Three days until pre-sales for the AEW shows in Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver in April! Finally, I have something long-distance to look forward to again! Time to tighten my belt, post-holiday splurges, so that I can actually afford to go (or at least pretend that I can afford to go). Trip planning will begin tentatively next week (after I hopefully have tickets), and then begin in earnest come the start of 2026. DYNASTY!!

Mom bailed on the MMM last night because it was snowing (lame excuse), but I hopped on a bus and went all by myself and had a great time anyway with an insane melodramatic mess of a movie (complimentary???). I definitely overdid things with my back a bit, though, and should probably go back to taking it easy for the rest of the week to keep recovering. Things hurt! It's cold out! An outing was extremely necessary for my mental health!

( Album #502/1001: Soft Machine - Third )

Movies Watched in December: Song Sung Blue; Silent Night, Deadly Night; Starman, In the Mouth of Madness, Ghosts of Mars, Prince of Darkness, The History of Sound, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A., Zootopia 2, Escape from New York, Christine

Six more hours until I can go home and make delicious noodles and put on a movie and also a heat wrap. BACK TO BASICS.

-42 degrees out, and while it's supposed to let up a bit over the weekend, they're saying the temperature's going to plummet right back down after that and stay deep in the trenches for the next couple of weeks, which is going to suuuuuuuuck. Also I've somehow got to convince my brother to go see the Santa slasher with me, since mom doesn't want to go to the movies at all this weekend and I am NOT physically capable of taking the bus just yet, particularly in this weather. I guess I can go see the new Avatar with him the week after in trade? God, those movies are lame.

A&W for lunch because I've lost control of my life. Fresh start on Monday! I wonder if my back will be amenable to some gentle yoga over the weekend? At least work is going well. I got a $500 bonus! I can't focus on anything for more than thirty seconds at a time because I didn't sleep at all last night, bye!

Movies Watched in December: Starman, In the Mouth of Madness, Ghosts of Mars, Prince of Darkness, The History of Sound, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A., Zootopia 2, Escape from New York, Christine

19. What’s the Best Way to Heal a Broken Heart?

Break your back instead.

All is pain, and cold. So, so cold. I'm a little bit better at being upright with each day that passes since The Incident, but the horrible seizing death stabs when I move wrong have given way to a general ache in a whole bunch of muscles that I've never noticed before, probably from the strain of having to hold myself so stiffly for so long. And also still a fair bit of seizing when I move wrong. And winter has finally arrived in earnest so I'm just so damn cold at work and so damn hot in my bedroom at home and I've been stress eating like a motherfucker so I get to feel like garbage in a whole host of different ways all at once!! I'm even more tired than usual, too! I blame Christmas for all of it, personally. It's a shame that McDonald's commercial was AI garbage that got bullied off the internet, because I really appreciate the general sentiment (but also the bullying).

Winter is Coming tonight. Rooting for the Babes of Wrath as inaugural women's tag champs.

( Album #499/1001: Neu! - Neu! 75 )

Movies Watched in December: Ghosts of Mars, Prince of Darkness, The History of Sound, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from L.A., Zootopia 2, Escape from New York, Christine