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The Bad:
Titus Andronicus – 1.5stars that Shakespeare should have been ashamed to write
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #14 – 1.5stars of utter lack of story telling skills
The Good:
Anubis Gates – 5stars of re-read magical goodness
Fullmetal Alchemist #2 – 4stars of manga doing what manga does best
Miscellaneous Posts:
- Author Index Update
- PCP: The Meeting
- Blue Ward – MTG 4E
- PCP: The Land of Fire & Water
- Bog Imp – MTG 4E
- The mysterious case of the missing reference
- PCP: Libraricus
- Bog Wraith – MTG 4E
- PCP: Icestorm
- Bottle of Suleiman – MTG 4E
Personal:
Unfortunately, February was not much of an improvement over January. No ER visits and Mrs B is feeling ok, at the moment, but that could change at a moment’s notice and so we’re pretty much living on tenterhooks and taking life one day at a time.
Weatherwise, February was fantastic. Made work a real treat but the end of the month showed that March is probably going to be a brutal winter lion month instead of a gentle lamb spring month. Ahh well. Winter is here 😦
Plans for Next Month:
I’m going to start watching the Shrek franchise for my movies so I’ll be doing one a month for a bit.
There will be double posts every Monday and Thursday’s. Just wanted to give you the heads up. I know I’ve been posting a lot and it looks to be continuing for March. Wednesdays will be all manga, as I’m ready to start reading more each month of both One Piece and Fullmetal Alchemist.
Hoping to do several posts about journaling too. I’ve got 5 posts in mind about journaling, so as long as I can get my butt in gear and get them written, that will take up Saturdays and be some of the double posting I am planning on do on the weekdays.
And start the buddy read with Dave for the comic “Web of Spiderman“.
Goodness, it sounds like a lot when I type it all out like that. But really, if I wasn’t planning those things, I’d be planning something else. I’m just an inveterate planner, for good or bad, so I just roll with it until I burn out and then I plan my convalescence 😀
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Looking forward to March already🙂.
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I am really hoping it is a better month. this year has to start improving at some point.
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I hear you. Hope Mrs B will be oke man, i hate hospital visits but at this point they are unavoidable for me
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Do you have to wait hours on end to get seen? Or is it scheduled well enough so you’re not just twiddling your thumbs?
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Its more waiting for days on an answer. The took skin samples from me in november, i waited till Jan for an answer when they reffered me to a “specialist”. Said specailist saw me for 5 mins only to tell me he needed to ask for the november samples from the other hospital as well as letting me do blood samples.which would take 2 weeks, after that they were going into meetings and id hear back from them. I did hear back only the discussion was around my blood results and not treatment. If hadnt called them last friday i wouldve still been waiting…
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Gotcha. Yeah, chasing down doctors is never fun. and it is exhausting dealing with secretaries on the phone whose only job is not let you actually talk to the dr or give you any help 😦
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Thats exactly why i got a bit upset yesterday when they told me May would be the soonest. In May my whole body might be fully covered in this stuff… it grows by the day…
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Do you mean 14th century wooden frames? Tenter hooks?
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/on-tenterhooks-origin-meaning-phrase#:~:text=What%20to%20Know,the%20tension%20of%20nervous%20waiting.
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How many Shrek movies were there? I have to confess I didn’t even see the first one.
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There are 4 films and a christmas special.
I put off watching the first one for the longest time. It’s crass and that turned me off. But now that I’ve gotten over that, I just laugh my head off 😀
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I’ve only seen Shrek 1 so will look forward to your reviews of them all. You do sound busy but that’s a good thing by the sounds of it, at least you won’t be bored!
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Thanks! It was a franchise I never thought I’d like until I actually watched them 😀
yeah, trying to stay busy definitely helps…
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March sounds good to me. Hopefully, things improve on personal and health levels. I had recently watched the first Shrek and wanted to keep going with the rest of the franchise too. I was mostly motivated to do so to watch the new Puss in Boots movie, The Last Wish, which looks and sounds fantastic!! Do you plan on checking out the cat’s movies too?
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Thanks.
I watched the first Puss N Boots and hated it. So I’m planning on avoiding the second one. I read Film Authority’s review on it and nothing in his review was enough to overcome my distaste of the first one. So I’m going to just stick to the 4 Shrek films…
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You know, I never watched the Shrek movies so I might take the opportunity of your posts to finally fill this “empty space” in my records: past experience taught me that this kind of animated movies is fun for grown-ups just as much as it is for kids… 🙂
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As long as you can stand crassness. We’re talking the whole gamut of bodily functions and jokes about it all…
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Mmmm… That might prove problematic, indeed….
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I’ll pray for improved health in your household.
I’m looking forward to your take on the Shrek movies. I only really remember the first one.
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Thanks Dusty.
I’ve watched them enough that they tend to blend in my mind, so it will be good for me to review them too, just to keep the details straight 🙂
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Inveterate planner sounds about right 😉 Hoping you guys will get better soon, and for good!
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Thanks Ola. Life is really getting us down at the moment.
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Only ever saw the first Shrek, which I did enjoy. Interested to hear your thoughts on the others. No ER visits – take that win! Hope you and Mrs. B have much better health in March!
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Thanks Bruce. Taking every win, no matter little, that we can. Jan n Feb were just so bad.
If you liked the first one, chances are 50/50 about the rest 🙂
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I been eyeing Fullmetal Alchemist bind up of vols. 1-3 but I’m going to hold off on it. There a big used book sale in DC I never been to before. It might have manga and graphic novels.
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If you get a chance to borrow it from a library, it would definitely be worth investigating 🙂
I don’t know if it’s worth buying yet myself…
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My library doesn’t have vol. one and two. I put in a request but who knows when that will go through.
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Understood.
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Over here, spring has sprung a month early. The trees in my neighborhood are sprouting already and I just hope we won’t get one more surprise late winter storm. My kids and I also just started watching the Shrek movies, but they went straight from the first one to Puss in Boots.
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Sadly, winter came roaring back in full strength. We just got through a snow storm and there might be another next weekend.
I think my favorite is Shrek 2.
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