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girlofprey) wrote2013-06-28 10:04 pm
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I got my passport renewed this week, or I sent off the forms to have it renewed at least. I don't know if I mentioned, but I'm going on that holiday with my parents and two of my nephews this summer. So I'm going to need it by then. I always hate filling in forms, and having passport photos taken, but the real kicker was the fact it costs £80 now, including the 'check and send' service. Following a week where I'd decided I had enough money to finally get a few random things I'd been meaning to for a while, and when my LJ account suddenly needed renewing. All of which left me a little closer to overdrawing on my bank account than I'm used to. I've had a payment from the DWP since then though, so I'm sort of alright for now.
However tomorrow I'm taking my ON to the cinema, just me and him, after suggesting it earlier this week. Despicable Me 2 is out, and I figured he'd want to see it, and that mum wouldn't be interested in taking him/us on a weekend, and he's old enough now that I can probably manage him on my own. It does mean I'm going to have to talk to my sister though, for the first time in a few months, to arrange times and stuff. I've already called her, but she was in a shop, so I'm just waiting for her to call me back now. I basically have two things to ask her about or tell her, so hopefully it will be pretty straightforward. And short.
It was mum's birthday on Wednesday as well, and I was concerned things might get awkward if we went out for a meal or something, or if we went and didn't invite my sister. We did go across the road in the end, but not anywhere my sister would probably expect to have been invited to, and mum went to see her for some cake before that anyway. I do feel awkward sometimes with how my family has to deal with the fact I don't want to see my sister much, especially if it's making mum feel bad, or making things complicated for her. But we did manage to have a conversation on Wednesday anyway, about my sister and the way I feel right now, and about some of the stuff that happened when we were younger that I consider abusive. I don't think she wholeheartedly agreed with me, but I think she understands where I'm coming from a bit more now, and some of the stuff I told her about she said she didn't even know about. So there's that, I guess.
And because the slightly troubled family news just keeps on coming, the other main thing we've been talking about in my family lately is whether or not to have our dog put down. We have Weimaraner, and he's about 14 now. He's had arthritis for a few years, and is sort of incontinent more often than not nowadays. And now that I'm going away with my parents in the summer, I won't be able to look after him at home like I normally do when they go away, so he'll have to go into a kennel. Which...doesn't always sit well with him. We had a woman who used to take him, who sort of boarded dogs in her house for people, but apparently she's always full up when mum calls nowadays. Mum thinks she isn't actually full up, it's just that he's too much trouble for her now. So last autumn when we all went away, we took him to a nearby kennel, and he came back with a bunch of pressure sores. So I think mum just doesn't think he'd manage in a kennel again, or she doesn't want to risk it being too much for him. Mum and dad have been talking about possibly having him put to sleep for years really, with him being so old, but the vet always said he was fine and it wasn't necessary yet. But apparently mum's been talking to other people, and they've said there are signs when it's time to finally do it, and that you notice an animal getting sort of distant from you. And I don't know if our dog isn't there now. He doesn't seem excited about things anymore, other than food, or happy to see you when you come in. He spends most of his time sleeping, and looking sort of annoyed if you wake him up. He doesn't seem miserable, especially, but you know, you don't really want them to get to that point, do you?
So yeah. That is something that might be in the works in the next few weeks. Rather specifically, in the run up to our holiday. So you know. That's good.
I have no fandom news that is happier than that news. Adele and Lana Del Rey apparently have the same tattoo now, I'm forced to assume they're in love. I've started playing video games again, mainly Deadly Premonition (which is good, but strange), Remember Me (yay female main character, but so difficult to control), and trying to finish the Borderlands DLCs, finally, so I can maybe start Borderlands 2. I would have liked to start The Last Of Us as well, but it came out a week after Remember Me, and I've been having the aforementioned money problems.
It seems to be drama week on all the big soaps at the moment, Lauren in Eastenders and Debbie in Emmerdale are both falling apart. And once again, I would love to have kept up with Coronation Street for David Platt, but I go out on Monday nights and find it hard to catch up again after that. I'm planning to do it tonight though. I love David. I love how much shorter he is than Nick.
And yesterday I saw a Tumblr post with promos for a bunch of new shows starting up in autumn in America. They were, if I recall, Sleepy Hollow, Dracula, Believe, Almost Human and Resurrection. And the ones I missed were apparently Once Upon A Time In Wonderland (by the same people who brought you Once Upon A Time!) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. They all looked dreadful, down to pretty much the last one. Except Almost Human and Resurrection, but I can't understand why Resurrection wouldn't just be a film, and unless I'm very much mistaken, all of the people of colour in the Almost Human trailer were playing non-human parts. So. There's that. Perhaps I'm wrong. And perhaps I'm wrong about all the shows, maybe they'll all somehow be amazing. Even Dracula inventing lightbulbs. But mostly - unless there are plenty more shows coming out on other channels or something - I am not holding out too much hope for anything brilliant coming out of this autumn.
