Day 2962

Aka Sunday 1st January 2023

…Happy New Year! I had planned to start the new year with a walk, not my old 10k walk as I need to build back up to that, but an extended walk when getting the paper. I’d planned to take a longer way back home, get in some extra steps. But this cold is still hanging on and even through I feel less tired and less snotty, I still feel weary and my chest is aching, I assume from the sneezing and coughing (at one point I thought my sneezes were going to go supersonic and start shattering glass!), which is slightly triggering my anxiety, so I didn’t go for an extended walk. Decided it was best to fully recover, rather than push before my body is ready. But next Sunday (or Saturday) I should be fully feeling back to normal and can get on the good foot!

One of my New Year Resolutions is to keep on top of my email inbox (currently on 38,518 unread), most of what’s in it is marketing stuff, which I kinda leave till later, but it has built up, so now I’m going to be responsible and dealing with it the day it comes in. Although that does mean I saw this Lego Back To The Future set:

…which I really want, but it’s £169.99!!! Can I really justify buying it? Not really, but I can feel myself starting to buckle! I mean we did get back pay in our December pay packet, so maybe that’s a sign? Or maybe it’s a sign that I should take of deceasing my personal debt mountain?

I also listened to Richard Norris’s Music For Healing - Equinox 1, containing the lush ambient songs Winter Solstice 1 and Winter Solstice 2…and watched ‘Murder Mystery’:

…which I enjoyed much more than I thought I would. As it’s an Adam Sandler film I was expecting some broad comedy and a slightly incoherent story. But it much better than that. The relationship between Sandler and Jennifer Aniston feels genuine, the comedy is laidback and the story makes sense. It feels very much in the vein of ‘The Cat and the Canary’, ‘The Thin Man’, and ‘Clue’ and is an enjoyable watch. A great companion to the other Sunday afternoon/Comfy Murder genre films…I also rewatched ‘Clue’:

…which was enjoyable as ever. I also watched ‘The Pledge’:

…which I didn’t realise was a re-watch until halfway through. Maybe I’d caught the last half on TV one time? It’s an odd film, it starts outs as a normal police thriller about a serial killer, but then becomes much more about how obsession can take over and make you do bad things for good ends. It’s not a bad film, but feels like it would have been better as a (limited) TV show, where there would have been more time to show the slow descent into questionable actions and their impact on everyone involved.