Mandy knows best

Guys! Not only was it completely beautiful there but I had such a good time. Who knew right? So first of all. It was a long flight. We had to fly out to NYC and wait a couple hours and then fly down to Puerto Rico. So we left Salt Lake at 9 am our time and landed and 11pm PR time. Long day! And everything was closed because of their COVID curfew. So we got these nasty premade sandwiches from CVS. They were terrible... And we went to bed. The next morning we woke up starving and still couldn't find food... So eventually we found a hotdog stand on the beach and order that and Pina Colada's... So not a lot of food but something. Then we sat on the beach for a little bit soaking up the sun but I got tired and a little cold so we went back up to the condo and opened all the windows and took a nap. Just what we needed! Then we woke up and went to get lunch at this little beach lounge but the power was out so they couldn't make food! But we walked down the other side of the stre...

I kind of forgot about this movie after the noise of Scarlett's legal battle with Disney. See I'm on ScarJo's side… So I didn't want to watch unless Scarlett gets paid but I don’t like going to movie theaters but I always meant to. Then I failed and never did. So eventually I forgot about it all. However it's still a big movie so when people around me started talking about Shang-Chi I decided it was time to watch them both. I really appreciate the fact that Scarlett is over 10 years older than her "sister" who is 3 years younger in the movie… Also none of the people playing Russian spies are Russian… But I guess that's part of the spy aspect… Anyway, it was a weird movie. It was typical for Marvel these days as they have a lot of surface level humor and action but the story line has many plot-holes. See it's not the writer's or producers fault. The truth is that comic books have been around for a long time and a lot of these storylines go on f...

You know those phases in life where you aren't necessarily failing but still kind of feel like you're flailing? I guess I just don't think I'm succeeding. But I also accept that I am not doing some basic things that I need to do to feel balance. For example, all summer I was journaling and pulling a tarot card every day. I know a lot of people don't like tarot but I really do and I was using them as kind of a prompt for my journaling. It made me feel like I was really trying to understand myself and my life and the world around me. I'm not doing any of that anymore. I've even been in a kind of "the world is burning so who cares about anything" kind of mood lately. Which means that I am not doing anything that is actually helping, heck even masking my pain. It's a very frustrating feeling to know what to do to make your life better but to have no desire to do any of it. I know it's the anxiety mixed with the seasonal depression but I also f...

This is another podcast story like Edith! and Wanted. But it's a drama I guess. It's definitely more serious. Sarah Wayne Callies of Walking Dead and Prison Break fame wrote, directed and stared in the story. But it also stars David Harbour and Jeffery Dean Morgan. David is on a roll, he's kind of in everything for the last few years. And JDM is a favorite character on everything he's been on (except Walking Dead in my opinion, I hated Neagan.) The story is about a massive earthquake and the aftermath. Sounds like there will be a second season too. It's also very short, I think 8 episode? Maybe even less. So this is a short post but just enough to tell you that you should listen to it?

So my family tries to keep the same routine that we've had forever. Well that's not really true, as kids we would always go to St. George but when school, work and sports took over things changed. So we started doing it at home. Now my parents are for the most part empty nesters (I still live there but I try to not be in the way.) This year as I mentioned last week, my brother was here too. So we did a big fancy Thanksgiving for the 4 of us. It was not exciting. It was awkward because Thanksgiving food while good is not often great and definitely not my favorite foods. Dylan and I tried so hard to be present with the family but we have different beliefs from them and they refuse to let us be ourselves around them. In fact on Saturday we talked about doing something with dad but nothing happened and eventually we went out without them. See we weren't eager to go out with them because they wont' let us drink... Not that we have to drink all the time but also when we'r...

Ok this is not going to be a very descriptive post as there are a ton of seasons and I only watched the last 6 this year. But I had to talk about it. This is one of those shows where the first season or 2 is life changing. But then as shows keep going they feel like they have to beat themselves, so they keep getting more and more unbelievable while still repeating themselves. This is one of those shows that every season or 2 they have to save the world and "nothing like this has ever happened before." So naturally when this kind of show keeps going a lot of us lose track of it. That was me. Then it went onto Netflix and I watched it again and went for a few seasons and stopped again. Ooh also demons and angels create an obviously biblical storyline that as a religious kid and young adult I didn't appreciate. Eventually I decided it was too sacrilegious and quit watching it. But I missed my Winchesters so I tried again, and watched maybe 2 seasons? Somehow I got almost thr...

So my little brother is coming into town for a whole week. This is exciting because all he does is work. In his boring retail job. See he thinks he's making a difference. I think he's just working for someone else to get rich. Now don't get me wrong, I know what it's like to feel like you're the only one working and that the company will fall apart without you. But guess what, every job I've ever had has kept going without me there. Yeah none of the places I've ever worked (except Mervyns actually but they had already claimed bankruptcy and announced closure by the time I quit) have shut down when I left. But he comes by this naturally. See my mom has the same thing. She practically refused to use paid time off. Yeah the end of every year she has to take so many days off otherwise she'll just be out the money! And even then she won't take a vacation. Her only vacations are when my dad goes to baseball tournaments. My dad is a little different because...