Well, there's a likelihood that Jim Carrey unretired from acting (spent the past year or so working as a producer for a special on elderly comedians.) as a teaser trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has his laugh in the teaser.

Only time will tell.

Update: He has returned. Evidently, the whole promise of returning based on a script "written by angels in gold ink" seemed to have come true.

I also had to take care of my father after he fell ill with a side effect that made him crash during the cooking process for his meal and mom's dinner.

I had to work with the good and bad today. As a script writer, I check the entertainment news before attaching anyone to a script.

Also, I nearly tripped over the cat while getting her food.

Tesla agrees to pay $1.5 million to settle California hazardous waste lawsuit

Tesla has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 25 California counties earlier this week accusing the electric vehicle maker of mishandling hazardous waste at its facilities across the state.

The settlement was approved by Judge Jayne Lee on Thursday in San Joaquin County state court, just two days after the counties sued claiming Tesla improperly labeled waste, like paint materials, used batteries and diesel fuel, at its facilities across the state, and sent hazardous materials to landfills that cannot accept such materials.

Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.
The company, which did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement, agreed to pay a $1.3 million civil penalty and $200,000 to reimburse the counties for the costs of the investigation. It also agreed to take steps to properly handle waste and hire a third-party auditor to examine its waste practices over five years.

"While electric vehicles may benefit the environment, the manufacturing and servicing of these vehicles still generates many harmful waste streams," San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said in a statement.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/tesla...uit-2024-02-02/

Went to a city on the otherside of the country today for the lols. It was a fun change to be somewhere a different though we didn't do any museums or anything like that because none of the exhibits we searched up in advance were really worth it

Got up extra early today and did my morning chores to help my parents go to work. However, they stayed home after my father felt not up to it and my mother had returned from work because there wasn't much work to do.

Still catching up on my chores after my fall on Thanksgiving Eve. I lost approximately 9 weeks of housekeeping allowance, that's $225 I won't be seeing again. Still, I was able to get about $21 (I started on a Monday and I normally start on Sundays.) from this week alone.

My floral tea from Harney & Sons came a couple days early. I'm trying to brew it under the instructions on the bag which first requires hot water and a concentrated brew.

UPDATE: I added ¼ cup sugar to the 2 quarts to ease the bitterness and otherwise make it palatable to drink.

The reason it's purplish is because it's the Indigo Punch, a mix of butterfly pea flowers and hibiscus flowers, hibiscus I am familiar with, but the earthy tone of the butterfly pea flowers was something that was a bit much, but otherwise, it's a decent blend.

8.5 out of 11.

I also was sent a replacement gift card as one of my father's younger sisters sent one, but was likely hijacked by a porch pirate type of thief. (Not cool that happened, but it was cool of her to send $50 in Amazon gift card money as a replacement for the loss.)

I bought a new bathrobe. Remainder still pending.

Sunday errands and my first combined dental\housekeeping paychecks after 9 weeks being sidelined with a bad ankle.

As I started on Monday, and owed money for milk from a store that overcharges (due to wealthy elders in the vicinity and the fact they aren't hurting for money but has the freshest produce in town and a Japanese food counter), I got $30 out of my usual $39, which is a decent start for my cargo container mansion.

I was able to find at the Walmart Grocery section everything for my recipes of loaded baked potatoes, Ultimate Cheeseburger Mac and Ranch Chicken Black Bean Quesadillas and an attempt to make a poutine and loaded baked potatoes fusion.

Well, maybe not the guacamole or ranch dressing powder mix could be found, but I will get it tomorrow with my other ShopRite groceries because I didn't trust the produce section at Walmart as most of the produce is suspiciously suspect. I think they usually buy up the "use today or it'll rot" stuff to move quickly.

Paying bills while listening to the lovely Michelle McDaniel talk about how people lost their shit over opinions about the Barbie movie.

I Didn't Like The Barbie Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN6e3JlQ9tk

Didn't see Barbie, but it generated quite a bit of dialogue within the people who saw it and the topics discussed were deeper than one might expect.

Womanhood, personal growth for women, the ugly truth about being a woman as delivered by a supporting actress who delivered it like it hit everyone in the audience like a punch to the gut and even a cameo with Barbara Handler, the reason Barbie has her name and open-ended career opportunities (it stemmed from playing with paper dolls with careers as given by Barbara as a young girl).

