Think it's because we're so awesome?

I just purchased the first book I plan to read in 2010: Robota, by Doug Chiang and Orson Scott Card. Hardcover, purchased for three bucks at Big Lots this evening. Woohoo! Gorgeous illustration, which is the reason I snagged it in the first place. Can't wait to read...

Also hardcover, also three bucks, Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art for hubs!monkey. I've been trying to gently prod him back to his art (he's quite a talented illustrator), so far with not much success. But! He seemed pleased with the book, so it goes in the "win" column. :-)

Missed 'Heroes' last night because I AM A DOOFUS. I kept thinking there was something I wanted to DVR, but nothing came to mind. Saw something this morning while at work and went, argh! Heroes!!! Luckily for me, the episode was all loaded up on Prime Time on Demand this evening, just waiting for me. I loooooooove DVR and ondemand channels. And if you're curious...yes, I started watching 'Heroes' because I fell in love with the fabulous Zachary Quinto as reboot!Spock. I love Sylar!!! He needs to be in every episode, and he needs to have at least thirty minutes of screen time. Yessssssss.

Rounding out my Post o' Random... Hmmmm. I forgot. Edited to add: Now I remember.

The hubs and I have been hanging quietly all evening, him with crossword puzzles and WWII movies, me with the laptop. The kitties are very peacefully snoozing. All is calm, all is bright.

So...I'm about to plug in the iPod, and I wondered how long it would take for hubs to suddenly find a million and one things to discuss. Hahahaha! Twenty seconds! He just asked me a crossword clue. Aiiiiiiiiiiiiii! Okay, the iPod is on pause, and he's said nothing further. I'm about to hit 'Play'. We'll see what happens.

Stabbing's bad, right?

So...a year and a half since I last posted. Aiiii! It's been an interesting eighteen months, to be sure -- not always in good ways. I've been away for various reasons: my laptop got all virused-up, the desktop had issues, there was a lapse in home internet access...there were goofy Psychological Issues involved, and other stuff as well. As Bette Davis once said, it's been a bumpy ride.

I need to BIG TIME apologize to someone mentioned in my last post (oddly enough), the should-have-been recipient of my never-written JuC Swap story. As I mentioned in that post, I had a fabulous assignment, someone I truly liked, someone I'd met and hung out with in the real life. It was a dream assignment. At that point it had been a while since I'd written the boys and I wanted to write them again. Only thing is, the more I tried, the more I couldn't.

It kind of reminds me of a story a friend told me about a friend of ours. She was late once with her mortgage payment. The later the payment became, the more terrified she was of making the late payment. Eventually -- believe it or not -- she was four months behind before it finally clicked in her brain. If I remember the story correctly, what clicked in her brain was a representative from the mortgage company showing up at her house. That sounds odd, but then again, it was about ten years ago and anything's possible, I suppose. Anyway.

So. Not being able to write turned into avoiding email and OH MY GOD, what the hell is wrong with me!? And much like my friend with the late mortgage payment, by the time I realized that the fic would not be happening, it was (in my twisted brain) too late to pull out gracefully. Which brings me to the other apology that's way overdue; I should have emailed the Swap organizers to let them know what was going on so a replacement writer could be found. Aiii! I'm a bastage. Ladies, I apologize. Should-have-been recipient...I apologize.

Edited to add, because I'm apparently a total numbnuts: Scotty, I apologize.

Avoiding email meant checking about once every two weeks, then once a month and that turned into forgetting my password, which turned into completely losing the email account that I've been using since I joined fandom. :: boggles :: I'm royally screwed because when I set up the account I was verra, verra new to the internet and was a little suspicious of such things, so I gave false personal info while filling in those blanks (I was assured by someone at the time that it made no difference). As a result, when Yahoo! recently asked me to verify myself by giving the birthdate I gave when I set up the account...I couldn't. I have *no* idea what I filled out way back then. It cut like a knife when I realized that I'll probably never be able to access that account again. So. In various ways I have shafted myself (and others!) ten ways from Sunday, fandomwise.

Anyway. I've been wanting to get back to LJ, I've been thinking about it quite a bit. This is a first step in that direction.

Ahhh, cruising along on my laptop again, for the first time in a little over year (!). I downloaded a nice little bit of spyware (SpyVampire, the BASTARD), that hosed my machine up *big* time. The thing wiped out all of my system restore points and resisted my efforts to repair the operating system. I'd meant to take it to professional fix-it guys, but never did; I finally bit the bullet yesterday and decided to try a complete system reinstall. I figured that I could always take it to professionals if I bungled things, but...YAY! IT WORKED! I'm inordinately pleased with myself.

ANYWAY. I'm currently watching cheesy movies courtesy of the SciFi Channel. I'm trying to decide what I want to do of a fannish nature today. Get my writing journal up to date? Cruise my friends page and see what's going on? Try to find the disks for the desk computer and get that squared away as well? HAHAHAHA, that sounds like too much work. I think I'll just veg here on the bed with my laptop and the cats and watch awful movies...

