weeknotes 19
This week's been pretty rough.
I'm looking forward to
Hard truths is out this week, the new Mike Leigh film.
Hosting sickos film night on Friday 😈 we'll be watching Basketcase and Maximum Overdrive.
Films 🍿🎥✮⋆˙
This week I watched A Single Man, The Elephant Man, Another Year, Presence, and The Book of Life.
I loved a Single Man - it's such a beautiful reflection on what makes life worth living. Another Year was also a stand out - I'm trying to watch more Mike Leigh films, he captures real characters so well.
I've been feeling 🫀🩹🥀❤️🩹
Still down and lonely :( and jealous and bitter which are feelings I really hate in myself. It's because I'm insecure in a lot of my personal relationships, which I'm trying to work on.
A few people in my family have had health problems recently, which has made me feel blue. Spent a lot of time listening to my mum talk about finding a care home for my Gran, and everything else she's had to deal with. Sometimes this stresses me out, but it's helped recently to reframe it mentally as I'm helping her by listening - I also like to think out loud to other people, so I think I know how it feels.
Talked to my brother about work. He wants to leave his job and become a fireman - we talked about finding fulfilment in your work, something I'm too cautious to pursue. I often wonder how he's so different to me.
Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗
Went to Clumsy Cabaret to see my friend perform - it's something different from what I'd normally do, but live performance is always fun. It was a mixture of burlesque and drag acts.
Visited my gran in hospital with my brother - she's very ill, and it's not easy to see her like that.
Went bouldering with my brother.
I tried to do hourly comics day on Saturday - just for myself. I was really enjoying making my (bad) sketches for the first half of the day, but later I got too busy/unconfident drawing in front of people and abandoned it. Something I'd try again.
I've been reading 🍵📖
I'm currently reading Like Water For Chocolate and it's so dramatic, I love it.
Links
I used meadow's RSS tool mire to set up an RSS feed. At the moment it's the usual bear blog suspects mostly :)
Photos
See you next week ~ 👋