It was deeper than anything people expect from a movie based on a 65 year old doll brand, and its story of said doll in the brand seeking out help through a personal crisis after things don't go as planned one day, and has to do a self discovery journey.

(From what I gathered, it might be worth a shot to see at least once.)

As far as this morning went, I was able to buy groceries, call endocrinology (but got their voicemail inbox) and unloaded\reloaded the dishwasher after running it earlier.

Edit: Endocrinology called back and said "Obtain the testing kits required for endocrinology at your blood draw lab affiliates"

I even bought the Disney•Pixar movie Cars (2006) and the complete season 6 of The Simpsons. It's the famous season with the cliffhanger that had a contest to guess who shot Mr. Burns and the assailant would be revealed in the following season premiere. Lately, buying used DVDs is how I roll because I collect physical media.

Besides, the Golden Age of the Simpsons was between its debut in Christmas of 1989 to the episode "Homer's Enemy" when he meets one time character Frank Grimes (whom Homer addresses as "Grimey"), who worked for everything his entire life, and triggered by Homer's incompetent ethics (being clueless enough to not recognize a safety violation), his opulent life (due in no small part of his side hustles over the course of his air time as of that episode) and complete disregard as a safety inspector (the reason he is still in such a job is explained many seasons later, most recent ones as of 2024) only for Frank to die during a personal meltdown mocking Homer.

Meanwhile, Bart wins at an auction an abandoned warehouse and he and Milhouse end up slowly destroying it from the inside out, because it ends with the boys in awe of the crumbled warehouse one morning and the rats migrate to Moe's Tavern and Moe warns the patrons to tuck the pants legs into their socks as the punchline.

Received my new bathrobe. My old one was not holding up on terms of staying put. It would shift and open in when I moved.

I enjoyed the fact it fit nicely. It was smaller than some other people's expectations. But it fits me.

I love that. Besides, my last robe was almost 6 years old. And it has been thrown through the wash numerous times and lost its luster.

I think for my least favorite type of doctor, the dentist, I was going to have an audio clip of someone screaming "no!" repetitively as the ringtone. Then again, I don't see them until August.

I got unique ringtones or text notifications for my constant contacts. Doctors usually get "Dr. Feelgood" by Mötley Crüe.

I don't get along with the dentist that easily and since there's only one staffed right now at the office I visit...well, there's a reason I go to the hospital to get dental work done.

Edit: I heard that the competition for The Sims, Paralives is expected to get Early Access in 2025 and that you only pay for the base game and that any added on content such as expansions will be free of charge. (The free content is due in part of a lack of shareholders.)

Harkens back to the days before EA implemented The Sims Store. Still, I may consider buying a domain and setting up shop with a bulletin board service for every life sim of great importance.

Still, the news of Paralives is worth mentioning as The Sims have gone unchallenged for 25 years, (a quarter of a century) which is exceptionally long for gaming.

Life sim gaming in general is heading towards a watershed moment. This may change the way games compete in the marketplace.

Today for me has been crazy. I missed a few calls, a package came early, I didn't have red sauce so I had butter on my pasta.

CW: Rant against eating disorders and why you should literally trust your gut instinct.

Mom decided to take TOWOP (Time Off Without Pay) and currently I am making lunch.

This morning I had 2 Alaskan pollock filets, 2 slices of toast with smooth peanut butter, one entire cucumber as the food part and for drinks I had lemon tea with a small amount of sugar and water with the essence of coconut for flavor.

(lately I got hooked back on the hint water which has no sweetener of any sort, just essences for fruit and have to be careful of sugar content as its inflammatory properties aggravate a psoriatic patch on my ankle. Currently, it is shrinking.

I have been working on losing weight because I had rant how much I hated the idea of being given an injection that causes vomiting, which goes against the Hippocratic Oath of doing no harm.

Bad enough I was binge eating, but it would be counterintuitive to add purging as part of the treatment. In all honesty, if I don't eat, not only do I get hangry, but also have a greater chance of collapsing.

Still, in all honesty, don't accept anything that could exacerbate a condition or habit that you are trying to eradicate from your life. I have been growing as a person. I bought groceries with emergency funding without much provocation and I am doing my best to integrate more plant matter into my diet.)

The day will be interesting to see. I am still working on losing weight without the insanity of over-organizing and micro-managing every detail of life (remember that the unexpected will arrive) as I am currently working on returning to work at home as housekeeper.

Another day of doing chores, another day closer to payday.

