Right in the Feels

I was going to make a post about how Survivor 48 was a wholesome season and a breath of fresh air after the horrible showings they’ve had recently and a triumph of the human spirit as the commercials put it...but apparently I’m in the minority on that opinion. Turns out more people want the cutthroat gameplay and were actually on Thomas’s side. I’ll agree that, since I was barely paying attention during the episode Star was voted off because I was busy doing other things, but it turns out I didn’t need to because nothing happened, it could get a little boring at times. I still enjoyed it, though. It was nice to see people doing the morally right thing instead of the underhanded sneaky thing for a change. I miss the Ponderosa videos because it was all about the cast being genuine people just chilling on the island, and this season was a good substitute for that.

‭I also want to talk about my experience watching Daniel Tiger for the first time. It’s a long-running show on PBS recently discovered by my three-year old, so naturally we have to have it on all the time now until she gets tired of it and goes back to one of her other current obsessions (it’s July and she can’t get enough of Frosty the Snowman right now). It was the Thank You Day episode in which the wind blows away the thank you notes but Mr. McFeely gathers them up and returns them on his way to the party. I don’t know, something about him showing up notes in hand (or bicycle basket) and singing his jingle hit something buried deep within me and my eyes started watering like I was going to cry. I don’t even remember much about Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood or what it had even meant to me as a kid. I remember some of the puppets, and the character models look just like them...except then I remembered Lady Elaine looking different and acting like a total bitch, so this new version of her is an improvement. Another noteworthy character is Baker Aker. Again, I watch too much TV with my daughter, so it’s fresh in my mind, but Baker Aker sounds just like the Rhombus of Recipes from Elmo the Musical. I can’t find any acting credits on that segment besides Kevin Klash, so I can’t prove they’re voiced by the same person. Some Sesame Street actors do work on Donkey Hodey, and that’s another Fred Rogers spinoff, so it’s entirely possible. 

‭Other than that, I’m looking forward to the new season of Ascendance of a Bookworm next spring. I'm still waiting on volume 10 of the Part 2 manga so I can start collecting Part 3, which is running concurrently with Part 2.

Blog #500

It’s the 500th blog on this website, and I’m going to begin by talking about food. There was another seasonal Chipwich called Snow Day. It has chocolate cookies and vanilla ice cream with mint pieces. S-Tier.
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Burger King milkshakes are good now. They come in one size, which is medium, but they’re still really good. The chicken snack wraps are ass, though, which is really too bad. The Wendy’s one sucks too, but the ones from Jake’s Wayback Burgers are the clear winner. McDonald’s is supposed to be bringing the snack wraps back, though, so we’ll see about that. The Wayback chicken sandwiches are great too. It might be the one near me, but it seems like the Popeye’s chicken sandwiches have gone down in quality. The Burger King Original chicken sandwich has always been my go-to, but I wouldn’t try to put pickles on it.
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Both my grandmothers had signs up in their kitchens claiming ownership of them - Doris’s Kitchen, Helen’s Kitchen. My mom and my mother-in-law didn’t have that, nor do they now that they’re grandmothers. I sure as hell don’t. I don’t even have my own space in the house, and it if I did it wouldn’t be the kitchen.
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I haven’t had a lot of luck with ordering books online lately. I wanted to get Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card volume 16, but only the Kindle version has the correct cover. Every website shows the print version as volume 10, like it’s some kind of conspiracy. Not even ebay has a picture of the actual product, just the cover image like everyone else. I can’t even get Ascendance of a Bookworm manga when they come out because it’s Kindle only for months before the print version finally comes out, if it comes out at all. The Kindle posts a large file warning too. I can’t even get the books I want for my daughter either. I tried to pre-order a Toy Story pop-up book that was supposedly coming out on her birthday, but the other day I got an email that the release date was now TBD. There was a Finny the Shark book that was supposed to come out on her birthday too, but that got pushed to July. I tried to buy a Wiggles book from ebay, but the seller has been unresponsive, and I’ll probably have to cancel it to get my money back. I haven’t had much luck with online vendors in general. Another ebay seller canceled my order because they claimed I had a bad address. There’s also a website for a bakery in Ohio that’s still operating like it’s still in business, so I placed an order for Valentine’s Day, but they never shipped it. They didn’t answer the email or voicemail, so now my bank’s looking into it. I want to support small businesses, but I don't think I can trust many of them now.