Mandy knows best

TV show This show takes place in Canada so I don't really know any of the actors but Dan Aykroyd is in an episode or 2... It's very funny and actually seems pretty real. It follows a few different family dynamics but the main girls are all good friends. Probably my favorite character development is Ian though. He works so hard to be a good dad but doesn't actually have a job... it's an interesting concept. Kate and Anne have been friends for a long time but when they have kids at the same time they join a mommy group so their kids can get into a good preschool (Is that a thing) And the series follows key people in this group. But instead of just following their family life, we follow them when they aren't with their kids. I tell you, I can not remember their kids names at all. Because they don't matter to the story... But I know all of Kate's co-workers and Anne's clients and Frankie's girlfriends but Rhoda is the only kid I can think of and that...

Adventure So I ended up manipulating my schedule to cover someone at work so I had 3 days off when I would normally be working which also means that all my friends were working. So I decided last minute to drive down to St. George to visit my grandma. I hadn't seen her in almost a year because I like to visit in the spring but that was COVID shut down season so I didn't feel comfortable. I was still super hesitant to go now but my aunt and her family spend every other week there so I figured it wasn't me killing my grandma. So I made the plan to be there for 3 days and just read and relax and do a lot of this at the pool. So I decided to go straight from work on Monday night. I left at around 7 so I would get there around 11. Then almost half way I got stuck in traffic for an hour and a half. It turns out there was an accident that took up both sides of the freeway. We were completely shut down. Luckily I was able to listen to podcasts and even play some games on my phone...

Ok so I get off my 8 day work week and I go right over to my friend's house to watch a couple episodes of Dark and while we're watching we're drinking. I don't know if I've mentioned this to you but I'm a light-weight. I had 3 stupid seltzers and I was drunk. So I stayed there until 1:30 when I sobered up. Then I went home and slept until 10 when I had to get ready for therapy. Therapy was good but now I have this weird thought that I should be more emotional in therapy, like I'm doing it wrong. But my therapist says I'm ok and I just want to talk and feel validated, which is valid. Anyway after that I go over to CarMax to see what they will pay for my car. Turns out it's not that much... Anyway after that I go home to relax and instead of relaxing I watch Workin' Moms and set up more of my newest side hustle. I stayed up until 1 organizing... Then I woke up to meet Tom at the entrance to Little Cottonwood Canyon at 10. The plan was to go up Re...

An adventure story So my friend comes to me and says I want to tube down Weber River. I'm like ok, how much is it? And she says she doesn't want to pay because she already has the tubes and she's heard of people not paying. The guy who sits next to her at work says he's done it on his own and so we ask him to explain what he did. He says "you drive down the road until you find a good place to end and you park 1 car then you keep driving until you find a place to start." So that left out a lot of information... But we decide to do it anyway. So the day of the adventure comes and we just look up on the map Weber tubing and it takes us to Morgan but that's it. So I look up Weber River and it takes us somewhere completely different. So at this point I got a little frustrated because we were driving all over the canyon in 2 different cars! So I say screw it, let's just go to East Canyon Reservoir. I know where that is and we can just hang out in the lak...

Season 3 Wow. This series is so intense all the way through but the third season takes the cake. I can't think of any other series this heavy and well just dense. There is so much going on all the time. The first season we start to understand that time travel is a thing, but can only go 33 years in the past. We learn about many of the characters but we don't see too far in to their personalities. We see into the timelines but everything seems pretty accidental. We get the first crazy weird relative hookup. We also see older Jonas destroy the portal. The second season we learn more about how and why the portal existed. We see the characters start to intermingle in the different timelines. We also get a glimpse at what happens after an explosion at the radiation facility. We keep seeing different characters in different lights because we see them before or after the 2019 timeline that I think of as the natural time. The third season starts after the explosion and this is wh...

I have been so busy and stressed so I haven't been able to actually finish anything... I'm going to start by telling you what is coming up and then I'm going to tell you what is going on in my life. So I am about to finish the 3rd and I think final season of Dark so I will update that. Actually this season is so crazy I think I'm going to write a whole new post but definitely going to spoil the first 2 seasons. Then I'm watching Workin' Moms and Jane the Virgin but in this climate I can't actually finish everything. Grace and Frankie dropped it's penultimate season this season and I can't decide if I want to watch it now or save it until the last season drops. I'm reading a book called Sushi For Beginners, but I'm actually really too busy to read... And I have a list of movie's that I'm looking for time to watch. Now why I can't actually get around to focusing and finishing all these? Well as I think I've mentioned, I'm ...

Book This is the sequel to Abby Jimenez's book The Friend Zone (see other post.) This wasn't as good in my opinion... I think the star aspect hurt it... But it was still an easy, good read. This book follows Sloan from the other book after her heartbreak. This is 2 years after The Friend Zone but it starts with Sloan still in mourning and barely getting out of bed. I get that she went through a lot, I'm not criticizing her for still being sad. I'm just setting the scene. But then she meets Tucker... And Tucker is a furry little punk! But through it all she finds her dream life. This is one of those Hallmark movie storylines. A girl is in the shadows until something pushes her into the arms of a man. Because guys make everything better... Ok luckily this one starts with a dog. The dog ends up coming home with Sloan and gives her a reason to go out and start doing healthy things again. Then she meets the owner and everything else turns around for her. I get that, that...

This was an event. I'm just going to tell you what led up to this adventure. My good friend Tom told me he was planning a trip camping in Dinosaur CO. Upon hearing this I looked at him just right until he invited me. However this was happening less than a week from when I said I would go. So I had very little time to plan, also I work 8 days in a row and this was happening on my first day off. And I had 2 appointments already scheduled for that day so we had to wait and go after. Also I worked 8 hours overtime in those 8 days. 88 hours in 8 days... Ok so let's skip ahead to the actual day of the trip now. I wake up on Wednesday at 9:30 so I could do my video therapy appointment. That lasted until 11 then I had to go grocery shopping and shower and pack up my car for camping. Then I went to my wax appointment which luckily went very quickly and I had time to grab food and gas and take my time getting to Tom's. Then we drove the 3 hours our to Dinosaur. We got there a lit...