12/10/18

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It is cool and grey and raining here today; it feels perfectly October and I am loving it.

I am still sick. I was hopeful that the triple-punch of antibiotics, steroids, and hydrocodone cough syrup would knock out of my chest whatever demon decided to settle in there. Alas! Yesterday was the last day of both the antibiotics and the steroids, and I opted to fall asleep from exhaustion (at like 9pm ) instead of taking the cough syrup. The chest demon woke me up ten minutes before my alarm this morning with a fit of coughing such that I was jamming my face down in the pillow to try, in vain, to keep from waking Secret Agent Lover Man. Give that he stirred and that the coughing did not stop, I gave up the remaining ten minutes as lost and got up to get on with the day.

The Spawn all moved reasonably well through the getting-ready portion of the day, even with the extra wrench of me remembering at the last minute that it is Silly Hat And Shoes Day at school (why? I do not know. It is Middle School. Silliness is its own reason.) and needing to help Youngest out of his socks and shoes, find a replacement pair of suitably silly socks, and get him all kitted out. Middlest is wearing a giant spider with poseable legs as a hat. Eldest has what he is calling a Conquistador had that is really a matador hat - and he is wearing it with a tie-dye tee-shirt.

I am trying to remember what sort of things I wore during middle school, and whether we had any such spirit days. Certain things come back to me, but not yet any of that. I remember the photo ripped out of a magazine that I hung in my locker, and the project I did on dolphins being used by the Navy for code work and getting full color photos from the Navy to include on my posterboard. I remember reading Gone With The Wind in math class, and learning how to draw Donald Duck's face on the whiteboard, and how liminal the library felt. I remember planning to start a Babysitter's Club with my friends that never came to fruition. I don't remember any Spirit Days until high school, though.

Today is largely an open unplanned possibilityscape. Secret Agent Lover Man is off work, but alas, there will be no saving of the world because I woke to the discovery of the uterus cleaning house again, and he has a thing about Not On Day One. Instead, we will go out to a leisurely breakfast at Whole Foods, where we don't have to prepare or clean anything because we can hit the hot bar, and he's going to do some retail therapy. He has an appointment later to which I will not be accompanying him, and that I will perhaps write about in a non-public post Because Of Reasons.

I spent a little time poking into a corner of the internet I haven't touched in ages. I wiped the dust off my Photobucket account and turned up my collection of icons - some made by me, some made by others - from back in the days of Livejournal. Among other things I have an entire set of Princess Bride icons, and a slew of Firefly icons. I will have to look through and sort out which 15 will be most suitable for me to use now that I am on Dreamwidth. I suspect that a shift in the way I will be using this in comparison to how I used to use LJ will mean that I'll need some new icons.

New is good.

Hello, Blisstopia. <3
Me, selfie in my kitchen October 12, 2018
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Those of you who have followed me over from the Ploos know that (A) I have a Patreon and (2) one of the things that it funds is irregular Drunkblogs. For those new to the term, it is, I assure you, an easy thing to understand:
  • I drink some booze
  • I watch a movie
  • I liveblog as I watch the movie
That's the shebang! It's a good time to be had by all, especially when I give some advance warning, which I am not doing tonight because I wasn't really planning on doing one but here we are. Some Drunkblogs are planned. Some are a surprise.

Things to know about the Drunkblog:

They are FAR from spoilerfree. I quote things, I talk about where I think the story is going to go, I yell at the characters, I yell at the writers, I make and break ships. I also remind everybody at the outset that all these things happen, so if you don't want to know something about a movie that I am Drunkblogging then you can freely move on.

I try to always pick something that is on a streaming service. I currently have Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime readily available to choose from. This makes it easy for folks to watch along if they want to, and participation in the liveblogging commentary is not just welcome, it's encouraged! I'm told that sometimes my bloggery is its own show, though, so don't be disheartened if I go with a thing that is not on a service you subscribe to.

You do not have to be drunk to enjoy the Drunkblog. Sober participation is hella encouraged for anybody who so desires.

All that said... I am about to kick off a Drunkblog! This will be my first one on Dreamwidth, and may have some wonk as I try to work out the mechanics of rapidfire commenting on my own post while drinking Ardmore and watching the film. This site has threaded commentary, which the site I used to do this on did not. Feel free to wander off into side conversations as we go. :D

Tonight's film is a 2007 horror comedy called Murder Party.

"A lonely man attends a random Halloween party, only to learn that the sketchy art students hosting the bash intend to kill him for grant money."

....what the fuck, I haven't even started watching this and I already kind of love it. Check out this poster, dude looks like he's wearing a hat that should have been Doritos:
Murder Party movie poster
 
It is currently ten past 8, EST, and I will be getting this murder party started in probably the next ten minutes or so, so grab your beverage if you want one, queue up your Netflix, and beware! Here there be spoilers.