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Wicked the movie... Was actually really good. You don't feel the nearly 3 hour runtime at all, they didn't really mess with any of the songs, or the oder in which they appear. The acting is very, very good, the costumes are beautiful, the sets are lovely. They did a really great job. And the Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth cameos were totally unexpected and well executed. All in all, it's probably the best musical to film adaptation I've seen, outside of Chicago. I don't know if I was necessarily feeling Ariana Grande as Galinda in some places, she did a wonderful job, but something about her at times didn't read Galinda to me. Cynthia Erivo was a phenomenal Elphaba, though. She's got a deeper register than Idina did when she played the part, so she really brought songs like Defying Gravity to life.

I highly recommend watching it if you like musicals or just Wicked in general. It's so good. I am eagerly waiting for part two next year.

Seats reserved for Wicked. The only showing I could find around me that wasn't 95% sold out was one at 9 in the morning. I'm not super stoked to be up for a movie at 9 in the morning, I usually won't buy tickets for a show if it's before 10, but I want to see it and so does my mom, so 9 AM it is. I hope it's good.

I think I'm going to take my mom to go see the movie, Wicked, this weekend. I've read the book and loved it, she started it and couldn't get past chapter 4 or 5, and we saw the musical some years ago thanks to my brother and sister-in-law getting us the tickets one Christmas. She loves the musical, and I like everything about it except the story. The musical's story is great in it's own right, and if you read it as queer coded, it's much better, but it's not the book at all. Which is understandable, because I couldn't imagine a musical that would work if it was really faithful to the book. I'm curious to see what they've done with the story, but I'm sure it'll be pretty to look at. And with the actresses, Cynthia and Arianna have amazing voices, so I'm sure it'll sound great. I'm not super sold on Arianna Grande as G(a)linda, but I am used to the show version, where it's the original Broadway cast, which would be hard to beat in my book. But, it's not about being better, I'm curious to see how it works all on it's own. I've really tried to stay away from previews and trailers, because I do want to experience it as blind as possible. So yeah, I think it'll be a nice day out.

Logan got me the new DLC for Dreamlight Valley, Storybook Vale, today and it's everything I could want. The lands are far prettier than those in A Rift in Time, and it's actually characters I enjoy, like Merida, Flynn Rider, and Hades. Plus, the vibes are autuminal, and that makes my heart happy, as I'm absolutely an autumn girlie. I wish I gamed more like I used to, but you know, having one game you play regularly isn't that bad. There's just very little that keeps me entertained enough to warrant regular play anymore.

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Dracophilia
00:57 Nov 21 2024

I love the new expansion so far...The baby dragons are adorable. Matt got me the expansion lol

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CuRsEdToDaRkNeSs
03:37 Nov 21 2024

I need the new expansion! I haven't played nearly enough but I stay so busy!

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The little spots of light in an otherwise insanely dark world. I'm watching my niece and nephew tonight while Liz does her church group, and I'm talking with Lucas about what he wants for Christmas. The excitement he has for everything, especially when he's telling me all about the Transformer figures he wants, it makes me smile. I wish he could stay like this forever.

Whew... I have very little hope things are going to go well as more of Trump's appointments come out. Who doesn't love people in top positions who are wholly unqualified for the job? And fucking Matt Gaetz. Because why not appoint an attorney general who has been under investigation for the alleged sex trafficking of a minor and obstruction of justice.

I swear to God, America is going to go to absolute shit over the next few years.

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Vampirewitch39
14:06 Nov 15 2024

Agree. It's like felony after felony...

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Oh, look, Nazis are outside a production of 'The Diary of Anne Frank', waving flags with swastikas on them and shouting racist slurs. Making people inside the American Legion building, where the production was going on, afraid to go to their cars.

This is America. This is what a vote for Trump got you. Congratulations.

If you don't see why this is terrifying, you're part of the problem.

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STABB666
01:28 Nov 13 2024

Indeed.

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Vampirewitch39
18:06 Nov 13 2024

Yeap

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I had to see my aunt Stacy today, after all the drama that went down over the election. She removed me from facebook after trying to lecture me and vaguely threatening to not attend my wedding. But yeah, my mom and her sisters try to get together every month and have lunch together, catch up, and it just happened that the weekend they settled on this time was a weekend I wasn't with Logan. I haven't been able to go to one of these lunches in months because they do usually fall on days I'm out at Logan's, and it's not worth driving back home for a few hours. Anyway, I only went because I wanted to see my aunt Sue, since the last time I saw her she had just gotten out of the hospital, and she wasn't in the best shape. I worry about her, as she's got a lot of health issues, she's on dialysis, and all this other stuff, so I'm always worried when I hear she's in the hospital that the outcome won't be good. It's hard to see her so frail. But, she seems to being doing alright, and I was happy to get to spend some time with her. That's going to be the hardest part of moving out of state, literally all my family lives in California, so moving halfway across the country is going to be hard when im so close with my family. But yeah, Stacy pretty much ignored me the whole time we were together, save for when she wanted to talk about Christmas.

