Nothing here but my musings about daily life, books, anime, and food.
After a summery couple of days, we are back to some drizzles and chilly-ish weather. I am not complaining though. I love chilly weather. Anyway, I did nothing today. Which was nice. I was listening to YouTube the whole day until my hun and I watched a movie and some anime episodes.
Jumanji (1995). I finally watched this movie. I mean, I thought it was a horror movie when I was a kid so I didn’t watch it! Anyway, it was a fun movie. I enjoyed it a lot. Tomorrow, my boyfriend and I planned to watch Jumanji (2017). My boyfriend said that the one from 2017 was nothing like the original. We shall see if I would like it as well.
Bungo Stray Dogs. We were finally able to watch some anime. The last couple of times that we hung out, I was not in the mood to watch anime. Some backstory for Osamu Dazai. But when he was a Port Mafia Executive. It showed him with two of his other friends – Sakunosuke Oda and Ango Sakaguchi. Dazai was still romanticizing his death and Sakunosuke was an instantly likable character.
No big plans tonight. Just chill again. I am feeling a bit exhausted for some reason. And my eyes are definitely swollen. From allergy or eczema or both, I have no idea. I have plans to go to Costco tomorrow. So hopefully I wake up early enough that I can go there when it opens.
I did not start my planned chores until 2:30 PM. So of course I did not finish. I managed to get the underneath bathroom sink and a couple of drawers organized. Tomorrow, I have to organize the cart in the bathroom, as well as the closet. No excuses this time. I need to get them done. No getting distracted by this stupid sorting game on my phone. This game occupied my whole day. I refused to move from my chair because I was having way too much fun getting distracted.
On a better note of things, I got to watch a movie with my boyfriend today. I chose M:I-3 because I’ve been waiting for this to be available on any streaming service for months now (at least streaming services that we have subscriptions for). Anyway, I enjoyed it. No surprise there. My hun thinks I like heist movies. Well, he’s not wrong. I love heist movies. Philip Seymour Hoffman was so good in this movie. But then again, I should not have been surprised. He was a really good actor. Anyway, I cannot wait to watch the rest though. We’ve only watched until the fourth Mission Impossible movie, so I cannot wait to continue on.
Nothing huge planned tonight. I really need to read though. I have not read in days, aside from manhwa. So maybe read tonight. And just relax.
I was not feeling the best yesterday. With the allergies and the throat hurting and congestion. With all of those going on, I was not really up to posting last night. I needed rest. Well, I wanted to be in bed. Which for the most part, I was. So thank goodness for that.
I was able to start organizing the closet yesterday. However, I did not finish it. Why? I was not expecting to find a lot of things that either needed to be thrown away or kept. I ordered some bins from Amazon, and boy, I messed up. I ordered the wrong-sized bins. They were smaller than I thought and I could not use them for this reorganization project. I mean, the bins would not go to waste for sure. I have a lot of tiny things that needed to be in bins. So these bins would be used. Waiting for the new bins that I ordered. So I would be continuing with this reorganization next week.
Today was a slow day for me. I made no plans on doing some reorganization stuff. Which was totally fine. My throat was still hurting and congestion was still pretty bad. However, I did lay out under the sun for a bit with my dog Paco. Cause I needed some sun. I’ve been cooped up in this apartment and only went out to run errands. I read for a bit but for the most part, I was just listening to a podcast, Podcrushed. Being out was relaxing. And feeling the sun against my skin was nice. But it was still hot. And I could never be a fan of heat.
My hun and I were able to hang out today for a bit. He only did a few hours on his first shift and then went home to chill before going to his second shift. We watched a few episodes of anime.
Naruto. A huge Gaara backstory. It was good. And I loved seeing what he went through to be who he was at this time of the anime. However, I had to limit it to one episode today. It was going a bit slow for me. It was making me tired.
High Card. That was an intense episode. Nice to see that Finn was starting to remember some parts of his past – well, at least the fire that killed his parents anyway. He knew now that they were attacked.
Bungo Stray Dogs. We finally got to see Kenji in action. He was just so…pleasant. He was just so honest and cheerful. But then his ability was a surprise! It was a pleasant surprise! That was an interesting limitation though, he could use it while he’s hungry. He just sleeps when he’s full. Classic definition of food coma right there. The league has been introduced and I wonder what kind of shenanigans this group is up to.
No big plans tonight. I really just want to finish reading the novel that I have not been able to read for the last couple of days. Less than 100 pages! Come on! Tomorrow, Chris and I planned on watching the Scream franchise. She hasn’t watched it apparently.
Hey! I felt slightly productive today. Hey, but you know what? Two hours of just doing chores and errands were productive in my books. Well, I accomplished what I planned on doing today. And that was that! Organized the shoe rack the best I could. We have an abundance of shoes. I did throw away some, like slippers and a pair of ballet flats. I debated if I wanted to throw up a pair of my booties but opted for keeping them for now. I wanted to think it over more.
Next spot to organize: closet in the hallway. I’m not looking forward to it. I have no idea what I will find in there. However, I am looking forward to fishing out some of my journals hiding in one of those boxes. Would I read through them? Maybe. It would be nice to read what the heck was in my head back in my late teens/early twenties. We shall see though. The goal is really to just organize that closet and see what can be tossed out. Not to peruse and read my journals. We are in desperate need of more storage space.
