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)

February 2021

 So  this is a super sparse month. Believe it or not, having a new-born baby greatly impacts your life and makes you extremely tired. Also your body is a wreck. And you don't get to sleep at normal times.

The husband keeps watching 'Parks & Rec' and I let it wash over me in the background, I've seen every episode already and I don't think my brain is engaged enough for it to count. Otherwise it's been a lot of trashy movies and also rewatches for the most part. We do not intend to engage our brains and sometimes movies take 2 nights to watch. Also, we love Sandra Bullock in this house.

Did I mention having a baby is really hard?

February

6/2 Bob’s Burgers (2) Wandavision (2) Riverdale (1)
7/2 The Hunstman: Winter’s War (2016)
8/2 The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010)
9/2 Next (2007)
10/2 Love Wedding Repeat (2020)
11/2 Spycraft (3) 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
12/1 Wandavision (1)
13/1 27 Dresses (2008) Riverdale (1) 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
14/2 To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021)
15/2 The Ugly Truth (2009) Easy A (2010)
16/2 The DUFF (2015)
17/2 The Wedding Planner (2001)
19/2 Wandavision (1) Riverdale (1)
20/2 Happy Gilmore (1996) The Proposal (2009)
21/2 Two Weeks Notice (2002)
22/2 I Care A Lot (2020)
23/2 The Princess Diaries (2001)
24/2 Framing Britney Spears (2021) Waitress (2007)
25/2 Malcolm & Marie (2021) Just Friends (2005)
26/2 Wandavision (1)
28/2 Riverdale (1) The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

January 2021

 This is late because, believe it or not, at the end of the month, we had our baby. I say we, I guess I should take some credit for taking all the pain medication and pushing her out (with a little help from the ventouse in the end). She is perfect and beautiful and, well exhausting to be honest. It's been a week and we're just getting the hang of this whole parenting thing. Every day feels like a week, this week has felt like a year. We have this gorgeous tiny bundle who (cries so much) we both love so much and we're getting through it together. 

It's so surreal looking over the crap tv I watched this month and all the 2020 movies I tried to cram in that I'd missed. So yeah, I don't think these lists are going to be as thorough or full but I'm still going to keep it up, hopefully. Even if it's sparse. It's a reflection of my life and things have changed. I'll be okay.

January

1/1 Fargo (1996) Death to 2020 (2020) Soul (2020)
2/1 Tenet (2020) After We Collided (2020)
3/1 Freaky (2020) All About Nina (2018) Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Part 4 (1)
5/1  Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2)
6/1 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (1) Nomadland (2020)
7/1 Misbehaviour (2020)
8/1 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) Lucy in the Sky (2019)
9/1 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (3) The High Note (2020) Bridgerton (2)
10/1 Bridgerton (6) Spree (2020)
11/1 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) You Only Live Once (1937)
12/1 The History of Swear Words (2) Bob’s Burgers (2) The Circle USA (2)~
13/1 The Circle USA (5)
14/1 The Circle USA (4)
15/1 The Circle USA (1) Bob’s Burgers (2) Miss Congeniality (2000) WandaVision (2)
16/1 Bob’s Burgers (1) Palm Springs (2020)
17/1 Locked Down (2021) American Gods: Season 3 (1) The Sopranos (1) Kajillionaire (2020)
18/1 Fantastic Planet (1973) Bob’s Burgers (1) Enormous (2019)
19/1 The History of Swear Words (2) Bob’s Burgers (1) The Unification of Italy 1789-1896 (4th Edition) Robert Pearce and Andrina Stiles (2015) 138p Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
20/1 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Morning Glory (2010)
21/1 The History of Swear Words (2) Bob’s Burgers (1) The Whole Truth (2016)
22/1 One Night in Miami (2020) Bob’s Burgers (1) Wandavision (1)
23/1 Gone Girl (2014) The Wine Show: Season 3 (1) Riverdale: Season 5 (1) The Castle on Sunset: Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont Shawn Levy (2019) 325p Somewhere (2010)
24/1 The Wine Show (1) In the Cut (2003) Bob’s Burgers (1)
25/1 The Cat Returns (2002) Bob’s Burgers (1) I Used to Go Here (2020)
26/1 The Kid Detective (2020) Vampyr (1932)
27/1 Ted Lasso (10)
29/1 Riverdale (1)

December 2020

I usually do end of year lists and give out awards but I just don't think I have it in me this year. Plus it's hard to rate films from 2020 given that I have barely seen any, Letterboxd says I've watched 62 dated that year (I made a supreme effort to watch some this month!) but it doesn't feel I've fully had the experience. I miss the cinema so much but there was no way I was going out even when I didn't have to worry about my onboard passenger. It wouldn't really have been the same anyways. It's been a bit of a rough month with the pregnancy also. 

