posted Snapshot out of order last week and I'm considering writing one more post-Horror High one-shot as well.)
I downloaded three movies today, The Gorge, Heart Eyes and Werewolves, and I'm currently in the process of watching Werewolves. I already watched Heart Eyes earlier and it was so over-the-top on purpose cheesy that I loved it, even though I'm sure it probably won't do well with general audiences. It was exactly my kind of jam, I'm definitely going to buy it on DVD when it comes out. I also tried to download The Monkey, but both times I tried it was an srf file and once it was full of viruses, so I gave up on that one for the time being. I'll try again later when there's more than two options for downloads.
This year I'm really looking forward to Death Of A Unicorn, Predator: Badlands, Screamboat, Final Destination: Bloodlines, Saw XI, 28 Years Later, Fear Street: Prom Queen and OF COURSE Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey 3 and Bambi: The Reckoning. At least as far as mainstream(ish) horror movies go. There's also one called Clown In A Cornfield that I still need to look up the trailer for?? Could potentially be entertaining?? But idk yet on that one. (I'm REALLY pumped for 28 Years Later, it's been SO LONG COMING!!)
Other than that, I guess I finished watching I Shouldn't Be Alive yesterday and would love some more but there were only 5 seasons. =/ I blew through them in like less than a week, as I do with shows I like. But it was a nice break from Fringe, which, like, went off the rails entirely at the end of Season 4 and I'm not sure I like where it's headed?? I must not be the only one, though, because they got cancelled halfway through Season 5. So, yeah. :|
I really, really want to get back into my reading. It's been YEARS since I could properly read, and I was hoping getting on the ADHD meds back in the summer would give it back to me, but so far no luck. I just got a bump up in my dose at the end of January but I need an even higher dose because the bump up didn't do what it was supposed to. I'm WRITING again, but not as much and with more of a struggle. I'm still easily distracted. I called my Doctor's office about it last Tuesday because Dr. K said if I needed a higher dose of my ADHD meds I should just call, but so far I haven't heard back. I'm going to call again on Monday and see what they say. Here's hoping.
A little morbid, but Dad is already talking about how he's going to die "soon" (he's 66 and doesn't think he'll make 70), and keeps saying that he wants to be tossed in the barn with his Star Wars collection and then the whole thing burned to the ground. Obviously that won't be permitted by ANYONE, but I guess a guy can dream. He just messaged me to say that when the time came, actually, I could have whatever I wanted. And I'm like... dude, I'm the one who's going to have to catalogue all your stuff to sell it on ebay, so.
But really, there's only three things I want from my Dad's estate when he passes away (A LONG TIME FROM NOW); his hardcover Valdemar books, his b-grade movie collection, and his Yoda hash pipe because that thing is probably worth a lot but to me it's HILARIOUS and PRICELESS. I can't really think of anything else, though I might poke through the rest of his books and movies and see if there's anything that I might like. *shrug* Either way, I'm going to be sobbing the entire time, so it won't be easy at all. I think he might be getting Lois to take care of some of his affairs, though, but I'm just not sure on that one.
Anyway, I have a RAGING headache because of the weather change and my sinuses, but I can only take ONE sinus pill and even THAT gives me minor stomach cramps. I hate having a sensitivity to the binding agents in the sinus meds, especially since I have such shitty, shitty sinuses. =/
Wish me luck with that, I guess.
I think I'm going to watch the Fear Street movies tonight. Or at least start watching them. I haven't watched them in a long time and I really liked them, and I've been thinking about them off-and-on lately. So.
My window doesn't keep heat in at all in the winter (or OUT in the summer) and my bed is pushed right up against it, so I get all the cold winter air directly over me all night every night. Doesn't help that my bed also sits right over top of the furnace vent, so UNDER my bed is probably toasty warm but the rest of my room suffers. Thank God I have a couple of really good blankets.
Sometimes I worry about the birds in the winter, on the really cold days and nights, because they can be very sensitive to temperature, but every morning I get up shivering and they just chirp at me like it's NBD.
At least I don't need to worry about the axolotls in the winter months, since they need such cold water anyway. They seem to be thriving (accidental chemical issues notwithstanding) in these temperatures, but I know I'll have to worry about them more in the summer when it's ungodly hot, instead. I do have an air conditioner for my room, though, and a cooling fan on their tank, so hopefully it'll be okay.
