September 2021

 I'm tired. That's all I've got right now. So tired. I've watched some crap tele and some good tele. I've watched some good movies (those were mostly rewatches) and I've watched some crap ones because I've had a hankering for some Joel Kinnaman. It wasn't quite as intense as last year's Chris Messina episode but he's been in less movies for me to get my hands on. Baby isn't crawling yet but she does love to stand up (with help). I continue to be impressed by her tenacity. I was supposed to go back to work next week but they've extended my leave so I can use up my holiday. It's good but I wish I had something more to do. Then again. I am tired...

September

2/9 Married at First Sight UK: Series 6 (3) Annette (2021)
3/9 Married at First Sight UK: Series 6 (1)
5/9 In Secret (2013) Black Widow (2021) Me, You Madness (2021)
6/9 Cinderella (2021) Aeon Flux (2005)
7/9 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
8/9 Married at First Sight UK: Series 6 (3)
9/9 Afterlife of the Party (2021) The Suicide Squad (2021) Married at First Sight UK: Series 6 (1) 
10/9 Kate (2021) Ted Lasso (1)
11/9 US Open Women’s Final 2021 
12/9 The Year Earth Changed (2021) Ted Lasso (1) 
13/9 Ted Lasso (1)
14/9 Herself (2020) Good Vibrations (2012) Fantastic Fungi (2019)
15/9 Married at First Sight (2) Keeping up with the Jonses (2016)
16/9 Married at First Sight (1) John Wick (2014) Room 237 (2012)
17/9 Married at First Sight (1) Sweat (2020) Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed (2021)
18/9 The Card Counter (2021) 20,000 Days on Earth (2014) The Voyeurs (2021)
20/9 Candyman (2021) The Guilty (2021) Malignant (2021) Kodachrome (2017)
21/9 Legally Blonde (2001) Great British Bake Off (1)
22/9 Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (2012) Married at First Sight (1) Safe House (2012) King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV Philip Manseel (2019) 458p
23/9 Married at First Sight (2) JFK (1991)
24/9 Married at First Sight (2) Lola Versus (2012)
25/9 Sexy Beast (2000) Suicide Squad (2016)
26/9 Robocop (2014)
27/9 Edge of Winter (2016) The Suicide Squad (2021)
28/9 Knight of Cups (2015) The Darkest Hour (2011)
29/9 Britney Vs Spears (2021) Limbo (2020)
30/9 Married at First Sight (2) Ted Lasso (2)

August 2021

 I am late posting this. I wish I could say I've been busy but I haven't. I've just been very tired and distracted. Can't believe Love Island finished not that long ago, feels like a life time has passed. I'm barely watching movies or TV at the minute (unless it is truly terrible). I'm not sure what else to say except it's been another month. We have a 7 month old and she's magical but she's hard work. Weaning is exhausting. My birthday was a bit of a quiet one. It feels like even when we have something to celebrate it's too complicated with everything noawadays.

I did have a bit of a burst of movie activity in the middle of the month but it tapered off. I'm trying to read for my history book club and that is sapping most of my concentration away lately. I've not even managed to write in my journal lately. I have played through Bioshock Infinite and now I'm giving Bioshock 2 a go. It's something I can pause and walk away from at a moment's notice but I'm not quite paying attention so when my partner plays it in the evening (he's behind me) most of it is a delightful surprise! Hopefully I'll get my head screwed back on soon.

