Things I am Going to Change When I Take Over The House

Hello friends, some of you will know I moved in with my dad back when he needed help taking care of my Nan, and some things are either falling apart in this house or there are things my dad cannot let go of but complains about a lot, so I am here to have a little vent because some of these things are driving me up the walls, and I just need someone to know.

The living room carpet. This absolutely needs to change; it's covered in stains from spills over the years. It's not that I hate it or that it's falling apart, but seriously, it's unpleasant. I do not like taking guests into the living room because of the state of it. I'm not talking about a small tea or coffee stain. It's got everything on it: gravy, tea, coffee, protein drinks, the odd sauce, milk, and a few meals have been dropped on it. This carpet is over 50 years old; it needs to be changed, and it really seemed like my dad was going to do it, then he accepted a really heavy, really expensive red leather couch. It went in the living room, and there was nothing more said about the carpet. I just think he doesn't want to move the sofa again because neither do I, but it needs to be done.

Closing all the doors at night - I understand locking your doors; I am not on about outside doors, it's the inside ones. The living room door, the dining room door, the kitchen door, and the conservatory door all have to be closed, and I really don't understand it. Yeah, sure, it's better if there is a fire; I get that, but the one fire that happened in the house was because my nan was becoming forgetful and decided to put a hot pan of flaming oil in the sink and turn the tap on. It's a huge part of why I moved in. Recently, the cats have been sleeping in the dining room and the living room at night, so because of that, those doors are being left open, but still it is very annoying for me because I like to go downstairs for a cheeky midnight snack sometimes or need to grab some water; I feel like a spy creeping around the house trying to close the doors as quietly as possible. When I was living with my mum, she would shut the dog and the cats in the kitchen at night, and it feels like that all over again. I don't want to live that life again. I really thought moving in with my dad would be an upgrade cause he is so much more chill, but there are downsides to each living situation. Don't get me wrong, I love both my parents; I really do, but sometimes you just need to vent.

The bedroom furniture in the living room - This furniture is in the living room because my nan had the living room as her bedroom after she kept falling down the stairs all the time. It was safer for her, but now she is gone, and it's been over a year; the dressing table and two lots of drawers are there, and it still looks like a bedroom. He won't get rid of one set of drawers or the dressing table because they may be worth money, or that's what he tells me, but if that's the case, why is the cheap set of drawers still there? It doesn't have anything in it, and the only thing on it is a lamp that he also won't get rid of. I am tired of having the same conversation about it. I am more than happy to help him move it, smash it all up and take it to the dump, or call someone to take it to a charity shop, but nothing happens. 

The paperwork in the dining room - There is a lovely glass cabinet in the dining room with some storage at the bottom; it is so full of paperwork that is no longer needed; it's mostly receipts from old trips to the shop and bank statements. I cannot think of any reason to keep that around, but if I ask him about it, he says something along the lines of "We will get to it" and changes the conversation. He complains we need to do something about all this stuff, and it never happens.

My old bedroom - The wall paper is peeling, the single bed in there is extremely uncomfortable and I wanted to get rid of the bed at least and then we could have a room for all the instruments we own, its unlikely we will be having guests over and if we do it will more than likely just be one and its a four bedroom house so we could totally transform the space and use it for something else and keep the other bedroom that is in better condition as a guest bedroom. I was hoping we could turn my old room into a music/ cat room. I see all these videos online where cats are loving the shelves people have put up for them, and I would love for my cats to have something so cool, but it's still a no.

The pond - This one is a little different from the rest as it is outside, but for years the water would stay so clean, but very recently it gets green so fast. I have suggested getting a new filter, using pond dye (fish-safe, obviously), and a very drastic option would be buying a large tank for the living room and putting the fish in there; we could turn the pond into a swimming pool. To turn it into a swimming pool, it would need to be dug out, but one of my favourite things is swimming, and I hate public swimming pools; above-ground pools kind of suck in my opinion. My dad is very against this, but if it was a swimming pool, all you would need is some chlorine; it could be used all year round because of a water heater. I have tried a fish-safe chemical before to keep the water clean for the fish, but all it did was turn the water brown and then green quicker, and I followed all the instructions, but it's not the best use of time having to clean the pond about four times a year.

