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I watched 124 movies from 2025 and still feel like there’s so many I missed. It was a good year at the cinema! Found it hard to narrow this list down, so some very honorable mentions are Bugonia , The Long Walk , Roofman , Elio , The Wedding Banquet , Eternity , and of course Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning . I also was very intrigued and horrified by the two Titan sub disaster…
A decent year of TV! Again I tried to prioritize 2025 debuts, so I still have some catching up to do with follow-up seasons of previous faves (especially second seasons of A Man on the Inside and Nobody Wants This ). I did really enjoy the much anticipated season 2 of Severance , the final season of my favorite platonic love story, Mythic Quest , and the latest (final?) season of Poker Face . I…
Since May, I’ve been struggling with Mal de débarquement syndrome (MdDS). It’s a brain condition where it feels like you’re constantly moving even when you’re not, usually brought on by extended boat or plane travel. For most people it lasts a few days, for a rare few, it’s years. Mine lasted about five months. Clay and I took a European river cruise in early May, but it was the long flight home…
Our late pup Helo was precious with his feet. He didn’t like walking on gravel or even grass all that much. He did love to walk on a raised curb like a balance beam. In our backyard we have two small patches of grass that are bordered by such a curb. Every day, multiple times a day, he would walk the full perimeter. We got to calling it “Helo Trail” and would join him in a single file line. I wish…
Hey there, festival goer. Were you overzealous and put your festival wristband on too early or too tight? Did you skip the instructions telling you not to do that and now the one-way sliding clip of death is the bane of your existence? Don’t fret. Let’s get that wristband off without destroying it. If you’ve landed here, maybe you’ve already seen people suggest the straw technique or the twist…
Lately I’ve been feeling similarly about TV series as I do about movies . There are soo many. Truly hard to keep up. Still, I really try to watch series in the year they debut. With studios canceling shows just weeks after they release them (wtf), I do try to get my views counted. Although that may be fruitless since my #1 fave this year has already been canceled. 😭 This year we enjoyed watching…
There are too many movies! 😅 But for real, it was tough keeping up with all the movies. Even in the final days of the year as I was furiously trying to get through my list, I kept discovering more! So there’s a bunch from 2024 I still want to watch, but I’m afraid I must call it. Hoping to do a better job tracking things and actually getting into the cinema in 2025. Follow me on Letterboxd! Some…
We just got back from the annual ui.dev Disneyland trip and I’m wishing we were still there. We had four park days this trip, so we spent some time doing rides we’ve never done before and trying new foods. We normally survive on churros and corn dogs, so it was fun to mix it up. Of the new (to us) foods we tried, these were my faves. Some notes and honorable mentions below too. sources: 1 , 2 , 3…
Way back in April we decided it was time to get Gravy a bud to hang with. We visited the county shelter, scooped up this little lady, and named her Tater. She was about a year old and found wandering the streets of west Phoenix. It really felt like she had a previous owner as she took to her name immediately, coming to us when called from the very start. She knew how to sit and how to fetch a…
I’ve been enjoying this season of Top Chef , but I’ve also been nervously awaiting this week’s episode. The Quickfire featured the blind taste test (which is always a treat). A few months ago I got to chat with Kristen Kish and Stephanie Cmar for the aftershow web series The Dish with Kish and the episode just released! We chatted about my project Top Chef Stats and I quizzed them on some taste…