I am in the process of cat sitting. Here is how that is going:

I'm cat sitting a cat and I don't know if I've told you this before but I'm allergic to cats.

I took on this role as it offers me a lovely house for the next three weeks and some space to sit and edit my films continuously, but then, side note: the folk I'm house-sitting/cat sitting/whatever for have Netflix. I've never had this before, I suppose I don't now, and actually neither do they - they're on someone else's account. (Which is cool and hilarious in a similar fashion to that of sharing accounts with that thing where you listen to music online and it has every tune ever and if you listen at the same time as someone else on the same account you have to have a space bar war pausing and starting the music till they give up listening to music on that same account - I have forgotten the nam eof this SPOTIFY. It's called Spotify, but yeah the sharing accounts similar to Spotify but I think on Netflix more than one can use it at the same time yes? I really type as I think, I really do.) Anyway, back to me meeting Netflix: I've had my eyes opened to television that never stops and now understand all those Netflix jokes I've read in memes and on the internet before such as:

'Netflix just asked me if I'm still alive'
I get those now, I get those, that joke.

Although what I didn't get for a really long time, even with Netflix, was the true meaning of:
"Netflix and chill"


I know now.


But Netflix is great, and terrible, so so terrible. It just keeps feeding you TV, no adds, not even full end credit sequences between episodes, and, when you finish one series it delves you straight into a whole new show. I don't know why I'm telling you this seeing as I seem to be the last one in this new chilled world. Everyone else has already experienced Netflix. EVERYONE. In the past three days I've watched three whole series and two and a half films and 6 miscellaneous episodes of other shows and read every synopsis of every Third Rock From The Sun episode ever, purely to try and find the one where they all experiencing dreaming for the first time. During this time I have also been working, practicing the fiddle, been to the opticians - nailed it! And had meetings and visited family. So in other words: I haven't been sleeping or eating anything other than toast. Netflix is the worst.


I was going to write about allergies and the cat and Netflix took over my blog post. Now when I'm not watching it I'm typing about it, but last (?) comment on Netflix: if you do have it check out Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a lot of it is very far fetched and overly cheery, but the dialogue is so good, Kimmy is fantastic. Also please, please, please watch Obvious Child, what a great film.


Allergies.

Yeah I'm allergic to the cat, actually at the opticians appointment she pointed out that my eyesight is excellent (I made only two mistakes with those letters that get smaller, like a stupid version of the Star Wars start credits, one was an X not a "K" like I said, the other was an A and not an "Upside down triangle" which is weird because an upside down triangle would be like a V. Stupid Marjolein, stupid.) but yeah my eyes are all good apart from the swollen puffiness and itchy irritation caused by allergies.

And that's from the cat I'm cat sitting.


And that was today's blogpost. Netflix.

Image courtesy of: http://swingsetindecember.tumblr.com/

If I could dance as well as Kyoko...

...well that would be just great.

It is getting late but I still haven't had my tea or sat down to watch Kingfisher yet, that's right I am home alone! (kind of technically, if I used technically in the right way, I never was that well minded). Mam and Dad are away, don't worry I am not afraid of a party starting as they are back in a matter of hours once the boat docks, and no one would come anyway. Because it's a Thursday.

So I have been staying up late, eating a lot of peanut butter, eggs and chocolate chip cookies and watching films on the telly loudly, like Grand Torino. Wow, good film, also I can't help but feel like it was  Eastwood's way of saying every racial slur he's ever come across in his life and get away with it. Well he did.

I have been looking after myself well and talking about it on social media (only tonight) look at these MS paint JPEGS of what I've been doing:

  

Obviously I will never be eating 's toast again. Just joking, I'd eat toast anywhere, I ate some off the floor of my car today, not whilst I was driving I shouldst add.

I share things that I could have written in but that would have needed context.

In other news, since I lost blogged... which was last November, standard, I've been doing a bit of filming; Maddrim Media has been working on several films since 2015 started already, breaking the potential curse of Catcus where he takes away our ability and love of shooting films. That is a very real, but very unknown threat, that since being broken, we will revisit... never.

Also I was asked by the lovely Lisa Ward (sometimes known as LISUR, to be honest never really known as LISUR). for the release of her Liminal EP. So I am going to go ahead and link it in here:

It was so much fun to work on and an absolute pleasure to edit together, thanks for asking me LISUR, and also to Craig, Deebs, Sarah and Ewan who were also in the video and performing in the song. And the dogs, thanks to Lisa's dogs Sam, Arya and Fizzgig, love them so much!

More exciting news is that Lisa will be on this Saturday's episode of the Voice! So please watch, for Lisa and for Will.I.Am's metaphors, his metaphors. Those metaphors.

You can also get more information via Lisa's Facebook page here:

https://www.facebook.com/sheltielisa


I could have more news for you, but I think I am done, 

Instead let me be all Buzzfeed and give you a list of top life hacks, here are a list of a certain number, like ten, here are ten life hacks:

LIST OF TOP TEN LIFE HACKS

1) Never eat a spoon full of peanut butter whilst waiting for the person/A.I on the other end of the photo to pick up.

2) Pants before trousers. (if you are American then - I can't believe you found this blog, I can't believe anyone does. Google)

3) Don't waste time learning keyboard shortcuts, google search them "E squiggle" "euro sign" "that e with from Pokemon so I can make it look like Pokémon"

4) Are you sad this list doesn't have pictures like a Buzzfeed one would?

5) watch a lot of good films, but you can really get by so long as you've seen: Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness and The Yellow Submarine and Topgun and Brain Dead.



6) In any stressful situation, or situation where you look not breezy this always works:

Any Friends quote ever works. 

6) Watch Outrageous Fortune, why has not everyone seen Outrageous Fortune? And I'm talking about the Kiwi tv show, not the Bette Middler film (no disrespect intended).


I have to stop now because I no longer like the way I'm typing. Or I need to blog more and develop some sort of coherent narrative. Or I should never. blog. again. Actually I need to update that review blog; been to the pictures recently and saw Birdman and Ex-Machina, both great, great films, I would also say I've seen Wild, but I still have to see that one, and Big Hero-6. ENOUGH.

Also the images are all credit elsewhere, if anyone is keen to know comment below and I will eventually update the credits. In the meantime: Be Excellent To Each Other.

"I am a leaf on the wind; watch how I soar."

This blog post was written in (INSERT SPOILER HERE)'s memory. RIP.

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