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Sunday 12/04/26 - I Love Malcolm In The Middle

Time: 21:38pm

Hello! This week’s blog post might be a bit shorter than usual, because I’m also writing a blog post on my thoughts on the new Malcolm in the Middle revival that came out this week, which I’ll include a link to here 😄 This was a pretty busy week still though, so I’d still like to write out my weekly recap like usual.

My weekly recap for 06/04/26 – 12/04/26:

This was my second week home from university for easter. Again, I was at work for a lot of the week, but now I’ve finished all my shifts! Yay! 🥳 It’ll be quite a while until I actually get paid for them, but that gives me something to look forward to at least. A child did bite me and then almost concuss me at work this week, but it was pretty calm overall and I am really thankful for my job. I don’t want to go into specifics of what my job is, for obvious reasons, but I am so happy that I ever got the confidence to apply for it in the first place 🩷 I feel like I am actually contributing something, rather than just trapped in something that feels like a waste of my time.

I went to the quiz again with my friends on Thursday, and we again did not do very well. But at least we had fun 😄 Friday was the best day of my week because it was the day that my friends came over so that we could watch the new Malcolm in the Middle revival show ‘Life’s Still Unfair’!!! 🥳🥳🥳 We met up in the park first and I got a meal deal and then one of my friends drove us back to my house (three things I love to do). I’ll put another link to my official review of the 4 episode revival show here, just in case you’re interested. For context, Malcolm in the Middle has been my favourite TV show since I was about 7. I know the scripts to full episodes off by heart, I have unofficial merchandise from T-shirt printing companies, I have the first 5 seasons on DVD, I have all the information from the Wikipedia page memorised, I listen to the soundtrack all the time, etc. Anyone who even knows me slightly in real life knows how much I love the show. So, this revival was a pretty gigantic deal to me and I had been looking forward to it for AGES 😄 I am so so so so so so so grateful to have friends that would come over and watch something with me just because they know how much I love it, especially because all of them had already watched the original show after hearing me talk about it non-stop forever and ever. It was a great time and I love my friends 🩷THANK YOU LINWOOD BOOMER (the creator of Malcolm in the Middle) and thank you to all my friends for being so supportive! 😊

I’ve been super bored this weekend because I’ve felt like I’ve had nothing I’ve wanted to do 😣 I keep doomscrolling on Instagram and YouTube and Pinterest. I think I should trial out turning my phone off when I’m out with others and don’t need it and sort of treating it like a landline when I’m in my room. I deleted Pinterest already, but maybe I need to delete my Instagram account because I still watch reels on the Browser version (I deleted the app long ago).

YouTube is a whole other problem. I would really like to film my own videos and upload them to YouTube though, and watching videos does help me to feel inspired, it just also wastes a lot of my time that I could use creating my own things and being in the real world. I’ve been very interested in film-making for a while now (I took media studies at GCSE and looked into film studies at A-Level, but opted to not pick it in the end because I knew I ultimately was interested in doing Zoology in uni and would need 2 sciences). I just worry about being too awkward on camera and having to record my own voice. I used to have a huge fear of speaking in calls and recordings to the point I would freeze up and be unable to talk in these scenarios (as in, if someone else in the room I was in was on the phone, I would go silent). I have gotten a bit better, like I now call my friends and family when I’m at university, which was something I worried I would never be able to do. The thought of speaking into a camera for a video is still very very scary to me 😣 Conquering this fear would definitely help boost my confidence. It is something I am interested in trying in the summer ☀️

I also have been playing guitar quite a lot this weekend! My fingers are very sore. I love guitar but I get frustrated by my slow progress and overwhelmed by my want to be consistent that I only ever play it for short, sporadic periods of time before I give up, making me feel guilty whenever I see my guitar lying about or I’m asked about it. This can make me forget how much I love actually playing it. I love it so much! I hope I can remember this fact when I go back to university next weekend. I think I should move my guitar closer to my desk chair and bed so that it’s in reaching distance for when I’m bored and my hands want something to do.

Tomorrow I’m going to Brighton with my mother and my grandmother (I LOVE Brighton), on Friday I’m going to a theme park with my friends, and I’m going back to uni on the weekend. That really does not give me much time to do the heaps and heaps of uni work that I’ve been avoiding for two weeks, but I will try my best. My current plan is to go to the library on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, but I’ll have to wait and see how that goes. I am very scared about it all really, but I’m trying not to think about that because it’ll just make me procrastinate even more, which I definitely can’t afford to do. I hope next week goes well for me!

Goals for next week:

🟪 Go on the scary rollercoasters that my friends go on even though I’m afraid.

🟪 Order photos for my journals and photo albums.

🟪 Go to the library to get some uni work done.

🟪 Revive Tentacle Tom (my Aloe Vera plant that I abandoned at uni over easter).

See you in a week when I’ve hopefully done everything I’m supposed to have!

Love from,

Laylabird 🐞