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I'm glad you're enjoying Rescue HI Surf! I have to catch up myself as I let current shows back up during the holidays. I think we'll get caught up on that one soon. We really enjoy seeing scenes of home ^-^ I will say most of my shows/movies are dinner shows or after dinner/craft time shows. I don't usually just sit and watch something unless I'm at a theater or I'm super stressed out. I actually did quite a bit of watching last year where I wasn't crafting while watching, which is highly unusual for me. I was just so stressed with my job that I didn't have energy to do anything else. I have gotten quite a bit away from my Asian dramas because my mind just couldn't handle reading the subtitles after a long day. I definitely want to get back to those this year because there are so many that I want to watch! Performing Arts shows, I don't really know of any but I have a couple movie recs if you haven't already watched them - Center Stage which is ballet, and Mr Holland's Opus, which is about a high school band director and the journey through his career. Hope this plan works for you! I'm really curious what show it is you're watching, so I'm looking forward to your next check in ^-^

maybe you could have goals and lists to work on most of the time, but throw in a random movie in there too. (for example, 2 movies in your week that are from lists, and 1 that is a bonus random pick) (but decide ahead of time how you'll do this random pick, and which goal you'll focus on atm) 🤔 i get decision fatigue for movies too. so many choices available, that i end up not watching movies anymore because i can't choose. 🤦‍♀️ and im guilty of starting something, and finishing it only days/weeks/months (!) later, because i know it just stays there on the streaming service. 🤠 i should work on a strategy too this year. 😂

i found your thought process and your idea very interesting. i hope it does work out, and you're able to comfortably continue watching the show. 😊 i'm trying this year to mainly watch cable shows, and to not start many new series. 😅 otherwise, i start a million things that are available on streaming services, and never finish them. so i'll watch what is currently airing on tv, what i truly want to continue and finish from shows i already started (which i will have to question myself on each show), and rewatches (which i don't do enough for my liking). here's to a good tv year for both of us. ✋

The decision fatigue is real! I am currently working on some lists and trying to narrow them down to what fits my available viewing time. My current goal is to watch all of David Lynch’s filmography. The idea of putting all my watched films in to Letterboxd is so overwhelming but I love your idea of rewatching a series as you do it. Maybe you should have one day a week dedicated to a random movie like random movie Sunday or something? And work off curated lists for the rest of the week? Whatever you watch, please share your recommendations, love hearing your film thoughts.

Sounds like you might benefit from a "pile of possibilities" like for reading. You can narrow it down to what you're interested in currently, but allow yourself to mood pick. So let's see, at most you watch three films a week. That's 12 a month. Maybe double that for enough options. 24 to pick from that gives you both choices, but not so many choices. Pick so many from jars, from lists, throw in some random generator picks. A tossed salad of film.

hahaha You calling scene at the end lol! im glad our buddy reads helped with reading last years...some years are just like that where things happen and life just goes all chaotic. OMG I FORGOT about the Olympics and all the fun that was! i had so much fun watching some events together over on discord and such :P youre video and show tracking stuff makes me want to do the same! hahaha im so bad at tracking that stuff though ill just continue to live vicariously through your trackers lol also i learned today that when you hold down the space bar while watching videos it goes 2x speed....because arya sat on it and you started talking so fast im like why is she flying through this all of a sudden....oh cats lol

Live in the Now! Love that statement. Happy new year Shannon 🎉🙂

Great hearing about your recap and goals! My year ended up ok. I read a bit less than the year previous but that's perfectly fine with me. I reached my 52 novel goal in mid-December, so that was great. I probably watched the most movies than I had in a while in 2024, which was nice. I definitely went to the movie theater quite a bit more as I had stopped back in 2021 due to the closures and just never got back in the habit of going. We usually watch the HP movies over the holidays as well as LotR, however we did not last year. I think it was a combination of the family being sick and watching Christmas movies instead, which is something I hadn't explored in several years. I do use Letterboxd but I don't spend a lot of time on there. I just go on, log my movie and get out lol. I have tried to dabble with Notion, but I found that most of what I was doing on Notion, I was doing on other apps or spreadsheets so it was a lot of duplication for me and I stopped. I'm just not really sure what I want to use it for and I think the problem is that it is whatever you want it to be and when I have too much choice like that, I can't figure out what I want it to be for me or what to use it for. I use TV Time to track my TV shows and they also allow tracking of movies, but I have not switched over the movie tracking to there. I continue to use Letterboxd for movies. I hope you have an amazing year!

Great to see you! I really need to get back to the Wiccan Wheel series. I meant to read the second one shortly after the first, but I haven't. I moved all the books I had languishing on my Current Reading List that I hadn't touched for months to an On Hiatus shelf at the end of 2024, so I started fresh with only my one or two active reads (a novel and manga probably). At least one of those I will need to restart because I just wasn't in the mood for it at the time I started it. I should probably go through that On Hiatus list and see if I can clear out the previous tenants because I probably have no interest in those if I hadn't thought about those for years...

