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I definitely have a normal amount of tea as the only tea drinker in the house, nothing excessive. I’ll just start packing up the stuff I don’t use every day since we need to clear the kitchen so work can begin in a few days, this box is probably a bit big but whatever… oh 😬

Ha. I found more tea. And I’ve left my already open Assam and mint teas out because I need them. And I threw out a bunch of green tea (I tried to make myself like green tea but alas I very much still do not).

Just had a fun meltdown because mum casually started talking about how we’re leaving while they do the kitchen and my brain just went NOPE NOT DOING THAT and then devolved into trying to articulate that I would hate it at the best of times but right now I NEED to be here because Kisy cat was here.

Like, I’ve barely slept in a month, and the grief is still very much a raw exposed nerve that I can’t even look at yet, but at least when I’m here my brain forgets that she’s not, it still feels like she’s just somewhere out of sight. I can cope with it while I’m here.

New Christmas tree ornaments from @doodlecats.com have arrived and look how freakin’ cute they are!

Ok, back from Sense And Sensibility and I have… thoughts 🙃 It was a beautiful film, it looked gorgeous, and the cast were great especially mvp of the movie Fiona Shaw as Mrs Jennings. But they also changed some stuff that really changed character motivations so it just felt really off at parts.

Like, they changed some stuff about Willoughby that kind of downplayed what he did while also changing his dynamic with Brandon, and they changed some stuff with Edward that completely changed the dynamic with him, Elinor, and Lucy, one moment in particular I was properly like “Edward would NEVER!”

Did I need to add this little dinosaur guy to my order when buying a dvd off of Vinted? No. Did I do it anyway and then spend a considerable amount of time just opening and closing his mouth while making dinosaur noises? Yes. Yes I did.

Hehehehe, very specific version of Nicholas Nickleby acquired!

Uuuuugh. I need to go and collect a parcel from the lockers outside the shop up the road but that involves shoes and putting on shoes sounds like an awful lot of effort right now 😩

Maybe I can bribe myself with tea and biscuits… 🤔 ☕️ 🍪

Hadestown pro-shot was really good! I’d seen videos of Wait For Me before but never the actual stage version so I did proper big sparkly anime eyes of awe when the set started to transform into the underworld! And even knowing the original myth and how it ends, still teared up when it happened 🙃

Finally got around to watching the trailer for the new A Tale Of Two Cities series they’ve done and uh… I have thoughts 🙃 mostly huh and why and what.

When I was 9ish one of my best friends moved to a new school and one time invited me over to play, along with two new friends that I didn’t know. And they made it very clear that they thought I was weird. I’d always been a weird little gremlin child but that was the first time I really realised it.

I have absolutely no memory of what the context for this was but it just made me smile while scrolling through my photos which was nice.

Ha, no, I’m definitely not coping with the loss of Kisy by using the money that was supposed to be for her food subscription to buy used period drama DVDs off Vinted, why do you ask? 😬

The fact that I’m also still waiting on a Dombey And Son dvd is a complete coincidence!

We’ve pledged to use the regurgitating stolen work of human creators while destroying the environment machine only in a way that protects and supports human creators.

Have I played the game? Nope. Did I know a single thing about this character yesterday? Not a thing. Did I just order the tie-in book out of sheer spite because YouTube kept trying to make me watch “this is the WORST book ever and the author is a BAD PERSON for writing it!” kind of videos? Yep 🙃

Just booked cinema tickets for me and mum to go see the Hadestown pro-shot this week and Sense And Sensibility next week 😬 I basically ran up to her like “WE HAVE TO GO TO THE CINEMA TWICE OK? OK!”

Musical theatre and Jane Austen. Two of my favourite things!

One of our neighbours was having their roof done a few weeks ago so my mum was like oh, can you do ours too? (We had it done like a year or so ago but they did a bad job so bits of roof kept falling off every time it was windy which was fun 🙃) so the same roof guy has been here doing ours this week.

Luna dog is such a little bugger! After we play ball with her she usually gets a treat so whenever she wants a treat she bugs you to play and when you throw the ball she’ll run after it, but instead of giving it back to be thrown again she just runs past you to the kitchen like ok, treat time now! 😂