Day Ten
We're still in this weird middle place where i have a ton of worky work, but the girls legit have nothing they *have* to do during the day. Alexis has her usual dance classes and such, as does Mila, but they're in the evenings. School work allegedly is going to kick in next week, but for now?
Nothing.
Except that Alexis has assigned herself to a very important project. She has decided that she has to watch every second of every episode of Gilmore Girls. And it's a race.
I'm not sure if she's slept this week.
I do know that getting her out of bed in the morning requires an act of congress (or a 5-year old to climb up in her loft and push her out of bed while screaming, "WAKE UP, SISSY!"). But she's not asleep when congress gets its act together. Instead, she's wide awake and staring at a tiny screen. Which, coincidentally, is exactly what she has been doing when I've gone to bed each night at 1:00 am. It's also what she has been doing while Mila binge watches Boss Baby episodes and what she has been doing while playing Mario Kart with her sister. It's some impressive multi-tasking, honestly.
Don't worry. I have intervened and forced her to slow down. Promise.
BUT! I have also greatly enjoyed her reactions along the way. I have never binged Gilmore Girls, but rather watched every episode as it aired. I think watching it faster makes a big difference in how deeply you feel things, or maybe Alexis is just a special person. Either way, her hatred for Christopher is AMAZING. Her opinions about Dean make me think she's going to be okay in the long wrong. She super haaaaates Logan, so I'm planning to watch the Netflix episodes of grown-up Rory with her just so I can see her head explode when Logan comes back into the picture.
That is going to be AMAZING.
Especially because I keep telling her that all of Rory's bad decision-making will work out in the end. Mwahahaha!
The things we do to entertain ourselves during a quarantine.
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
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So, I am halfway through season 6 of Gilmore Girls and have long since decided that I hate every single character on the show. Like hate, hate. I’m sort of hoping the series will end with a nuclear bomb wiping the state of Connecticut off the map because seriously every one of them should cease to exist.
For a while I thought I might like Luke. He seemed to be the only emotionally healthy person on the show. But then when the inevitable relationship with Lorelai came into being and he allowed himself to be taken advantage of (even more than he always was when she was “a friend”), I realized he’s as useless and pathetic as the rest of them.
I recently got out of an abusive relationship with a pathological Narcissist, so, of course, my view is colored by what I’ve learned through that experience, but from the very beginning with Rory’s relationship with moody, whiney Dean, I’ve been disgusted by how this “smarter than smart” person allows herself to be treated, and it’s only been downhill since. God how I hate everyone on that show.
You might wonder why I bother to keep watching, but did I mention being a victim of emotional abuse? Yeah. Apparently I can dish it out to myself as well as anybody! (Also, I have a thing about finishing things I started. Dumb, I know.)