BLOURNAL
Can’t really think of a title for this one…
OK so I was gonna write something last night before I went out to the pub, but I couldn’t really figure out what exactly I wanted to say. In general, I feel like I have a lot to say about so many different things but I’ve always struggled to articulate myself. Likewise, my thought process is messy and unfocused so naturally, it’s a huge fucking pain in the ass when I’m trying to translate my thoughts into something even remotely coherent.
Beating brain rot one day at a time…
Once again, it’s that time of the night where I’m not entirely sure if it’s yesterday, today or tomorrow. It is Friday as we’re now in the AM, but it doesn’t really feel that way to me. Today still feels like a Thursday to me. But I digress, I’m not here to pontificate over the grey areas of time. I’m just here to remind everyone that I’m still kicking about.
My belated thoughts on this year’s Oscars
OK so at this point, it’s probably a little untimely of me to be talking about the Oscars. I’m sure most people have already said what needs to be said, but I wanna also offer some of my own two cents.
This was originally going to be a blournal entry about the Oscars
Hi, folks.
So I’m currently in the midst of writing a big, long blournal entry about this year’s Oscars, which I was hoping to have finished and posted earlier today but alas, it’s taking a lot longer to finish than I initially anticipated.
Calling this blournal entry “Untitled” would be perhaps a bit too pretentious… even by my standards
Hi, everyone.
Pardon me if my “blournalling” has been intermittent as of late. I don’t really what to say at this current moment, but don’t interpret that as me saying that I don’t have anything to say. On the contrary, I’m actually kind of overwhelmed by what I have to say.
Spring is springing
It was a surprisingly decent week… at least weatherwise. There’s been the occasional dull day with drizzle and downpour, but there has just as many days with blue skies and sunshine. Granted, it is still kind of chilly at times, but at the moment, the skies are clear in a way that seemed almost impossible even a week ago. Hell, I even managed to eek out a few decent sunset photos over the last two days, which you can see on my Instagram. I might make them available on this website further down the line but… I’m a chronic procrastinator and I want to add some things to the website before I do anything of that.
Another week where not much of note happened
Truth be told, this week was pretty uneventful aside from my trips to Belfast and my midweek night out to Donaghmore. Those were fun days out and provided plenty of craic and good memories for me to look back on, but aside from that… yeah, I didn’t really get up to much this week.
A lot can happen in seven days…
Ugh… I really do let the days run away from me someday. I was hoping to do some blournalling earlier but alas, that didn’t amount to anything.
Did you know that there’s three Friday the 13ths on this year’s calendar alone? Well, if you didn’t, you do now…
OK… so I know Friday the 13th is supposed to be an unlucky day but I think we gotten pretty lucky with the weather today. Yeah, it was a little nippy but the sky was bright blue and even now, there’s no immediate signs that it’s gonna rain. Could this be the day that breaks the currently unbroken streak of rain that has permeated through 2026? Let’s hope so.
I know it can’t rain all the time, but this winter has been an absolute washout
Well, I was gonna write about the weather and how this year has been kind of a washout so far, but I don’t really know what else there is to add to that particular subject. Maybe I just have such a limited imagination but I don’t think there’s much else that needs to be said about the weather other than the fact that it’s been persistently miserable since we started singing “Auld Lang Syne”.
Small victories
Today was one of those days where I had a difficult time getting out of bed and motivating myself… a typical Monday, in other words… but I’m proud of myself for getting down to the local gym and persisting even if I felt like I had to muster up a lot of fake energy that simply wasn’t there. All in all, today’s workout wasn’t one of my more fruitful sessions, but I’m glad I persevered. Going to the gym and shaking off some of that morning malaise has been such a tonic during this relatively unproductive phase of my life.
Well, at least the days are getting longer…
And so ends yet another dreary, cold and typically unproductive day in the year of our lord. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, but days like this are always a pain in the fucking ass to write about.
This update’s still short, but at least it’s a little longer (and more hopeful) than my previous update…
OK, so… you know how I said I was hoping to post at least one photo per day on the website in the “daily photos” page. Yeah… so far, that hasn’t quite panned out the way I’d hoped. Truth be told, I was hoping to take a photo for each day of the year, but alas, I’ve had a few days this year where I just wasn’t feeling all that inspired or motivated.
A short (but not particularly sweet) update
Hi, folks.
Ugh. Apologies once again for being so remiss since my last blournal entry. I was hoping to write something sooner, but alas, my life’s been pretty mundane for the past week or so.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
I meant to do this last night before I went to bed, but I was feeling a little tired… so here we are.
Anyway… so I saw 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple yesterday and yeah… I thoroughly enjoyed it. Definitely a darker, stranger and more disturbing film than its immediate predecessor, but it’s also surprisingly hopeful in its own way.
Marty Supreme
I finally got around to seeing Marty Supreme last night and… hoo boy, who would’ve thought a film about a guy with aspirations of playing table tennis would be so intense.
I made it through another Blue Monday
Hi, everyone.
Apologies for the lack of blournal updates. I don’t have any excuses for being so remiss over the past few days aside from the fact that I’ve been feeling a bit out-of-sorts.
A day out in the Mournes
Yesterday, I went for a wee trip out with my dad. We made a few stops along our travels — Dundrum, Murlough Beach, Tollymore Forest Park and a few pit stops in the Mournes — but most of the day was spent driving around and taking in the scenery before the sun goes down.
New Years’ Resolutions
Not gonna lie, it has been extremely difficult trying to come up with resolutions for this year given… everything that’s been going on in the world over the last couple of weeks. To be fair, January is usually a slow month and I never go into the start of a year with any major expectations, so I probably shouldn’t be so critical of myself, but… obviously, that’s never stopped me before.
One Rabbit Hole After Another
I read another chapter of Lemmy’s book last night after slacking off on my reading for nearly a month. I still haven’t got to the formation of Motorhead yet but I like what I’ve read so far.