{"id":8924,"date":"2024-03-18T18:55:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/?p=8924"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:04:55","slug":"pining-for-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/pining-for-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"PINING FOR SPRING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just not been in the mood to write any posts, even though I seem to be thinking about it all the time. Blogger&#8217;s guilt. I think it&#8217;s only my brother who ever reads this anyway, and he&#8217;s busy too, so I&#8217;m not disappointing anyone but myself, haha. <\/p>\n<p>Martin and I went and saw <em>Dune 2<\/em> last weekend, after rewatching <em>Dune 1<\/em> a few days before. He&#8217;s now re-listening to the audio books and did a <em>Dune<\/em>-themed crossword. My colleague Emelie saw it the week before we did and raved about it (<em>Dune 2<\/em>, that is) and said she thought it was one of the best movies she&#8217;d ever seen. I was skeptical. It WAS good, but definitely not one of the best ever, and I have issues with yet another cliffhanger ending. I know it&#8217;s part of a series and the story DOES continue, but I felt they could have still wrapped up this section a little more satisfactorily. I saw online that part 3 has been greenlit but it&#8217;s hard to get excited when you know you have to wait at least 2 years to see it. And my favorite book is the fourth one, which I honestly cannot imagine how they are going to bring to film. <\/p>\n<p>I also thought Christopher Walken was too distracting as the Emperor and at one point when he says &#8220;More! I want more!&#8221; about something, all I could think about was his SNL cowbell sketch: &#8220;more cowbell!&#8221; which made me laugh but also made it hard to take him seriously in the role. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely pre-spring around here. More sunshine, and the start of itchy eyes. URGH. I&#8217;ve gone for 2 walks in 2 days and it&#8217;s lovely to get out and move. Nothing but grass is really started yet and there&#8217;s only the very faintest hint of green on the trees. It&#8217;s supposed to be below freezing again this week, twice. Double URGH. I had been thinking of getting pansies to fill the pots, but am now waiting until next weekend to see. I did some preliminary cleanup in the garden beds, removing last year&#8217;s leaf detritus (and uncovering a whole mess of ladybugs in the process!) and emptying the pots of old dead summer plants. I&#8217;m really longing for real spring and some more warm temps and more sunshine. <\/p>\n<p>My life feels very wash, rinse, repeat. When I write my good things list each evening, it&#8217;s a lot of repeating things from before. The same things make me happy over and over, which is both comforting and boring. Maybe it&#8217;s just a reflection of my age. It&#8217;s not like there&#8217;s a lot of new things happening where I&#8217;m at right now. There are new things happening for my kids but I feel like Anders and I both are sort of in a groove, just mooching along with ourselves. It&#8217;s a groove, not a rut! Ha.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s time to find a choir and start singing again. Maybe it&#8217;s time to take a class and learn something new. Maybe it&#8217;s time to do some spring cleaning. <\/p>\n<p><em>Mood: conflicted<br \/>\nMusic: Asiatica\u2014Oh Darlin&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just not been in the mood to write any posts, even though I seem to be thinking about it all the time. Blogger&#8217;s guilt. I think it&#8217;s only my brother who ever reads this anyway, and he&#8217;s busy too, so I&#8217;m not disappointing anyone but myself, haha. Martin and I went and saw Dune 2 last weekend, after rewatching Dune 1 a few days before. He&#8217;s now re-listening to the audio books and did a Dune-themed crossword. My colleague Emelie saw it the week before we did and raved about it (Dune 2, that is) and said she thought&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-8924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-beinglizardek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8926,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions\/8926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}