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I generally enjoyed the 50th special (especially the 10/11 OTP) though it didn't truly knock my socks off or anything. (And there was a fair bit of Moffat Moffatting Moffatly all over the Moffat.)I did have a MOMENT when this happened though:

( shh... spoilers. )

I did watch An Adventure in Time and Space last night though. I was not expecting it to be as touching and well done as it was. I actually teared up at the end. And I have apparently also grossly underestimated David Bradley's ability to act outside of grumpy scenery chewing villains - his William Hartnell was at first kinda grouchy and unlikeable but by the end if you haven't fallen in love with him you are a monster incapable of feeling.

In other news today was kinda low key and mostly spent tching at Kidzilla for leaving her school board game project until the last weekend before its due to get it done while helping her out, but not tching too hard because she has four parents worth of bad procrastination habits to inherit. But I think she gets the whole "start it earlier, its much less stressful that way, trust me" lesson. Also beading. Lots of beading. I'll post my counts later.

I suppose tomorrow it'll be back to angsting about car stuff and money crap and impending family holiday. *sigh*

Current Mood: okay

I had planned to take a break from beading after I got done with the Tetris Dance, but this past week it became apparent my brain has other ideas regarding break taking and also other projects. >_< I may have to get froggy with myself to ensure the needle does indeed get put down for a while, because yow, my wrists. (Really need to invest in some squeeze balls and braces at this rate, ugh. I will not be defeated by tendinitis.)

But yeah there are now a couple of projects on the docket for the future. One is a tube necklace/torq/wrap based on the Fourth Doctor's scarf, along with figuring out a pattern for making the TARDIS out of beads. The other is, well. Between calling up the Lost Projects of The Beforetimes and Kidzilla suddenly discovering Actual Honest-To-Goodness Pokemon, something like this was bound to happen at some point:

Sorry about the fuzz, I committed the web developer sin of displaying them at 3x their actual size. :P The patterns resolve to a square just about coaster-sized. I have a feeling these won't be the last I'll see of these particular patterns. If I do go ahead and do this I'm probably going to start with Snorlax - something about that particular pokemon never fails to make me smile. Maybe it's because he looks so fat and happy, like a slumbering Totoro or a Budai figure.

I'm thinking maybe during the proposed and HAPPENING (she sternly told herself) break I might hunt down one of the Pokemon Chromatics and actually give them a try - I keep saying that it's exactly the sort of game I would have been rabidly into had it been released a couple of years before it actually had been (I was already in college by that point), but due to prejudice and Previous Associations I never really let myself explore it. Also since the plan at this point is to get Kidzilla a (3?)DS and whatever edition is currently out for it for her birthday at the end of the summer, I feel like I need to catch up a bit (LRN UR HSTRY) before I start playing with her. Also I seem to remember my sister promising to send me G's old DS... hmm. I should get on her about that.

I also find it funny that I'm still firmly stuck about 5-20 years behind w/r/t gaming. I have about zero interest in the new generation consoles - hell, we only use our Wii for Netflix, which will probably stop once I figure out how/get enough scratch to hook up our blu-ray player to our wireless network. But yeah, everything I've been reading about the Xbox One has been NOPE NOPE NOPE DNW and I've been really Meh on the Wii U. I rather doubt my opinion'll be much different on the PS4, especially since I'm still not really interested in the PS3 even. Oh well.

Overall it's been a reasonably low key weekend - both kids were a little stir crazy yesterday what with the cold and the rain, so we spent part of the day at the Jones (deliver me from laissez-faire hippydippy parents not actually parenting their children - ugh), and then drove into Northampton so I could grab some thread and show off a little to the staff (the appropriate ooing and ahhing was had) and then had dinner at Sam's pizza, which both kids seemed to enjoy. After which we came home and watched "The Name of the Doctor" with Kidzilla, which, surprisingly, improved a bit upon the second watching, despite Moffat clearly Moffatting down the Moffat in a few places. I'll never forgive him for ruining River Song, man - I loved that character (and the actress!) when she was first introduced, but her plotline later... *smh* Alex Kingston deserved so much better. Well, in my ideal world, she and John Barrowman get that spin-off where they adventure around the 51st century together. I'd watch the hell out of that, I won't lie.

