YouTube link here. The Christmas decorations are back!
This week is mental health again. But there’s an opening section about movies and TV, so it’s not all bad. But after the fun, we do a deep dive into Rejection Thingy Thingy, thanks to Azuretalon. We are not mental health professionals, so listen at your own risk. Enjoy!
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Azuretalon attached a graphic with his question… I’ll quote the text here:
“Things to remember with rejection sensitive dysphoria… everyone doesn’t secretly hate you… most people aren’t scrutinizing everything you do… you don’t have to be perfect to be loved… you’re not a bad person for mistakes you’ve made… your intrusive thoughts are lying to you… the people in your life want to be there.”
These seem consistent with the clinical definitions I found when I looked this up.
For the record, these aren’t things I need help remembering. But they do bear some resemblance to the things I struggle to remember.
“You don’t annoy people as often or as much as you think, and even when you do it almost never reaches the level of ‘causing harm’.” That one is the hardest to remember. Or maybe it’s just the hardest to believe! š
We definitely over prepared for this derecho (unsure if it met the official classification), having mostly prepared for the last. I think that it happened at night, in bloody December, is what made it worse. Hard to immediately assess the impact, and lights only flickered here rather than losing power.
However, some context helps – apparently, eastern Iowa can expect a derecho system once a year, on average. So, statistically, I’ve been through 13 but only knew of this one and last year’s. Maybe weather folks on TV never really thought to classify it as anything other than a squall line of sorts, until one was predicted to do massive damage. And of course, we could visibly see the damage done to Des Moines and others out west as the last one approached, adding to the psychological aspect of this. But that was a freak one apparently, “once in a lifetime”. Yeah, except 500 and 1000 year floods keep happening. Cheers, climate change.
That is very comforting. Then not comforting. Then comforting again. Then not comforting again.
My favorite version is A Muppet Christmas Carol. I think it’s because of the music. Michael Caine is Scrooge. There are plenty of liberties taken (a second Marley partner named Robert so the Hecklers could each be a character).
We have a friend whose kid is named Atlas. Seemed to fit with your Post Script nicknames. Maybe Pierce could go by his first and last initials instead of PS. We often call our kids things only relatively related to their names (Thomas and James) like T-man, T-money, J-train, Buddy, Bud, Buster, etc. I’m sure Pierce’s parents will come up with something.
The weird thing about Muppet Christmas Carol is… it was dedicated to deceased puppeteers Jim Henson and Richard Hunt, the original voices of Statler and Waldorf, who, as you pointed out, were ghosts (the Marley Brothers) in the film.
Or… maybe that was just weird to me. It just felt like when Gonzo said the Marley Brothers were dead as doornails, Dave Goelz was talking about Henson and Hunt!
Which… it seems like Henson, at least, would find that hilarious…
Muppet Christmas Carol is great. I also really like the old Alastair Sim version. Sim is a great character actor and he carries off the transformation in a great way. Also the great Michael Hordern is Marley. I really enjoyed the movie about Charles Dickens coming to write a Christmas Carol too. It’s called “The Man Who Invented Christmas.”
Pierce is an English version of Pierre. My son’s name is Peter and Pierre was a nickname he got in preschool that carried through all his school years. Some of his buddies still call him that. So maybe Pierre? The only other name I can think of that’s kind of a version is Percy and unfortunately in our culture that would just get a kid bullied. I like Beth’s ideas too. My Dad used to give us nicknames that were nonsense sounding words (though I think one was based on a radio character)–Mrs. McGillicuddy, Granglesnag (or more formally, Granglesnag Q. McRobb).
Oh, also Hermione Baddeley plays Mrs. Cratchit. She was in a number of things on TV and in Disney films when I was a kid. She’s a voice in the Aristocats, and was a villain on Batman.
Yeah, “The Man Who Invented Christmas” is great!