Who will love my ironies?

Okay, hi, hello! I have not looked at Dreamwidth in like a month due to a combination of work being crazy, Mom's constant freaking out about her work wearing me down, and general winter depression exacerbated by more acute 'the movie theatre will be closed for another three goddamn months' depression, but here I am! Going to try to turn things around!

I have seen two local theatre productions (Fiddler on the Roof and The Lion and the Jewel) and one ballet (A Midsummer Night's Dream) since my last update, and while it doesn't fill the gaping hole in my life left from going to the movies on the regular, it has certainly helped a lot. Arts! They're also going to screen all three extended editions of The Lord of the Rings this weekend, so that's something else to look forward to, even if the seats there are not nearly as comfortable as those of our lone cinema.

It was six degrees above zero on Saturday. It was back down to -30 this morning. I'm TIRED.

My grandmother had a very scary health crisis a week ago; we went downtown to essentially say goodbye to her Monday night after she had a seizure and was sent to the ER before being diagnosed with a massive brain bleed. A few hours later, however, once they were able to get a proper look at her scans, it turned out to actually just be a tumour the size of a golf ball, which is, somehow, a much better immediate outcome? She was released back to her care home the next day and seemed fine when we went back to visit her. She's on anti-seizure meds and some steroids to bring down the inflammation and life just goes on, I guess, big-ass tumour and all. Her sister came up from Edmonton to visit for the weekend, which was nice.

I have let my inbox get up over 1000 unread emails again. I was doing so well for a while.

In better news, my upcoming vacation is completely booked. I did forget that WPW tickets went on sale Friday until that evening and had to settle for a standing room only ticket, but at least it wasn't completely sold out yet (as it is now). My presence for Mercedes' crash-out era is confirmed, I hope Jody Threat throws her off the Nonsuch.

Revolution this weekend. If Hangman and Kris both losing big world title matches on the same night is the karmic price I have to pay for All Out, so be it. Still at the exact same time as the Oscars, which is deeply infuriating, but maybe they're doing it to save me from how sad they would probably just make me, because the last movie I was able to see in a theatre was fucking Anaconda. Hopefully I'll be able to still catch Hoppers somewhere once I'm travelling in a couple of weeks. If C&C don't finally show back up after the tag title match, I will self-harm by watching Money Plane.

( Album #519/1001: ABBA - Arrival )

Okay, hopefully I will continue with the regular updates again, back to work! Going to spend my lunch break with this joshi match pack somebody put together. Monday's match is Mina Shirakawa, Maika, and Mei Seira vs. Saya Kamitani, Tam Nakano, and AZM from Supercard of Honor 2024, which I recall as being a low-key banger, so I welcome you to join me!

PS: Fuck daylight savings!

Olympics are a go! The good ones!! The CBC Gem feeds seem VERY prone to freezing for no reason, which made watching curling a bit of a chore today, so hopefully they get that fixed by opening ceremony time. It's the one time every four years I give a shit about (real) sports, lfg!!!

Movie theatre is still closed, but I have finally started watching movies at home again, so maybe the healing can begin ahead of whenever it actually opens back up. Fuck winter! Fuck everything about it!!! Except the good Olympics! Also it's actually really warm right now!

Period is kicking my ass, work even more so, but I've got my front-row TJPW tickets, and Mystery Wrestling 23 tix go on sale tomorrow. I'll have to catch a midnight flight to Windsor afterwards if I want to make the MLP/ROH show the next day, but if this is my one big vacation this year, I might as well go all in, right? And I don't mean Wembley.

Hiromu leaving NJPW is brutal. Am I really going to have to start watching NOAH just to keep up with that wonderful weirdo? There aren't enough hours in the day! If Drilla leaves, I might just have to walk straight into the woods and never return.

( Album #517/1001: Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris - Trio )

Why work crazy?

Two days in a row without the temperature ever once popping above -40 degrees is... wearing on me, but at least it's Friday, so I can finally get a decent night's sleep tonight. We successfully went out and picked a new set of living room furniture on Wednesday, and while that meant dropping another $1000, we ended up with even nicer stuff and the guy gave us a genuinely great deal on it and was very helpful throughout and I'm actually feeling cautiously optimistic about the whole thing again? Delivery is tomorrow afternoon (after all of the sleep), so hopefully it doesn't fall apart at the finish line again!

It's still night when I both get to work and leave it, but there are a few more hints of sunrise/sunset on the horizon with every day that passes. The end will come. Just gotta get there.

Theatre's still closed, though. Pretty sure now that I'm going to miss The Bone Temple entirely, and that that list of films is only going to grow. Bleak shit! I don't think I've ever hated living in this city more than I do this month!

At least I have plenty of wrestling to catch up on. I don't want that to be all I watch, but watching movies at home just upsets me right now, and I have inexplicably finished season 1 of Sailor Moon, so I may just hunker down in a little cave of obsessing over the graps for a while, until this bout of lowercase-d depression passes.

( Album #515/1001: The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter )

Okay, back to dealing with the absolute stupidest emails from car salesmen that you can possibly imagine for eight more hours, bye!

And we're back to work! Again! Some more! The holiday party was Fine, the food was decent and the band was decent and they put my name on a plaque and gave everyone fifty bucks for attending, so definitely worth it in the end, even if I would have rather stayed at home and watched lucha libre.

