The Good, the Bad, and the In Between
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przedIt's been a mad few days, with a bit of good stuff mixed in with a bit of bad.
The Good
We took Ros to a Saturday afternoon kid's screening of the original Bad News Bears at our favourite local rep house and she enjoyed it. Though, man, there's more tough stuff than even I was expecting, including a coach/father hitting his kid on the field and a tough little kid who uses the N word. Repeatedly. (Yikes!)
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franzeska, I've started putting pages up on AO3 for my vids, including non-password protected links. The vids up there so far are:
I Would Die for You (I Spy)
Forget Regret (Pros)
Love's Not a Competition (Pros)
Pieces of Heaven (Pros)
Halo (Sherlock Holmes, Downey Films)
The Patron Saint of Lost Causes (Take That)
This has led to the shocking realization that I made I Would Die for You, my first vid back in 2002! Where has the time gone?
The Bad
I started my Saturday with a 6:45 a.m. black belt training session at our martial arts school. And promptly started having an anaphylaxis attack after we'd completed the run at the start. Mouth swelling, eyes swelling and, most alarmingly, throat swelling. Which meant taking Benadryl, hightailing it home, waiting to make sure that my throat had stopped swelling, and then letting the drugs knock me out for over four hours. Not the way I'd planned on spending my Saturday morning. And annoyingly, it meant missing the martial arts part of the class that I actually enjoy.
The Sweetie: You know, some people would take this as a sign that they shouldn't be exercising.
Me: But I like exercising! I don't want this to keep happening!
Nor was that the end of it. I woke up both Sunday and Monday with my eyes swollen again, and the Benadryl hangover was giving me a persistent headache that finally tipped into migraine territory today. Joy. Adding to the fun, the cold that's been nipping at my heels finally caught me today, so I bowed to the inevitable and took the day off.
The Inbetween
Since I was stuck at home anyway, and the headache wasn't quite enough to require a dark, quiet room, I decided to park myself on the couch and mainline six of the Legends episodes I had sitting on the PVR. That was...interesting. I wouldn't call it good, but it's at least amusing seeing what accents The Bean attempts each episode when he's undercover. Worst accent so far: Texan. (Who the hell thought Sean Bean doing a Texan accent was a good idea?) Most amusing: a Liverpool accent that never drifted past the outskirts of Sheffield. Oh Sean, never change.
The Good
We took Ros to a Saturday afternoon kid's screening of the original Bad News Bears at our favourite local rep house and she enjoyed it. Though, man, there's more tough stuff than even I was expecting, including a coach/father hitting his kid on the field and a tough little kid who uses the N word. Repeatedly. (Yikes!)
At the urging of
franzeska, I've started putting pages up on AO3 for my vids, including non-password protected links. The vids up there so far are:This has led to the shocking realization that I made I Would Die for You, my first vid back in 2002! Where has the time gone?
The Bad
I started my Saturday with a 6:45 a.m. black belt training session at our martial arts school. And promptly started having an anaphylaxis attack after we'd completed the run at the start. Mouth swelling, eyes swelling and, most alarmingly, throat swelling. Which meant taking Benadryl, hightailing it home, waiting to make sure that my throat had stopped swelling, and then letting the drugs knock me out for over four hours. Not the way I'd planned on spending my Saturday morning. And annoyingly, it meant missing the martial arts part of the class that I actually enjoy.
The Sweetie: You know, some people would take this as a sign that they shouldn't be exercising.
Me: But I like exercising! I don't want this to keep happening!
Nor was that the end of it. I woke up both Sunday and Monday with my eyes swollen again, and the Benadryl hangover was giving me a persistent headache that finally tipped into migraine territory today. Joy. Adding to the fun, the cold that's been nipping at my heels finally caught me today, so I bowed to the inevitable and took the day off.
The Inbetween
Since I was stuck at home anyway, and the headache wasn't quite enough to require a dark, quiet room, I decided to park myself on the couch and mainline six of the Legends episodes I had sitting on the PVR. That was...interesting. I wouldn't call it good, but it's at least amusing seeing what accents The Bean attempts each episode when he's undercover. Worst accent so far: Texan. (Who the hell thought Sean Bean doing a Texan accent was a good idea?) Most amusing: a Liverpool accent that never drifted past the outskirts of Sheffield. Oh Sean, never change.
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Date: 2014-10-29 12:41 pm (UTC)The long-term plan with the vids is to get them all up on YouTube and move all the download files over to the non-password side of my site.
The allergy thing is annoying to infuriating. Seriously, body? It had been a year since the last attack, so I had hopes that it had gone away, but apparently it's still there. At least it's not so frightening anymore.
My informed commentary on Legends would have been on the order of "oh, Sean." The show is no Strike Back, but apparently I have huge tolerance for dodgy stuff when it comes to the Bean. (This is no surprise to the Sweetie, who has been suffering the Shelf of Dodgy Sean Bean Films for years. *g*)
The migraine and cold weren't so bad individually, but together they were enough to knock me for a loop. But I'm better now!