Vaguely toying with the idea of forming a Pioneer Valley GOC (geeks of color) discussion/meetup group. Between listening rabidly to TWiB and Nerdgasm Noire podcasts for the better part of the month, I'm discovering the lack of that going on in my life and that it's something I'd like to have happen, especially since I can count the area black gamers I know of on one hand and the ones of other non-white ethnicities on two, and that's ridiculous, there's gotta be more of us around here. I'm a little twitchy about it because I know it's something J would love to join if he heard about it, but if he also hears I'm part of it, well... That's on him, yes, I know, but I still feel bad. Meh. Still might be worth reaching out to George and Neal about it and gauging their interest level, seeing as both of them are way more connected than i am at this point. (and by connected, i've referred to both of then as the Kevin Bacons of the Valley at varying points.) The summer is for projects, right?

seems like the rain let up some today. maybe Frosty later? Maybe?

My lord, what a week. I need to make a bigger catchup post at some point and I promised to elaborate on why the red and white = signs all over facebook and twitter a few days back made me hulk out with rage instead of being all happy YAY SOLIDARITY WHEE like it supposedly should have, but things have been kinda accelerating in the fucked up department all week and so... behind on posting. But I will say the following:

A happy and blessed Easter, Passover, full moon, Spring, whatever y'all observe.
I passed the halfway mark on the Tetris dance on Friday. Pictures and more elaborate yay bead post to follow.
Hospitals remain dull and nervewracking places. (I'm fine, I was visiting.)
Love and squee is amidst life suddenly going chaotic, your mother-in-law makes sure to tell you that the Easter bunny brought you a carrot cake. Damn.
In TV news...
- Doctor Who was pleasantly devoid of suck. Oh sure, it had to Moffat a little here and there, but thankfully it was merely an eye-rolling amount of Moffatting, not a "FUCK THIS SHOW" amount.
- GAMMATRONS TONIGHT NNNNNNNNNNGGGGFFFFFFF WINTER IS HERE. No seriously, it is. New England is in some strong denial about the officialness of Spring. But still, ridiculously excited for the new season.
- Almost caught completely up with Lost Girl and it still fills me with delightfully frothy silly squee even if it stretches my suspension of disbelief to snapping point.
The plastics are down and there are cats in our windowsills again. Also cell23 has been walking Ash. Yes, he's been walking the cat. Think about this. Ash's transition into a small overly fluffy dog continues.
head58 has lent me the complete scores for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Awyiss, I have something new to amuse me during data entry. I've been meaning to musically go through the original Star Wars trilogy (and maybe the score to The Phantom Menace, one of the few redeeming qualities of that film) because the scores are practically beasts unto themselves, and I am always kind of blown away by John Williams' work, his fetishistic worship for French horn and low brass aside. Plus I need to amass things to listen to at work when my entire music collection bores me to tears. May take up an audiobook habit. (Taking recommendations for that, btw.)

That's honestly about all I've got in the life of Andee. At least the public/nonpolitical post bits.

Current Mood: weird
Current Music: London Symphony Orchestra - The Pit Of Carkoon/Sail Barge Assault | Powered by Last.fm

It seems I only had spoons and brainspace for the cooking bits of my aspirations for this weekend, but that's okay. After the frenzy of chopping and cooking tornadodom early yesterday afternoon I seemed to need the downtime and rest while stuff was actually doing the whole cooking thing, so I have no real regrets other than the usual nagging "I have to work tomorrow and the house is a mess and I haven't gotten anything done!" litanies, and since the last item is blatantly untrue (WTF, brain, were you absent all weekend?) and the house is actually better looking than usual owing to

cell23 and I cleaning the kitchen, picking up around the living room and getting the bags of recycling out of the house yesterday, I'm cheerfully ignoring the little voices and resting on my laurels.