August

1/8 The Genius of the System: Hollywood Film-Making in the Studio Era Thomas Schatz (1988) 492p
2/8 Love Island (1) The Suicide Squad (2021) Pete’s Dragon (2016)
3/8 Love Island (1)
4/8 Love Island (1)
5/8 Love Island (1)
6/8 The Suicide Squad (2021)
7/8 Love Island (2) Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
8/8 The Final Girls (2015)
9/8 Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) The Phoenix Incident (2015) Love Island (1)
10/8 Black Bear (2020) Love Island (1)
11/8 Ted Lasso: Season 2 (1) Boys State (2020) Mythic Quest: Season 1 (1) Love Island (1)
12/8 Wild Mountain Thyme (2020) Midnight in the Switchgrass (2021) Love Island (1)
13/8 The Suicide Squad (2021) Love Island (1)
15/8 Love Island (1)
16/8 Phone Booth (2002) Beckett (2021) Love Island (1)
17/8 Free Guy (2021) Ted Lasso (1) Love Island (1)
18/8 Rush Hour (1998)
19/8 Ted Lasso (1) Searching for Sugarman (2012)
20/8 CODA (2021) Sweet Girl (2021) Ted Lasso (2) Ted Lasso: Season 1 (1) Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021) Love Island (2)
21/8 Lay the Favorite (2012) Ted Lasso (1) Riverdale (2) Love Island (1)
22/8 Bring it On (2000) Spy (2015) Ted Lasso (2)
23/8 Reminiscence (2021) The Green Knight (2021) Ted Lasso (1) Love Island: The Final (1)
24/8 Ted Lasso (1)
25/8 The Decoy Bride (2011) Black Panthers (1968) Ted Lasso (1)
26/8 Suffragette (2015) Ted Lasso (1)
27/8 Ted Lasso (1) He’s All That (2021)
28/8 Ted Lasso (1)
29/8 Ted Lasso (1)

July 2021

So it's the end of another month and now I have a 6 month old. Not entirely sure how that happened. She continues to grow and get more lovely every day, not that she didn't start out lovely, just that she's becoming a little person and it's crazy. We started weaning and she's sleeping in her cot in her own room and she's sitting up unaided for brief spurts. Only issue is daytime napping, it's taken up a lot of time and energy and I have amassed a lot of steps on my fitbit but I've not had time for much else. Oh and we went to the cinema to see Space Jam together because they let you do that with babies.

So I'm just watching Love Island consistently. Oh and I became obsessed with watching Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar over and over. It cheered me up and I feel like this month has been... just meh....

July

1/7 Love Island (2) Yes (2004) Weird City (1)
2/7 Love Island (1) The Tomorrow War (2021)
3/7 Love Island (1)
4/7 No Sudden Move (2021)
5/7 Love Island (1)  Afternoon Delight (2013)
6/7 Love Island (1) Saving Face (2004)
7/7 Love Island (1) Saint Maud (2019) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2)
8/7 Love Island (1) Loki (1) Anna (2019) Song One (2014) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
10/7 K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
11/7 Black Widow (2021) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (3)
12/7 Love Island (1)  Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2) Borg Vs McEnroe (2017)
13/7 Love Island (1)  Safelight (2015) Sibyl (2019)
14/7 Love Island (1) Loki (1) Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
15/7 Love Island (1)
16/7 Love Island (1)
17/7 Love Island (1)
19/7 Love Island (1)
20/7 Love Island (1) Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
21/7 Love Island (1) Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) Rubber (2010)
22/7 Love Island (1) Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) Fun Moms Dinner (2017)
23/7 Love Island (1) Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) Jolt (2021)
24/7 Love Island (1) Amy (2015) Guns Akimbo (2019)
25/7 What a Girl Wants (2003) Audrey (2020) Post Grad (2009)
26/7 Love Island (1) Athlete A (2020) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
27/7 Love Island (1) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
28/7 Love Island (1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
29/7 Love Island (1) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2)
30/7 Love Island (2) Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)  

June 2021

Another long month. We're getting there with the feeding but that just means weaning is around the corner. We've also moved baby into the cot in the nursery and it's going okay on a night, just struggling with the naps. All these things keep happening and I'm worried about returning to work. I feel so light-headed most of the time nowadays. I feel untethered, like I could float away at any given moment. I'm not sure where I'd float away to.

Given my struggle keeping my head straight I've not been consistent in my culture-crunching. I have watched more Brooklyn Nine-Nine than I've noted I just forgot to jot them down. Love Island has started again and I am embarrassed to say I'm watching it, but there's not a looker among the bunch, or any gays, don't know why I bother.