So far, I unloaded\reloaded the dishwasher and dish draining rack and organized my collection of fancy Australian toothpastes and even brushed my teeth.

As far as things have gone this morning, so far, so good. Will update as the day develops further.

8:05: Caught a few Pokémon in Pokémon GO. Tyrunt and Jangmo-o were new, while I caught size record-breaking small Dratini. Took a few PokéBalls and some Razz Berries, but I am getting closer to filling up my Pokédex. I'm not too competitive, but I try to at least have fun. I almost caught a Gible, but it fled.

If you get aggressive over a game, you lose sight of enjoying and having fun with it.

My mother came home around 12:45. Back was hurt, she took another TOWOP opportunity, and spent her free time crocheting or watching TV until falling asleep.

I opened a refund window as the new robe was damaged and I neglected to inspect it.

Had a pretty simple dinner.

I am still working on integration of vegetable matter into my diet.

I reported a member of staff today. I've reported her several times over the years and it never really goes anywhere, but we have had a "reshuffle" of managers and now the night nurse is the new deputy manager. I explained to her that this staff member has spent 6 years making snippy comments, gossiping and spreading malicious rumours about me. I explained when I reported it in the past it generally got played down as "well I can't do anything about it because it's he said she said", "she'll be on maternity leave next week so is it worth making a deal of?" And "are you sure she isn't just joking?". We had CPR training yesterday, which we redo every 3 years so not my first rodeo since I've been first aid trained for almost a decade and she frequently made comments about how she's surprised I know the answers, she stole my friends off me and told me "get lost we have enough members" when we had to split into groups of 4, she told everyone I had a foot fetish (I really really don't ) etc. In the past she has also accused me of sleeping with various staff members (I'm definitely not ) and told everyone some pretty malicious things about my husband that could've lead to someone kidnapping my children (which I then had to go into detail about)... but anyway, the new deputy manager said very seriously that it stops now and she's surprised the old manager was so uninterested, she'll talk to her and if she continues then she can find somewhere else to work. She also told me that I have her permission to just flat out tell her to off. So I'm feeling quite hopeful that work gets better. But also I'm on annual leave for 3 weeks and then in for a week, and then off for another week... so we'll have to wait a while to see how it pans out.

Played Pokémon GO this morning and finally caught a Gible. And a Deino.

So far, today was uneventful. Not much beyond chores.

My wireless Bluetooth headphones are dying because they won't hold a charge.

Yet another thing involved with life popping up 😕 and rearing its ugly head at me, telling me that money is, once again, required to fix this heady problem, due to a dead battery.

My mom came home with gastrointestinal issues around 15:00. I brought her a ginger ale and let her sleep off the illness.

Happy Lunar New Year of the Wood Dragon.

Today, I had waffles for breakfast, slept for a while, and I am putting dishes away or washing them (currently on break).

Caught an Axew in Pokémon GO. I tried catching a Falinks, but the method of "Berry first, Ball second" failed because it broke the ball and the daily free box today only gave 1 Pokéball and 1 Great Ball (it broke the Great Ball)

I take advantage of freebies when in freemium games or if I did walk a certain distance, I can get more supplies that way.

My mother ordered my new robe and headphones through the Amazon account she shares with my father. (She rarely shops at Amazon because she shops around at varying boutiques online. That and we do weekly runs to Walmart.)

Once again, I had to sacrifice my allowance because "life happened".

Remember the scene in "Up" where Carl and Ellie begin to save coin for Paradise Falls, only to break open the jar for money because a financially-tied issue came up?

That's my first definition of "life happened". I still have money towards my idyllic community.

I'm on a week long trip to Bristol. I was hoping to do some sight seeing and get some photos of Banksy art... but instead I have a horrific sinus infection. I've spent the past 2 days lying in bed as much as possible. It feels less like a fun trip and more like a hospital stay. Hopefully I'm now over the worst of it.

I weighed myself today since the appointment with my endocrinologist and I went from 320.4 pounds to 313.6 pounds.

If you are wondering, I am slowly reducing the sugar intake by drinking water. My favorite is hint water, because it's flavored with fruit essence and gives more of an incentive to stop drinking big corporate soda

I currently am alternating between water and poppi soda from a small business that loads it with plant fiber and gut friendly ingredients (it's actually great, it doesn't taste weird and this is coming from a woman with a strong sense of taste\smell.)

