January 2023

 I guess it wouldn't be bad luck to say I'm nearly 20 weeks pregnant. Yep, there's another one on the way. I'm so tired but I'm excited. To boot, we're moving house and it's going to be a big change.

Sometimes I lie down and it feels like I'm at the top of a water slide. The water is gushing past me and I can feel the momentum building behind me. I'm just waiting, with my eyes closed to take the plunge.

Winter Love Island is on and it's terrible. I continue to watch it.

January

2/1 Happy Valley (1)
3/1 Paris, Texas (1984)
4/1 Dead Pixels (1) The Menu (2022)
5/1 Dead Pixels (1)
7/1 Aftersun (2022)
9/1 Dead Pixels (1) Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
10/1 Don’t Make Me Go (2022)
14/1 The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
15/1 Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
16/1 The Last of Us (1) Happy Valley (1)
17/1 Love Island (1)
18/1 Love Island (1) X (2022)
19/1 Love Island (1) Last Night (2010)
20/1 Love Island (1) The Nest (2020)
21/1 Love Island (1) Forces of Nature (1999)
22/1 The Bear (1)
23/1 The Last of Us (1) Love Island (1) The Italian Job (1969)
24/1 Happy Valley (1) Love Island (1)
25/1 Love Island (1) Sunshine (2007)
26/1 Love Island (1)
27/1 Love Island (1) Bank of Dave (2023)
28/1 Love Island (1)  Marry Me (2022)
30/1 Love Island (1)  Happy Valley (1) The Last of Us (1)
31/1 Love Island (1) 

December 2022

 It's the end of another year. A time for reflection. Mostly just tired out and trying to cope with a toddler who doesn't understand why they haven't been to nursery in over a week. She's doing well. She's so active and talkative and amazing. She never ceases to amaze me.

I can't say much else, I've tried to catch up on movies this month but there's still so many more I want to watch. There have been a couple TV shows I've started and given up on and a couple I've happily finished, but I've decided not to stick with stuff if I'm not invested. I would say Andor and The Bear were excellent TV.

December 2022

2/12 Scary Movie 3 (2003)
3/12 Andor (3)
5/12 Lady Chatterly’s Lover (2022) Andor (3)
6/12 Wednesday (1)
7/12 Wednesday (2) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
8/12 Violent Night (2022)
10/12 Red Eye (2005)
12/12 The Traitors (4) Barbarella (1968)
13/12 The Traitors (2)
14/12 The Traitors (1)  Jingle All the Way (1996)
15/12 Scrooged (1988)
16/12 The Traitors (1) The Bear (4)
17/12 The Bear (4)
18/12 The Drop Out (1) The Rental (2020)
21/22 Home Alone (1990)
22/12 The Traitors (2)
23/12 The Traitors (1)
24/12 The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992)
26/12 Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
27/12 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
29/12 Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
30/12 White Noise (2022)
31/12 Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

November 2022

 If it's of interest to anyone, I have very little enthusiasm for the end of the year and the celebrations and lights and excitement that come with it. I just can't say why or what is going on to anyone as it's too uncertain right now. I don't do well with uncertainty. It makes me recede within myself. So I'm just masquerading as someone who is fine and hoping it is enough to get by.

I'm back to sporadically watching Gilmore Girls. I've definitely watched more than I've recorded, I just forget to write them down.
I also completed a Final Fantasy IX speedrun in one sitting, I got up at 5.30am and had the run going before 6am. I finished around 4pm (I had to sing Melodies of Life). It was a long tiring day but it was an experience. We just don't talk about what happened with the final boss.

November

1/11 A Little History of Economics Niall Kishtainy (2017) 256p
2/11 The Great British Bake Off (1)
9/11 Great British Bake Off (1) The Crown (4)
11/11 We Might As Well be Dead (2022)
14/11 Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Make Up (2019) Gilmore Girls (1)
16/11 The Great British Bake Off (1)
18/11 The Wonder (2022)
20/11 Gilmore Girls (3)
21/11 Gilmore Girls (1) Take This Waltz (2011)
22/11 Gilmore Girls (1)
23/11 The Cup (1999)
24/11 Gilmore Girls (1) See How They Run (2022)
26/11 Dogma (1999)
27/11 The Guadians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022)
28/11 Meet Cute (2022) The Lost City (2022)
29/11 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
30/11 Andor (6)

October 2022

 Not much to report. Baby loves exploring the autumn leaves and running in puddles. Otherwise, I'm just chugging along, feeling a bit tired but not hopeless.

It feels like a year ago that I watched Married at First Sight, that was such a bad idea... I'm trying to keep up on movies and such but I also want to read. Streaming is keeping busy and out of trouble and it feels nice to talk to people who don't really know or care about my humdrum existence if that makes sense... I dunno.