Yay! You're back! 🎉

Hi, Shannon. Like you I have had times in my life when I did not read at all or very little. And I have struggled most of my life getting around to creative expression. At this season of my life, however, reading and creativity (of which I am still struggling) take center stage, so these two subjects I have the most interest in watching on your channel. For me I find that film is subpar for my interests these last few decades and I am not into gaming at all. But I think I may catch Beast from Haunted Cave as I love campy horror movies. I also like organizational things around the home which I will watch and cheer you on for if you share plans and progress for this in the future year. The best to you and your sisters and brother always. D

Loved Lilith Saintcrow's Jill Kismet series. I have read the first two of the Dante Valentine series. I need to pick up the next one. I took a break from paranormal urban fantasy and just now started picking them back up. :)

Great to see you again, Shannon. And with updates on your reading life. Look forward to your recap of 2024 and plans for 2025.

Really enjoyed this, Shannon. Thank you so much. 📘🩷

I think the meaning behind the unicorn is that the Orkney brothers slay a symbol of innocence in pursuit of love. The four of them have been taught to be proud, but not given an ounce of affection by anyone, and so they act out in terribly destructive ways in hopes of receiving it.

I liked your observations about each chapter almost functioning as short stories...that might be a holdover from it starting as a serialized story in a magazine. I also liked the point about part of the story being stories within stories (I'm particularly thinking of Sola giving her story to Carter). As for Dejah, you make fair points, although her standing up to Tal Hajas is one of the best moments in the story. Anyway, thank you so much for the breakdown!

Great catching up with you! We've been thinking of rewatching the Fast and Furious movies also. We're trying to hold off until the next movie is closer to release, but we really enjoy those movies. Great to see some knitting! Yes, the yarn memory when you keep needles in projects for a while ^-^ I have that same indentation on my sweater that I haven't worked on in a bit. I finally pulled it out and put some rows in, but there is an indentation LOL

I have a mixed selection of individually wrapped tea bags in a tall jar on my kitchen counter. This was recommended to me by the local health food shop owner after I mentioned to her that my boxes of tea tended to get lost and forgotten at the back of the cupboard. I've found this has really worked for using up my teas. I've made some progress on my goals, but sorting out paperwork came to a halt when my shredder gave up the ghost! It's decades old so it has really done well. I bet the one I get to replace it won't last as long! 😊

i don't know anything about wow, but i always enjoy your updates on the game because you're so passionate and happy when you talk about it. 😊💚

I am also doing duolingo in Italian 😊 🤗

Me too!! Love seeing the highlights of your days Shannon and now I am so missing playing the game with you and Jamie!!!

I really enjoyed this video, Shannon. It was very calm and soothing. It was nice to journal with you!

I just love this quick peek into your world. I'm so glad you are doing these again!

Great catching up with you! That's too bad about The Brother's Sun being cancelled. I do have intentions on watching it eventually. Great to hear about your wax melt journey! I don't organize my teas because I don't have that big of a variety. I'm very picky about the type of tea I drink and 99% of the tea I have are black tea that might have an additional flavoring. I put all of the tea bags in an empty moon cake tin and my loose leaf have their own tins that I bought from either David's or Adagio Tea. I think a drawer or some kind of box would work well and if you want to be surprised, maybe do a random generator to tell you what to drink?

I really enjoy your videos and you give me so many good ideas and inspiration of things to read and watch. A few years back we talked about The Resident and how it is good to watch it from the beginning. I see it is now on our Canadian Netflix. Oh and I was also wondering if you have read and/or watched the Three Body Problem (Liu Cixin)? - edit video(s) plural 😁

Thank you for this! Sometimes I get distracted when reading and it’s nice to have a recap to fill in my attention gaps.

Hey! Fun fact! Knife (kniv) and window (vindue) are at least some of the word vikings influenced the English with, so that's why Knife and Kniv are so similar. Fork is called Gaffel and spoon is called Ske. Why the other cutlery wasn't influencing the English language I have no idea.

I really enjoyed this, Shannon. Thank you for giving us the opportunity.

I've been updating my reading journal but I'm still fiddling with the printer to print pictures of book jackets. 🤔

Great to see you! Fun to hear about your gaming! Nice to hear that you enjoyed your wax melter ^-^ Congrats on learning how to screen capture and keyboard shortcuts! I did know about the emoji shortcut. There was a time where I couldn't use emojis on RUclips comments. The button to add one when writing a comment wasn't there, so I ended up looking that shortcut up years ago ^-^ It is a little weird how RUclips will show you a video in suggestions sometimes. A lot of the time, I get really weird suggestions that don't apply to me at all but every once in a while there is one there about something I've been considering or wanting to learn. Hope you have any amazing week!