June

1/6 Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) Cruella (2021)
2/6 The Wrath of Man (2021) High Road (2012)
3/6 Happily (2021)
4/6 Flashback (2020) Ball of Fire (1941) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2)
8/6 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978) Otherhood (2019)
9/6 Blue Steel (1990) Loki (1)
10/6 Night Owls (2015) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2)
11/6 The Secrets We Keep (2020) For Ellen (2012)
12/6 A Quiet Place Part II (2020) Lovesong (2016)
13/6 Piercing (2018) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
14/6 PVT Chat (2020) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1) Demon Slayer (1)
15/6 M.F.A. (2017) 2 Days in Paris (2007) Brooklyn Nine Nine (2)
16/6 2 Days in New York (2012) Sexy Beast (2000) Brooklyn Nine Nine (2)
17/6 Infinite (2021) Blush (2019) Cecil B. Demented (2000) Brooklyn Nine Nine (1)
18/6 Kung-Fu Master! (1988) Brooklyn Nine Nine (2)
19/6 Trees Lounge (1998) Brooklyn Nine Nine (1)
20/6 Apartment Troubles (2014) Loki (1) Luca (2021)
21/6 Brooklyn Nine Nine (2)
22/6 Censor (2021)
24/6 Good on Paper (2021)
25/6 Be Pretty and Shut up! (1976)
26/6 Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry Jason Schreier (2021) 297p
27/6 She’s All That (1999)
28/6 In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye (2012)
29/6 The Misfits (2021)
30/6 Love Island (1) Loki (1)

May 2021

I think I'm starting to feel like myself, I have more days where I feel okay than not so I'm calling it a win. It's hard to find time to watch stuff and settle but I'm okay with it. Baby is starting to smile and grab and explore the world around her which is fun to see. Plus we think she's sleeping through the night, she had a few early wake-ups then decided she was happy waking up between 5-6am and it's just become the norm (for a week but those last forever).  

I finally got over watching The Circle, I tried the Brazil version (after loving the French one) but couldn't finish the first episode and just never came back to it. This month I managed to finally read a full book and I played Final Fantasy VIII for the 50th time in my life. Then I got addicted to Soul Calibur VI which is just mindless fun and easy to stick on for short periods of time when there's a baby about.

May

1/5 Banglatown Banquet (2006)
3/5 Mare of Easttown (1) Perry Mason (1)
4/5 Perry Mason (1)
5/5 Cosmic Sin (2021) Saint Frances (2019)
6/5 The Founder (2016) Perry Mason (1)
7/5 Perry Mason (1)
8/5 The Circle: France (2) Perry Mason (1)
9/5 The Circle: France (4)
10/5 Mare of Easttown (1) The Circle: France (4)
11/5 The Circle: France (4) The Unicorn Store (2017)
12/5 The Choice (2016) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
15/5 The Woman in the Window (2021) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
17/5 Mare of Easttown (1) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1) Halston (1)
18/5 American Animals (2018)
19/5 Halston (4)
20/5 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
21/5 Army of the Dead (2021)
22/5 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
23/5 Shirley (2020) Seth Meyers: Lobby Baby (2019) Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
24/5 Mare of Easttown (1) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
25/5 City of Tiny Lights (2016) White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties Dominic Sandbrook (2006) 794p
26/5 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
27/5 Friends: The Reunion (2021) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1) The Hummingbird Project (2018)
31/5 Mare of Easttown (1)

April 2021

Baby is now 3 months old. This year is slipping away as it is wont to do. We don't get out much and don't really see many people. The lockdown has made things quiet but also a bit lonely. We've managed to get into a routine and I'm a lot more calm about most things now, or at least I try my best to be calm which is working. She's getting bigger and more vocal and sleeping more consistently. Not moving about much though so still manageable. 

My obsession with The Circle has not yet abated, the season 2 finale of the USA version is released next week, then I have no more left. Unless I can find the other international versions. Otherwise, I've been a bit on and off with watching movies. I'm trying to read a book (which is 800 pages and about the 60s) for History Book Club. I just make sure it's in the same room as me and the baby and try to get some reading done when I can. That and before bed. It's a little bit obsessive but I'm determined to finish this book. It's nice to have a kind of side project and a goal to work towards which isn't just about the baby.