Thank you so much for reading my rant. I'm sorry it's not very interesting, but that's life sometimes. These are just the four main issues, and I am sure I will think of more, so if you did enjoy it, there may be a part two in the future. I would like to reiterate I love my parents dearly and just wanted to vent a little. For those of you who are waiting on the WondLa season 3 review, I am sorry for the delay, and I am working on it episode by episode. I am hoping to complete the season this month, but I have been a little slower at watching episodes. That's all I have for you this time. I hope you have a great rest of your day, and I will be back with another post on Friday. :)

Game Reviews 8 - Click Games

Hello, and welcome to some more game reviews of click games or click-and-point games. These games are great for grinding those precious achievements. 

Meh - A game where you click a computer to fill a bar to gain one point. Each of the 61 achievements didn't pop up while I was in-game, so I didn't actually realise I had finished the game because none of the achievements popped up while I was in the game. All I know is you click to fill the bar, and each time you do it adds a point to your total. Maybe you need to get 128 points to complete the game, but I am not fully sure. You can also spend your points on opening boxes to customise the computer. There is one that is a skeleton, and that's a pretty cool thing.

Apple clicker - 7 achievements for this fruity game. Click the fruit and earn an achievement for 1, 10, 100, 1000, and so on and so forth.

Peach clicker - You will get in-game drops every 3 hours, but they aren't always successful, so even if you aren't going to be around to click the peach, I recommend you leave it open running in the background. The skins you can get are pretty cool and make it easier to look at if you change them up in a long gameplay session. You will need skins to complete a few of the achievements; most of them are decently priced in the Steam market, too, if you want to complete the game faster. 31 achievements to get, it's a decent amount for a free game, and I do love those achievements. The background will change to keep it interesting. Don't stop clicking, and good luck if you try it.

Flag Clicker - Click the flag and gain drops every 3 hours. Not every drop is successful, so prepare to spend a while getting all of the 31 achievements; you may even learn what flags are and what over the course of playing this; you could say it's educational. I know I am not fully aware of what every flag looks like, so it's been a learning experience for me.

Thank you so much for reading, and if you try any of these, I really hope you enjoy them. Good luck with your achievement hunting, and I will see you next Friday with another blog post, possibly more game reviews, maybe another movie review, or something completely different. Have a great rest of your day. :)

WondLa Season 2 Review

Hello friends, I am back with season 2 of WondLa. Season One had me hooked, but it's about to get far more chaotic this season. 

Episode 1 - Turns out that the human was a hologram, like back in the sanctuary. Until another one comes out: a younger man and an older man. The group travels to New Attica. But Kit and Otto don't want to stay. Eva gets in the transport; Meego pops up to give her a history lesson. 2.2 million people live there; she is no longer the last human. The transport leaves her in a park. She finally meets Cadmus, the guy who has been sending her hologram messages a few times to her. His children show her around, and she is treated like a celebrity, and not in a good way. The girls take her into a game about the outside world; it's all wrong. She doesn't feel at home. Cadmus leaves a gift for her in her room, and she thinks it's her mother, but it's just another mother bot. She closes the door to her balcony and spots someone who looks just like her.

Episode 2 - The next day, Eva sees that woman again and chases after her. She jumps into a waterfall to follow this woman; it's a sanctuary. Eva meets Eva 8, the one who came before her. Eva 8 goes to the meeting with Eva 9 to see Cadmus, where they get swarmed by birds, and she gets a message from Otto in her mind that the flicker man is not nice. Otto means Cadmus.

Episode 3 - Eva finds her friends with Eva 8's help. Eva 8 gets scared of the aliens, but from what it seems, no one else has been able to communicate with the aliens. Kit is injured, so they all help to get him back to his people in his village. Then a giant metal spider thing starts shooting at them, Hayley, the first human Eva ever met. They escape and fly towards the wasteland.