Obviously watched a bunch of Christmas movies given the season, most of them rewatches because, what can I say, I resorted to comfort. I also managed to sneak a couple of books in too. Made me realise how little I've read this year, weirdly the two books I read were pretty easy and fun reads. I just need to find the right books.

Officially one more month until the baby arrives. 2021 is going to be a weird year. I'm optimistic though.

December

1/12 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
2/12 Yes, God, Yes (2019) But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) The Watermelon Woman (1996) Bob’s Burgers (1)
3/12 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
4/12 The Mandarlorian (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) Mank (2020)
5/12 The French Revolution & What Went Wrong  Stephen Clarke (2019) 524p The Sopranos (1) Strictly Come Dancing (1) Fantasy Island (2020)
6/12 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Bob’s Burgers (1) Seberg (2019)
7/12 AP Bio (4)
8/12 AP Bio (6)
9/12 Mulan (2020) Ava (2020) Carefree (1938) Bob’s Burgers (2)
10/12 Spirited Away (2001)
11/12 Bob’s Burgers (1) Penny Serenade (1943)
12/12 Bob’s Burgers (2) Anastasia (1997) Strictly Come Dancing (1)
13/12 Emma. (2020) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Klaus (2019)
14/12 Dolittle (2020) Prevenge (2016)
15/12 The Sopranos (1) Two Night Stand (2014)
16/12 Noelle (2019) Black Christmas (2019)
17/12 Bob’s Burgers (2)
18/12 The Mandalorian (1) Jingle All the Way (1996)
19/12 The Santa Claus (1994) Bob’s Burgers (1) Strictly Come Dancing (1)
20/12 Bob’s Burgers (1) Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
21/12 Love Actually (2003)
22/12 Axiom’s End  Lindsay Ellis (2020) 468p
23/12 Elf (2003) Bob’s Burgers (1)
24/12 Scrooged (1988)
25/12 The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992)
26/12 Bob’s Burgers (1)
27/12 Bob’s Burgers (1)
28/12 WW84 (2020)
29/12 Bob’s Burgers (1) Promising Young Woman (2020)
30/12 Mamma Mia (2008)
31/12 Mamma Mia Here We Go Again (2018)

November 2020

Hey look, a month of lockdown. Always in the house, barely going out. Growing a burgeoning bump which is starting to get much more cumbersome by the day. We've started antenatal classes and they are an information overload, it's been more tiring than I expected. Also the prospect of Christmas is just upsetting me at this point. I've been feeling down lately. Hopefully it'll get better, I usually get an upswing after one of these periods but there's so many external factors beyond my control. I'm trying my best.

This month I binged a lot of tele. Loved The Queen's Gambit, it was very much comfort food period drama, speaking of The Crown also had a new season which was in a similar vein. Gillian Anderson's Maggie was pretty terrible but the rest was fun in a soap opera way. I've also become addicted to The Baby Yoda Show, weirdly compulsive viewing! We watched The Haunting of Hill House which was more tragic than spooky in a good way and we're finally getting around to watching The Sopranos. The Undoing ended up being a bit of a damp squib. I got nothing else.

