I am posting this to remind myself, again, that some of the toughest days to get through treatment are the best days of the process. Positive gains, no matter how tiny.


It's always fun waking up to mystery bruises. Dark black bruise on my heel. How? When? Where? Possibly kicked the futon frame but any guess is good at this point. Ow.
I am posting this to remind myself, again, that some of the toughest days to get through treatment are the best days of the process. Positive gains, no matter how tiny.
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Thank you. You're spot on with a lot of what I've been having to remind myself each morning when I resist the urge to stay in bed. I know the trajectory and that there is, somewhere out there, a goal. But I can't worry about that long-distanced idea. Instead, the little steps are attainable; let's do one more of those today.I don’t know if your treatment is related to mental health, but if it is, I absolutely understand.
I know when I started being proactive about my mental health and bettering myself, I was often really overwhelmed. When I was at my absolute worst, it felt like things would never get better or that it would take an impossibly long time. It was discouraging for me to thiynk about how substantial change doesn’t happen overnight and there’s no real time frame on when things will get better when you’re facing an uphill battle with your own brain.
Buuut, I realized all I could do was take it one day at a time and instead of focusing on an unclear future, focusing on what I was doing in the now. Just doing tiny things everyday that was better than the day before, confronting issues as I could when they arose and treating myself with grace and understanding when I did slip.
It’s been a few years now since I started taking my mental health seriously, and I can say that I’m in a much better place than I was. It’s honestly crazy when I look back at the person I was three years ago and how much time has passed between now and then and how far I’ve come.
Not everyday is perfect. I still get depressed. I still get anxious. It’s a part of life that I’ve come to accept. And when I have those rough days, I take pride in the small things. Being able to eat a small meal, having the energy to wash my hair or even being able to concentrate on a movie or tv show and actually enjoy it. Those were things I wasn’t capable of doing at my worst, and it’s the small victories that count and really add up overtime.
Sorry if that’s not what you were talking about, but I figured it might be helpful.
I'd just ask if the airline gave out eye shades on the inbound flight.I live in the UK - a Uni friend from Atlanta, Georgia, USA, just came to stay for a week and has been baffled that the sun rises here right now at 4:30am. He was tired/knackered by like 9pm.
It’s never bothered me; I like to doze. I guess should invest in thicker curtains for the guest room![]()
The Interview with the Vampire series on AMC is fucking amazeballs. The Mayfair Witches series on AMC is garbage and I was greatly disappointed.I’ve been re-reading The Mayfair Witches series by Anne Rice and I started playing the Alone in the Dark remake yesterday.
So much old, gothic New Orleans media and it’s making me miss hoooome.
Especially the Anne Rice books. I actually wonder how people who are not familiar with New Orleans view certain aspects of her books, because in my opinion, she would describe New Orleans almost as you would describe it if you were talking to someone who knew the city. Lots of actual street names, restaurants, churches, etc. So for me, I can visualize exactly what she’s describing and it makes me nostalgic. I wonder if I would be enjoying this re-read as much as I have been if I wasn’t already kinda homesick.
The Interview with the Vampire series on AMC is fucking amazeballs. The Mayfair Witches series on AMC is garbage and I was greatly disappointed.
This is Lestat:
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TMW was and is one of my all time favorite series from Rice and she writes of New Orleans well. I can smell the petrichor and hear the wind in the leaves.
I’ve never watched The Interview with the Vampire AMC series, but I did watch the first two episodes of The Mayfair Witches and I agree, it’s horrible. How can you have a series based on The Mayfair Witches and not have Michael or Aaron?! Michael is a major character and the catalyst for a lot of what happens in the series, so deciding to totally cut his character is such an odd choice. I think they combined the two characters into one, but I don’t know how much of an impact he actually has on the show since I couldn’t bring myself to watch more than two episodes of it.
And, Alexandra Daddario is a bad choice for Rowan. I could get past the fact that she looks absolutely nothing like what Rowan is supposed to look like. But, she’s just not a great actress. I haven’t seen much of her works, but from the little I have seen, she is very monotone and her acting just isn’t believable. I feel like she got cast simply because she is gorgeous.
There’s no way this series would have gotten the green light if Anne Rice was still alive. I remember the first time I read The Witching Hour, about 20 years ago, and I always wanted a movie or tv adaptation of it. There was so much potential there, but AMC decided instead to ruin what is arguably Anne Rice’s best work. Crazy, because some of the best modern tv shows have come from AMC, but they dropped the ball hard on this one.
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I feel exactly the same way. So much rich potential. But nope, pick the gorgeous version of Kristen Stewart and to hit hard with the sex right away...that needed a slow roll. Instead it was immediate and quite graphic.
Give IWTV a shot. It's super hot and really sticks to the novels. Sam Reid is the perfect Lestat. Purrrfect.
Season 3 doesn't launch until 2026 so you have time.“The gorgeous version of Kristen Stewart” is so accurate!!! Hahahaha!
I’ll give it a shot eventually! I’m reading Taltos right now and after I want to start on the Vampire Chronicles. I’ve actually only ever read Interview with the Vampire, and that was a long time ago, so I want to read at least the first few books and then start watching the tv series and the og movies.
Still so crazy to me that The Mayfair Witches series was so bad, when AMC usually does top tier shows like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Even The Walking Dead was one of the highest rated shows for its first few seasons. And then… this.