The tomato sauce came out the pot this morning after seventeen hours of cooking (!) and was quite yummy, though had more of a chili note than a pasta sauce underpinning to the taste. More wine, garlic and sugar needed I think. A jar of it is in the fridge in anticipation of a pasta night later this week (maybe) and several containers of it are in the freezer. I then cleaned out the pot and filled it with the split pea soup components I'd assembled yesterday, three large smoked pork neck bones (yeah yeah, insert your favorite southern black stereotype here) and a couple quarts of chicken stock; eight hours later there was some seriously delicious soup waiting to be boxed up and frozen for lunch. That came out perfect - other than swapping out turkey neck for pork, it tastes pretty much exactly like Ruthy's. (Maybe better, but don't tell her that! Or Dad for that matter!) Even dinner last night was damn tasty, being my usual OJ chicken fancy dinner standby, and I think I've finally solved the dilemma of getting the gravy for that to thicken up in a reasonable amount of time (how long have I been making that? five years? sheesh) and since I made a whole tray of breasts a couple of those are portioned out and boxed up for lunch too. My goal really is to quit nickel and diming money on food, be it lunches, dinners or snacks; it adds up alarmingly fast (I do like to eat when intestinal drama permits it) and when I do the math at least 3/4s of where my money disappears is down my throat. (shut up.) Need to cut that shit out if I'm ever going to a) save b) pay down anything. Hopefully between the split pea and the potato leek soup, the chicken and pasta, I'll get that in better control, at least for the next couple weeks.

Still need to figure out what I'm going to do with the last few tomatoes, cause I need to do something and no bites on anyone possibly taking them. I ended up freezing the carrot greens; maybe I'll just blanch, puree and freeze for later? I suddenly wish I'd paid attention when Carole was teaching herself to can vegetables. :/ A project for next summer maybe, depending on whether I decide to do the whole tomato vines in pots thing again. Also kinda wish I had a juicer.

I wasn't cooking QUITE the whole time this weekend -

cell23,

deliriumdeva and I did make a trip down to the diner late last night for coffee and light fare and shooting the shit with

lysscat, which there was plenty of because the diner was dead for a Saturday. You guys, there's this Greek coffee frappe on the menu that not only is delicious, but had so much caffeine that I was sorta seeing funny auras around stuff after drinking half of it. *chuckle* not that

lysscat didn't try to warn me that I'd probably start vibrating after drinking one, but at the time that seemed like more of a recommendation than a deterrent. Still is. Whee.

Speaking of interesting effects on brain chemistry, I am current buzzed nigh unto tipsy; in celebration of getting a prodigious amount of slow cooked stuff done, I cracked open one of the licor43 nips and had that celebratory cocktail I'd been craving since first having this stuff at Christmas. And oh.... dear fates, it's just as good as I remember. And as potent. I now know why two glasses at Stanley's had me more than a little wobbly for a while - this sweet sneaky shit is 62 proof, which is murder to a lightweight like me and yeah, I notice that my already miniscule tolerance to alcohol has vanished along with my weight so I'm being good and only having one tonight. I'll save the other nip for when I need a treat with a punch.

cell23 seems to be on a "so many drugs were involved in the making of this movie" jag on Netflix - over the past few days I've sat through most of both Hunter S. Thompson movies (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Where the Buffalo Roam) and today, Cannibal; the Musical. (I don't necessarily blame drugs for that one - Trey Parker and Matt Stone kind of naturally excrete crack into their bloodstream from some gland or another.) Also rewatched Hot Tub Time Machine, since cell23 had never seen it and it's just amiably silly enough to survive a second watching a year or so later. Currently behind on all of my TV watching other than Doctor Who. Still need to make a media consumption post at some point. Argh.

I think right now I need to eat something to soak some of the Cuarenta y Tres out of my blood though.

Current Mood: pleased

You know, there are some days where you couldn't pay me enough to cook anything, and then there are days like today where i am become cooking tornado. I'm reminded of a bit of a long ago story I didn't write but was nevertheless written about my gang of friends at the time, and the charachter analogous to me had a regular night where she was in charge of dinner. The writer kinda had me pegged: the comment was made that the rest of the gathered company didn't know whether they were getting peanut butter sandwiches or a six course gourmet meal made from scratch. Yep. That's me.

