Still alive!

I'm very much over how hot it is at the moment. I'm not sleeping very well and I have a headache because the air pressure sucks combined with my allergies. Meh. We're apparently due some thunderstorms tomorrow which will hopefully make it feel a bit better

It's been almost a week since I met my friend for dinner and I'm still fine and so is she so I think I dodged the covid bullet. YAY.

My boss is off for 4 days next week which means I will have to be the boss. Always a stressful time, but she's off because she managed to score Wimbledon tickets so I can't begrudge her :D

In happier news my sister got engaged last week. The wedding is set for May 2024 and I have already been asked to be a bridesmaid. It's her second wedding so it's going to be more fun and less traditional. From what I understand the theme will be Disney.

And in writing news I am nearly 10k into a DMBJ fic I am writing which, from the looks of it, is going to be the first fic with this pairing when I post it. The discord fam are a bad influence!

Not much else going on, really. Don't have any plans until I go away for my birthday in September so it's just going to be writing fic and watching dramas for the next few months.

TV Shows Watched 2022

1. Hawkeye - Started this last year but finished it last week because I was watching it with Jacqui so we left the last episode until we were both back from the holidays. It was fun. A nice mesh of the Fraction comics and the MCU version of Clint. Kate was awesome.
2. The Witcher Season 2 - Despite the fact I could barely remember anything that happened in season 1 I still very much enjoyed this. Jaskier continues to be a delight. Henry Cavill's arms, also delightful.
3. Tale of the Nine-Tailed - I loved this! Full of Korean mythology and folklore, an excellent female lead, and a side character I got very attached to. I didn't think I was overly emotionally invested and then I bawled through the finale. So good.
4. Kieta Hatsukoi (My Love Mix-Up) - This was adorable. It was very silly, and a lot of the drama could have been avoided if the characters had just talked to each other, but I haven't watched a bl drama in ages and overall it was very sweet.
5. You Make Me Dance - Short but very sweet. I really enjoyed it.
6. Wandavision - I have kind of fallen out with Marvel over recent years so aside from Hawkeye I haven't felt any real urge to watch any of the live action shows. My housemate suggested we watch this, though, and even thought she'd already seen it she watched it with it. It was good! I enjoyed it. I do love Paul Bettany and it was nice to see his actual face for a few episodes rather than the prosthetics.
7. Street Dance of China Season 4 - This actually finished last year and we've been waited ages for the final episode to be subbed but apparently they just aren't doing that. They partially subbed 2/3 of the finale (just the captains' comments) and didn't bother with the final 1/3 at all. So, we muddled through and tried our best to figure out what was happening. It's fun, I do enjoy watching all the dancing and you do end up getting attached to some of the contestants.
8. Falcon and the Winter Solider - I absolutely loved this! It's my favourite of all the live action MCU shows that we've watched so far. It had a bunch of great characters, great characters, interesting plots. Loved it. They managed to cram a lot into 6 episodes and it was excellent!
9. My Roommate is a Detective - I enjoyed this. It took me a little while to warm up to the characters and the ending wasn't quite what I wanted but overall a good and fun show
10. Color Rush - This was a really interesting idea (some people can only see in black and white until they meet their 'probe' which is a person that lets them see colour). They really needed a lot more time than 8 15 minute episode. They skimmed over a lot of the world building and left a few plothole. I did enjoy it, I just wanted a lot more of it.
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34. Tientsin Mystic - This was fun! The cast were great and they had great chemistry with each other. I liked that it had a lot of supernatural elements which you don't get much in more recent c-dramas. This didn't really have an ending but there is a second season which I will watch at some point