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I can't start making my big planned fry up breakfast for another hour (long story, not needed here) and I'm just staring at the clock while visions of tiny potatoes, fancy cheese, and eggs dance through my head.

I also keep thinking 'maybe I should go eat some ravioli' before realizing that would ruin that entire fry up's ability to be eaten. ALAS.

My mom's off participating in a dragon boat race in another province and we only just realized she was in such a hurry she forgot to leave us the streaming link so we could watch her race! I'm going to just sit here and hope she wins or places.

She isn't hugely competitive (neither am I) which came in really useful the other day when we went to a jigsaw puzzle contest as a team of two and all (but another parent/kid team) of the other teams were four people who led to us finding out there's speed puzzle clubs in town.

We placed dead last but we had a good time, beer, and nachos. I'm not a big puzzle person but I don't dislike them and I found it really soothing. Lot of convo about her (passed away) parents who loved puzzles so that was warm and fuzzy.

So my maternal grandparents loved puzzles. And I wanted to give them a gift to their interests! So I asked them what their favourite ones to put together were. And they said 'boats, water, lots of pieces'

Brilliant, I thought. My favourite art piece of the moment includes all those elements and so I got them a 1000 piece puzzle of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa

My grandpa, upon opening it Christmas morning, looked up at me and said in the saddest voice: "I thought you loved us"

One of my favourite gift mistake stories, anyway! They appreciated me trying my best.

Man, I miss when they were both alive and well and they'd be staying over for a week and I'd make sure to get up at 6 am so I could sit at the kitchen table, drink coffee and watch their solitaire strategies. Grandma always had some insane anecdote and Grandpa was always very chill and serene.

Turns out my bff Elly whomst I watch mystery shows with (previously on x-men) has never seen Due South! This show is responsible for me enjoying mystery shows today, along with Warrick Brown of CSI.

Immediately I had a viewing plan in mind!

While I do enjoy seasons 1-2, Paul Haggis and his sex pest ways made anything involving women pretty rough, so immediately I decided all we'd watch of that was Pilot, 1st episode with the ghost of Fraser's father, and the flashback episode. Then we'd skip to the much more palatable (although shorter seasoned because it became a Canadian show starting then) s3-4 with New Ray.

DID YOU KNOW - that Due South has been on several streaming platforms so far and keeps changing them? It took me a while to finally find its current home on D+. I started with Netflix, Tubi, and Amazon before tracking it down.

It was not on the Canadian streaming service, Crave, afaik.

We also watched Kpop Demon Hunters (hope this doesn't awaken something in me) that was a real jam, Death Valley (delightful mystery show set in Wales all the Welsh accents I could want), and 2x Death In Paradise where I finally got on board with the Camille/Richard ship on the last episode before the final episode of season 2 and anyone who is familiar with the show to a certain degree probably just got a dark laugh.

My dad watches Death in Paradise and it's driven even him mad how the show's main plot is 'white british man comes and is the only person who can solve the mysteries of this colonized island, unlike the local black cops' which is kind of damning! However it's also very funny and Elly loves it, so here we are.

We picked up some new ones we might watch tonight too while I was trying to find some stuff - Dept Q (cold case show) and The Indian Detective (Canadian? show about a Canadian cop who goes to Mumbai to get involved in Mystery with his father) - just anticipating being done with Queens of Mystery and Death Valley soon because british seasons are a butterfly's sneeze in length.

Uh, what else. Got accepted into a Zinefest, have a lot of zines ready, why does it cost so much to print stuff oh my god why can't our home printer print double sided aaaaa. At least I'm 90% sure I won't make a ton of sales so I don't have to worry about being overstocked. I've got zines, I've got some stickers, and I'm gonna try to offload some of my ceramic animals unless Kevin the studio guy catches me and decides even though he's lectured me about how much I should charge for them before (he says 100, I say 10) he's going to actually enforce the no making things to sell rule (context: someone used the studio once as a factory for christmas ornaments and took up all the resources) - this is based less on actual fear of the rule because I know it's definitely not actually aimed at my use* and more on the fact Kevin is a chaos demon and I can never predict what he'll do for fun.



*I've asked a few times before and the studio guys go into a big oh I shouldn't worry because my stuff takes up so little room in the kiln that I probably use the least amount of any other user. My stuff is generally thumb size or smaller and in small batches.