always been crazy

I watched Radioactive this weekend, and while Rosamund Pike was awesome, I was overall underwhelmed. I feel like it left too much out of Marie Curie's story and life.

I also watched Fahrenheit 451 and actually really liked that one. And I finally caught The Falcon and the Winter Soldier since all the episodes are up, and that was pretty great.

I realize I've been reccing fics, but I have also been reading a lot of books. Escapism, much? So I recently read:

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid - I really enjoyed this. It had a very interesting format, in addition to being an interesting and intriguing story. I listened to the audiobook version and it was done with different voice actors for each of the parts. Highly recommend.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins - I liked the book but I still find Coriolanus Snow completely unlikeable. I figure I'm probably biased though since we know how he turns out in the future.

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate - It feels weird to say I liked this, given the story and the fact it's based on real events which are baffling and horrific, but I did like it.

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray - This was a very emotionally engaging story. Life and relationships are complicated, and I kinda like that everything doesn't end up wrapped in a nice neat bow.

And a couple fic recs, to stay on brand:

The Sheppard Equation by jenny_wren
Stargate Atlantis || Rodney McKay/John Sheppard || 22k
Rodney needs to solve the Sheppard Equation before his world falls apart.
Excellent storytelling

Leading the Way by nogoaway
Generation Kill || Brad Colbert/Nate Fick || 27k
In which Nate, being an officer at heart, takes approximately 25 years to find his own dick with a map.
Super well written!

Movie updates: I watched The Other Guys (which I hadn't watched before and found decently funny) and Poltergeist II (which I have seen, more than once, but it's been a while) over the weekend with mom. After youth group last week, I went with Davey, Bebout, Lily, and Mariah to see IT Chapter 2 (because the girls are too young to go without an adult). It was actually funny, and wasn't as bad as I thought. I did not see the first one. (I've seen the original.) But I like several of the actors in this one so it was okay.

Sunday, though, Davey and I went to see The Peanut Butter Falcon, which was fantastic. It was a great story, and I appreciated the cast. Highly recommend.

I finished one of the books I have on Brethren Heritage, and am about halfway through a book Jimmy Carter wrote about his mother. I read a few mediocre fics off my AO3 "to read later" list.

In RL this week: Davey got another reckless driving ticket, two of our church members passed away, Miranda told her therapist she was contemplating suicide and was almost admitted as an inpatient but instead they adjusted her meds but she's been extra extra this week, my sister Shannon was in the hospital for the past two days, Davey's friend Riley had a house fire and she had to be treated for smoke inhalation and can't return home for a few weeks, a 4yo in our community who has been battling cancer passed away, Illiana got an infection in her finger and is on two different courses of antibiotics, Jesse (one of my youth) has a high ankle sprain and is in a boot so his football season might be over, my cousin-in-law Sarah is going through a bunch of stuff and now has to make her eighth grade daughter switch schools in the middle of the school year. It's been funtimes.

I don't think I ever made a post about Godzilla, which I thought was a super fun movie and really enjoyed. But I apparently made a note to myself in my email about what I wanted to say/remember about it, so:

1. The handwavy science was great.
2. Dr Serizawa said, "The moment of crisis are also potential moments of faith."
3. "We're a bunch of horny, murderous carnivores."
4. "Sometimes the only way to heal a wound is to make peace with the demon who caused it."
5. And I want a GK AU. I still want a GK AU from Skull Island (and have some pieces of one floating around somewhere) so I'm sure the two could go together.

Finally got to see The Mechanic. It definitely wasn't a good movie, but there were car chases and shit got blown up and Jason Statham killed people, and that's really all I was looking for from that movie so it's all good.

I somehow have almost 7000 words of high school nonsense involving kittens, and like 1500 words of what started out as Shelter fluff but ended up being Zach having lunch with Cody and meeting Cody's best friend Belle and hush, it's my imaginary world, Belle and Cody can totally go to the same school if I want them to!

I also had a reprieve from my headache for part of the day today, and got some housework done, and have clean blankets for my bed, and made awesome dinner (roast beef, homemade rolls, mashed potatoes, mac'n'cheese, baby carrots), but my headache returned before I even got to eat, so boo. Now I've stolen my brother's spot on the couch so I can watch Survivor and Criminal Minds (EMILY!), but Tim's downstairs playing COD anyways.

I hope the Texas crew is having fun with SXSW shenanigans and stuff, and that everyone else is having at least a decent week. LOVE YOU ALL!

Best text I got yesterday: You are dangerously close to invoking plot in our selfindulgent bandom world!

haha. My friends are the best friends.

Took the boys to see HBP last night. I think that, like with OotP, I like the movie pretty well from a movie standpoint the first time I watch it, but after I see it more than once, I start picking out things I'm not happy with. ( do I need to cut for spoilers when we've all read the book? )

The other day, me and casualyobsessed and fangs_up1 were hanging out (I think this was the day they were making their movie preview b/c they're silly and summer vacation makes them bored) and we were listening to The Used's Blood on my Hands and I said "some things can't be tweeted"> (the actual line is "some things can't be treated") and now I keep saying it. *fail*

Took the kids to see Looney Toons this morning at one of the local (small) theaters; my cousin Scott was there with his kids and his girlfriend. Free refills on popcorn = the kids went through FIVE BAGS of popcorn in the one hour show. I'm getting ready to head to my cousin Amy's for a birthday party and will probably get stuck over there all afternoon. Which means I'm gonna be txtng the heck out of a few of you, haha.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!! <333