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Just a general pop in thread
mare:
Thanks! It was a pretty low-key birthday this year. Read some, watched A Real Pain and caught up on Severance and The Pitt and then had Chinese food. It was nice.
I am slowly allowing myself to watch the news again, like you. Things have been so terrible that even without watching the news, I was hearing about it all anyway but then there was the added question of whether or not what I was hearing was real, so I found myself looking it up to check for accuracy. Kind of counterproduct ive. So, now I'm going to allow myself to watch our local news first thing in the morning because even if there was a zombie apocalypse happening the only thing they'd report is how it might affect the Bills season! I am dreading the voting on these cabinet picks. Especially RFK. If he gets in there, people are literally going to die. I'm pretty sure I'll be one of them. I saw an article where he said he didn't believe that diabetics really needed insulin. That all it would take is a change of eating habits and diet. He'd like to do away with it all and it would save Americans billions of dollars. Sure dude.... except that's false! Sure, some diabetics can get themselves off insulin with just eating healthy and exercise but some of us, that's not the case. I know this because despite eating healthy and exercising and losing weight etc...and always being controlled meaning my A1C is 5.98, when they tried to take me off insulin, even with the addition of Monjauro, it didn't work. He doesn't think it ever will. Let alone type 1 people. So yeah, I'm kind of worried about this guy and that these idiots will vote him through because they are scared of retaliation from Trump.
I have tried to rewatch old seasons of Survivor but for some reason, I can't really get into them. I don't know if it's because I've seen it already or what, but it doesn't work. I'm glad it is fun for you though. I'm telling you, you should check out The Traitors on Peacock. It's a stupid mindless reality show and it uses people from all those shows. This season, Boston Rob, Danielle, Crazy Carolyn and Jeremy are on it. The first season Ciri was on it. Most of the other contestants I don't know because they are from the E! shows like the Housewives or Shahs of Sunset, there's a bachelorette on this year as well as Bob from The Big Loser and random Zak Efron's brother lol Alan Cummings is the host and he's awesome! There's a UK version of the show that takes place in the same castle they use for the USA version but the thing I like about the UK one, is they aren't celebrities. I think I would like that better.
It's still snowy here. But it hasn't been bitter cold, thankfully. I'm glad it's gotten better for you!
I'm happy for the boys for getting to perform for the SNL concert. I don't think I'll watch it because it's going to be really long, but I'm sure someone will post their performance. It's always nice to have something to look forward to. For me it's Critics Choice Awards on Friday although, now Kieran's most likely in rehearsals for his play. I'm really hoping he'll still show up for these awards shows. I didn't really think about that until recently. ???
Carter-Orange:
Still no snow here, just the usual rain lol.
Sorry to hear that Trump is taking away people's medication and rights. Is he actually doing anything good or is it all negative stuff?
I went to Manchester last week with my husband and daughter to see a k-pop group called Ateez. They were amazing and put on such a good show, it was my first k-pop concert (apart from a day festival in Hyde Park last summer which had a k-pop group called Stray Kids in the line-up). The last time I was at that venue was to see BSB over two years ago, who were even more amazing lol. Makes me want the boys to release new music and go on tour again, even though I know the DNA tour lasted years. I do love a good concert.
mare:
I was just going to come on here and rant about Trump lol So your answer is No, Steph. He hasn't done one single good thing and I don't plan on that ever happening. So far, he's taken away all rights to trans people. They basically no longer exist within the United States. He's taking it so far that he's going to have prisoners relocated to prisons by the sex they were assigned at birth. He's fired everyone that had him persecuted. He's pulled us out of WHO and the Paris Peace accord. He's gutted USAID (these are the people in charge of humanitarian aid) and now he's dismantling the department of Education. He's basically signed into law that there are no more equal rights. Gotten rid of DEI hirings. They just voted RFK junior through to be in charge of health. He wants to relocate everyone from Gaza so the US can take over and build hotels or something. He gave Elon Musk pretty much permission to come in and look at everyone's private information. It's all very very bad. Oh yeah, and the whole Tariff thing with China, Canada and Mexico. I know I'm missing a ton of things, and he has only been in office for two weeks. Shit show. Phew! I needed to get that off my chest. ???