I’m so glad you’re doing updates on your goals. Last week when I saw your first video, I thought it was a great idea to have some end of year goals. So I made a list and did actually make a small (very small 😂) start. Then proceeded to forget about it all until I saw this video! So I hope you keep doing updates to keep me going! 😂😂😂

Your activities this week in response to your end-of-year goalsetting seems to have really enriched your life. Really nice.

Definitely looking forward to your goal check ins. That's a great idea, having easy and hard goals. I've missed seeing you as much this year.

The idea of you watching a Bob Hope movie and thinking it was going to be a drama is the funniest thing I've heard in a while.😂. Hedy Lamarr was also known for her inventions. I'm also curious about the comedies you do enjoy, since you admit they aren't your favorite.

Shannon, I loved hearing about all of your goals - and the picture they give of you! Films, TV, Books, Knitting, Drawing, tea and more. These sound like they'll make for a great fall! I'm cheering you on! And I just loved hearing about your recipe conversations with Mom!

Good luck with all of these goals! It's made me think of things I keep putting off. Making them end of the year challenges to complete before the 31st of December might give me the push I need!

What a great idea to draw your plants!!!. I think I may join you. I overflowith with aloe vera.

This is so refreshing, Shannon. Always fun to assess where one is and where one is going at any time, and this is a good time. Really enjoying this and look forward to any follow up videos you have referencing your goals to the end of the year.

10 years!! Congratulations 🎉❤

I just finished book 3, and I cried so hard

I am amazed by your lists, organization and the process you go through! It was fun being able to follow your thought process before and after the films! I loved watching your knitting too, hehe. And good job on the stunt assessment!

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Yay for French films!! You bet I’ll be watching for shark fins at the Olympics now 😆

You should look up how his bad relationship with his mother, who was Scottish, had an influence on his depiction of the Gaels. Funny enough though, Gaelic culture is Irish and North-West Scottish, but not Orkney. There was a whole thing written on this, but I think his mother being Scottish, Scottish having Gaelic connections, and his not getting along with his mother is why you may notice the anti-Gaelic themes. I suspect he chose Orkney as a base for Gaels as wordplay, implying the Irish and any Scottish similar to us are...well you know: "Ork"

So curious you wound up with two Netflix related titles, I've no clue the Netflix link/if they are coming in future shows. The Bad Guys looks really fun though. I'd guess the Libby thing is a Canada region lock situation? I know I've heard mentioned UK libraries Libby can't send to the kindle app at all. I have got a Fire 10 tablet that I got to replace my kindle, and I use Kindle, Libby and Hoopla apps all on it for my library, but it seems like region locking plagues so many other countries its awful how limiting that is for no good reason. I didn't know Michael Buble was canadian! I saw him live years ago back when he was just hitting peak popularity at first, what a talent.

Good to see you and catch up with you! You should be able to send most of your Libby borrows to your Kindle Fire? Not sure if it's different with your library though. See if there's an option in your Libby settings where you can click that you prefer to read on Kindle. I've only come across one or two books since I've been using Libby that are not able to be sent to Kindle. These are the steps I use to send my borrows on Libby to Kindle Fire. Once you borrow the book on Libby, there should be a button that says Read now with Kindle. You should be able to see the button when you borrow the book and from your Shelf on Libby. If you click that, it will redirect to Amazon, where it will ask you to confirm your borrow. Once you do that, it takes a minute or two for it to show up in your Kindle Library. Then you can download it in the Kindle app on your Kindle Fire. If your Kindle Fire is your default device on your Devices section on Amazon, it should automatically download to your Kindle when you sync. Hope that helps! If that doesn't work, are you able to open the website on your browser app from your Kindle Fire? My library's "Libby" website is still the library's Overdrive website address, so library dot overdrive dot com. If you are, you should see the Read Now with Kindle and there should also be a Read Now in Browser button. If that address doesn't work, you should be able to get to the website from your library website's digital offering section? I just heard you say that your Libby app is not working anymore, so this might be the way to go around that? I do most of my Libby borrowing from the browser on my computer rather than the Libby app truthfully. I really only use the Libby app if I'm on the go and want to see if my library has a book available or if my computer is off for the day. I did visit my library recently for the first time in years. I've been doing all of my borrowing digitally through Libby or Hoopla, but one of the manga series we're reading for club is hard to find for purchase right now, and we were able to find physical copies through my library system. It was really nice to be back after so many years! Lots of things there changed too. The layout was more spacious and they moved sections around. There is also a self-checkout machine now, which was different. Hope you have an amazing week and that you're able to read from Libby soon! If you need help, please feel free to send me a message on IG or Discord ^-^

The Battle of Bedegraine is one of the best written battles I have ever read. It’s exciting, a bit dark, and so full of political complexity

Attack of the Crab Monsters 😂 🦀 creature features are so wild.

Saw the title. Subscribed 😊

Nice choices! This seems like a fun challenge. I’ve recently watched the new Roadhouse which I thought was really awesome and action packed- I never saw the original though. I’ve also just seen the new Ghostbusters:Frozen Empire, and thought it was pretty cool. 😊