Friday, April 10

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

Sunshine, and warm enough that the snow is melting a bit.

That we began to take apart the roof sections in the horse pasture. The only thing we can do to get rid of them is to take them apart, so that's what we're doing.

My sweetie finally fixed the door in the kitchen. The house shifted when we moved it, and this door didn't close properly. It's the door from the kitchen to the small entryway/porch, and it didn't shut all winter, becoming one of those awful things that bothers me every time I use it. He finally fixed it.

I cleaned a bunch of manure out of the pony/goat pen, since melting snow is revealing a lot of manure I didn't pick up over the winter.

We watched "Joker", and while I find it pretty grim and I dislike the association between mental illness and violence, I also was still blown away by the strength of the acting. I find myself relating to feeling out of control, feeling rejected by others, and the failure of the system to provide any kind of meaningful support to people. I strongly related to his feelings of isolation, and what it's like to work shitty jobs and to lose even that shitty job. No, I'm not saying that becoming a murderer is a solution, but I think that the pain and suffering of this character is still really relateable. I'm not even sure I liked the movie, though I have to say the way Arthur changed at the end worked well for tying into the Joker in the Dark Knight movie.