As one of the 29 employees silly enough to still be working here after ten years of the new owners, I have received a gift certificate for a dinner theatre in Edmonton, so now I have to decide if I use it when I'm down there for Dynamite in April anyway or plan another trip sometime this year to go see something other than One Night With Roy Orbison. Something to think on! I will need stuff to do when I'm down there because there's a full week between the Winnipeg and Edmonton shows, so.... I HAVE BOOKED MY DAYS OFF, IT'S TIME FOR THE PLANNING TO BEGIN IN EARNEST. Though it'll be another week before ROH/MLP tickets go on sale, and I should wait to lock those down before committing to travel and accommodations.

Current mood: cold.

( Album #513/1001: Youssou N'Dour - Immigrés )

So the new couch that we picked out on Boxing Day and have been eagerly awaiting for weeks... does not fit in our house. So we have to go pick out a new one after all that (eating the cost of the failed delivery in the process) and do this all over again, and in the meantime, we don't have a couch because we had already arranged to have the old one hauled out. The old one that was fucking massive, so I don't understand how the fuck this one can't possibly get through either of our doors, and work is stupid and frustrating (love 2 b bulldozed by a stupid bitch manager, also when porters tell me they'll do something and then immediately fuck off for three hours) and I'm still so fucking cold and I just want to cry.

Also, the wind was so crazy last night that it completely carried off one of our massive recycling bins, so that's just... gone. Throw all that in with the theatre STILL being closed, and this is shaping up to be pretty much the worst birthday week I've ever had? Dinner out Tuesday was nice, at least. Hopefully leftovers and Dynamite will let me forget about all this shit for a couple of hours tonight.

( Album #511/1001: David Gray - White Ladder )

Ugh, I'm just so fucking discouraged about everything right now.

Work is very busy, and I am very tired. I have not gotten into bed before one in the morning all week. But hey, at least I'm getting my steps in! Less than a week until I am 37. Rewatching Wrestle Kingdom one match at a time, since I meant to go back and rewatch the two matches I dozed through, but then I started with the 10-man before them, and then I realized I wanted to rewatch Saya/Syuri and maybe ELP/Chris as well, and at that point I might as well just rewatch the whole thing, so. Need to do my nails tonight. So damn cold.

( Album #508/1001: Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle )

At work again! For one lousy day! And have a bunch of new duties! What the hell!!!

Quite busy, but yesterday was pretty chill and good (compared to some Ghost of Christmas Past bad vibes that very nearly derailed NYE, why the FUCK can't my family just be normal jfc), so 2026 is going pretty well so far. Trying to revamp my life once again. Here's to the weekend, and Wrestle Kingdom 20!

( Album #506/1001: Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! )

Christmas is done and gone for another year, and thank goodness for that, but god, those four days off were nice. The horrible cold snap has finally broken, which means TRULY INSANE AMOUNTS OF SNOW. The movie theatre is closed due to a burst pipe. I fucking hate winter so goddamn much.

Things at work are way too quiet. Not for my sake, because I love doing nothing, but because my techs have barely any work to do. Hopefully sales can get their asses in gear and things pick up soon.

Worlds End was a great show with a dogshit ending, much like last year's, only more so on all counts? Maybe I will do a post about it later this week. Long live Mixed Nuts Mayhem.

I need to get back into Stardom properly this year, starting with Dream Queendom tonight! Also gonna jump back into Nooj with Wrestle Kingdom, since I fell off regularly watching back when EVIL was dominating the G1 lol. Maybe I should start sneakily watching wrestling at work to get more in, the days are simply too short!

( Album #504/1001: Magazine - Real Life )

Movies Watched in December: Anaconda, Avatar: Fire and Ash, KPop Demon Hunters, The Housemaid, The Mastermind, They Live, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 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

At the beginning of the week, I had zero plans for the new year, and now I have tickets to three fresh wrestling shows in April, including my third-ever pay-per-view! Life comes at you fast!! First row in the corner for Dynamite and Collision in Winnipeg, dead centre ringside for Dynamite and Collision in Edmonton, then third row behind Spanish commentary for Dynasty 2026 in Vancouver!!! I will begin planning things like travel and accommodations once January rolls around (when I start my new additional work duties, ugh), though I will probably request those two weeks off of work immediately. Something to make getting to 37 worth it!

This week has pretty much been an entire blur aside from that??? I really need to get my life back into some semblance of order now that my back is mostly feeling better. I can make it about two thirds of the way home before I start to feel a twinge, and a heat wrap with a movie settles it right back down, so I should be able to start being a person properly again. It's very cold, and very snowy, and very... heavy outside. Just that overwhelming pall of light grey diffusing through everything for the six or so hours of daylight we have, and then just the most oppressive pitch darkness the rest of the time. We're going to be deep in the -35 to -45 degree trenches for the rest of the year with little to no reprieve, so it's really time to turn my attention inward and just try to feel good. Which unfortunately means doing a lot of laundry, god adulthood is lame.

Movies Watched in December: The Mastermind, They Live, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 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

The Housemaid this weekend, probably? And then the new Avatar with my brother. I don't particularly want to actually see it unless it's at a theatre with the fun moving seats to make it into more of a ride, but I figure if I just make sure to get really, really high beforehand, that should be just as good.

21. What Would You Outsource if You Could?

Uh... the money-making part, obviously. Is this a trick question?