Blessed Full Moon! I've been wanting to do some spellwork lately but haven't had the energy for it. Full moons either drain me or energize me, and so far, I've been pretty neutral. I had a busy weekend with both sides of the family--one gathering triggered a panic attack in the early morning and the other, I was glutened by coleslaw from Kroger. Coleslaw is supposed to be safe--I've been gluten-free since 2019? And I know to check the ingredients of foods that are supposed to be safe. I especially hate eating at restaurants because they always be adding wheat fillers to foods that aren't supposed to have wheat. Like IHOP adds wheat to their omlets, or they use to--we haven't eaten there in a couple of years. I know to check...
Saturday evening was rough--my gluten/celiac reactions can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days. I'm glad that I didn't eat too much. Normally I'm pretty careful--checking all of the labels--but I was pretty hungry. I haven't been glutened in a long time.
My signs of a glutening:
- Shakes
- Cold Sweats
- Fever
- Nausea
- Intense Gastric cramping and pain
- Diarrhea
- Intense, painful bloating
- Migraine
- Dizziness
- Exhaustion
I think a few others, but those are what I had on Saturday. And once I started putting the pieces together did I check the ingredients of the BBQ sauce, the frozen patties, and last, the coleslaw. Ah, I was so mad. Fortunately it passed after a few hours. I was even able to push through some of it for family photos (I'm the family photographer--Saturday we were celebrating two birthdays and almost everyone was there). I retreated to the car after those pictures. Saturday was a loooong day for me, between the early morning panic attack and the evening glutening.
My Sunday was chill though. I just hyper focused on Appalachian recipes. Prices are high and money is low, and a lot of Appalachian dishes are from poor families. I wanted actual Appalachian recipes--not something that a 5 star restaurant has appropriated and made fancy and stupid expensive--or foods that aren't even from the area. I mostly focused on states that my family's are from--Kentucky, West Virginia, and Tennessee. I have a Family Recipe Book with some stuff, but not everything. I remembered some favorite foods from my self-proclaimed hillbilly family, and I looked up recipes--simple and cheap recipes. Also foods that I can easily change to make them safe for me--who has a lot of food allergies and sensitivities.
After I did that, I watched 28 Years Later--not that I'm a fan of those movies, but Ralph Fiennes is in it, and I adore him as an actor (of course he was really good). Jack O'Connell is also in it. I only know him from Sinners--which my autistic self has watched a least once a day since July 5th. I love that movie--it's one of my comfort movies now. Soundtracks, too--I put all of the songs--instrumental and other--in movie order on a playlist, and listen to it quite a bit, too. Remmick is high on my Favorite Vampire and Favorite Villian lists. But I'm not familiar with anything else Jack has done...and I'm not sure that 28 Years Later uh...
The ending is fucking weird. The whole movie is kinda weird, but also pretty good. Then Jack O'Connell's character shows up...
When the movie ended, I said out loud, "What the fuck?" Then I laughed.
It's like the writers finished the movie...and then did shrooms and wrote more. Those writers clearly have the "Too Much, Too Extra" gene. I had to do research because I was so--I didn't know WTF I had just watched. Not knowing British/UK pop culture or current events, I didn't have enough information--I was Captain America--I didn't understand the references.
Even after some research, I still don't know what the hell I watched. I've read a few articles and I understand a little bit, but the way it was presented was odd--kind of Austin Power-y--huge contrast to the rest of the movie. And like one critic said there wasn't enough time to grieve the powerful ending, before the insane violent Mad Hatter goofy shit happen. Which I guess is kind of the point.
The Cult of Jimmy did remind me of the Gary Vault in Fallout--all of those murderous clones named Gary, who only say one thing, "GARY!"
But I'm intrigued.
And for what the role was, Jack rocked it. It was campy and bizarre. He was a cult leader in Sinners--a charismatic vampire bard with hive mind. He's leader of the Jimmy Cult in 28 Years. Again, I don't know his work, but he's good as an evil cultist. Isn't that basically what celebrities are anyway? Charismatic cultists? I'm just kidding...maybe. His traumatized character understandably went mad in 28 Years. It's like Sinners, if a group of happy vampires showed up singing and dancing, I'd be fuckin scared! Same with the Jimmy's! I'd be really confused, but terrified, too. Fuckin Mad Hatter.
Hm.
Another movie is coming out in January, and I'm so confused, I have to check it out (hook, line, and sinker). I hope America doesn't go to shit before then, because I need answers.
I currently have the movie paused just before the Jimmy's show up. I do like Jack O'Connell in Sinners and even though I'm still processing the ending, in 28 Years, too. So I may check out some of his other work.
Maybe the ending is kind of like Napoleon Dynamite, where you have to watch it a few times to understand?
I dunno after my weekend, maybe I'll just chill for this Full Moon. I mean, I have certain spiritual duties to perform, but after I won't add anything else. I also have that "Too Much" gene and will exhaust myself, and I'm already kind of tired. I'm going to try to listen to my body, instead of my Au-DHD brain that always wants to be doing something despite how the rest of me is feeling. Actually I may take a psychic cleanse later--that sounds lovely.
I hope yall's Moonday is gentle and fruitful.
Trust in Sunna.
Focus on Joy.
Listen to Your Body.
Follow the Bees...
- Priestess Foxlyn