Hounding from the Depths of Perdition

[pratfalleffect]

Yeah, I really liked US too, Tiddly!

Watched Longlegs last night. Expected to be far more disturbed than I actually was. It was just ok, I guess. Maybe trying too hard? I dunno.

I had the exact same thought about Longlegs. I feel like it had so much potential, but they were definitely trying too hard and I think they missed the mark. I haven't had a lot of people agree with me on this.

 

[soapdish]

I haven't had a lot of people agree with me on this.

Were these people horror aficionados? I think some people come with more (or less) expectations depending on their experience with horror.

 

[tiddlywinks]

Okay, I'm about 5 episodes into Dark Winds because of y'all and DAMN it is good. Just popping in to say hi!

*sticks a Lisa Frank sticker on the bonepile for the Sparkle Pony whenever she stops in next*
*puts a sparkly skull sticker next to it for good measure so as not to lose her Hounds BBQ membership card*

 

[soapdish]

Enjoy Dark Winds, Tiddly!

Well, we are 3 days into December and I am already so over winter!

Doesn’t help that I have a cold. Littlest soapsud brought something home from the Petri dish dorms over break.

 

[tiddlywinks]

Enjoy Dark Winds, Tiddly!

Well, we are 3 days into December and I am already so over winter!

Doesn’t help that I have a cold. Littlest soapsud brought something home from the Petri dish dorms over break.

Oh lord. I'm really hoping bonus Winksson doesn't do that when he arrives home end of this week. We'll be talking about masking while he's working his winter break job because I swear that kid is the worst germ magnet and I definitely don't need something before my health insurance kicks in as of January :/

 

[soapdish]

Oh lord. I'm really hoping bonus Winksson doesn't do that when he arrives home end of this week. We'll be talking about masking while he's working his winter break job because I swear that kid is the worst germ magnet and I definitely don't need something before my health insurance kicks in as of January :/

Yeah, take care! We caught that bug on Thanksgiving and we STILL aren’t over it!

 

[tiddlywinks]

Yeah, take care! We caught that bug on Thanksgiving and we STILL aren’t over it!

Thanks. You know you're getting to that age when one of your friends can't make a happy hour because they have Shingles, and the other has Covid, so...

*runs away shrieking, holding her unicorn status close*

 

[soapdish]

Happy Holidays, houndies. (And any lurker houndies )



I gift you all the best dancers AW has to offer. Enjoy!

 

[TedTheewen]

Hope everybody had a great Christmas!

 

[dolores haze]

I got thirteen books for christmas! My menfolk know me well

 

[soapdish]

That is amazing!

I got one of those walk pad treadmill things. I it sooo much and have used it every day since Christmas. I really need to get to walking.

Since Christmas I feel like I’m mostly made of spray cheese and mini saltine crackers.

 

[tiddlywinks]

Hahahahahah, I received books and a gift card to buy...more books!!! Yay!!!!!!

I'll be hoarding the gift card for now, as I took advantage of the stuff your kindle day on the 26th, and I have library books to read, sooooo.

 

[soapdish]

I have had a flood of library books coming at me for months now! I can’t keep up and have to “delay delivery” on a ton of them.

I am having a hard time finishing many of them, though. I lose interest real easy if it doesn’t grab me right away. But I have liked one or two things lately.

I just finished a collection of short stories called A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez. It was good. Some of the stories better than others. My favorite was Metamorphosis. If you are a woman if an…ahem…”certain age” you might enjoy it too. Or hate it. Depending on your relationship with your body.

I don’t have a bookcase right now and all my books are just stacked in tall towers on the floor or slid under furniture. I have my eye on a glass one from IKEA. I’m trying to figure out if the shelves will be strong enough. I think they will be. And it’s under a 100 bucks. So I might go get it soon.

 

[frimble3]

I have had a flood of library books coming at me for months now! I can’t keep up and have to “delay delivery” on a ton of them.

I am having a hard time finishing many of them, though. I lose interest real easy if it doesn’t grab me right away. But I have liked one or two things lately.

I just finished a collection of short stories called A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez. It was good. Some of the stories better than others. My favorite was Metamorphosis. If you are a woman if an…ahem…”certain age” you might enjoy it too. Or hate it. Depending on your relationship with your body.

I don’t have a bookcase right now and all my books are just stacked in tall towers on the floor or slid under furniture. I have my eye on a glass one from IKEA. I’m trying to figure out if the shelves will be strong enough. I think they will be. And it’s under a 100 bucks. So I might go get it soon.

Take a bag of books with you for test purposes?
Although I personally swear by IKEA's 'Ivar' shelving. Not as pretty as glass, being plain wood, frame and shelves. I got the narrower width, the shelves are fully adjustable as to height, Straightforward and excellent weightbearing: mine are fully loaded, paperbacks and hardcovers, and no sign of dipping or bowing under the weight.

 

[soapdish]

Take a bag of books with you for test purposes?
Although I personally swear by IKEA's 'Ivar' shelving. Not as pretty as glass, being plain wood, frame and shelves. I got the narrower width, the shelves are fully adjustable as to height, Straightforward and excellent weightbearing: mine are fully loaded, paperbacks and hardcovers, and no sign of dipping or bowing under the weight.

Haha Not a bad idea!

Oh yeah, we have had all the IKEA specials over the years. My office is basically all IKEA. Though I’ve hacked and made modifications to them over the years.

For the room where I keep my books I’m trying to match the vibe of an inherited piece that’s very old and very elegant and mostly glass. Hence the glass cabinet.