Anyway, I got up mad early today, borrowed the Manbeast's car, went to the Amherst farmer's market, stopped in a couple other places for ingredients and other supplies, came home, and spent the next few hours chopping up stuff/running the food processor/blanching and peeling tomatoes. End result is that there is a large crock pot of tomato sauce bubbling away on the counter, which it will do until at least midnightish, if not later. Which is completely unfair because it smells fucking FANTASTIC now. As well as that (because if I was chopping up/mincing shit, I was gonna do it all in one go) there's a large mixing bowl of the dry bits of the split pea soup waiting its turn in the crock pot. And the orange juice chicken I'm making for dinner is cheerfully marinating in the fridge - just needs to be popped out and cooked. Later there will also be lemon rice to go with it and some kind of veggie... thing. Maybe. Whatever, it will be dinner.

So all that plus cleaning the kitchen was a butt-ton of work, but I think the delicious that will ensue will be worth it.

I also learned something quite dangerous today: Liquors 44 may not sell the 11.95 bottle of Licor 43, sadly (and I still don't feel like I can indulge myself in buying a $25 big bottle of the stuff) however they DO sell it in $2.30 nips. CRAVING ASSUAGED, mama's having delicious creamsicle cocktail later.

Now I have to figure out what to do with several large leftover tomatoes, a small bowl of minced carrot greens, and most of a bottle of burgundy wine, if no one claims them....

And now for something completely different... WTF Doctor Who??? Brain... broken...

Current Mood: accomplished

(sketch by

booksavvy)

I heard yesterday like everyone else, but somehow, seeing as I've only just jumped on the whole Doctor Who bandwagon a year ago, kinda felt like others on my f-list who'd been fans longer had the RIP posts covered. Course then I saw this this afternoon (sniffly hattip to

kshandra) and kinda went all over with the bawling so I figured I'd note Elizabeth Sladen's passing and share the image.

OH CRAP LATE FOR BELLS

Current Mood: sad

On a much more positive note, after much kicking, screaming and haterade,

masteradept has finally decided to give Doctor Who a try, and so far (he's starting with last season, so the 11th Doctor, same place I did) he doesn't hate it. (This is high praise. Trust me.)

Grannies in Hell suddenly having the urge to knit sweaters aside, he has asked on Twitter for everyone's top ten DW eps. Since my answer likely will not fit on twitter, I decided to answer here, but I'm curious as to what the far-more-hardcore-than-I fans on my flist think as well. Timely post is also timely seing as the new series is set to debut in a couple weekends.

I will note that I don't recommend bouncing about through the series willy nilly. To quote River Song: "shh... Spoilers."

That said, and also with the note that I've only seen Doctors 9-11 and one set of eps from 4, my favorite overall episodes are (from most to least):

The Girl in the Fireplace (2.4)
Vincent and the Doctor (5.11)
Fathers Day (1.08)
Blink (3.10)
Turn Left (4.11)
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances (1.09-1.10)
The Eleventh Hour (5.1)
Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords (3.11-3.13)
School Reunion (2.3)
The Runaway Bride (Christmas special between series 2 and 3)

It's kinda tough to pick ten out of the series, especially since the entire thing is riddled with moments and exchanges that stick with you. I tried to go with eps/story arcs that stood by themselves overall, but interestingly enough the majority of my favorite bits of the show (*cough* river song *cough* dalek/cybermen catfight *cough* most of Donna's finer moments *cough*) lie outside of this list.

But anyway. Your turn.