My parents tell me titration is key, not only in medicine, but going from one addiction to another. Case in point: Robert Downey Jr went from drugs to fast food. He even has a special card issued to him from Burger King to order at a discount. It may be elitist and counterintuitive, but if he has to appear buff, he usually works off the patty pounds.

Then again, I am happy I lost weight. It took about 36 pints of hint water and my mother and father are willing to order me more to help me stick with my changes.

I am currently working on saving money for a new utopia and emergencies and goodies. I also hope to lose weight just with the cut in sugar. I also have a psoriatic patch that is still shrinking and is almost done.

Finally getting to growing up. I was taking the slow route to life and I might live to 150, given the fact modern medicine won't let me die, especially since the doctors take my personality as a takeaway of me leaving an unforgettable impression. Then again, dentists might say otherwise.

Life happened.

I had to sacrifice all the cash on hand to have milk, cheese, ginger ale and tea on hand. Winter is still here.

The big running gag in my neck of the woods is the old folks swamp the grocery stores before snow storms to stock up on milk and bread, which run out quickly in snowy weather. Where I live we're expecting 4-7 inches. Be glad it's not Nova Scotia (they got 5 feet of snow.) And right now, I am bracing for impact.

Had a chance to return that robe that didn't work out for me. Got my money back and bought a book instead (should be here on Valentine's Day.)

I better check the mail. My hint water and Ovaltine should be here. I'm also waiting on my robe and headphones.

Edit: Got my water and milk mix, but since the last package is addressed to my mother, she's supposed to open it. Tampering with mail not addressed to you can range from a federal offense to disrespect for the addressed individual, depending on the locale.

Edit: Turned out the package my mom got was for my robe and my new headphones. Currently charging my new headphones and my robe has a bit of a smell, so the robe will be going through the wash.

It's been a while since I last wrote here....

The truth is that in all this time many things have happened, good and bad... To begin with, I started 2024 with my family, eating grapes as tradition dictates. And we still had a couple of hours more of partying. I stayed sober but the most of my family didn't LOL.

We have also added another centenarian to our family, clearly we have good genetics.

I also found my old Xbox 360 (good), but lost the Memory Stick or whatever that was called (bad). I've been searching the thrift stores in my town to see if they had one, but no, I was unsuccessful. The Xbox is not a very common console here, so I'll have to look on the Internet. I had a lot of games (very good games the most of them) so the internal memory is completely full ;-)

Another thing I've been doing again after a few years is.... Yes, I'm back to playing The Sims 2. I no longer remembered how much fun that game was. Now when people ask me which is my favorite The Sims game, I won't know if it's 2 or 3. The only downside is that the heads are very elongated, and mine is so round, it's more like a Mii's head LOL

On February 14, TV broadcasts in SD format will cease definitively. Luckily for me, a few years ago I had bought a device that converts SD TV to HD, so I'm covered.

The most important event I have in sight is the elections, which as always will take place on a Sunday, in this case Sunday the 18th. The truth is that when there are elections I think of my grandfather who served as a politician for many years. Honestly if he were alive today I don't think he would be too happy to see the institutional downgrade of the last few years. I personally am not satisfied with any of the options, but still, if I look at the positive side of things I have elections, which is more than many people around the world have.

So, well, I'm not really complaining. I think I have started the year quite well. Like everything there are good and bad things, but I think I am quite satisfied.

Well, we're getting between 8-13" of snow. The weatherman lied again.

It's gotten so thick, a bent tree is weighed down and now is touching into the yard.

At least we got a warm house and plenty of food. I also have electrical and electronic connections, so we're good.

Edit: The book I ordered that was coming tomorrow is coming today. I have to say this is a surprise.

Did not like my new robe. Way too small.

Right now I still have my old robe. I am going to make sure today to not only get my chores done, but take a shower because I overworked myself lately and had no time to shower. I need a shower because my father can easily smell me.

If I don't get back into doing my chores by myself, there may be more cuts to my paycheck.

Edit: been in therapy and unpacked all the trauma and trust issues that plagued me as a child and into adulthood.

When I came downstairs, I found some Sour Patch Hearts and a funny little Valentine's Day card...

For what it's worth, today was not too shabby. Sure, pouring my heart and soul out did a number on my mental stamina, but I do realize I live in a safe little pocket of the world. I am still loved. I am still valued by my community. I am enough.

Essentially, I felt better after confessions and sour heart gummies.

Hope your Valentine's Day is fine for you that celebrate the holiday.