 

[TedTheewen]

I don't trust a house that doesn't have books all over.

Once I get some issues worked out, I'll be back to walking. I was good during the holidays. Since October I've lost about 100 lbs.

 

[soapdish]

I don't trust a house that doesn't have books all over.

It could be a bad sign. But I don’t think it has to be. Lots of reasons one couldn’t/wouldn’t have books. (Or even wouldn’t appear to have books, but actually did.)

Once I get some issues worked out, I'll be back to walking. I was good during the holidays. Since October I've lost about 100 lbs.

Wow, Ted! That’s a lot in a short time. What’s your secret?

And if you say parasite, I will bop you

Unless it really was a parasite and then I’ll feel appropriately bad for my joke…

 

[ShaunHorton]

I don't trust a house that doesn't have books all over.

Once I get some issues worked out, I'll be back to walking. I was good during the holidays. Since October I've lost about 100 lbs.

Nice! Great job Ted! I've spent most of last year struggling to get down to 215. I did splurge over the holidays, but I'm back down to hovering at 220.

 

[soapdish]

I haven’t stepped on a scale in several years. Except at the doctor’s office when they make me and I close my eyes and tell them to NOT say it out loud, thank you. Metrics = disordered eating for me.

I don’t have a lot to lose, just need my clothes to fit comfortably again. And to get rid of some hip pain that I think is caused by carrying around a little extra junk in my trunk.

My biggest problem is that I have to work a lot harder than I used to to drop a few pounds. But my effing ligments sprain when I try to kick things up a notch. And my muscles are chronically engaged and so I injure myself very easily. So I have to go sooooo slow. Or else I have to stop to “heal” which just pushes any progress out further!!

Anyway, walking is the easiest thing for me to start slow with for now.

Not for too long a distance.
Not at too fast a pace.
Just stupid medium speed walking. (And hope I don’t swing my arms too much in the process.)

 

[TedTheewen]

I'm on keto. Frankly, it took my appetite away and I have to force myself to choke down protein shakes.

I need to get on a scale but I don't have one.

 

[soapdish]

Ahh. I have done keto. Not for weight loss but for nerve related issues. It is a commitment, that’s for sure!

I hate pretty much all protein shakes. I don’t know if you’ve tried it, but powdered Vital Proteins (essentially just collagen) is easy to add to anything you drink or eat. The plain kind is mostly flavorless in small quantities.

And they have a chocolate one which is what I get now. I add it to my coffee in the morning.

Neither flavor makes things thick like a shake, so it’s relatively unobtrusive to your diet but adds almost 20 g of protein.

I’d send you my scale, if it were not cost prohibitive to do so. You can probably get one cheaper online and shipped for free than it would cost me to ship mine to you.

 

[tiddlywinks]

Holy crap, congrats, Ted! Just be careful on how fast you lose - you don't want gallbladder issues, man. A friend of mine had to have hers taken out last year and it is NOT fun.

I hear you guys on the needing to get to a healthier weight. I'm in a similar boat myself - the pandemic + new relationship + highly stressful last job + stupid gosh darn perimenopause all conspired against me here. I know what I need to do. Just been in the contemplation / whine to myself phase for far too long here. Now, I'm working on being kind to myself again, while also being firm about sticking to some healthier habits and healthy stress coping mechanisms. It helps I don't have a lot of work related stress right now LOL, sigh.

For me, a lot of it is in the kitchen right now. My partner LOVES to cook, and he's pretty good at it...but food is also one of his love languages and I'm working on him not feeding my emotional eating gremlin (he likes to make or get me treats when he thinks I'm having an off moment / day). And having two teenagers who eat a whole friggin house in a day, it's...much harder than when I was single, let's put it that way! Basically, I need to put the work into cleaning up my habits in the kitchen. And just re-establish my habits at the gym and outdoors.

Hiking sucks when you're carrying more weight on your bones than you're used to! -_-

I want to get ahead of it before I go down the road of health issues lurking in my family. So I'm setting a goal for myself this year, and I plan to be kind to myself along the journey. I'm hoping the SO will join me, but he doesn't have to. I just want us both to be around until we're that cute little old couple on the bench at the park who makes you smile and think "life goals!" ...and there's maybe a teeny part of me that wants to be able to keep up with the bonus daughter and kick her ass a little on hikes out in the mountains

 

[TedTheewen]

Food is my love language too. Long story about that one.

And yes, dropping weight too fast is a problem. I've had some TMI issues that were incredibly painful, bloody, and just nasty because of it. I don't care that much, though. I just want the damned weight off.

I might go to the local recycling center here to jump on their scale. Simple and done.

 

[soapdish]

Hiking sucks when you're carrying more weight on your bones than you're used to! -_-

Word.



Is anyone watching the Dexter prequel? I loved the original Dexter so much. And this prequel is not bad, but it just doesn’t quite measure up to the original. Or maybe my memory of it is just colored by nostalgia and I’m romanticizing it after all these years a little bit?

I did watch the short reboot last year(?) and it was pretty good. And my understanding is that this prequel is limited? And then I think they are going to hit the reboot again with another season?

I’m not sure exactly how they are piecing all these things together in what is starting to seem like a franchise?…

But anyway, I’m here for it!

 

[TedTheewen]

Lately I've been watching a TON of shows. Like, that's all I do. I work and then I binge watch until I drool.

Right now, I'm watching The Morning Show. But the absolute best surprise was a BBC show with Walter Goggins called Deep State on MGM+. It's incredible.