Current Mood: bouncy

In no particular order:

Hanzo still regards snow as no big thing. What snowbank plowed behind me? VROOM.
That wind was CRAZY ASS SHIT today. I am honestly very surprised we didn't lose power at all. Also days like this, thermal underwear is a positively delicious thing.
My intestines hate me. I need to be nicer to them until New Years.
Watched the DW Christmas Carol this evening. ( non-spoilery teal deer: I enjoyed it. )

Rest of season? CAN. NOT. FUCKING. WAIT. River Song and the whole I'll be in my bunk aside, Matt Smith may bring ~~sexy~~ cool back to the Stetson.
I got accepted into stepmoms today. I'd honestly forgotten I'd applied at the beginning of the month. Extra support and "no you're not crazy" always welcome. :)
Tonight's experiment in chicken seasoning ended up an unexpected success. Been trying to vary it up from just breading and baking it. So far so good. I'm surprised and honestly a little appalled by how much I rather like getting dinner together several times a week. Domestic? Me? who'da thunk it? Buh.
Need to stop 'crastinating about a few things tomorrow and get down to some brass tacks. Also my resolution list for next year is getting CRAZY. I need to prune it down so that my goals are actually achievable.
Habari Gani! Kugichagulia! No, I don't celebrate Kwanzaa, but the second day of it has meaning to me - not so much as self-determination (though goodness knows I could use some of that on a personal level), but as a reminder of an interesting time now way in my past. Also it's wicked fun to say.

Yeah yeah yeah, I know. Like I even HAVE a Black card anymore.
Got the pictures off my phone (it's still good for that at least) and my camera for the last month, so I'm caught up reasonably with my 365 project. I haven't kept up with it nearly as well as I'd have liked, and I note that the chunks of time I missed pretty much directly correspond to my bad patches of anxiety and whatnot. However the project did get me into the habit of taking pictures of things that catch my fancy and got me out into the big wide world on occasion with the Hatemonger. Also I have a good handle on what needs work in terms of technique, the limitations of the Nikon starter lens, and under what conditions I can get better than decent pictures out of my phone camera, so I won't count it as a total failure even if I wasn't consistant with it.

Also? I don't think I can complain about not having a constant human subject anymore. Kidzilla and Lovebug have filled out that role VERY nicely to the point where I definitely have to roll over their picasa album come January first. It's just crazy to me how much they've grown up in the year and change that comprises that album, I can't even.

But I digress. I don't THINK I'm going to attempt project 365 next year, but I will be taking lots of pictures nonetheless. Just not strictly one per day. And I'm thinking a small goal to save for this year is some more camera equipment. Like holy balls of hell, can I buckle down and get a motherfucking tripod already? Sheesh. But I also would like a better zoom lens and some filters. Also want to actually take the DSLR class at Iris Photo one of the times it rolls around next year.
little bit of a heads up, I'm going to be doing a little temporary friends pruning. Not a cut, because I'm not defriending anyone or dropping people from filters or nothing, but my default reading list has gotten overwhelming and one of the things I want to do in 2011 is step back a bit from the interbutts. Since I'm not really announcing who I'm filtering off, I'll just say if it's important, shoot me a comment/message just to make sure I see it, and I'll still be reading everyone, just a few of you won't be getting read quite as often as, oh, every three minutes.

The highlight of my evening, though? Getting pinged by

chirping_monkey because Kidzilla wanted to Skype and tell me all about her new dragons. XD What have I done to this poor child? LOL. I was having a bit of an iffy day emotionally, truth be told, but fifteen minutes squeeing over holiday eggs and pretending to pinch the camera and getting the Christmas breakdown with a very giggly six year old? Yeah. Dear fates she looks adorable without her bottom teeth, lol.

~~ (hers)

So um yeah. Shower and book time now.

Current Mood: sleepy

In no particular order:

Hanzo still regards snow as no big thing. What snowbank plowed behind me? VROOM.
That wind was CRAZY ASS SHIT today. I am honestly very surprised we didn't lose power at all. Also days like this, thermal underwear is a positively delicious thing.
My intestines hate me. I need to be nicer to them until New Years.
Watched the DW Christmas Carol this evening. ( non-spoilery teal deer: I enjoyed it. )

Rest of season? CAN. NOT. FUCKING. WAIT. River Song and the whole I'll be in my bunk aside, Matt Smith may bring ~~sexy~~ cool back to the Stetson.
I got accepted into stepmoms today. I'd honestly forgotten I'd applied at the beginning of the month. Extra support and "no you're not crazy" always welcome. :)
Tonight's experiment in chicken seasoning ended up an unexpected success. Been trying to vary it up from just breading and baking it. So far so good. I'm surprised and honestly a little appalled by how much I rather like getting dinner together several times a week. Domestic? Me? who'da thunk it? Buh.
Need to stop 'crastinating about a few things tomorrow and get down to some brass tacks. Also my resolution list for next year is getting CRAZY. I need to prune it down so that my goals are actually achievable.
Habari Gani! Kugichagulia! No, I don't celebrate Kwanzaa, but the second day of it has meaning to me - not so much as self-determination (though goodness knows I could use some of that on a personal level), but as a reminder of an interesting time now way in my past. Also it's wicked fun to say.

