I’ve admittedly not seen a lot of movies this year (I’ve spent a lot of my downtime bingeing TV shows) BUT with that being said, Captain Marvel has probably been my favourite.
As a writer, I want to tell stories that have an impact, and Captain Marvel was not only a wonderful film, but it showed me (and countless others!) that there’s an audience out there eagerly waiting for this content.
Also, as an additional note pertaining to movies – I don’t often get out to theaters much these days also because I have a bad right knee. If I sit for too long in one spot, it gets really sore and achey, so it kind of kills the movie going experience for me.
The Life Finds A Way anthology is now live on Kickstarter. It’s an anthology filled with post-apocalyptic stories that have a positive spin, and I am so happy and honoured to be a part of this book filled with so many talented creators.
My story for the anthology is titled Green Thumb with art by the talented Dominique Evans. You can see a sample page from our story on the right; Dominique just knocked the whole thing out of the park.
It would mean the world to all of us if you could support the project, or even just share it on social media, and such.
You can visit here or click below to check out more about the book.
One can never have too many animals in their life, and truly over the last few months I have been blessed with a plethora of fantastic fur friends. So, I thought I’d compile a short guide to the amazing critters that I love.
KAYLEE Kaylee is my #1. My ride or die cat. That’s a thing now, just so you know.
She’s been my fur baby since 2012 when she showed up on my doorstep in Prince Edward Island. She had been either thrown from a car or hit by one, and had a broken leg, and a missing fang. She was hungry and came to my door looking for some TLC. I hadn’t intended on adopting another cat (seeing as I’m very allergic), but I opened the door, she sauntered in, and after she ate up her first meal in who knows how long, she came up to me, curled up in my lap and stared lovingly at me.
It was game over from there and I knew I had to accept the fact that I was the new owner of Kaylee.
The photo on the right is Kaylee (and me) on the day she showed up at my home, and furrever changed my life.
DEXTER
Dexter is my very good office son who belongs to one of my day job coworkers. I LOVE HIM DEARLY and he comes to me for ear scratches and it is VERY WONDERFUL to take short breaks to run around the office chasing him, and to play with him.
MR CUPCAKE Mr. Cupcake is a new and dear fur friend that I’ve discovered since starting my new job. Yes, Mr. Cupcake is his real name (according to his collar) and he is “very friendly and very loved” by his family of young girls who dote on him (from what I can see).
He often sits in the parkette near my office and watches the birds and squirrels go by. He looks like he’s always going to attack them but he’s just a good, soft boy at heart. I think. I hope. I don’t want to come between Mr. Cupcake and his prey but also don’t eat birds, my friend.
He always comes running up to me and loves getting pets… plus he’s very photogenic and lives to love the camera. He’s very good.
MR MUFFIN
I saw Mr. Muffin one of the first times that I met Mr. Cupcake. I just thought that the nearby parkette was filled with the best good cats… and it is. I have not seen Mr. Muffin in that spot since but upon walking around the neighbourhood a bit, I’ve run into him a couple other times. He’s a fluffy, good boy, and he also loves attention and is very friendly.
LOOK AT HOW CUTE HE IS:
ECLAIR
Okay, I just met this cat recently but I love her and also I’m naming all stray cats without collars after baked goods.
HAIRY PAWTER Okay, so Hairy doesn’t come around all that much anymore, but every single morning after garbage day, my tiny friend faithfully got stuck at the bottom of my garbage bin, which would mean helping him escape regularly. I got to see my trash panda son grow up as he continually got trapped…over and over again.
I miss him and his trash son ways.
Over the weekend were two big days for me… well, one big day for my sweet patootie (it was his birthday) and that was followed by our anniversary. PLUS on Friday, I went with some friends to see the play Waitress, which is a musical based on the film by Adrienne Shelly.
I was SO excited to check out the play – I’m a big fan of the film so I’d been anticipating it for a while. I didn’t look up anything about the adaptation, other than what I saw on public transit and such, and was absolutely delighted by the whole thing. I laughed, I cried, I laughed some more, and I just generally had a big smile on my face the whole time. It’s a bit of a dark story at times, and the play definitely made things a little lighter than the original film, but it didn’t gloss over those big issues… just made them a less little uncomfortable to have to watch.
It was truly great. A few of my friends are big theatre fans so I go with them when there’s something that I want to see. I’ll be checking out the theatrical version of Anastasia next and I CANNOT WAIT.
