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1) We finally finished watching Game of Thrones!  It took us a lot longer than it should have, but Steve had to travel and he had band practice and he didn't want me to watch it without him.  Also, I don't know how to access the server where our shows are stored because it needs to be as complicated as necessary to watch television in our house for some reason.

My thoughts: - I liked it a lot more towards the end than I did when we started it, although you can tell a marked difference in quality where the original material stopped and the television writers headed out on their own.  - There were a lot of naked people on the show. Like, a lot. It didn't bother me, exactly. I mean, sometimes I'm a naked person too, but it seemed like more than was strictly necessary at times. Granted, it was on HBO and I think that's kind of their thing. I suppose it's just a fact that sometimes you can get people interested in something if you make it sexy and then hope they stick around to find out they like the rest of it on it's own merits. -  The scenes with the wights were intense, claustrophobic, and sometimes completely overwhelming, even for me as a person who likes zombie stuff! I loved it! - Bran was useless. I don't know why they made him king!  I mean, yeah, he knows everything that was and will be, but haven't they seen Minority Report? Knowing the future doesn't make someone fit to rule. -  Also, dangit Jon Snow!  He could have kept him mouth shut, right?  He didn't want to be king of Westros, so it's not like his true identity was important.  Sure, maybe he didn't want to keep sleeping with his aunt, because gross, but there are a million different reasons he could have given her for stopping that stuff!  He could have given her any one of the million bullshit reasons men give women when they are done with them, or ghosted her like a jerk, but he picked the absolute worst thing to tell her.  Usually I'm all about people telling the truth. I insist on it, even. But when you're dealing with a potential crazy person with megalomaniac tendencies and big scary dragons, I'll give you a pass if you want to give her the old "It's not you, it's me" speech.  UGH.

As much as I hate to admit it, though, I think I identified with Daenrys a little too much. Were I in her place, I might not be so different. I'd have the best intentions, want to free slaves, and make the world better, but I can definitely see myself letting the power go to my head and just losing my shit. Add to that being rejected by the man I love and who knows? I might even dracarys the crap out of a city!

Haha...no, I'd probably just eat the dragon in the end. I'm an emotional eater. Drogon wouldn't have stood a chance. :(   

All in all, though, I enjoyed the ride. I can see why so many people enjoyed it!

2)  I am very discouraged with my latest freelance gig.  had three different jobs in May, which is a lot more than I usually have at a time.  One job was big, one was medium, and one should have been fairly easy.  I finally managed to finish the big job after a lot of back and forth with the client, and the medium job was finished once I had all of the pieces, but the little job is what has me frustrated.

I completely misunderstood what my client wanted. It's my fault for not understanding what he asked for, but he said he wanted me to redesign his business card. I took that to mean he wanted to change everything, including the logo, so I spent all my extra freelance time coming up with 4 drafts of the card. I used pieces of his old logo as place holders until we could figure out where to go from there and sent him all of the drafts, keeping my fingers crossed that I'd come up with something at least close to what he was looking for. I was way off base.  He just wanted me to make him a simple card with the existing logo and his info, which should be one of the easiest things in the world to do.  He was very kind about it, and told me exactly what he needed, but I feel like such a tool.  My client is new, but he is a former teacher of mine who is throwing work my way to help out my side hustle, and I was hoping I would, at the very least, look professional. Now I look like I can't even follow simple instructions. I'm still working to send him what I think he wants (VBS week has kept me busy) so hopefully I can get him what he wants, but stuff like this makes me question my ability to do design at all.

It's a good thing I already know I'm talented. ;)

3) This time last year I was counting down the days for our trip to Spain/France!  That was such a fun trip!  Good grief, that feels like it was a whole other lifetime ago. I was 30 pounds lighter and a big chunk of my family were still alive, so it feels like it happened to a completely different person, anyway. Haha! I kind of miss having something exciting like that to look forward to!  Ok, that sounds kind of depressed, but you know what I mean. I miss the anticipation of going on an adventure, I suppose.  As much as I love to travel, it's not like I want a big, complicated trip every year or anything like that, so I don't need that. I just enjoy that sense of something exciting to look forward to.  Who knows?  Maybe on my way home I'll turn left instead of right and have an unexpected adventure, kind of like Frodo!  You never know, after all! :)

4) There was more, but I can't remember what I was going to talk about. That's no fun!  I'm sure it was amazing and I'm sorry you didn't get to read whatever it was. 

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Haha! Dear God, I'm so tired.