Episode 4 - They crash because of the metal spider thing shooting at them, taking out a thruster. The ship they were flying in kind of looks like Eve's from WALL-E. They have to walk through the wasteland after they crash-landed because of the sky Whales taking out the other thruster. They run to the walking tree for cover. They meet the bartender's cousin from the place with the fish race; Eva gets advice from these characters, and they head into the sandstorm. In the sandstorm, they come across bones that they had been warned to stay away from, as a monster was there. They run to a nearby car for shelter and camp out there. Eva wakes up, and Kit is missing; she walks out of the cave to find him limping off to be eaten by the monster so the rest will be saved. The monster then makes contact with Eva and lands right in front of her. This is the biggest, most stunningly beautiful butterfly just staring right at her. Eva thinks she has made a friend, but the butterfly was ready to strike when Eva 8 attacked it, saving Eva. The three of them all go back to camp, and Eva 8 tells them of her experience in the wasteland. That's where she lost Freya, because of that butterfly.

Episode 5 - They make it back to Kit's home, but the people at the gate turn them away, saying they can't help humans and it's no home to Kit. She sneaks Kit in through the gate, past the guards, and heads towards where she can get some medicine. She steals the medicine but gets discovered; the leader of the village is Kit's father but turns him away. Eva stands up to the leader and leaves to find a bird of truth for a ceremony. Eva is about to get a lesson on the Serulians. If Eva wins, Kit will be treated; if he fails, he gets banished. The leader tells a story of a storm taking lots of villagers' lives, and they needed Kit to find a new path for a new home, but instead he left. This is the storm where Kit lost his family. Eva has a turn to speak, declaring that Kit is her father because he saved her and stayed by her side. The leader decides he wants to save his son. The community celebrates, and Eva 8 looks upset, probably because she doesn't have a father, just her sister.

Episode 6 - Eva gets shown around the village, and the leader says she is welcome in the village, and it's her home now. Eva 8 leaves to go find her friends because the village is not her home. There is a celebration in the village: dancing, music, flowers, the whole shebang. Eva gets a vision of the heart of the forest. The war machine spiders find the village, and Eva leads them away with Otto and Haley. Kit helps save the three on his pet with another villager and their pet after they had nowhere else to run. Otto tells them to head for sticky mud, and the three spider things get trapped, but one escapes and starts shooting at all of them. Eva gets stranded on an island, and Teal,  Kit's pet, jumps back over to save her but gets a foot stuck in the mud. Teal throws Eva to safety, and Kit jumps over, frees Teal's foot, and they all run off together. Haley gets knocked down while running and hurts his leg, calling for Eva. They are trapped once again, and another machine lands. Cadmus lands. He reveals Haley had them tracked. Eva 8 shows up and gets electrocuted trying to save her sister, who had also been electrocuted. Cadmus wants to save the human race with the source. The heart of the forest can save the humans, but the humans have become lazy and spoiled with technology from Cadmus.

Episode 7 - Eva 8 wakes up in a cell; Eva 9 is being held in some seat thing. Cadmus tells her a small amount of alien spores contaminated her sanctuary; that's why she is able to communicate with all of the life forms. Cadmus starts driving the machine using Eva as a compass towards the heart. Cadmus crashes when Eva escapes, and 8 manages to escape, but Eva runs off before 8 can make her stick around. Cadmus stuns 8 and tries to convince her that Eva needs their help. 8 accepts his hand and tackles him to the floor, stunning him with his electrocution omnipod. 8 announces she will protect Eva. Eva is bleeding internally but still continues on and finds sanctuary 118. The heart seems to be calling her to the tunnel. Eva goes down the tunnel, her injury worsening. The heart is in a mother unit. That's why the voice she was hearing was her mother; it was a mother, just not her own. The heart connects to Eva. Eva wakes up in her sanctuary with Meego and her mother, but Eva realises that she is not her mother; she is the heart. 8 finds her in the sanctuary and starts undoing all the vines between her and the heart, but stops and moves towards the mother unit. 8 pulls the heart out of the mother unit's hands, and all the plant life starts dying around her. 8 takes the vines off Eva to reveal Eva has gone grey, and then 8 gets kidnapped by Cadmus. As the camera pans back, we see all the surrounding trees and plant life dying.

It's a very sad moment to see Eva get defeated by Cadmus. It did seem like he would be the villain, but I am getting bad vibes from 8; maybe it's because she is traumatised by the outside world, but I just don't really like her character. She seems too needy, but again that could just be trauma, but I am loving this series, es and I cannot believe I didn't look this up sooner because it seems to just get more interesting the longer you watch. My eyes are glued to the screen. This cannot be the end of Obona (what the aliens are calling Earth now). I am very much looking forward to seeing what happens next season.