Supernatural is clearly the best show on television -- and this may just go down as one of my favorite episodes of the best show on television. (I've already watched it twice!) My thoughts after the cut, but first: it's ridiculous how much squee I get out of the Impala sporting Ohio license plates. ::rocker face and devil horns hands:: ( DEAN! )

Haven't posted much lately because my eyes are being really weird. I'm WAY overdue for an exam, and I'm definitely feeling the effects of eyestrain. Not so much the grittiness, which is the usual when my eyes are tired, but the flutteriness as is usual when they're *really, really* tired. You know it must have been bad if I finally broke down and scheduled an appointment! Originally scheduled for this past Monday but work hilarity (HAHAHAHA, hear me laughing?) caused me to postpone, so I'll be going this coming Monday instead. YAY, muchly overdue! Hopefully I haven't eyestrained myself into premature blindness or some such.

Newsflash: Favorite boycat is tearing around like a wild thing. What the hell, kid? For half a second there I thought he was chasing a mouse, but he's just being hyper and strange.

For real newsflash...FRIGGIN' YAYNESS, the funds purloined by asshole VISA cardnumber thief were refunded by the SierraTradingPost.com people today! Whee! :-D Had a minor heart attack at first when I saw the statement, thinking it was yet another purchase! Strange though, that they didn't refund the tax (or the shipping, perhaps a combination?). YAY, YAY, YAY!!! I am extremely pleased about this, and feel the need to purchase some small leather goods to celebrate. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Just to restate: I friggin' love Google. I want to marry it and have its babies and...yes. I love Google.

Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes

I love Google.

As it aired, I did my usual note-taking thing... ( LJ cut for freshness... )

Okay, I disappear for a few days and stuff happens, Chasez-wise? Weh? So he's...not gay? He was on Tyra yesterday/today? Again, weh?

Chasez, I don't care who the hell you sleep with, just make me some damn music.

Also, how cute was he on America's Best Dance Judge last week? The whole Bye, Bye, Bye thing? So cute! I have no rants about Lil Mama because I've begun muting the sound when her idiot ass appears on my screen.

To recap:

1) Chasez, still adorable.
2) Chasez, straight. I suppose.
3) Lil Mama, still an idiot.

Yep, I think that covers everything.

Thoughts on last week's Torchwood (Martha's first guest ep!), nabbed from email I sent scot_ty:

Okay, now why haven't the rest of the episodes been like this? Good team interaction, and DAMMIT, THEY'RE MAKING ME LIKE FORMERLY-CREEPY, NOW-HUMAN OWEN. Bastiges. ;-p The flirting and teasing were waaaay cute, and I think it had just the right touch. Jack was back to himself, YAY!, and the episode was very nicely paced. A couple of things niggled, of course.

Gwen. I'm so tired of this Jack-fascination that I could scream. Martha's been in the Hub for twenty hot seconds before Gwen's asking questions about Jack. Is this woman engaged or not? At this point I wish they'd just cut her ties to Rhys and be done with it; it was annoying before but it's starting to give me a really creepy vibe. I want to make my peace with Gwen. They've given me a Gwen that I like, but this stalkerish obsession with Jack keeps setting her back a couple of paces. Why do they do this?

Tosh. Wide-eyed Tosh practically begging Owen for a date. It was sad before, now it's just creepy. Well, creepy and sad. And really, really creepy.

Waaaaay off the cuteness scale: Eve Myles in the actor interviews saying that it was lovely having Freema there, that it was nice having another girlie on set. OH MY GOD I NEARLY EXPLODED WITH THE CUTE. The look on her face was just adorable. :-)

/email

Martha was completely awesome and I love her like mad. Your mileage may vary. ;-) ( And now my as-it-aired notes... )

Halfway through the season one episodes, and OH MY GOD, MASSIVE, MASSIVE LOVE FOR THIS SHOW.

For a scary minute there I thought I'd just purchased 88.00 worth of "Pretty Girl of the Week" DVDs, but things picked up. YAYNESS!

My favorite non-Winchester character so far is Missouri Mosely, who kicks serious, major ass. Missouri Mosely is awesome. If I found myself transported into the show, I wouldn't want to be Random Hook-up Girl of the Episode (even if mackin' on Dean would be sweet, sweet, sweet), I'd want to be Missouri Mosely. LOVE HER. Fingers crossed that she makes at least one more appearance between now and the last of my season two DVDs. ::hopes::

DEAN WAS IN LOVE! Holy frijoles, big brother fell hard! I loved Megalyn Echikunwoke as Isabelle in The 4400, so you can imagine my pleased surprise when she appeared onscreen, and even more pleased and surprised when she turned out to be the love (so far, at least that I've seen) of Dean's life. Yay! Isabelle Cassie gets the hot boy! Being pulled into Supernatural-world as Cassie wouldn't be so bad either. YAYNESS!

Absolute genius casting Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the dad. He's good-looking but not too pretty, just rough enough without looking fakely rugged (ugh), and best of all, it's not a stretch to imagine Dean and Sam Winchester as his progeny; the actors fit together physically, and that's nice to see. Big time yayness!!! Love Dad and I can't wait to see more of him.

Supernatural! YAY! \o/

Edited to add: Also, gotta love a show that features family bonding, big time brotherly love and devotion, father and son devotion, manly hugs, manly shmoop, and MANLY TEARS! Friggin' awesome!

Seriously, the manly hugs and manly tears are gonna be the death of me.