Mandy knows best

I'm sure no one is surprised but I got a little distracted during the holidays. 1 Sag season ended so I became a little more focused on the world around me and less flighty. But with that I had to go back to work and I was off my work schedule even though I only took a week off... So I've been really tired at work and leaving early. But I also got told that I'm probably going back to days mid-end of January. So with all this focused energy I started dating... Like nothing big or anything, a lot of it started with work friends (even though I really didn't want to date a co-worker, with 2020 I only have so many options) But that also got me back on Facebook dating... I've only met 1 person but I'm talking to a few more and that one was really cute and fun. The kind of guy that is totally my old type but I've changed a lot in the last year or 2 so I definitely don't appreciate that type like I used to. We had different religious and political views but we...

I know I took my vacation at a weird time because I have to go back to work for a few days before Christmas but I'm only working 3 days so it's nice to get a short week to recover after. This week off was very different... Obviously I went to St. George but that was technically the weekend before. When I came back, I spent Monday working on the house stuff which is done now. And on Tuesday I met a boy... At a coffee shop. Which seemed like a big exciting move for me... But after talking about myself and my ex-husband for 4 hours I decided that I suck at dating and we've barely talked since so it sounds like he agrees. Then Wednesday I didn't even leave the house but I worked from home on my side hustle so that was acceptable. Then Thursday I went for a drive through some canyons with a friend from work, I hadn't ever hung out with him outside of work so that was a change for me. Usually I try to avoid hanging out with new people but I really wanted to embrace anoth...

I woke up so early to be ready for this vacation. We stayed at my grandma's house where I lived for 6 years... so not really a vacation but still a break from life. So very first night I made Veronica go for a long walk with me. Like a really long walk... like 6, 7 miles. So it got dark when we were out and she got scared and in her anxiety I followed suit and eventually we screamed at this poor guy riding by on his bike. I feel terrible! He did nothing wrong! But we made it back safely and ordered pizza and watched actual VHS tapes that my grandma had! Yeah we watched My Best Friend's Wedding and Father of the Bride, I had to rewind them both to watch the movie and after because I'm a good person! The next day we woke up too late and I felt guilty but we went for coffee and then met my friend who took us off-roading which was so much fun! He took us around the hills just outside of town until we found a rock that was shaped like a bear. Then we went to lunch and then went...

TV Show I know this has another season but I think I heard that it's going to be a short one. So I feel comfortable writing this now. I thought this show looked so dumb when it first started. But my brother suggested it and sure enough I was hooked! It starts with the actual devil not wanting to be the devil anymore. So he brings a friend up to earth with him and they just do all this "debauchery" while granting favors. See dumb premise right? Basically the devil is a gangster? But then we see all the angel stuff that he is dealing with. It turns out this show is all about his relationship with his parent! Who hasn't felt like they'll never live up to the impossible standards that our parents set? Now imagine all of that but your dad is the ruler of the world and he has banished you to literal Hell. Yeah can't imagine my parents doing that, but I do know I disappoint them every day. So the short storyline is a guy doesn't trust anyone except himself and ...

TV show When this show started I was watching it week by week but my brother was also watching it on Hulu so I was actually missing episodes because Hulu thought I had already watched them. So I eventually finished the first season but decided it wasn't worth it and I had enough other shows to watch. Then Shane West joined the crew... And he is my current obsession so I had to watch. I tried to watch the first season again with my then husband but I had already seen it and it wasn't that interesting so I actually skipped finishing the first season again. And it worked! I get so into it sometimes, the story is really cool but then it's kind of slow moving. So when I'm not in the mood I can't watch it but if I get a few episodes in I know i'm good watching it. When I get into it like that I don't want to stop. Anyway I finished it today and I actually really liked the way it ended. The last season did one of those flash forwards for the last episode and nor...

Anybody else loving but feeling really triggered by all the TV shows that have come back? It started with Grey's Anatomy which makes sense that they are battling COVID and the PPE shortages. I love the stories and I appreciate that they are talking about the pandemic as opposed to pretending it wasn't happening. But seeing everything at the beginning again was also really triggering. I cry a lot while watching these shows. Also while the shows are all way behind their normal starting dates I don't even know when shows came back on. So today I watched 3 episodes of This is Us and had a similar reaction. And on top of all the COVID stuff, this show has a lot of racial confusion too. Randall is a black man that was raised by white parents with white siblings and so he was always kind of confused growing up. But he's married to a black woman with black children so he seems to have found his way. But I know he's so confused and while all of these protests going on he...

This season was different... It had break-ups and weird hookups and I don't know I think it's kinda losing it's magic for me. The end got really intense but there was so much boring until the very end. It was all just drama with Buffy and Dawn and Zander and Anya and then Willow was kind of fighting everyone until she stopped and decided she was going to stop magic cold turkey and Giles left so it was just a lot of weird drama. Oh and Buffy has a new love interest? I do love watching all these people that I know from other shows, mostly Doyle from Gilmore Girls but the last season I watched of Angel had Justina Machado who I was also watching on Jane the Virgin and Dancing with the Stars so that's still on my mind. By the way she earned fourth place, she was amazing but there were better. Anyway, Doyle/Jonathan/Danny Strong was really involved in this season. He kind of joins a "gang" of nerds who try to become villians. But they kind of really suck at it... ...