November

1/11 Succession (2) Holidate (2020) The Haunting of Hill House (1) The Queen’s Gambit (2)
2/11 The Queen’s Gambit (2) Bob’s Burgers (1) Gattaca (1997)
3/11 The Queen’s Gambit (2) Bob’s Burgers (1) Great British Bake Off (1)
4/11 Bob’s Burgers (1) The Queen’s Gambit (1) It: Chapter Two (2019)
5/11 Bob’s Burgers (3) Broadcast News (1987)
6/11 The Haunting of Hill House (1) The Mandalorian (1) Moonstruck (1987)
7/11 Fatal Attraction (1987) The Mandalorian (1) 101 Dalamatians (1996) Strictly Come Dancing (1)
8/11 Mind the Gap (2019) Humor Me (2017) Bob’s Burgers (1) The Mandalorian (1) Bewitched (2005)
9/11 The Haunting of Hill House (1) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
10/11 The Mandalorian (2) Bob’s Burgers (1) Great British Bake Off (1)
11/11 The Mandalorian (4) The Rocketeer (1991) The Haunting of Hill House (1) The Kitchen (2019)
12/11 The Undoing (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
13/11 The Haunting of Hill House (1) 8 Women (2002)
14/11 The Falling (2014) Bob’s Burgers (1) Strictly Come Dancing (1) Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
15/11 The Crown: Season 4 (5) The Columnist (2020) The Haunting of Hill House (1)
16/11 The Crown (4)
17/11 The Crown (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) Great British Bake Off (1) I’m a Celebrity Get Me Outta Here (1)
18/11 The Haunting of Hill House (1) The Twentieth Century (2019)
19/11 The Undoing (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) Curveball (2020)
20/11 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) The Undoing (1) The Mandalorian (1) My Cousin Vinny (1992) The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special (2020)
21/11 Sabrina (1954) Strictly Come Dancing (1) Wuthering Heights (2011)
22/11 Midnight Cowboy (1969) It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) That Touch of Mink (1962)
23/11 Bob’s Burgers (2)
24/11 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) Witches & Neighbours Robin Briggs (1996) – 256p out of 441p read for history bookclub  Great British Bake Off (1)
25/11 The Undoing (1) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2)
26/11 AP Bio: Season 2 (2) The Sopranos: Season 1 (1) The Hunt (2020)
27/11 The Undoing (1) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
28/11 Strictly Come Dancing (1)
29/11 A Cure for Wellness (2016) The Sopranos (1)
30/11 The Undoing (1) Bob’s Burgers (1)

October 2020

So Halloween was a bit of a damper with a new countrywide lockdown being put in place. I'm 6 months along so there's no reason for me to go out and I'm borderline third trimester which puts me in the highly vulnerable category. I shouldn't be going out anyways, I should just stay in for my own safety. That's the right thing to do and it's pretty much what I've done throughout, being lucky enough to work from home. Even knowing these things, all of this still makes me feel extremely sad. It's difficult to know why but I suddenly feel listless and lost and... Things aren't getting better, they're getting worse. The future feels very scary and I've only just considered that at some point I'm going to have to go through labour. I know that's dumb, but that whole taking it one day at a time thing has fried my brain.

I've been working through TV shows. It turns out I haven't seen as much Bob's Burgers as I originally thought so I'm marking them as unwatched. I also burned through, Emily in Paris, The Witcher and Succession (the latter of which I only have a couple episodes left of). I also made a supreme effort to watch spooky movies in honour of the season. I'm terrible at scary stuff so I felt super proud. This month has gone by extremely quickly in hindsight.

October

1/10 Bob’s Burgers (1)
2/10 Succession (1) Searching for Sugarman (2012)
4/10 Cure (1997) Bob’s Burgers (1) Emily in Paris (3) Vicki Cristina Barcelona (2008)
5/10 Emily in Paris (4) Bob’s Burgers (1) Kiss the Ground (2020)
6/10 Bob’s Burgers (1) Emily in Paris (1) Great British Bake Off (1)
7/10 Emily in Paris (2) Succession (1) Little Joe (2019)
8/10 The Witcher (1)  Bob’s Burgers (1) When Harry Met Sally (1989)
9/10 Bob’s Burgers (1) The Boys (1) Big (1988)
10/10 Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Kate Raworth (2017) 293p Two/One (2019) Dredd (2012) Bob’s Burgers (1) Knives Out (2019)
11/10 Bob’s Burgers (1) Perrier’s Bounty (2009) Notting Hill (1999) Inheritance (2020)
12/10 The Witcher (1) Succession (1) Suspicion (1941)
13/10 The Witcher (1) Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) Great British Bake Off (1)
14/10 The Witcher (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) Daniel Isn’t Real (2019)
15/10 The Witcher (1) Bob’s Burgers (2) Hubie Halloween (2020)
16/10 The Witcher (1) Succession (1) The Trial of the Chicago Seven (2020)
17/10 Labor Pains (2009) Bob’s Burgers (1) Just Mercy (2019) Strictly Come Dancing (1)
18/10 She Dies Tomorrow (2020) M (1931) Bob’s Burgers (1) Nocturne (2020)
19/10 Cardcaptor Sakura (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) Underwater (2020)
20/10 Cardcaptor Sakura (2) Bob’s Burgers (1) End of Summer (2013) Great British Bake Off (1)
21/10 Adams Family Values (1993)
22/10 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) Sleepy Hollow (1999)
23/10 Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
24/10 On the Rocks (2020) Rebecca (2020) Bob’s Burgers (2) Strictly Come Dancing (1)
25/10 The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene Simon L Lewis and Mark A Maslin (2018) 414p Succession (1) The Other Lamb (2019) Bob’s Burgers (1) The Deer Hunter (1978)
26/10 Succession: Season 2 (1) The Haunting of Hill House (1) The Invitation (2015)
27/10 Bob’s Burgers (3) Succession (1) Great British Bake Off (1)
28/10 Succession (1) The Haunting of Hill House (1) The Perfection (2018)
29/10 The Haunting of Hill House (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) In Fabric (2018)
30/10 Succession (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
31/10 Succession (4) Bob’s Burgers (2) Strictly Come Dancing (1) 