Today was Wash Day. Like all dishes I made and clothes in the hamper must go through their washing machines.

You know that whole "Do laundry today or go naked tomorrow" sign I told you about? I pretty much dealt with the consequences and I am wearing my old robe.

Washing dishes and\or laundry is at the top of thankless chores.

All I know is that the house will be cleaned up by around 20:00 (when my father is done with work)

Baked potatoes for breakfast! I had 3 potatoes and didn't go into a food coma somehow. Still, working with my robotics plans.

I even made an election speech-styled promise that the defenseless will get the justice they seek and those convicted will be made examples. I would do everything in my power to help make America a Superpower once again like in the 1970s. But... it's just one of those pipe dreams that probably don't have the ability to hold water. About as useful as chocolate teapots.

It was just a dream after all.

Once again, quite a bit of snow fell and once again, I have to wait on my mom as she did not want to risk the road again.

A lot of things have gone bad at once. First, the VW Jetta that we have – the turbo blew as my mom was heading to work. Luckily, she wasn't far nor did it cause a large incident... just lots of smoke and lots of euros to fix it up.

The washing machine has been acting up lately, namely the bearings. Today, the machine sounded like a jet engine during the spin cycle. We hired a person to come check it, but it turns out they operate by cities/municipalities and we happened to dial a wrong one so we have to wait for our branch to come fix it... seriously? Can't just one person take it and fix it up?

And just now, I was heading from my boyfriend's apartment to my parents' house, when my Citroen simply lost the ability mid-drive to shift into 1st, 2nd, 5th and reverse. Thankfully, the Conquer Driving videos on YouTube taught me well to make full use of the clutch so I managed to drive home using only my 3rd and 4th gear, and I'm quite proud of it! My dad fixed the problem in an hour – turns out, the French car manufacturers love to overcomplicate certain mechanisms, and it just so happens that the gear lever in my car detached mid-drive from the "side" gears, making it unable to shift anywhere but the "central column," that is, the 3rd and 4th gear.

The car problem happened on a good day, and I took it more as an adventure than a major setback. Also, the clutch didn't smell as bad as I thought it would, it actually didn't smell at all. For the short while, I lived my dream of driving an automatic transmission car (albeit with 3 pedals).

Be glad you got away and survived a malfunction.

My, it was a nightmare for you when it came to machines? I had been trying to sit down and I get called before I can seat myself. I like my alone time when my parents normally work.

Lately, I ended up returning the second robe and I am awaiting my refund from my mother (bought it along with my head phones. Headphones are fine, but my robe was too small. Said it would fit a 150cm person to the knees. It was more a shirt at the hips than a robe.)

Otherwise, glad you survived your day and had the smarts to handle the emergency.

Thank you for the kind words. My parents also think that it was scary that I didn't pull over. I guess I must've had it even worse with this car in the past to have found driving with a third of the gearset a "no-biggie." I'm honestly surprised at times how my dad manages to have these cars pass the yearly mandatory technical checkup... Can't wait to finish uni, take out a loan like everybody and their mother, and at least buy and drive a car where the "engine fault" light isn't being equated to "engine running" light.

Bought me a new coat cos of a long ignored need: a coat thats for now (warmer, wetter, not winter, not spring, coat weather). So I was like I'll get me a waterproof coat that's warm, padded or whatever cos waterproofing is a must obviously since umbrellas are stupid (horizontal rain yo). The problem with this goal and how the laws of supply and demand work means that what's actually for sale doesn't match meteorological needs cos economies of bullshit or whatever. Apparently these are the options:

a) water "resistant" / "repellent" (useless for this place/ sooo much spraying might lose a lung or two)
b) waterproof up to 3k blah blah (also useless cos that's like 10 mins of rain at best)
c) waterproof up to 10-15k (costs an arm and a leg rip also women's coats will always be less waterproof than men's)
d) waterproof for life but super thin (so you still actually need to get a coat that fits underneath)

As I'm totally a responsible adult so I have like 4 raincoats for different purposes obviously, option d was the answer. I picked my least offensively bright raincoat and took it with me to the shops so I could try it on top of whatever coats I found at the shop. The coat was ideal temperature wise, looked and fit well, had a decent price and fit under my raincoat properly! But it didnt have a hood and no zip or button on the pockets. Despite that let down it was the winner cos you gotta improvise adapt and overcome your way though stuff.

TLDR shopping is stupid and maximum effort