And I'm not concerned about the CATS at all, even in the basement overnight where it gets relatively chilly, because they cuddle up together in a nest of blankets and keep each other warm. They do fine.
The next few days are supposed to be warmer, anyway, so that'll be nice after the winter we've had so far.
.....
I scrapped like 10 of the post-Storm Season one-shots and I'm considering scrapping a couple more, but even as I do that I also ADDED a new one, so I'm working against myself, there. The new one is just titled "Baby" and it's your stereotypical Human Impala fic in a lot of ways, just... smutty. Because that's how this series is. I've written a few pages for it in the last 24 hours (I had to edit parts of Wayward Daughters because Baby changes some of the canon I'd established) but I really need to put it away and finish off Hunting Souls, keep working on them in the order they're supposed to be posted, you know? Chronologically. (Even though I posted Snapshot out of order last week and I'm considering writing one more post-Horror High one-shot as well.)
I downloaded three movies today, The Gorge, Heart Eyes and Werewolves, and I'm currently in the process of watching Werewolves. I already watched Heart Eyes earlier and it was so over-the-top on purpose cheesy that I loved it, even though I'm sure it probably won't do well with general audiences. It was exactly my kind of jam, I'm definitely going to buy it on DVD when it comes out. I also tried to download The Monkey, but both times I tried it was an srf file and once it was full of viruses, so I gave up on that one for the time being. I'll try again later when there's more than two options for downloads.
This year I'm really looking forward to Death Of A Unicorn, Predator: Badlands, Screamboat, Final Destination: Bloodlines, Saw XI, 28 Years Later, Fear Street: Prom Queen and OF COURSE Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey 3 and Bambi: The Reckoning. At least as far as mainstream(ish) horror movies go. There's also one called Clown In A Cornfield that I still need to look up the trailer for?? Could potentially be entertaining?? But idk yet on that one. (I'm REALLY pumped for 28 Years Later, it's been SO LONG COMING!!)
Other than that, I guess I finished watching I Shouldn't Be Alive yesterday and would love some more but there were only 5 seasons. =/ I blew through them in like less than a week, as I do with shows I like. But it was a nice break from Fringe, which, like, went off the rails entirely at the end of Season 4 and I'm not sure I like where it's headed?? I must not be the only one, though, because they got cancelled halfway through Season 5. So, yeah. :|
I really, really want to get back into my reading. It's been YEARS since I could properly read, and I was hoping getting on the ADHD meds back in the summer would give it back to me, but so far no luck. I just got a bump up in my dose at the end of January but I need an even higher dose because the bump up didn't do what it was supposed to. I'm WRITING again, but not as much and with more of a struggle. I'm still easily distracted. I called my Doctor's office about it last Tuesday because Dr. K said if I needed a higher dose of my ADHD meds I should just call, but so far I haven't heard back. I'm going to call again on Monday and see what they say. Here's hoping.
A little morbid, but Dad is already talking about how he's going to die "soon" (he's 66 and doesn't think he'll make 70), and keeps saying that he wants to be tossed in the barn with his Star Wars collection and then the whole thing burned to the ground. Obviously that won't be permitted by ANYONE, but I guess a guy can dream. He just messaged me to say that when the time came, actually, I could have whatever I wanted. And I'm like... dude, I'm the one who's going to have to catalogue all your stuff to sell it on ebay, so.
But really, there's only three things I want from my Dad's estate when he passes away (A LONG TIME FROM NOW); his hardcover Valdemar books, his b-grade movie collection, and his Yoda hash pipe because that thing is probably worth a lot but to me it's HILARIOUS and PRICELESS. I can't really think of anything else, though I might poke through the rest of his books and movies and see if there's anything that I might like. *shrug* Either way, I'm going to be sobbing the entire time, so it won't be easy at all. I think he might be getting Lois to take care of some of his affairs, though, but I'm just not sure on that one.
Anyway, I have a RAGING headache because of the weather change and my sinuses, but I can only take ONE sinus pill and even THAT gives me minor stomach cramps. I hate having a sensitivity to the binding agents in the sinus meds, especially since I have such shitty, shitty sinuses. =/
Wish me luck with that, I guess.
I think I'm going to watch the Fear Street movies tonight. Or at least start watching them. I haven't watched them in a long time and I really liked them, and I've been thinking about them off-and-on lately. So.