Since I was a kid, my mom's family has always done Christmas Eve at my aunt Sue's, excluding the few years she lived in Arizona. So, it's a family tradition to spend the day at her house with all the cousins and the kids. But last year my aunt Stacy decided she wanted to do every other year at her house. So this year, that's what it's supposed to be. Only, she doesn't want to do Christmas Eve. She wants to do it the weekend before. And she's all annoyed that her own kids probably won't be there and a bunch of other shit. It's like, why volenteer to do Christmas Eve, if it's not even going to be on Christmas Eve? It's not lessening the work for my aunt Sue, since her family is still going to want to do Christmas Eve. Plus, that's a weekend Logan has Mina, so he wouldn't be able to come. She's like, just invite Mina, and I'm like, no. Mina isn't my child, so I don't feel comfortable forcing her to spend time with my family. They can be a lot, and I don't want her to feel out of place. I don't even really want to go, since why would I spend time around someone who has no issues ignoring me? Someone I don't really want to associate with because of the values they have? So, I mean, I don't know. If I don't do the Christmas stuff with my mom's family, it'll be a pretty dull Christmas, as the kids and Liz will be up in Oregon, Kevin has work, I don't see my dad's family, Logan has Mina... So it's really just going to be me and my mom. Which I'm fine with, that's how Thanksgiving is going to go this year. I'm just on the fence about everything. Politics is bound to come up, and pretty much all my family is conservative and I just don't want to be around it. I'm already on edge enough about everything going on, everything being promised, that I'm afraid if something is said, I'll go off. Or I'll be ignored by people, and that's shitty, too. And it'll be hard to deal with happy family shit when my fiancé won't be there with me. I'm just annoyed right now, mostly for the way my own aunt treated me today. It really doesn't make me want to spend any more time around her. It's like my childhood all over again, and I will not be made to feel like I'm wrong for what I choose to believe in. Not anymore. She got away with making me feel like garbage when I was a kid because I couldn't really fight back, but I will stand up for myself now if I need to. So yeah, things to think about. Maybe I'll just write it all off and just spend the day with Logan, maybe go see a movie or something.

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STABB666
13:21 Nov 10 2024

Consider too which states are going to fall on which side of the fence when the shit goes down. Don't drop yourselves into the middle of the fire. No pun intended.

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immortalxkiss
03:10 Nov 11 2024

Leaving California, especially now, isn't ideal, and where we're moving to, central Texas, isn't my first choice, but it's what's happening. We'll be on a couple hundred acres, away from people. So, I mean, it's as safe as it's going to be. If all of it goes to absolute shit, we do have options for leaving the country all together.

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STABB666
01:29 Nov 13 2024

Smart. Better to have a plan and not need it, than to be caught out after it's too late.

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It's windy as heck, SoCal is on fire again, but I have a kitty who wants cuddles. And sometimes, that's enough to make things just a little bit better.

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Joli
22:59 Nov 07 2024

Definitely enough!

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I love Logan. He sent me a photo of a person who was saying that New Zealand is prioritizing visas for people in the psychotherapy field. So, I mean, I guess there are options if shit here really hits the fan. I always wanted to live in New Zealand.

Right now, though, I'm just numb. I got into it with family on Facebook, because is it really an election if your older family doesn't talk down to you and say that they're just so sad you feel a certain way, that it's not right to not want to associate with people who don't vote the way you do? They completely fail to understand that I don't care how they vote, however, for my own mental health, I'm allowed to distance myself from people who don't hold the same core values and beliefs that I do. If you believe gay people shouldn't have equal rights, or trans people shouldn't exist, or that women shouldn't have the right to make their own decisions when it comes to their body, then, I mean, am I wrong for not wanting anything to do with you? But oh no, my whole family feels that way, no one will show up at my wedding. Good riddance. It'll save Logan and I some serious cash if we don't have to invite 50+ people. I put up with the bullshit from my parents because right now, I have to. I don't have to put up with that bullshit from those not in my immediate family, I'm sorry. I'm allowed to draw a line.

Everything is just... Blah. That's how I feel right now.

I'm thankful that things end today, but not so much knowing that things won't likely be called officially for some days yet. I've just been a huge ball of anxiety for the last couple of weeks, but it's really gotten bad today. I hope things go the way I'd like them to, but I don't ever underestimate things like this. While I may not understand why people would vote a certain way this election, things being the way they are, I know that there are die-hards and that things will be close. I'm just tired. Tired of all of it. The cynic in me is preparing for the worst.

We survived the wedding. It was actually quite lovely, the venue was this old Queen Anne style mansion from the 1880's out in Piru. I didn't expect something like that right outside of Valencia and Six Flags. But, yeah, beautiful venue. The ceremony was lovely as well, it was nice to see Mina in a suit, she made it look good. And meeting Willow, finally, was a little nerve-wracking, but it was good it finally happened. She actually seems like she's really nice, someone I could easily get along with. She did use some of the ideas I had for our wedding, but I think with the goth kids, it all can veer into the same lane. So, I'm not mad about it, it just means Logan and I have to figure out other things to do. She did this cute thing though, where she had little resin coffins for every person and she wrote little personalized notes for each person. It was really sweet. Her dress was also really lovely. A nice black/red dress, it really fit her vibe. I did get to meet two of Logan's teachers from when he was a kid, they just happened to live next door to Willow's parents, and they were seated at our table. They were super nice, and it was fun to talk with them. It was hard being to stranger at the wedding, not knowing anyone outside of Logan, and Logan was a bit of a pariah because, you know, he was the ex. But all-in-all, it was a really nice day, a lovely wedding, lovely people. I would like to get to know Willow better, but I don't think Logan is too keen on the idea. He likes to keep his past and his present separate. But, as I reminded him, she's going to always be a part of his life because of their daughter, so it would be cool if she and I got along. But, we'll see what the future brings.

It's crazy how fast this year has gone by. The fact that we're already into November is just a lot. I know that as you get older, time "speeds up" because there are far fewer new things you experience, unlike where your a child and everything is new. But man, this year has just really flown by. I feel like it was only a month or two ago where I was just getting done with Faire, but no, next season will be here before I know it. Next year is set to be a year of change, but I'm eagerly looking forward to all of it. I'm ready to embrace those changes and start my life proper.

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CuRsEdToDaRkNeSs
19:26 Nov 01 2024

Once I had children time flew even more for me. It feels like I blink and a span of months, sometimes years, goes by.

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