Think it's because we're so awesome?

Tired, and thinking of going to bed early. Hahahahaha! Like that'll happen. Since I haven't done it for a while...if ever, I'm going to list my TV viewing habits at the moment.

Sunday:
- True Blood - Sam and Tara need to get together, dammit. My True Blood OTP.
- Mad Men - Don Draper needs to stop being so friggin' sexy. And! He needs to stop hitting on everything that moves, 'cause it's starting to get just a little skeevy.
- Dexter - I don't even know if the new season has begun! I suck.


Monday:
::sound of crickets::


Tuesday:
- HawthoRNe - This show's beginning to get on my nerves. Well...Christina's beginning to get on my nerves.


Wednesday:
- Top Chef - Again I suck, because I don't know if the regular season has started. Top Chef Masters was pretty good, but I'm ready for a new batch of cheflings.


Thursday:
- Vampire Diaries - Bonnie! This show should be all Bonnie, all the time, except when she's getting hit on and sexed up by either (or both) of the Salvatore brothers, and maybe Tyler, 'cause he's all dark and has issues and stuff. And Jeremy, 'cause he's a cutie, likewise with the issues and angst.
- Supernatural - I suck! When does the new season start? Jensen Ackles is my boyfriend. Trufax!
- Project Runway - Hooray! I love this show. Not sure what happened to Models of the Runway, but I'm glad the extra thirty minutes has been alloted to PR instead. See? They tried to get me to care about the models last year and I cursed their show. DO NOT ANGER ME.


Friday:
- Eureka - Carter and Allison 4eva! Except that Allison may be about to jump on my last nerve; I'll let you know after another episode or two. It's time for the writers to stop yanking me around, dammit. Bastages. I do love the premise for this season, very nice.


Saturday:

- Merlin - Merlin! I love this show. Not much more to say.

Last one in honor of JC's birthday. :-)

More (another) girl!JC fic, written a number of years ago. Previously untitled; because Chris' elf/leprechaunishness is once again the instigating factor in the change -- and it's set around Chris' birthday, like the last one -- I've titled it 'Another October' even though the two stories have nothing to do with each other. Except for the things that are similar. :-D

Yet another offering to the Gods of Cleaning Up One's Harddrive by posting fic that will most likely never be finished. Unbeta'd, but it's been cleaned up a bit and tweaked for public consumption, but rough in spots. WARNING: No proper ending. Perhaps I'll craft one someday and add it on. Shorter than the first, but still enjoyable, I think.

( Another October )

Happy 34th birthday, Chasez! Yes, I still adore you. ::kiss::

( Five Things meme, prompt from hegemony: The time the guys thought that JC and Justin were secretly Batman and Robin. )

Since I suck major fic-balls when it comes to titles, I'm asking for your help. I need a title for a Vampire Diaries ficlet, Bonnie/Damon naturally. (Bamon for the win!) Think Twilight crossed with Vampire Diaries and you kind of have it, sorta. A little. Except less with the crack and more with the not sucking. Hopefully.

Thanks in advance, chicas! :-D

So...I may or may not be (finally) reading Twilight. ::looks shifty:: I started reading before work this morning, and again after I got home. I'm about halfway through the book, and I have to admit that I'm enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. But! A few things do niggle. Cutting for those who are allergic to niggles. ( Kleek if you aren't allergic! )

The overall writing style shades into ficcishness in places, but mostly I'm being entertained. Robert Pattinson was the perfect choice for Edward; the casting director probably burst into flames when he walked through the door. And seriously, he could have gotten the part for his hair alone. ;-)

Michael Shanks is on Supernatural.

::boggles::

Never, ever awaken me from this lovely dream.


off to watch the episode...

Not feeling that fabulous, hence the non-postage. Blrgh. ;-p My sinuses flare up ALL the time, but attacks are really bad when the seasons change, like winter to spring and summer to fall. Aiii! That means that my head is getting itself geared up. They don't really hurt yet, there's just that slight feeling of pressure that lets me know an attack is on the way. Hooray! Or not.

