ship without a pilot in a mighty tempest

Movies I've logged -

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) ★★★★1/2
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) ★★★1/2
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) ★★★1/2
The Sword in the Stone (1963) ★★★
Tigertail (2020) ★★★★
Mary Poppins (1964) ★★★
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) ★★★★
Before Sunrise (1995) ★★★★1/2
The Jungle Book (1967) ★★1/2
Crazy Rich Asians (2018) ★★★★
The Aristocats (1970) ★★★
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) ★★★


And a couple books –

( Wicked Wonders by Ellen Klages )

I don't have a lot to say about Black Beauty. It was definitely a book about a horse. That was on the tin, I can't complain. There were points where I was thinking "Anna Sewell you are really stretching the horse relevance to make pretty unrelated political comments" but.


Beyond that, we're still locked down! Not that much is happening. Despite working from home it feels like a struggle to get through those days of work, even if I vaguely have more energy around them? But it's just even harder than it usually is to feel either motivated or focused, even though there are things I am doing and still am able to do. Kind of. But my supervisor has this a lot worse for various reasons and so I haven't really been very pressed at all about productivity. And I am getting things done, it's just. In any case, still ridiculously lucky, so it's hard to complain about much.

Otherwise, I went on my periodic Sims binge because The Sims 4 was on sale for like $5 and I'm an idiot. I've gotten really into an app called Happy Color that is like a coloring book app but it's just color-according-to-the-numbers, so a relaxing dream for kids who wanted to color inside the lines. It has a ton of free content so I don't mind that it also makes you watch a lot of ads, I just wish those didn't so frequently involve weird murder puzzles? Which is made all the weirder because the apps they're advertising seem to mostly be games about landscaping? I just wanted to relax and mindlessly color pretty pictures please stop threatening this guy with lava I don't.

And we've been cooking a lot of things out of the Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Cookbook. Which given that we've now made a lot of things from it I may write up a review of it as well at some point. There was I think a previous official Star Wars cookbook, which had recipes for Star Wars-themed food like 'wookiees cookies' and 'Boba Fett-uccine.' This one tries to create food that would exist in-universe, which given that the movies don't exactly have a strong food tradition outside blue milk seems like it would be a challenge, and also comes off like a lot of time was spent flipping through the food-related articles on Wookieepedia which, you know, relatable. But despite our initially making fun of its name, this book's 'topato soup' has become a quarantine staple for us, it's pretty easy to make and nice and warm and spicy. Granted I've also now made two loaves of Twi'lek mushroom bread. Which you know, is naturally what I've been doing rather than sourdough. But that's where a lot of my 'I don't have to commute now' energy has been going.