I was able to hang out with my love today. We were able to watch some anime today, which was nice. But was also sad since I got tired pretty early today. Despite having two mugs of coffee today, with one mug consumed right before we started hanging out.
Naruto. Don’t get me wrong, I love this anime, but damn, the story drags. I would never recommend this anime to someone new to watching anime. On top of the number of filler episodes, the story took its sweet ass time to progress. We still have not seen the conclusion of the Orochimaru vs Sarutobi fight. Naruto and company just caught up with Sasuke. And these events started about five episodes ago, I think.
Bungo Stray Dogs. Love Dasai. We got introduced to Chuuya. And I’m intrigued about him already. And I would like to unravel that rivalry between Chuuya and Dasai. It was nice to see Atsushi getting comfortable using his ability. Loved that he never gave up on Kyoka. And he took her out on a “date”.
High Card. We enjoyed that little Chris episode. We saw him in such a different light – being a loving older brother. I love layered characters. And he is one.
No big plans tonight. Just going to bed early. Because apparently, I’m freaking sleepy.
I could not explain why I was so tired today. Yawning and leaning my chair back while I watched movies with my boyfriend. Not even going to try even evaluate what I did the whole day. Because I did nothing strenuous to warrant the exhaustion. We did manage to watch two more movies today.
Scream IV (2011). We were finally able to watch it. I mean, we had to rent it but we just decided to for it. The story was good. It fitted right in with the whole franchise. It was unhinged. We enjoyed the story. However, the film and sound qualities were questionable. No, not questionable, it was not good. I had to tell my hun to mute himself because all I could hear was his AC and not the movie says a lot about how shitty the sound was. The picture quality was just…interesting. Apparently, it was purposeful. Something about the filter that the production used. But they totally missed the mark on that one. Watching all of them, I decided to consider the 5th and the 6th movies as totally different and not at all connected to the original installments since the last two have different legacy characters. On the four movies, here is my ranking with number 1 as my favorite: (1) Scream, (2) Scream 2, (3) Scream 4, and (4) Scream 3. My hun’s ranking: (1) Scream, (2) Scream 4, (3) Scream 2 and (4) Scream 3. We disagreed on the 2nd and 3rd place of course, and it all came down to preference.
Shutter Island (2010). No complaints about this movie. It was a good psychological thriller. My hun enjoyed it as well, and that was all I wanted. He said that he thought it was a horror movie at first that was why he never watched it. Let’s just say that the movie made me want to read the book. So that was good. The story was good. The twist was great. And we had no complaints about it. I did remember watching this for the first years ago, and for some reason, I remembered it to be more intense than my rewatch. Which was understandable. I mean this was a psychological thriller mystery, there was no way that I could enjoy it the same way I enjoyed it the first time I saw the movie. Still really good though.
No big plans tonight. Just chill and relax. As I said, I am feeling exhausted. So I just want to take it easy tonight. I just need to journal real quick and then I should be done for the night.
Nothing to note today. Just that my boyfriend and I apparently were in movie watching mood. We were able to watch three movies before we called it quits for today.
Scream VI (2023). We definitely liked this better than the 5th installment. I should’ve known the objective of GF in this installment, I mean this was a “re-re-quel” after all. The acting was on point for each character, especially GF. One of the things that I actually enjoyed in this franchise was the big reveal, and the actors chosen to be GF did not shy away to show how unhinged they were. Especially for this installment. I also appreciated the fact that these newer installments were not scared to be stab happy. Even Sam, whose weapon of choice was a knife. I would watch the next installment hands down – if we ever get a next installment.
Halloween (2018). Despite knowing of The Shape, I actually only watched one movie from this franchise. Don’t ask me which one, I would not remember. It could be the first one. Maybe. Regardless, I do not remember much of it. My hun decided that he wanted to watch this one. Boy, I was on the edge of my seat. To say that I was stressed was an understatement. I had my dog on my lap for most of the movie because I needed comforting apparently. If Ghostface was stab happy, The Shape was the one-and-done kind of deal. His purpose was to kill, and that he did. He went on a rampage for one night. Pretty much killing on anyone he got his hands on, well, seemed like as long as they were alone. He didn’t really touch the little kids. Teens or preteens seemed to be fair game. And of course, Laurie. I liked it though. I am considering watching the other movies in this franchise.
Cabin in the Woods (2012). This one fell on the campier side of the horror genre. It did its job. It definitely was full of cliche but you know what, I enjoyed it. There were some parts where we were laughing, there were some parts where I just muttered “what the fuck”, and questions on what if they had chosen a different killer. Like the mermaid for example. Would it just crawl to the cabin? Who knows. I hoped my boyfriend appreciated this move more now that we watched it together. Hopefully, he enjoyed it more compared to the first time he watched it since he now knew that this was considered a horror comedy.
My hun and I were actually debating if we should have a movie day where we just watch movies since we tend to watch anime more on a daily basis. Not going to lie, this was nice. I mean, I still gravitate towards anime and 30-min episode series compared to 2 hr long movies but I liked the break in our routine. I wouldn’t mind having this kind of hangout.
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