Yeah yeah yeah, I know. Like I even HAVE a Black card anymore.
Got the pictures off my phone (it's still good for that at least) and my camera for the last month, so I'm caught up reasonably with my 365 project. I haven't kept up with it nearly as well as I'd have liked, and I note that the chunks of time I missed pretty much directly correspond to my bad patches of anxiety and whatnot. However the project did get me into the habit of taking pictures of things that catch my fancy and got me out into the big wide world on occasion with the Hatemonger. Also I have a good handle on what needs work in terms of technique, the limitations of the Nikon starter lens, and under what conditions I can get better than decent pictures out of my phone camera, so I won't count it as a total failure even if I wasn't consistant with it.

Also? I don't think I can complain about not having a constant human subject anymore. Kidzilla and Lovebug have filled out that role VERY nicely to the point where I definitely have to roll over their picasa album come January first. It's just crazy to me how much they've grown up in the year and change that comprises that album, I can't even.

But I digress. I don't THINK I'm going to attempt project 365 next year, but I will be taking lots of pictures nonetheless. Just not strictly one per day. And I'm thinking a small goal to save for this year is some more camera equipment. Like holy balls of hell, can I buckle down and get a motherfucking tripod already? Sheesh. But I also would like a better zoom lens and some filters. Also want to actually take the DSLR class at Iris Photo one of the times it rolls around next year.
little bit of a heads up, I'm going to be doing a little temporary friends pruning. Not a cut, because I'm not defriending anyone or dropping people from filters or nothing, but my default reading list has gotten overwhelming and one of the things I want to do in 2011 is step back a bit from the interbutts. Since I'm not really announcing who I'm filtering off, I'll just say if it's important, shoot me a comment/message just to make sure I see it, and I'll still be reading everyone, just a few of you won't be getting read quite as often as, oh, every three minutes.

The highlight of my evening, though? Getting pinged by

~~ (hers)

So um yeah. Shower and book time now.

Current Mood: sleepy

Things that are good:

I'm perversely pleased by the hip deep snowdrift piled up against our back door. Honestly now that I'm not trying to get home in it, I'm rather pleased by the snow in general.
My state of mind after a good night sleep in my own pre-toasted bed glomnomnommed all over my man, whom I missed very very much this weekend. (and vice versa).
Coffee.
No holly for me this year but I am caught up on all other Christmas dragons.
There's a 2L of Pepsi Throwback in my fridge.
There's also the last loaf of pumpkin bread for the season, as cell23 forgot to take it for dinner. MORE FOR ME NOM NOM NOM.
Christmas loot: 2 cashmere sweaters, a pair of silly designer but WARM swede boots, a down blanket, a wafflemaker (!!!), and a black and white Amazon Kindle. Yes, someone got me an e-reader for Christmas. It's like the 21st centruy's all NOPE, you can't stop at music/movies, YOUR BOOKS GO NEXT. Yes, this is seriously amusing to me as well.
Licor 43 Cuarenta y Tres. I tweeted about this last night but I am putting out the call to everyone again to keep an eye out for this stuff because it is DELICIOUS and WE MUST DRINK IT NOW.
Watching of the Doctor Who Christmas Carol will happen at some point tonight. Yes. From all reports, it is good. And excuse me, that seems to be a topless River Song in the trailers for next season. I'll be in my bunk now.
Found both my camera cable and my gloves. :) Man these muppet-fur convertible mitten things have been the best gloves ever. Not only have I managed to hang onto them for three winters now, but they have boomerang properties - every time I "lose" them they reappear.

