The last episode of Game of Thrones was kind of rough at the end…so let’s help make it better by watching the ridiculously funny episode of Gay of Thrones from FunnyorDie.com!!!  Yay!  Try not to laugh when we get to see Lady Olenna’s Yelp review of King’s Landing!
We got home from Magic Mountain way earlier than closing time as there was some good good television to watch on Sunday night. Â Game of Thrones didn’t disappoint while also setting off quite a few people in the viewing audience as the ending scene was horrific….because it depicted the brutal and awful wedding night consummation of Sansa with Ramsay. 
 We all know Ramsay is a terrible bastard in all meanings of the word but he’s also depraved, and we were hoping Sansa wasn’t going to become a victim yet again.  Here we are though, left with the awful image of Theon/Reek having to witness what we can only hear.  Will Sansa emerge from this a victim, or is this a necessary evil she willingly suffered in order to continue the hopeful revenge story of the Starks against all their betrayers?  Who knows? We’re firmly in non-book territory with this plot point as what happened in Book 5 was with a fake-Arya character and was far more horrific than what happened this episode.  I’m going to hold out hope that Sansa isn’t made into a victim yet again and also inserts Littlefinger as her ultimate target for retaliation.  But of course, only when the time is right.  That motherfucker deserves a whole lot of payback.
But yeah, the best part of the TV night was the series finale of Mad Men.  It was a wonderful hour+ of television and a very fitting end to the series.  Lots of happy-ish moments found within, including a Peggy-Stan relationship long in the making, Joan taking the reins of her life and not waiting on some man to make it okay, Roger finding happiness with a lady who matches him perfectly, the Campbells OWNING their new station in life as they head to their waiting Learjet….those things were awesome.  Don Draper’s existential crisis though?  That was amazing to behold.  Devastating, but amazing.  And then to see him pull through at the very end and it implied he came up with the most famous Coke ad of all time? 
 LOVED IT.  That smirk at the end was just perfect  – he’s made it finally through this cycle of pain, and he’s ready for the next cycle to begin.  I hope, as much as one can hope things for fictional characters, that he is there for his children as that was still the saddest and most tragic part of the hour.  But I think even if he still remains at the level of engagement he had before with them, Sally will pull it off.  Man, what a ride this show was.  Just an amazing series, and one that’ll be sorely missed now.  I’m just glad it went out on a high note and stuck the landing….coughLOSTcough….
In other things? Â Work is certainly picking up! Â I’m nervous, excited, and all around ready for this to get going! Â I just hate the stress I cause myself when I’m in this phase. Â Let’s do this!
Oh hells to the yeah – YAS QUEEN! Jonathan returns from the dead in order to make sure we are properly caught up on all the Christina Aguilera, Munch-munch, and Blonde Cher realness that happened in the previous episode of Game of Thrones. I have to wait until TOMORROW but whatever, I can wait. I am sure it will be worth it. But can I say that I kind of want to know what else happened on Bones?
We’ve finally made it – all the big boxes are unpacked and disposed of. Â It’s a thrilling sensation to be done and to be kind of almost all moved in at our new and smaller apartment. Â All the work of getting shelving installed has been so satisfying too, as items are finding their real home and our home becomes livable too for us, as that is actually a thing we’ve been making ourselves deal with. Â It’s interesting how much you choose to deal with when it’s something you can’t ignore, like boxes all stacked in your dining room area or piles of clothes and linens in your bedroom or an office overrun with crap…you make it all work regardless and get used to it. Â But when you get things organized and reclaim that space, it is like, woah, that’s nice.
Yesterday was a productive day too, but I think I felt a little emotional about it as well. Â There was the realization I had that Phase 1 of Moving is done and now it’s time to get settled in and make the place ours, and then start actually enjoying the apartment and amenities. Â But then it was also realizing that we’re not done yet – just that the boxes are gone. Â I actually just got my TV mount for the wall today, we have more shelving coming in for the wine glasses and bar area, and then there will be picture hangings and such. Â It’s fun and great to have all this happen, but soooo exhausting.
In random tangents, both Larry & I are so glad to have some of our favorite Spring TV back:  Mad Men and Game of Thrones.  Mad Men‘s final season is airing and it’s been good but also sad because this is the LAST SEASON.  NOOOOO……!!!  It’s not clear where it’s headed, but one thing that does seem kind of apparent is that Don Draper is and will continue to be the same broken and flawed man he was from Season 1.  Game of Thrones is exciting this year as we’re finally at that expected divide when the TV show caught up to the books…and now the show is able to write its own interpretation of what happens next.  George R. R. Martin has given the showrunners an outline of what he has intended the overall story to encompass for the ending, but the details are likely changing regardless.  There are promises that characters will die even book readers will find surprising.  So, those shows are ongoing while Larry & I also are enjoying the third season of House of Cards on Netflix, although that has been slow-going for a few reasons, including my initial PwC travels and then moving.  But we didn’t let all that stop us from binge-watching Netflix’s other new series, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which is fucking awesome and funny as hell.
Alright, this was just a word-vomit post for today, but I need to keep trying to get back in the swing of posting and so here we are. Â I have some more pics to share too, including a bigger batch from yesterday when Mom and Helen came over to visit.
Last week there was an All Hands meeting for the group here in SoCal and it was held out on the Westside, kinda near my old stomping grounds. Â The traffic was ridiculous, as expected, but not nearly as bad as it could have been. Â Even though it felt like a longer ride, it was only an hour or so back to my home in Glendale…although that was with me leaving at 7pm. Â I had looked earlier at 5pm and the trip was easily 1.5 hours. Â Eff that. Â I did enjoy being back on the beach though, but that’s just not enough for me to say I miss the Santa Monica area, as I don’t.
I have to say this is kind of misleading titling, as while it was a final stretch of boxes and installations, like I rambled about above, there’s still a lot of work. Â But at least we’ve gotten so much crap off the floors!
Helen came up to visit mom so they came over to see how we were doing in the getting settled effort. Â Mom wasn’t impressed but I reminded her, gently, that it actually was MUCH better than when she saw it and it was a goddamn warzone. Â We took them on a tour of the amenities as we hadn’t shown my mom that her last time here as there was work to be done then! Â These pics are from the roof deck of the building we live in, not of our own private area. Â Our grilling adventures for dinner later that evening were a bit educational – the grills provided around the complex are very nice, but they’re huge. Â So we’ve realized that a large grill takes much more to heat up. Â The El Pollo Loco chicken recipe requires indirect heat, so to do that in a big grill, you need to use more burners. Â Lesson learned, hopefully.
I’ve posted before about Gay of Thrones and it’s awesomeness previously, but this latest episode recapping the season finale of Game of Thrones is frankly epic. Not only does it have Louis Virtel who is endlessly hilarious in his own right, but there’s a crazy cameo in this one that is completely unexpected. Click to see the video after the jump, as I can’t promise this video doesn’t auto-play annoyingly. Continue reading The Gay of Thrones season finale
