Various members of the household have had nice holidays away recently, so I felt justified to have a nice holiday of my own. In the house. By myself, mostly. Hooray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Buying Unhealthy Food<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m usually a shredded wheat kind of gal. Maybe I\u2019ll dabble with Weetabix from time to time, maybe not. Perhaps some bran flakes. Bland, sure, but healthy nonetheless. In holiday mode, though? Heck, I\u2019m gonna buy myself some honey cheerios. Nice, sugary heart (un)healthy cheerios. Wonderful. I remember making my way through over half a box of cheerios when I was younger (the edible contents within the box, not the box itself. That\u2019d be a new level of feral) before my parents noticed and put it away. This was around the time that the first or second\u00a0Shrek<\/em>\u00a0movie was out, because I remember a cut-out Shrek mask on the back of the box. Thought you\u2019d like to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another luxury product I purchased was a bottle of raspberry lemonade. I\u2019ll usually settle for those small bottles of fizz. And by fizz, I\u2019m referring to non-alcoholic fizzy drink, not wine. Me, alcohol? I think not. Nope, raspberry lemonade\u2019s good for me. Besides from ready meals, the essential product to buy was a selection of Krispy Kreme doughnuts that were Biscoff-flavoured. Or at least they became essential when I saw them. Even though they were overpriced as hell. Sometimes, however, you gotta do what you gotta do. And I had to get those doughnuts. Were they a tad underwhelming? Sure. But I had to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Walking the Dog<\/p>\n\n\n\n While most of my family went away on holiday, there\u2019s one furry family member who couldn\u2019t join. I mean, technically he could, but our 14-year-old border terrier would\u2019ve slowed people down and decreased other\u2019s enjoyment. Sorry pooch, but it\u2019s true. You can stay home and enjoy the mojo dojo casa house. So yeah, three walks every day and three meals every day. And you were pretty well-behaved overall. One vomit incident, but yeah, other than that, pooch, you did good.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Watching Films<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s there to do when you\u2019re on your own, you ask? Well, you can watch films, of course. These ranged from good (Nope<\/em>) to generally not so good, but fun (The Running Man<\/em>,\u00a0Venom: Let There Be Carnage<\/em>). I\u2019d watched Jordan Peele\u2019s latest film a couple of times before, and it still stood up very well. If you still think about those chimp chaps the same way after this flick, then…that\u2019s odd. I wasn\u2019t sure what to expect from The Running Man<\/em>, but it wasn\u2019t particularly good. Arnie saying \u2018I\u2019ll be back\u2019 at one point also detracted from the atmosphere. I\u2019m up for \u2018whacky\u2019 sci-fi if it has a heart (see:\u00a0The Fifth Element<\/em>, one of the films responsible for my first love of sci-fi), but I didn\u2019t feel engaged with any of the characters here, partly because of minimal character development, and partly because it\u2019s just difficult to see Arnie outside of his Rainer Wolfcastle persona. Entertaining, but nothing to shout about. The second\u00a0Venom<\/em>\u00a0film was similarly dumb yet entertaining. The first one set the silly tone, but Woody Harrelson\u2019s baddie adds an extra level of stupidity. It\u2019s popcorn fare, essentially, and doesn\u2019t require a lot of focus. It\u2019s still a nice tonic from the increasingly dull MCU fare, but it\u2019s not going to change the superhero sphere any time soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Playing Too Much Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door<\/p>\n\n\n\n And finally, the big one. I recently 100%ed this guy and will be giving it a longer review soon, but yeah, this was too much fun. The difficulty curve wasn\u2019t really there in recent rerelease Super Mario RPG, but it\u2019s definitely here, and the light comedy works better here too. Ultimately, the graphics are never going to match up to my favourite visuals from main games like Galaxy<\/em>, and obviously, they shouldn\u2019t aim to. This is a remake from outside the main series with an earlier, now-inferior console in the sense of visuals. The cartoon-like animation is still a lot of fun, and there\u2019s plenty to enjoy here. Let\u2019s a-go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Various members of the household have had nice holidays away recently, so I felt justified to have a nice holiday of my own. In the house. By myself, mostly. 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