Blogger writes words…you won’t believe what happens next!
Am I the only one who’s sick to death of these god-awful “you won’t believe what happens next” headlines? Like “Man starts playing guitar, but when the woman driving starts singing, you won’t believe what happens next!” Uh, I won’t believe that she sings well? Actually I do believe that, and I do believe this is one of the most irritating link baits I’ve ever seen. I do believe I’d like to find the guy who started this idea, and you won’t believe what I’ll do to him in revenge.
So…hubby is finally home. It’s been ten weeks since he first went away in an ambulance, and he was transferred through three hospitals since then. I’ve done more traveling in the last two months than I did in the last four years, carrying clean clothing and other supplies to hubby over those weeks. For any healthy person, this would be no big deal. But for me, having MS, it meant that many times I just wanted to collapse and stay down. But my husband has always supported me through sickness and health, and I was determined to honor my vows even all I wanted to do was hide under my covers.
Hubby is still not at 100%, and just a few short tasks can wipe him out. I think he wanted to hit the ground running and get back to helping with housework and cooking, but that’s still a ways off, and even working in the office is likely to drain him once he goes back. So for at least the next few weeks, I’ve still got to handle quite a few of the jobs he normally did himself.
But, now that he’s home, I’m reducing my outside time and adding in some much needed napping to my schedule. This should help eventually clear my brain fog problems, and with enough rest, I hope my right shoulder stops making crunching noises every time I raise it over my head. (The joint is swollen, so that’s why it’s crunching. As for why it’s swollen, I have no clue. My left arm is the one bearing weight all the time, and the right does next to nothing. It’s a mystery.) The brain fog makes it hard to write or to edit, so for a little while, I’m doing neither. Which likely means my plans to release A Wolf In Girl’s Clothing in April will not go down as planned. A May release is also looking iffy, but we’ll see how it goes.
Obviously, with the hospital drama and related financial problems, my budget for buying games is a bit gone-ish. About the only new game on my mind is Project Cars, which, unless I missed an update, will not be out until May. So there’s not likely to be any new game reviews for quite some time. I do have a huge backlog of books on my TBR pile and in my Kindle, so the book reviews are still coming.
I will say, the next couple of reviews are likely to be negative, as I seem to have hit a slump of books I’m not enjoying much. Some folks might just give up and move on, but I figure I can learn something even from a book I don’t like. Plus, there’s always the chance that they can get better later. Even if they don’t, I’ll finish them and hopefully move on to something that works for me.
I don’t really do movie reviews, but I recently got to see Birdman, and I thought it was pretty good. It was nothing at all what I was expecting from the trailer, and while I normally might bitch about that, this time it left me pleasantly surprised. The film has a lot of dreamlike qualities, and the way the camera moves often feels like it was all done in only a few takes. Many of the transition have the camera pan up to the skyline above for a night to day time-lapse shot, and then it pans back down and continues moving smoothly to the next location. There’s also this weird sort of trick going on where everyone walks maybe a block from the theater, like every other location is right there in the same block. And then there are times when the camera pans to one side to show the drummer playing the soundtrack…like I said, it all feels very dreamlike. I thought I understood what was going on through most of the film, but then there’s the ending, which makes me question the other scenes. It’s a nifty trick, in my opinion, and I’m looking forward to getting the DVD to see if there’s maybe some commentary to explain what was really going on.
Some of you may be wondering what happened to the rants. Like did I stop being angry at all this stuff? No, I still get mad, but lately, I don’t feel much like spending energy writing these thoughts up when I could be doing something more creative. Plus, about half the time that my internal monologue is winding up on a topic, I shut it down by thinking, “I already wrote about that ages ago.”
Having said that, I feel like I ought to at least attempt a rant now and again to break up the monotony of the reviews. It’s not like I’ve got a whole lot of new releases planned to break things up with some good old-fashioned book begging. I’m not sure when I’ll get around to that, though. Probably in a few weeks, after I’ve had a few naps and have recovered somewhat from all these trips to the hospital.
That’s about it for now. I do want to thank everyone who sent kind thoughts and prayers during hubby’s time in the hospital. I really appreciate it, and I don’t think I say that enough.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my blog, and I’m sorry updates have been so slow lately. At least y’all know it’s because I was busy dealing with a crisis, and not a lack of interest in keeping the content flowing.