The rest of the weekend was actually pretty quiet, except on Sunday I had a brunch and a dinner.
The brunch was at School with a few comic friends, and it was an absolute blast to spend time with them and enjoy a really great pancake breakfast. Honestly, if you go to School and don’t have the pancakes, you’re doing a massive disservice to yourself.
GET THE PANCAKES.
Then for dinner, I celebrated my anniversary with my sweet patootie by going to a hibachi teppanyaki place. The food was good but unfortunately the restaurant rushed the meal so we wound up seeing the food get cooked, eating, and leaving within 20ish minutes. We didn’t really plan anything else for the evening since dinner was going to be our big anniversary treat, so that wound up being a bit of a bummer. BUT all in all, it was still a really nice experience.
All the time in between any of that was focused on deadlines and such that I’m trying to hit right now and getting caught up on emails and trying to decompress as much as possible… which feels like a bit of a conundrum but here we are. A stressful decompression.
For the last little while I’ve been bingeing TV in my spare time. I haven’t had an attention span for a lot of movies (except really cheesy and bad ones) so TV while I half-heartedly pay attention and doodle has been where I’m at.
I thought I’d share a few of the things that I’ve been watching lately.
JANE THE VIRGIN
I finished watching the final season of Jane the Virgin – the whole show has been so consistent and delightful from start to finish. I was sad to see it go but also happy that it wrapped things up its own terms.
Gina Rodriguez is so charismatic and charming, I couldn’t help but feel for her along the way and put myself in her shoes, even when the story gets VERY ridiculous.
THE ROOK
I started watching this sci-fi drama recently when it came onto Crave TV. I didn’t know what to expect but was really intrigued by the pilot. Now I’ve been faithfully watching it week after week, enjoying the ride and concept.
I’m not gonna lie though, once I found out that it was a novel, I immediately looked up the entire plot for it and spoiled it for myself. I don’t know if the show will follow it strictly or if it’ll veer from the path that was laid out by the original creator.
I don’t know why I’m so anti-spoilers online but then when I start an intriguing movie or TV show and realized it’s an adaptation, I want to know what happens.
I did the same thing with Big Little Lies, and also Game of Thrones. Whoops!
FRINGE
I’ve been researching Fringe lately with my sweet patootie. He is a big X-Files fan so when he didn’t have any episodes left to watch (even including the terrible “new” seasons), we turned to Fringe. And by that, I mean that I turned him to Fringe.
We actually started watching it quite a while ago and left it. We’ve come back to it now though and are flying through it – we’re a couple episodes away from the end of the first season.
I can’t wait to watch the rest.
STAR VS. THE FORCES OF EVIL
This is maybe one of my favourite shows of all time. It’s coming to an end (well, it HAS come to an end) and I’m savouring the last episodes. Although, because iTunes is a pain in the ass, the final episode technically aren’t even uploaded yet.
BUT WHATEVER. I’m not ready for it to be over. It’s such a fun show that has worked its way into my soul and I love it profusely.
THE AMERICANS
I’m slowly making my way through this. At times the pacing kind of drags so I wind up feeling less of an urgency to watch the next episode, but I do really love the show and the whole concept of it.
It’s an honest to goodness masterpiece and Keri Russell is brilliant in it.
LOVE ISLAND
I’m not really ashamed to admit that I’ve been watching this trash lately. My brain sometimes can only really process frivolous nonsense and it’s something mindless that I can have on in the background.
My goshhhhh, so many of the people on the show drive me nuts but it has fun moments that I genuinely find myself enjoying, even when I’m cringing.
I’ve admittedly not seen a lot of movies this year (I’ve spent a lot of my downtime bingeing TV shows) BUT with that being said, Captain Marvel has probably been my favourite.
The Life Finds A Way anthology is now live on Kickstarter. It’s an anthology filled with post-apocalyptic stories that have a positive spin, and I am so happy and honoured to be a part of this book filled with so many talented creators.
Kaylee is my #1. My ride or die cat. That’s a thing now, just so you know.
Mr. Cupcake is a new and dear fur friend that I’ve discovered since starting my new job. Yes, Mr. Cupcake is his real name (according to his collar) and he is “very friendly and very loved” by his family of young girls who dote on him (from what I can see).
Okay, so Hairy doesn’t come around all that much anymore, but every single morning after garbage day, my tiny friend faithfully got stuck at the bottom of my garbage bin, which would mean helping him escape regularly. I got to see my trash panda son grow up as he continually got trapped…over and over again.