Things that are not as good:

They exist, but I'm going to drink my coffee and attempt to accentuate the positive today. There may be an extended [crazy] post coming, I'm not sure yet. I will say I'm sad I missed the kiddos this weekend, but I've had it on good authority that they liked their presents. And apparently Kidzilla has entered the charming gaping-holes-in-face stage of childhood, as she's lost two of her bottom front teeth now. Hopefully someone took pictures.

Really overall it's just nice to be home. It was in many ways a good holiday but it was also a very rough one and I'm not ashamed to say I'm glad it's over. Plans for today include hiding from the snow, doing some pottering around the house, work, to-do lists, SVU and making some Skype calls to folk who want to hear my voice.

Current Mood: calm

Things that are good:

I'm perversely pleased by the hip deep snowdrift piled up against our back door. Honestly now that I'm not trying to get home in it, I'm rather pleased by the snow in general.
My state of mind after a good night sleep in my own pre-toasted bed glomnomnommed all over my man, whom I missed very very much this weekend. (and vice versa).
Coffee.
No holly for me this year but I am caught up on all other Christmas dragons.
There's a 2L of Pepsi Throwback in my fridge.
There's also the last loaf of pumpkin bread for the season, as cell23 forgot to take it for dinner. MORE FOR ME NOM NOM NOM.
Christmas loot: 2 cashmere sweaters, a pair of silly designer but WARM swede boots, a down blanket, a wafflemaker (!!!), and a black and white Amazon Kindle. Yes, someone got me an e-reader for Christmas. It's like the 21st centruy's all NOPE, you can't stop at music/movies, YOUR BOOKS GO NEXT. Yes, this is seriously amusing to me as well.
Licor 43 Cuarenta y Tres. I tweeted about this last night but I am putting out the call to everyone again to keep an eye out for this stuff because it is DELICIOUS and WE MUST DRINK IT NOW.
Watching of the Doctor Who Christmas Carol will happen at some point tonight. Yes. From all reports, it is good. And excuse me, that seems to be a topless River Song in the trailers for next season. I'll be in my bunk now.
Found both my camera cable and my gloves. :) Man these muppet-fur convertible mitten things have been the best gloves ever. Not only have I managed to hang onto them for three winters now, but they have boomerang properties - every time I "lose" them they reappear.

Current Mood: calm

Well, after the downer that was Children of Earth, "The Next Doctor" certainly was a cheery ball of Christmas flavored fluff in comparison. Also can we talk about MISS HARTIGAN'S RED DRESS for a minute and HOW FUCKING SMASHING I would look in it? Especially with that parasol? YAR YAR HUMP HUMP

I'm on the mend, seems like. Just more prone to tired and cranky.

Current Mood: GIVE DRESS TO RADISKULL

Current Mood: GIVE DRESS TO RADISKULL

I apparently am failing my resist illness rolls more and more consistently as the week marches on. Last night after subjecting

cell23 to the standard "Andee doesn't feel good so she's going to whine and tantrum like an overtired five year old and resist all attempts to be nice to her" and finally letting him march me off to bed, I seemed to be running a low grade fever. Considering how I felt during bell practice yesterday (it's hot in the choir loft, but not THAT hot) this isn't surprising. I feel a little less like microwaved shit this morning, but only a little.

Yesterday wasn't all bad though - borrowed

cell23's car for the day and actually made it into the office after three weeks of being stuck home. Other than the 20 or so minutes of HO SHIT HOW DO I DRIVE AGAIN AAAAH THIS ISN'T MY CAR, it was really really nice to be on the road again. Yes, I'm the sick bastard that actually likes commuting. *sigh* Money should loosen up a bit next month, and then I should be able to get Hanzo-san re-insured and back into business, course then I have to worry about his tie-rod and inspection and argh. Adulthood is expensive.

Also there was burger and bitch session with

htl_1126. That's always a good thing.