September 2020

Another month gone and not much to report. Mostly confined to the house, mostly just tired and a bit achy. The more rules and lockdowns, the more tired I feel. It's clear that the next few months are going to be dark and difficult with everything going on and I really wish I had more people around me to distract me from my thoughts sometimes. I just keep thinking the worst is going to happen but she's still in there. We had a scan and they said it was a girl but they did stress it's not 100% accurate. I can feel her moving every now and again, it's lovely.

Read a really long book about JFK's dad which felt like an achievement and was weirdly fascinating, I loved early 20th century as it turns out. Also starting watching Succession and then it won all those Emmys so bandwagon here we go. Also watching my partner play The Witcher III which is quite an endeavour and I felt obliged to watch the tv show even though it's not nearly as good.

September

1/9 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) 30 Rock (2) Paddington (2014)
2/9 30 Rock (2) Paddington 2 (2017)
3/9 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) 30 Rock (1) Captain Fantastic (2016)
4/9 30 Rock (1) The Boys: Season 2 (1) I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
5/9 The Boys (1) 30 Rock (1) Love Happens (2009)
6/9 30 Rock (1) The Boys (1) The Women (2008) The Good Liar (2019)
7/9 30 Rock (1) My Favourite Wife (1940)
8/9 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) 30 Rock (1) Bringing Up Baby (1938)
9/9 The Movies (2) 30 Rock (1) Big Night (1996)
10/9 The Movies (1) 30 Rock (1) A Couch in New York (1996)
11/9 30 Rock (1) The Boys (1) State of Play (2009)
12/9 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) Sweet Bean (2015)
13/9 Deep Impact (1998) Duck Soup (1933) The Babysitter (2017)
14/9 The Movies (1) The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)
15/9 Space Dogs (2019 – did not finish) Furie (2019) Tig Notaro: Happy to be Here (2018)
16/9 The Movies (1) Succession: Season 1 (1) My Octopus Teacher (2020) Criminal UK: Season 2 (2)
17/9 Futurama (1) The Devil All the Time (2020) Bob’s Burgers (1) Private Life (2018)
18/9 The Boys (1) Succession (1) The Big Lebowski (1998)
19/9 Your Name. (2016) Criminal UK (2) Monkey Business (1931) The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
20/9 The Terminator (1984) Still the Water (2014) American Factory (2019)
21/9 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) American Psycho (2000)
22/9 The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P Kennedy David Nasaw (2012) 787p Great British Bake Off (1)
23/9 Succession (1) American Woman (2018)
24/9 The Movies (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) Enola Holmes (2020)
25/9 Bird Island (2019) The Boys (1) Bob’s Burgers (1) Weiner (2016)
26/9 Matthias & Maxime (2019) Succession (1) Ghost Ship (2002)
27/9 Bob’s Burgers(1) Skate Kitchen (2018) It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1) Vivacious Lady (1938)
28/9 Rear Window (1954)
29/9 The Witcher (1) Great British Bake Off (1)
30/9 The Witcher (1) Disclosure (2020)