October

1/10 After Ever Happy (2022) Blonde (2022)
3/10 Nick Kroll: Little Big Boy (2022)
4/10 Married at First Sight UK (1)
5/10 Married at First Sight UK (1) Great British Bake Off (1)
6/10 Hasan Minhaj: The King’s Jester (2022) Married at First Sight UK (1)
7/10 Entergalactic (2022) Married at First Sight UK (1)
9/10 Palm Springs (2020)
10/10 She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Episode 8) Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)
11/10 Married at First Sight UK (1)
12/10 Married at First Sight UK (1) Great British Bake Off (1) Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
13/10 Married at First Sight UK (1)
14/10 Iliza Shlesinger: Hot Forever (2022) Catherine Called Birdy (2022) She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (1)
15/10 Married at First Sight UK (1) Notorious (1946)
18/10 Married at First Sight UK (1)
19/10 Married at First Sight UK (1) Great British Bake Off (1)
21/10 Coherence (2013)
22/10 Rosaline (2022)
24/10 Hit the Road (2021)
25/10 Werewolf by Night (2022)
26/10 Great British Bake Off (1)
29/10 The General (1926)
31/10 The Good Nurse (2022) Community (1 – Hallowen episode season 2)

September 2022

 I'm still chugging along. Sometimes I feel physically unwell, sometimes I just feel tired. I have the most amazing child growing up in front of me and she's running, laughing, talking and singing. She never ceases to amaze me. I'm keeping busy and trying not to worry but it's hard sometimes with lots of things happening beyond my control. I'm keeping my head up, mostly.

Mt streaming is going well but that means I haven't watched many movies since I have been just sticking to trashy or easy to watch TV on instead. We travelled for a bit in the past month and it gave me the opportunity to finish reading a book for the first time in forever, that was nice.

September

1/9 Married at First Sight UK (2)
3/9 Coco (2017)
6/9 Married at First Sight UK (2)
7/9 Great British Bake Off (1)
11/9 Who Governs Britain? Anthony King (2015) 352p
12/9 Married at First Sight UK (1)
13/9 Married at First Sight UK (1)
14/9 Married at First Sight UK (1) Great British Bake Off (1)
16/9 Do Revenge (2022)
17/9 Married at First Sight UK (2)
20/9 Married at First Sight UK (1)
21/9 Married at First Sight UK (1) Great British Bake Off (1)
22/9 Married at First Sight UK (1)
23/9 Married at First Sight UK (1)
24/9 Bedazzled (2000)
27/9 Married at First Sight UK (1)
28/9 Married at First Sight UK (1)
29/9 Married at First Sight UK (1)
30/9 Married at First Sight UK (1)

August 2022

 I'm barely keeping on top of this, it's almost embarrassing. We were unwell through most of the month and it got me down but I'm still trying my best and forever grateful that I have a happy and loving family. I'm all over the place. But I'm keeping busy. That's the main thing.

I thought I'd watched more but I suppose not. I did get to go to the cinema and see Brad Pitt and watch my favourite movies around my birthday. I also got the husband briefly interested in Elaine May which was fun.

August

1/8 The First Monday in May (2016) Love Island: Finale! (1)
3/8 Aloners (2021)
5/8 Persuasion (2022)
7/8 The Bob’s Burgers Movie (2022)
8/8 Bullet Train (2022)
9/8 Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
10/8 Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)
11/8 Uncharted (2022)
12/8 The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
14/8 My Fake Boyfriend (2022)
16/8 Moonfall (2022)
18/8 Inside the Mind of a Cat (2022) Look Both Ways (2022)
20/8 Hustlers (2019)
25/8 A New Leaf (1971)
27/8 Ishtar (1987)
31/8 Charade (1963) Married at First Sight UK (2)

July 2022

 I can't say much about this month outside of... I've been watching Love Island and I am so glad it's over. Baby is walking and singing, kind of talking. She knows numbers, colours, songs, commands, the word 'no'. It's all very entertaining, she's a little precocious person now with a head full of curls. 

In other news I managed to do two long streams where I spent 10 hours each time speedrunning Final Fantasy IX, both of which were exhausting but kind of great in their own ways. They took a lot out of me but I'm glad I tried. I'm not at the top of any leaderboards but it felt like an achievement even if it was a small one.

July

1/7 Love Island (1)
2/7 The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
4/7 Love Island (2)
6/7 Love Island (2)
7/7 Love Island (1)
8/7 Love Island (1)
9/7 Thor: Love & Thunder (2022)
10/7 Love Island (1)
11/7 Love Island (1)
12/7 Love Island (1)
13/7 Love Island (1)
14/7 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
15/7 Stranger Things (1) Love Island (2)
16/7 Love Island (1)
18/7 Love Island (2)
19/7 Love Island (1)
21/7 Love Island (2)
22/7 The Gray Man (2022)
23/7 This Much I Know to Be True (2022) Love Island (1)
25/7 Love Island (1) Jumanji (1995)
27/7 Love Island (3)
28/7 The Outfit (2022) Love Island (1)
29/7 Not Okay (2022)
30/7 The Proposal (2009)
31/7 Love Island (1)