April

1/4 The Circle (1) Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
2/4 The Circle (1) The Internship (2013)
3/4 The Circle (1) The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (1) Titan A.E. (2000) About Time (2013) AP Bio (1)
4/4 AP Bio (2)
5/4 The Circle (1) Irresistible (2020)
6/4 The Circle (1) 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) Computer Chess (2013)
7/4 The Circle (1) The Tourist (2010) Fantastic Four (2015)
8/4 The Circle (1) Riverdale (1) Deepwater Horizon (2016) Comet (2014) Wayne’s World (1992)
9/4 The Circle (1) The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (1)
10/4 The Circle: Final (1) The Great Celebrity Bake Off (1) Tarzan (1999)
11/4 Thunder Force (2021)
12/4 Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
13/4 Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957) Punishment Park (1971)
14/4 Sound of Metal (2019) The Circle USA: Season 2 (1)
15/4 The Circle USA (1) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
16/4 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (1) Mayhem (2017)
17/4 The Circle USA (2) American Assassin (2017)
18/4 Little Pink House (2017) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
19/4 Chris Claremont’s X-Men (2018) X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
20/4 Deadpool (2016) The Platform (2019)
21/4 Mare of Easttown (1) Anti-Life (2020) The Circle USA (3) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
22/4 Shiva Baby (2020)
23/4 Nobody (2021) The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (1) Stowaway (2021)
24/4 Mortal Kombat (2021)
25/4 Pusher (1996) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
26/4 I’m Not Here (2017) Mare of Easttown (1) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
27/4 The Shallows (2016) I’m Your Woman (2020) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
28/4 The Circle USA (4) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)
29/4 The Informer (2019) Things Heard & Seen (2021)
30/4 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1)

March 2021

 This is the second month of raising a baby. She's getting bigger and chattier and still doesn't do much else apart from sleep, eat and poop. I'm very attached to her though. She falls asleep on me and it's like a really comforting hot water bottle which also snores.

This month I've managed to get into a routine of watching movies on my laptop in the nursery as I sit around with the baby all day. I also have renewed my addiction to The Circle. I get up for the 4-5am feed and watch it then on catch up. It's so compelling! I've also tried to catch up on the 2020 movies I missed, Oscar bait mostly, and some 2021 stuff. I'm starting to feel more like myself even if I can't go to the cinema.

March

1/3 Jennifer’s Body (2009) Working Girl (1988) Chef’s Table BBQ (1)
2/3 Nine to Five (1980)  Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) Chef’s Table BBQ (1)
3/3 The Queen (2006)
4/3 Big Business (1988) Runaway Bride (1999)
5/3 Wandavision (1)
6/3 Pretty Woman (1990) The Bold Type: Season 4 (3)
7/3 The Bold Type (1)
8/3 The Bold Type (2) 21 Jump Street (2012)
9/3 The Bold Type (1)
10/3 The Celebrity Circle (1) Chaos Walking (2021) The Great Celebrity Bake Off (1)
11/3 The Celebrity Circle (1) Riverdale (1) The Bold Type (1)
12/3 The Celebrity Circle (1) Moxie (2021)
13/3 The Celebrity Circle (1) Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
14/3 Mother’s Day (2016)
15/3 The Celebrity Circle (1)The African Queen (1951) Spider-Man 2 (2004)
16/3 The Celebrity Circle (1) Minari (2020) The Bold Type (1)
17/3 The Circle: Series 3 (1) Cute Girl (1980) Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021) The Bold Type (1)
18/3 The Circle (1) Shadow in the Cloud (2020) The Bold Type (1)
19/3 The Circle (1) The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (1) The Flight Attendant (8)
20/3 The Circle (1) The Bold Type (1)
22/3 The Circle (1) Beyond Clueless (2014) The Bold Type (1)
23/3 The Circle (1) The Faculty (1998) The Bold Type (1)
24/3 The Circle (1) The Great Celebrity Bake Off (1) Fight Club (1999)
25/3 The Circle (1) Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal (2021) Riverdale (1)
26/3 The Circle (1) Riverdale (1) The Bold Type (1) The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (1)
27/3 The Circle (1) An American Werewolf in London (1981) The Gentlemen (2019)
28/3 Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
29/3 Seaspiracy (2021) AP Bio: Season 3 (2) Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) The Great Celebrity Bake Off (1)
30/3 The Circle (1) Love and Monsters (2020) The Bold Type (2)
31/1 The Circle (1) The Maze Runner (2014) AP Bio (2)