However tomorrow I'm taking my ON to the cinema, just me and him, after suggesting it earlier this week. Despicable Me 2 is out, and I figured he'd want to see it, and that mum wouldn't be interested in taking him/us on a weekend, and he's old enough now that I can probably manage him on my own. It does mean I'm going to have to talk to my sister though, for the first time in a few months, to arrange times and stuff. I've already called her, but she was in a shop, so I'm just waiting for her to call me back now. I basically have two things to ask her about or tell her, so hopefully it will be pretty straightforward. And short.
It was mum's birthday on Wednesday as well, and I was concerned things might get awkward if we went out for a meal or something, or if we went and didn't invite my sister. We did go across the road in the end, but not anywhere my sister would probably expect to have been invited to, and mum went to see her for some cake before that anyway. I do feel awkward sometimes with how my family has to deal with the fact I don't want to see my sister much, especially if it's making mum feel bad, or making things complicated for her. But we did manage to have a conversation on Wednesday anyway, about my sister and the way I feel right now, and about some of the stuff that happened when we were younger that I consider abusive. I don't think she wholeheartedly agreed with me, but I think she understands where I'm coming from a bit more now, and some of the stuff I told her about she said she didn't even know about. So there's that, I guess.
And because the slightly troubled family news just keeps on coming, the other main thing we've been talking about in my family lately is whether or not to have our dog put down. We have Weimaraner, and he's about 14 now. He's had arthritis for a few years, and is sort of incontinent more often than not nowadays. And now that I'm going away with my parents in the summer, I won't be able to look after him at home like I normally do when they go away, so he'll have to go into a kennel. Which...doesn't always sit well with him. We had a woman who used to take him, who sort of boarded dogs in her house for people, but apparently she's always full up when mum calls nowadays. Mum thinks she isn't actually full up, it's just that he's too much trouble for her now. So last autumn when we all went away, we took him to a nearby kennel, and he came back with a bunch of pressure sores. So I think mum just doesn't think he'd manage in a kennel again, or she doesn't want to risk it being too much for him. Mum and dad have been talking about possibly having him put to sleep for years really, with him being so old, but the vet always said he was fine and it wasn't necessary yet. But apparently mum's been talking to other people, and they've said there are signs when it's time to finally do it, and that you notice an animal getting sort of distant from you. And I don't know if our dog isn't there now. He doesn't seem excited about things anymore, other than food, or happy to see you when you come in. He spends most of his time sleeping, and looking sort of annoyed if you wake him up. He doesn't seem miserable, especially, but you know, you don't really want them to get to that point, do you?
So yeah. That is something that might be in the works in the next few weeks. Rather specifically, in the run up to our holiday. So you know. That's good.
I have no fandom news that is happier than that news. Adele and Lana Del Rey apparently have the same tattoo now, I'm forced to assume they're in love. I've started playing video games again, mainly Deadly Premonition (which is good, but strange), Remember Me (yay female main character, but so difficult to control), and trying to finish the Borderlands DLCs, finally, so I can maybe start Borderlands 2. I would have liked to start The Last Of Us as well, but it came out a week after Remember Me, and I've been having the aforementioned money problems.
It seems to be drama week on all the big soaps at the moment, Lauren in Eastenders and Debbie in Emmerdale are both falling apart. And once again, I would love to have kept up with Coronation Street for David Platt, but I go out on Monday nights and find it hard to catch up again after that. I'm planning to do it tonight though. I love David. I love how much shorter he is than Nick.
And yesterday I saw a Tumblr post with promos for a bunch of new shows starting up in autumn in America. They were, if I recall, Sleepy Hollow, Dracula, Believe, Almost Human and Resurrection. And the ones I missed were apparently Once Upon A Time In Wonderland (by the same people who brought you Once Upon A Time!) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. They all looked dreadful, down to pretty much the last one. Except Almost Human and Resurrection, but I can't understand why Resurrection wouldn't just be a film, and unless I'm very much mistaken, all of the people of colour in the Almost Human trailer were playing non-human parts. So. There's that. Perhaps I'm wrong. And perhaps I'm wrong about all the shows, maybe they'll all somehow be amazing. Even Dracula inventing lightbulbs. But mostly - unless there are plenty more shows coming out on other channels or something - I am not holding out too much hope for anything brilliant coming out of this autumn.