Oh So Geeky

It's been a while since I blogged my 52 Films By Women Challenge. Since the halfway mark of the year has come and go, I thought it's time to post an update. I'm happy to say I'm still hanging on. My main roadblock is that I'll watch a movie and fall behind in writing something about it here. Then a few weeks have past, and I just keep watching the movies I need to except for a few Letterboxd posts here and there. The movies I've watched since my last Spring update include Everything Everything, Beyond the Lights, Mudbound, Across the Universe,  Bound,  By the Sea, What Happened Nina Simone?, The World to Come, Abominable, Clemency, Atlantics, and will be seeing Black Widow to almost tie things up . None of these were particularly flawed, but Beyond the Lights, Mudbound, Across the Universe,   What Happened Nina Simone? and Abominable will stick with me the most from the past quarter. The biggest change is diverging from my 'set' list. I've felt like...

It's 2021. I don't know what else to say.

A new year is almost here. So it's time to reflect about last year's resolutions and make new ones for the new year. I honestly anticipated to have stopped blogging in 2019. Yet I somehow managed to do more than what I set out to achieve or thought was possible. The Good 2019 was a wild year of experiences I never expected to happen, and a lot of goals that I happily met. I think turning 30 in December was a big motivator for me. *sobs into the void* Goals I managed to complete last year:  saw Hugh Jackman in concert, finished Game of Thrones before the last season started, won tickets to Florence and the Machine, attended MegaCon Orlando, visited Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, and survived Halloween Horror Nights. And I met John Barrowman and David Tennant!!!!! They're still the highlights of the year for me. I also completed a 30 day Yoga with Adrienne challenge - I missed a few days but instead of giving up, I pushed through. Now I do yoga a few times a week ...

Who would've thought 2019 would've been as hectic and lackluster as 2018? The dumpster fire that is politics, cancel culture absurdity, and hopelessness in the news inspired me to highlight some moments that helped me feel like last year wasn't a waste. Similarly, even though this year was still ablaze, I managed to stay sane for the most part. But not without a lot of help.  Here are a few reasons why. How did you manage to stay sane this year? Let me know in the comments below! This post contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame - read at your own risk.

Last year, I thought we survived the Upside Down . LOL Oh, how everything and absolutely nothing has changed.  The only way I can describe 2018 is: What. The. ****. Was That?! The fandom side of my life was awesome: I met Jeff Goldlbum and saw a mini X-Files reunion , attended MegaCon as press again , participated in  Chicks with Accents podcast , met HerUniverse creator Ashley Eckstein , went to an advanced screening of First Man , saved Will in the Upside Down  a million times, cosplayed as Harry Potter at Disney World , survived Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, covered a local library event  for my Harry Potter blog, reunited with the boyfriend of my teenage dreams , saw  Die Hard  in theaters for its 30th anniversary, and some of my favorite characters didn't die.

My friend Mariah at Bizarre Brunette nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award! I love her blog ( check her out ) and was so happy for her to pass this onto my blog. With the Sunshine Blogger award comes a few rules. I'll be answering Mariah's questions and nominate fellow bloggers below to take part in this challenge. Thank the blogger who nominated you and links back to their blog. Answer the 10 questions the blogger asked you. Nominate 10 new blogs to receive the award and write them 10 new questions. Mine will be at the end of this post. List the rules and display the Sunshine Blogger Award logo in your post and/or on your blog Thanks for these awesome questions and for creating such a great blog that I love to follow Mariah! Here are her questions!

Well, we made it through the Upside Down folks. I hope everyone still has their wits about them 'cause 2017 was an onslaught of impossibly-impossible nightmares (and dreams) coming true. It's nice to roll over the date to 2018 and try to make the next year as best as possible. Looking at my list of goals from last year , I'm pretty proud of the ones that I accomplished: kept up with Walking Dead recaps and Wonder Women series, posting on Instagram ,  cosplayed as Belle at Disney , and followed a blog calendar. Some of my favorite moments included attending  MegaCon with a press membership , celebrating  what Harry Potter means to me and my favorite memories , saying  goodbye to The Great Movie Ride at Disney , making it to  Platform 9 3/4 nineteen years later , and had some writing collaborations (my first guest blogger and some sponsored posts ). 2018 Film + Life Goals If there's one character I learned the most from in 2017, it would definit...

2016 was one hell of a year - a spectacle we couldn't help but watch in slow motion no matter how much we tried to avoid it. Many events will make it memorable: cinematic disappointments ( Suicide Squad ), nostalgic surprises ( Stranger Things ), political train wrecks, protests, the loss of icons - to name a few. If I ever have kids and they ask me what 2016 was like, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have enough words to describe it - confusing, bombastic, heated, inspiring, one for the ages. To keep the chaos a little controllable and sobering, I had a wee list of things to do:  matched my reading goal , committed to daily walking routine, drank more water, post more on instagram, survived  the   Captain America marathon , and perhaps the big one of all - dress up as  Matt the Radar Technician for Halloween . Like all good, bad, and the ugly things the world endured, they have to come to an end. Or at least roll over into a new start. 2016 put us through a lot and ...

Happy 2016, everyone! What does your 2015 bucket list look like? Mine is sadly incomplete. I've always been someone whose made new years' resolutions, but I'm not a perfectionist about completing every single item . I did, however, like to finish at least more than half. But. . . .last year - I failed. My inability to get things done is not from a lack of ambition, at least I don't think so. Exhaustion seemed to be at the heart of my lack of determination. There were some hard times that left me in an emotional fog - one that I hope not to let happen again in 2016. 2015 wasn't an entire letdown. I managed to accomplish a little: enjoying long walks around my neighborhood; worldbuilt and plotted more stories; drank less coffee; started a personal writing blog; graduated college; watched nine years of The X-Files in nine months  before the revival; covered GeekyCon ; stuck to a posting schedule; completed every Walking Dead recap  for the latest season so fa...

I'm a huge nerd for questionaires. On a little old website called LiveJournal, friends could send each other questions and memes about their favorite fandoms and life in general. Mostly these days "ask box" challenges are passed around on tumblr. Grabbing a  Halloween-themed ask  over on tumblr, I thought it'd be fun to answer some of them here. I tag anyone who wants to do the same thing here or on tumblr, and feel free to leave a comment of your answers! Bat:  If you could transform into any kind of animal, what animal would you be? As a swimmer, and someone who loves to travel, I'd transform into a bird - probably a duck. A lame choice probably but they are so cute and have the best of both worlds: land, water and people at parks feed them all the time. They have it made! Black Cat:  Are you superstitious? If so, what are you superstitious about? I'm not superstitious but I'm a little stitious. Broomstick:  If you could travel anywhere in...

This past week welcomed a wonderful surprise when I was nominated for a Liebster award by both Katie at Ever So Ethically Confused  and Rebecca at Almost Ginger . I was reminded how fast time flies - it's been three years since starting this blog and I can't believe I missed celebrating a blogaversary. Now seems like the best time - thank you Rebecca and Katie!

Fellow blogger Mariah at a A Space Blogdessey changed things up a bit by starting a blogathon about her process and asking us some questions about ours. Inspired by other bloggers, she asked us to join in a challenge to show us how we work. Thank you to Mariah for hosting this blogathon. Enjoy the look behind the scenes about how this blog survives staying active every month. What apps can my not live without? Netflix seems like a pretty obvious one to give a shout-out to. I also really love WPS Office , which allows me to write and edit documents. Sometimes writing is much easier on my tablet punching in every letter one by one rather than facing my keyboard and a blank screen. Google Keep is also easy for creating small notes and ideas in one place.