does this mean I'm cool.

Today I've been looking at rentals in New York (a girl can dream!) and I'm once again blown away by the weird nonsensical way state borders are drawn in the US. New York, no wait New Jersey, no wait New York again. So much river!

Here, I made a cooler new year word search for you...

FRIENDS CRAB TEST Um. 🤨

Had to verify my age to log in today. Scanned my face and obviously decided I'm older than 16, but didn't say how old it thinks I am. If you're gonna scan my face at least tell me I'm pretty or something, jeez.

I came into the kitchen hungry but so annoyed that I had to make something for breakfast. Then remembered I boiled two eggs for myself yesterday! All I have to do is make toast and peel the eggs. Yay! Yesterday-Me is so cool. 🎉 Of course I'm still here motivating myself to get on with it, but. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Happy Boxing Day! I had Assorted Leftovers for breakfast, I had Frangelico in my coffee, I recorded some audiobook, and we helped the new neighbours move a huge heavy cast iron bath tub. And now I'm gonna eat the rest of my chocolate orange. 😁

Okay Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is the best movie I've seen in AGES. So so lovely. 😍 Really interesting direction. Gorgeous photography. Both Jeremys are BEAUTIFUL. Odessa Young is excellent! Also, the arms on that man, oh boy. 😅

Nuremberg could have been a great movie, but it was crap, and I'm unreasonably mad about it. It's like the US couldn't physically bring itself to contemplate its own humanity. Even this many years later, after everything they've done, they can't stand the idea of not being better than everyone else.

Working on my cat impersonations.

I just described the eggs I had on a sandwich for breakfast today as "really bright happy eggs, like they really wanted to be there" when partner asked me to describe what was good about them. (They were exxy local free range ones he bought me as a thank you.) What a great sentence about eggs. 😆

The new age florist didn't have the right types of leaves for your smudge stick? Problematic sage gap.

It's stinkin hot, so obviously this chonky lump of fluff has an afternoon nap on a pile of blankets in a west-facing window. 😰

I miss the days of social media statuses written entirely in song lyrics. Let's get these teen hearts beating faster, faster... 😂

Listening to Panic at the Disco and wondering what Brendon Urie's up to these days.

Will you please vote for me? I'm a finalist to be a 2026 Door Builder, for Building Doors VO, to become 1 of 12 advocates for equality for women's voices in male-dominated voiceover industries. I'd love to be the token Aussie one! Vote for me by liking this yt short: youtube.com/shorts/aHXOE...

If you take a lot of different sands from various geographical locations and mix them all together in one hourglass, are they still sands? Or have they now become sand?

Google just sent me an ad for the new Pixel. $2700!!! what the helliyo. I could buy a decent old car for that. Anyway this is why I only ever buy refurbished phones and keep them till they die.

Speaking of good movies... I tried to watch a very terrible tv series: Midnight Mass. Oh my LORD (pun intended), what the fuck. 🤣 So bad. Dialogue is like reading a subpar novel out loud, effects are ~special~ alright, the entire world building is painfully shallow and false. Reviews are hilarious.

Today was a very bad day inside my head, but I: -exercised -recorded two chapters of audiobook -cooked lunch, and -made Instagram content. Wow, I'm amazing. 😆

Oh! Also! I recently watched The Usual Suspects for the first time, it wasn't very interesting which is probably why I've never watched it before, but - was that a really obvious twist? Or are we just spoilt by too many good twists in the last few decades?

Yesterday I watched Paterson, a 2016 Jim Jarmusch movie and my LORD I loved it. It literally calmed my nervous system and I was sitting on the couch feeling blissful... I know this doesn't sound like a thing Sumara would ever say but I'm really saying it because wow. Really loved it.

Classical Gas was on a movie soundtrack so I dragged out this old broken second hand thing to re-enact my high school classical guitar failures. Very happy that modern technology has brought us online guitar tuners. 😆 And proud of myself remembering the notes. Sheet music is the next problem.

"The reality is that AI is going to-" let me stop you right there buddy and introduce you to a concept called Propaganda and also another concept called Reality Is Made Up and also my favourite concept: humans actually love humans.

Okay sorry but I'm stupidly pleased with my wordplay in the headline on my blog today.... #AIActress #Distractress sumarameers.com/ai-actress-m...

Tidied away 2 1/2 floor piles of clothes / blankets in my room. Now there's just one floor pile plus 2 chairs plus the top of a dresser. (My room is huge, even the floor piles barely make a dent in floor space.) I used to be a tidy organised person, now I'm a proud of half-tidying things person. 😆

I just rescheduled a task for 3 months away and for some reason it put the task in 2026! Ugh. 🫣

This was such a good mystery that I actually wondered what I had forgotten! Surely I had forgotten something! What did I miss? Didn't miss anything it was just written so well! Love these books.

You can get The Esker Road here, or on the kindle thingamebob. 📚📚📚

😭 Almost cried when I saw my name again in the front of Emma's (@ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social ) new book. No YOU'RE lovely. 💜

@ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social sitting drinking my coffee thinking about you SEEING HOZIER. 🤩🎉🤩

It's 2025 and people are still in comment sections whining about women saying "like" too much. Faaarrk.

Hi!

Couple of days ago I got to yell in a violently aggressive fashion straight down the camera. Gosh that was good. 😆 #actor #survivor

Oh my goodness BlueSky is so much nicer on the desktop than the mobile. Am old lady.

Some of my kids' #audiobooks are now available on Spotify! Here's The Prince and the Dragon, a classic fairytale for little ones: open.spotify.com/show/3aKy0Z2...

This is the brake light switch in my car. I installed it today. Me. It was difficult and I gave up three times, and I did ask a man for help when I couldn't get a nut undone. But I did it! Ha!

It is OK to want things when the world is on fire. It is OK to have hopes and dreams when everything is a mess. It is OK to say yes to the goddamn universe when the ground feels unsteady. You don’t become less of a person, less of who you are, when things are hard. You deserve good things.

Late winter sunshiney spot.

Hey blue sky friends, it would be super cool if you followed me on YouTube. 😁 'specially if you fancy seeing me practice silly nonsense and/or Very Serious Acting. 😉 youtube.com/@sumarameers...

Totally thought my face was neutral in this photo. No wonder people assume I'm cranky. 🫣

it's a crying at The Ballad of Lucy Jordan kind of evening. 😭

Pet peeve: when people say or write "empty bottle of water" or "empty bottle of Jack Daniels". If it's empty, it's not a bottle OF anything. It's an empty water bottle or an empty JD bottle. Thank you. As you were.

Just had a zoom interview for a local professional theatre's original play development casting, wooo! Local! Professional! Theatre! 😆🎉😍

Oh no the easily foreseeable consequences of my actions.

I just read some stuff about eye contact during conversations and looked up "what is normal eye contact" and ... jeez louise, you guys. How can there possibly be so many rules and expectations about this? 😭

Sometimes I get SO MAD at people who have no idea how good they've got it. And then I remember that I probably have no idea how good I've got it in some ways. So. 😐

You'll be pleased to know that I drank a lot more water today. But why has that not fixed all my problems? 🤔

Also Kathryn Hahn is somehow in absolutely everything I've watched lately. Which is fine by me, she's pretty cool and maybe I could be a bit like her when I grow up.