Jaye's Musings

Well, here again for another New Year post of looking back at missed opportunities and lack of progress and making optimistic promises to myself (mainly) that will nonetheless fall by the wayside long before this new year is out.

Yes, that's the kind of mood I'm in.

( Last year's TLDR -- where I clearly had more to get off my chest than I thought )
My escape has been TV and being entertained with minimal effort from me. Recently, I've been rewatching "Once Upon a Time", which I haven't done since it first aired, and I've also enjoyed "The Boys" which is so messed up, it really appeals to me and I'm about halfway through "The Witcher" which I am loving. I tried "American Gods" as I liked (most) of the book and I like Ian McShane, but I just couldn't get into it, far too much style over substance for me.

So, with all that the thing I love doing -- writing -- has suffered tremendously. Even when I haven't been working or helping husband out with sorting his sister's estate or preparing for the Holidays myself, I've had very little to no brain power at all left for writing, either my standalone stuff or my collaborative writing...to which I have already apologized to my writing partner for. Indeed looking at my word counts for November and December, they are a very disappointing 3,800 and 1,200 respectively. I do admit I just completely gave up and didn't even bother for December.

Now for 2020, I hope to turn that around (although I haven't had much of a chance to get moving on that yet). My head is getting back into the mindset that it needs to be in, and I am in the processing of rereading some of our threads to just refresh my memory on things. So, beginning today, writing will be happening again! I'm also treating myself to a new laptop. My old one is almost 10 years old(!) and though it still works is slow and doesn't hold a charge. I do like my Chromebook, but it does have its limitations as well, one being that I don't care to save all my writing on Google Docs.

I also want to focus on doing more crafting. I have a couple of sewing projects I need to do and I really want to get better at crocheting -- I can do basic stitching but that's about it. And even knitting. My mum always tried to teach me when I was a kid, and I just couldn't get the hang of it, perhaps I can now. There is a fabric/yarn store near me that holds classes and perhaps one day they will have one on a day I'm not working! My health as well will be given more thought to, losing weight and getting some issues taken care of or at least managed.

Okay, so to summarize: More writing both RP and my own stuff, especially the everlasting novel! And to do more crafting stuffs

...the BBC channel we get (it comes in VERY fuzzy as technically our cable is not yet hooked up), and whose dulcet tones should I hear, but none other than Peter Wingfield's. It was a very pleasant surprise to hear him...and almost see him....as I said very fuzzy picture. Of course, this means I shall have to start watching Holby City more regularly in order to catch more of him. :D

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( Eastenders )

( Sharpe )

( Robin of Sherwood )

Hmmmm.

First of all, Ian McShane was wonderful. He can change from nice to very threatening just like that, and he's good in everything...from Death Race to Deadwood, back to Lovejoy and even The Great Escape.

But in all, I was a little disappointed in the show. Now, I didn't realize that religion would take such a prominent place, and I hope that it doesn't become some Bible Belt preachy show. The young soldier who saves the Prince's life was...weak. He just didn't convince me that he is the focal point of the show. I admit I was hoping that Silas (McShane) would understand Power and use it as a man in his position should and while he's manipulative and controlling, that just didn't come across, and there is certainly weakness there (in his character, not the portrayal). It's good to see that they have a gay main character, although I'm going to wait and see how they deal with that (re: the whole religion part).

By far the most interesting character so far is Silas' brother-in-law and defence contractor. He's the one pulling strings behind the scenes, and it seems he is the one who really holds the Power.

It could have been better, but I'll give it try again next week. And now, Silas is not Hsu-like as it seemed to appear from the trailers. (whew!)

From "Playing God" episode of "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" which was an okay private detective show of typical UK murder-mystery fair, circa 1997.

A short role, he's only in the first 10-15 minutes, as he's the corpse. But he looks so young and fresh faced...even if he is a bit on the shady side. :D

( Tim Bolton )

We've just started getting a new (to our cable provider anyway) channel, and they have Queen of Swords!

Know what I'm doing Monday nights! Gettimg me a Val fix!

(And what's more amazing it was hubby that found this out...and actually told me!)