Score One for My Team

You guys know about my love/hate relationship with Netflix, right? Specifically how I hate myself for loving it so much? Well now I love it even more! I think it's so cool that they are making their own original shows now, because they don't have to follow all the stupid rules that network shows do. I just finished Hemlock Grove (all the episode that have been released so far anyway) and it was fantastic! here's why:

1- It's just so fucking weird, how could I not love it?
2- The characters talk like real people, none of this censored for TV shit.
3- All of the characters are just so incredibly fucked up, which automatically makes me love them.
4- It has, by far, the coolest and most disturbing werewolf transformations I have ever seen.
5- You know how pretty much every show has that one girl who everyone wants? Like, for some inexplicable reason ever guy who sees her just falls in love with her? Well, in season 2 that girl is a (thoroughly) tattooed vegan! This gives me a great deal of hope for my future.

Seriously, how often does the weird, tattooed, vegan, girl get the guy?.......or both of them?

 

No!

You know what I fucking hate? When I check my email and my inbox is overflowing with what turns out to be shit ton of emails all just asking me for donations. I mean seriously folks, you should all know by now that I don't have any fucking money. If I did have anything to donate, I really wouldn't need you to send me emails asking for it. If I want to give money to some organization, I'm pretty sure I could pick one all on my own. I'm mean, I'm always happy to sign your petitions and everything, but stop asking me for money! In all likelihood, I'm never going to have any. So just move along will you?

There are few things quite as irritating as finding a whole inbox full of these obnoxious buttons. 

Well That Explains a Lot

You guys know my weird stuck together toes that I posted a picture of a while back? Well, I recently found out that it is called syndactyly and, much more interestingly, that Celtic myths associate it with selkies. Selkies are creatures who can transform from seals to humans by shedding their seal skins. Supposedly they would often remove their seal skins and dance on the shore at night. The article I found that mentioned the toe thing contained this line that felt very familiar to me "Seal people are said to be cursed with a constant longing for what they do not have: when they are swimming in the water as seals, they yearn to be on land, and when they walk on two legs as a human, they long to be in the sea." So yeah, maybe that's why I'm never satisfied with anything; I'm a fucking selkie. 

New Favorite Product

I have a new favorite product that I thought I would share with you guys, Dr. Woods soap. I have been using it as hand soap, body wash, and shampoo. It's really great stuff! It has made my skin look better than anything else I've tried, and it's a lot more affordable than most of the other things I've tried as well. And it's cruelty-free and vegan (naturally). Plus it smells fucking amazing! It's kind of weird, like nothing else I've ever smelled before. It's sort of dark and earthy, but still slightly sweet. Not to get overly poetical about soap, but it reminds me of a forest full of night-blooming flowers.

I tried to find an image from Firefly of Wash talking about Jayne getting "poetical about his pecker" so I could say "at least I'm a step above Jayne" but I couldn't find one. So here's what the soap looks like instead.

 

Weird-Ass Weather

The weather the last couple of days has bee the strangest I think I have ever seen. On Saturday evening, the sky turned all yellow and there was an exceptionally bright rainbow accompanied by thunder and lightening. Then yesterday there was apparently a tornado spotted somewhere near here. In Mannington the entire sky clouded over with the exception of one tiny spot of sun off in the distance. One corner of the sky had a solid mass of dark clouds while another had these weird, almost greenish, cloud formations. Then it got really cold all of a sudden and there was a long, continuous clap of thunder that lasted for a good minute. Finally it poured the rain for maybe five minutes and then it was all just over. That is, except for the off-and-on drizzle which was still enough to knock out my internet.

Mayhap it was a reality storm. 

Not a Flattering Comparison

You know what the one thing is that keeps me sane most of the time? Stories. Whether it's the ones I read, or watch, or write for myself in my own head. I love them. I love that feeling that I get from losing myself in some other world. The farther they are from my own life, the better. A lot of times, I feel like I know fictional people better than I know any of the real people in my life. 

Not only do I love stories, but my brain seems especially proficient at keeping track of them. I don't care how long it's been, if I really connect with one I will remember it, in great detail, forever. And no matter what, I'm always looking for more. More excitement, more adventure, more characters to care about much more than anyone should. I collect stories. I'm always searching for new ones, because a story is one of the few things in this world that, once you have it, you can keep it forever. 

I'm kind of like Metatron. 

Hitting People Doesn't Count as Socializing?

Well, my kickboxing class got cancelled last night. There went my one and only social activity for the week, which is really pathetic for a few reasons. 1- It's generally just me and the instructor, so that's really not very social. 2- Even though it's just the two of us, we don't actually talk about anything but class. 3- Anyone who considers kicking and punching people to be a social activity is probably rather severely fucked up. 4- Even without all this other stuff, it's depressing as shit to only have one social activity. My point here is, I have got to come up with at least one other thing to do for fun so that my class getting cancelled doesn't completely remove any chance of me interacting with other humans for the whole (and any chance of me having any fun, for that matter).

Mayhap I should try Gilbert fun.