Finished Torchwood: Children of Earth. Wow. Yeah, while I didn't personally need it, I can definitely see why the warning to have strong alcohol on hand was warranted. ( Spoilery musing )

I'm pretty sure it's mostly cause I'm sick, but I've been fighting off not only the plague but beating back a depressive jag like whoa (no, CoE didn't exacerbate it, lol). Attempting to soldier through it and trying to head it off at the pass by doing things that make me happy and keep me on task, but it's there, waiting to jump me and all I can really do about it is beat it back with a stick and outwait it. It'll give up eventually.

Today: listen to the rain, to-do list, finish up Sons of Anarchy (at least to the broadcast point), maybe bake bread. Still on a quest for a whole wheat breadmaker recipe that won't produce a brick, but I'm not gonna even bother trying that today, just going to go for the standard white.

Current Mood: blah

I apparently am failing my resist illness rolls more and more consistently as the week marches on. Last night after subjecting

Current Mood: blah

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And now: My Stories.

Sons of Anarchy: Finished season 2. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

DW/Torchwood: 2 eps into Children of Earth. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

Mad Men: Sunday''s Don vs. government security clearance? FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

Midway through S2 of Arrested Development. So much LOLWTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC (okay, yeah that one was a stretch.)

And apparently Glee has started up for the season because my twitter feed is full of Gleeks freaking the hell out. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

okay, stopping now, lol. And yes, I've been pre-warned to have tissues on hand and all the sharp things put away while watching Children of Earth. Looking rather forward to it, perversely enough, it's been a bit since I was wrecked by a TV show, and I do rather enjoy it when a story hits like that, means the writers did their job.

Current Mood: busy

Current Mood: busy

Trying to decide whether I want to full on dress up today (and if so, in what). I went all out two years ago, not so much last year, and at this point, hunched over my coffee, the caffeine hasn't hit me worthless brains hard enough yet to really commit one way or another.

It's Sunday on a kid weekend, which means Kidzilla is parked in front of Daddy's computer watching the new Peep and the Big Wide World cartoon (what is this show I don't even) and Lovebug is currently curled up in my spot in bed with a still passed out

cell23, watching (what else?) Thomas the Tank Engine shorts on my iPod. (Netflix, man, how does that work?!) We had a pretty excellent day yesterday in Hamp, by the way - we went up to the Smith school's playground with the kids and let them play for a good solid couple of hours, and Lovebug made friends with a little boy exactly his age (two days older) and size and

cell23, the other kid's mother and I got to watch them be three year old boys together, with all the hilarity that comes with that. So glad that playground is still there, by the way, and pretty much looks and works the same as when I discovered it fourteen years ago... which is something. You don't see completely wood play structures much anymore, they've all gone metal and plastic and awful. Maybe next time we'll hit Jackson Street.

I think Kidzilla and I have started a Saturday Night movie tradition. Last night we watched Up, which I hadn't gotten to see before... oh boy. I think if Kidzilla and

cell23 hadn't been sitting there, I would have turned into a big pile of weepy mess. That said, I don't think the movie was Pixar's best, but it was very very good, and gutpunchy in that way that Pixar is so wonderfully infuriatingly good at. seriously WAY TO GO FOR EMOTIONAL JUGULAR PEOPLE.

Following this up with DW's "Forest of the Dead" probably didn't help matters that much. Ai yi yi.

Not sure what's on the agenda today, piratey shenanigans (?) aside. Kiddoes are getting picked up later, and I've got some work I gotta do, but other than that today's kind of a blank slate. Been more or less feeling better the past couple of days though so there's that. I've gotta say I really do like having the kids around when they're here... not sure if it's just me liking a full house, me liking hanging out with them specifically, the usual silly/hilarity of having two small people who are close to each other around, watching

cell23 in Daddy mode, all of the above, or what, but it's really nice. And you'd think I was happy about living here or something - I was washing up and tidying the kitchen last night after the kids had been put to bed and singing while I did so. What. I haven't done that in years. Y HELO THAR HAPPY WTF R U DOIN HERE

Coming back full circle to today's theme, I leave you with a picture taken last Pirate Day (and actually the first picture in my Picasa "Drükids" album).

It's funny how she looks both exactly the same and yet completely different one year later.

Yarr.

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