Sounds like you had fun in Manchester. I bet those K pop kids put on a good show. I'm sure BSB will be popping up soon. I would imagine they'll be working on a new album soon enough followed by another marathon long tour. Did you watch the Grammy's? Seems like everyone was pleased with the outcome and the performances. As they were going through the list of performers and winners, I officially felt very old since I only knew maybe a handful of them. LOL My friends Dave and Gil did win one for Best Folk Album so yay for them. They are touring in Australia so weren't there. They are the ones that played at the Oscars a few years back.
I'm going to go attempt to write now, even though I am so angry about everything I want to just scream. I need to reply to some comments first. I have a person who comments after ever chapter I write, and I love that, but I feel like she never seems to quite grasp what's going on in the story. Have either of you ever encountered that? She's the sweetest person in the universe but then always based on what she says, which is usually her idea of solutions to the situations occurring in the story, it's clear that she didn't really follow what happened. I always end up trying to nudge her in the right direction, which is what I have to go do now.
Carter-Orange:
Sounds like Trump is making big changes then. I wonder what his voters are thinking right now and if they are regretting it. I bet a lot of them are.
Yeah, the k-pop group did put on a good show. Just the feel good kind of concert I needed where everyone of all ages, colours, genders etc are all happily singing and dancing. I love concerts.
I didn't watch the Grammys, but I happened to see just a bit of the news showing some woman with Kanye West who appeared naked. Why on earth would she do that lol. Publicity I suppose. I have no idea who most of these singers are these days as I'm stuck in my 90s boyband bubble with a bit of k-pop thrown in and I'm happy enough with that lol
RokofAges75:
I'm glad you had a nice, low-key birthday, Mare! And glad you enjoyed your concert, Steph! It's funny your mentioned K-pop and the Stray Kids because some of the girls in my class are obsessed with them! I'd never heard of them until last week when they were telling me about them, so you just reminded me to look up some of their songs. I get the appeal; they've got some fun, catchy stuff. I was asking my girls about them and said, "Back in my day, most boybands had 5 members." These Korean boybands are so big!
It was nice to see 4 out of 5 members of BSB together for their show in Saudi Arabia! Kinda weird that Kevin is not with them again... I'm hoping it's just because his team is in the Superbowl again, although I think that's a crappy excuse to back out of a gig, considering his team won the Superbowl the last two years. But hopefully that's the reason and not something else. It does seem like the group is working on something, so that's good. I'm ready for new music and more concerts!
I also did not watch the Grammy's. I am also stuck in my 90s boyband bubble and haven't cared about most modern music for years. Every once in awhile, I'll fall in love with a new song or buy a new album (most recently Linkin Park), but mostly I just listen to the same old stuff over and over again LOL.
Currently still comfort-watching old seasons of Survivor. I'm watching the Millennials vs. Gen X season this week. It's not as good as Second Chance but still entertaining enough. I wasn't sure if I would be able to rewatch Survivor, but I've actually rewatched quite a few of the old seasons over the years and enjoyed most of them. I can't rewatch the super recent ones yet, but it's fun watching the older seasons where I don't remember some of the players and events. I'll have to give The Traitors a try!
It's also The Pitt night! I love this show so much and am glad it's getting good reviews and lots of views! Hopefully it will win some awards and get picked up for another season.
Have you had any luck writing, Mare? It's a good distraction but hard to do when you're upset. I'm still writing this damn photo shoot chapter I've literally been working on all year (2025). It's over 6000 words now, but I'm so slow. Last weekend was not a very good writing weekend, and I haven't even attempted to write on weeknights, so I've only been writing for 15-20 minutes each morning.
I can relate to the commenter issue. I very much appreciate Steph and her coherent comments on the events of each chapter because not everyone leaves comments like that LOL. I'm not sure if there's a language barrier with my other regular commentor or if it's something else, but some of her comments leave me scratching my head. She likes one of my original characters better than I do, though, so at least there's that. I'm glad to get any comments at all, but I do miss the kind of feedback people gave here. Thanks again, Steph, for keeping a piece of that alive for me!
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