Monday and back to the office with me this morning. Huzzah? I suppose. It’s in the low sixties this morning, which is brisk and lovely, and I slept really well last night. I’m feeling much better this morning than I have in days, which is also nice. I hate being sick, or under the weather; I suppose, now that I’ve been hospitalization sick, I need to be more careful about defining what sick means and how it feels to me. It was a head cold with a sore throat; not COVID or anything like that (I did check, of course), and now that it’s on the way out I am delighted. I didn’t get as much done yesterday as I would have liked; Sparky was a lap cat yesterday morning, which made it hard to get much done. I did work on an essay/newsletter which I hope to send out today, and scribbled notes in my journal. I did make a grocery run yesterday morning, and I also found some fleece sweatpants from Reebok that I really liked, so I bought them in three colors and can now get rid of those awful ones I bought last year when I was sick.
This morning I feel better than I have in a long while, and I am also looking forward to a normal style weekend this week, but I imagine we’ll be heading over to Costco at some point this coming weekend. I did do a little bit of reading yesterday, too, which was nice, and I feel like this could actually be a really productive week for me; although we will have to wait and see, won’t we? I also need to remember that the ulcerative colitis is an auto-immune disorder, so my immune system is compromised so I don’t recover from things as quickly as I used to, and they probably hit harder than they used to, as well. I really don’t enjoy being sick.
I also started my re-watch of Friday the 13th the Series from the DVD set I recently purchased; it needs to be digitally remastered, but it’s still a lot of fun to watch. I only watched the debut episode, “The Inheritance,” which sets up the series and introduces us to the three main characters–Ryan, Mickey, Jack. Jack is a specialist in the occult, and Ryan and Mickey are cousins who’ve inherited their uncle’s antique shop. Their uncle was Lewis Vendredi, and he’d made a deal with the devil, so everything in his store was cursed. Mickey, engaged to a kind of controlling dick, just wants to liquidate and get out of there; Ryan goes along with it…but after selling a bunch of things, Jack Marshak shows up and tells them about the curse and the truth about their legacy. The first object they look for is a cursed doll, bought for an unhappy little girl with a horrific stepmother, and the doll starts killing people who upset the little girl. The mission is a success (despite a couple of deaths) and the episode ends with Mickey dumping her controlling fiancée, the three decide to team up to track down all the objects, and they rename the store Curious Goods. The visual quality isn’t great–it needs to be digitally remastered, as I noticed earlier–and of course, it was very low budget so the special effects aren’t that great, either–but the concept is great, and the cast is likable enough with strong chemistry. The rewatching will, of course, involve seeing episodes again that I’d already seen…but there are a lot of episodes I haven’t seen, and I am very excited about this prospect.
Several years ago I’d purchased a “fan companion” to the show called Curious Goods: Behind the Scenes of Friday the 13th: The Series by a USC film school graduate named Alyse Wax, which I had never gotten around to reading. Since I am now watching the series again, in order, I thought I should dig the book out and consult with it during the watch. I had to look everywhere for it before finding it, but the great thing about it was finding a bunch of other books I’d forgotten I had on hand and need to either reread or read for the first time; I have plenty of things to keep me occupied and therefore should never be truly bored. I reread the introduction to the book again yesterday, and I am looking forward to reading along while I watch! How fun is that going to be?
The Saints won yesterday in overtime, which was a lovely counter to the humiliatingly embarrassing LSU loss to Alabama on Saturday (BeBest), but I spent most of the day doing chores, playing with Sparky, and watching the news, anxious for updates on the Mississippi election. Interesting weekend in Mississippi for the racists, no? Three racist undergraduate skanks are currently under investigation by the school for being racist skanks, and of course, their humiliating home loss to Georgia also drove their entitled racist fan base to throw trash on the field and just be toxic fans in general…and they may wind up with a Black senator. Hotty Toddy, bitches. You can talk shit about LSU and its fanbase all you want, but they never act like that.
Yet theirs is the fanbase that thinks tailgating off fine china and hanging chandeliers in their tents is classy.
Well, I need to get ready for work and heading into the spice mines, so have a great day, Constant Reader, and I will be back again tomorrow morning bright and early. See you then!
