and the kitty cats yell at clouds

[donutsweeper]

I've been meaning to post for absolutely ages but somehow never get around to it and I finally decided today that that's going to change. So voilà! A post!

We finally saw Star Wars this weekend! I somehow managed to remain mostly unspoiled, but it didn't matter much as nothing seemed shocking or surprising to me. Kid liked the movie, Hubby *hated* it (he will rant for hours and hours as to why, it's hilarious) and I walked away thinking the two hours were enjoyably enough spent but that was it. I'm not going to harsh anyone's squee (I hate people who do that) but I will say I am starting to get frustrated by JJ Abrams' friendship with Greg Grunberg- his popping up in everything JJ Abrams directs is starting to get distracting. (I know it's a time honored tradition and Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell do it all time time, but still...)

It's been insanely warm here. The snow cover is completely gone and we've even had the windows open a bunch- it hit 68°F yesterday!! The average temp should be about 35°. (That's 20°C instead of 1.66 if the F to C conversion chart is to be believed). The cats are, not surprisingly, loving it. Open windows FTW!!!

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[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I still haven't seen Star Wars, and won't until it's out on Netflix (movie theatres give me headaches), but everyone I know who's seen it enjoyed it a lot. Which isn't to say other people might not, and that's cool.

It's also very Spring like around here, too! 6° C, which is 48° in freedom units, I believe. Ascii has been very happy on her walks. We've had some awful weather around here, and she was starting to get depressed (https://56.media.tumblr.com/d12b7368810b2c0edda0e28a0bccae8d/tumblr_o2fzr5Cutg1ry1085o5_1280.jpg) because she couldn't go out. You just can't walk in -30° weather, though.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

We waited to see it for so long so the theater would be mostly empty and it'd be in one of the smaller ones- usually the sound systems in those isn't as headache inducing. Movies these days are so LOUD these days, ugh. I tend to wait to see a lot on Netflix for that reason too. Most people I know liked Star Wars, hopefully you will too.

Poor Ascii! No matter how cold it gets here (usually there's at least a day in Jan that's down to -40 or more so I know how you feel) Molly still needs a walk, but those days it's a basic- out the back door, pee and turn straight around and go back in kind of thing. I just hope the unseasonably warm Feb/March does not lead to ridiculously hot summer months.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Most people I know liked Star Wars, hopefully you will too.

I'm sure I will. I'm not picky when it comes to entertainment, usually I find something I enjoy about most things I watch, and the nostalgia alone will boost it up for me, I'm sure.

those days it's a basic- out the back door, pee and turn straight around and go back in kind of thing.

Yeah, it's usually the windchill here that's the problem, so Ascii's fine to romp in the yard because it's fenced in and the wind is blocked, but when you're out in the street, it's just frigid. She's a girl who likes her routine, so she gets imperious if we aren't doing the thing we're supposed to be doing at the time she thinks we should be doing it.

I just hope the unseasonably warm Feb/March does not lead to ridiculously hot summer months.

Yes, there's that, too. The last couple of years we've gone to the cottage, winter lasted so long, it was too cold to swim in the lake even in July, so I wouldn't mind a warmer one, but not that 'so hot i don't know what to do with myself' kind of weather. Last summer we barely had the AC on. It was lovely.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

You've lucked out if you've been having cooler summers. Here, for whatever reason, the summers have been getting hotter and hotter. Until recently we didn't have central air, just a window unit and there'd only be a few days a year, maybe a week or two total, that we'd bother to turn it on but in the last few years it's been getting hotter and hotter and not only are there weeks in the 90s but a number of times it's hit 100F as well. (which, YUCK)

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

The last couple summers have been relatively cool, but we've had some scorchers, too. We have an AC/furnace that turns on when it senses a certain temp in the house, but we turn it off and open the windows when it's nice out. One year at the cottage, it was brutally hot. I'm a mess when I'm overheated and I remember my mom wetting a dishcloth and tying it around my hair, and sending me to the AC'd bedroom to cool me down. Thankfully, most years it's been cooler. I'd rather it be too cool than too hot.