Easter dinner at the in-laws was fun as I secretly knew it would be. Delicious food was had by all, and my niece has a new boyfriend which is serious HOORAY! material because the old boyfriend was a bit of a jerk. He kind of had jerk-ish tendencies. This guy reminds me a bit of Tim McGee from NCIS, but way less geeky and a little cuter. He's a good guy, so I heartily approve.

I DVR'd five or six Biblical-type movies and I'm now enjoying the fruits of that labor. Hooray for Biblical movies and Biblical epics! I watched Godspell and The Ten Commandments yesterday and this evening I watched Barrabas when I got home. Tomorow it'll be The Silver Chalice and last but certainly not least, King of Kings, which is known in the foxmonkey abode as the one with the good-looking Jesus. Jeffrey Hunter, OH MY. And even though my sparkly handbasket to hell is pretty much assured, I won't say another word about good-lookin' Jesus. :le sigh::

And! Fixing the fallout from the dead battery last week, we discovered that resetting the radio was ridiculously easy (yippee!), resetting the clock was also pretty easy (yippee!) and...there *is* supposed to be a warning tone for the headlights. Unfortunately, other than telling me that it exists, the manual didn't have any suggestions on either why it isn't currently working or what one might do to try and fix it. But this is good news! It means that all we have to do is figure out what's wrong and fix it (a fuse perhaps?) and then I'll never leave my lights on again. As God is my witness! ::shakes fist:: Just call me Scarlett.

And that, my friends, is the core dump of my brain. And now I'm off to find Vampire Diaries Bonnie/Damon to read.

It's Egg Day! It's Bitter Herbs Day! Happiness to everyone of all ethnic diversities and cultural leanings and religious persuasions!

One of these days I'll go to church on Easter again. Man, I was probably...11? that last time Mom, bro!monkey and I did the Easter services together. One year stands out for me -- Dad was there in his best suit looking incredibly handsome and I was all poppy and fizzy and exicted, saying, "That's my dad!" to all my friends. :-)

Because I'm on crack and apparently it started early, most of my friends knew who my dad was. Though thinking back, seeing Dad in that setting probably broke everyone's brain so perhaps, like Superman in his Clark Kent glasses, they truly didn't recognize him because he was in a suit and he was AT CHURCH.

This was notable because Dad didn't go to church ever. Like...EVAR. Did I say EVAR? Now, it just might be faulty remembering on my part; I know he didn't do regular services, but I can't remember him hitting the high holy days either -- no Palm Sunday, Easter or Christmas services. But one year, for some reason, Dad showed up at church, in a suit, looking very handsome and making me incredibly proud to show him off for my friends. Easter!

I also remember, back in the days before VCRs, DVDs, DVR and cable, watching biblical epics on TV. For some reason I love these movies more than Christmas flicks. I LOVE THEM. So yeah, big time of the year for me, holiday televiewing-wise! I'm DVRing TCM's entire lineup today (most of them anyway). Ten Commandments was on last night, also DVRd. Woohoo!

So, apparently back in the day, JC said that he would kiss Justin, a la Britney, Christina and Madonna at the MTV awards.

???

Seen by me for the first time in juc, posted by amber_008. Wuh? How did I not know this, and if I did, how did I forget this? My brain is making me sad. :-( Anyway, article gakked with extreme prejudice from pjordha 'cause her brain isn't dusty and full of holes like mine. LJ-cutting like a rabid dog because I'm thoughtful like that.

( Old interview where JC sez he'd put the smackdown (lipswise) on Justin. )

Also, because I'm an idiot of the highest magnitude, I just discovered that I never tagged the hundred and eleventy million Schizophrenic reviews I saved and posted. ::boggles:: What the hell, me? Honestly.

Edited to add: Holy frig, I really did save a lot of Schizophrenic-related stuff! I've gone through and tagged some of it but now my brain hurts so the rest will have to wait. ::cries::

So...apparently I'm feeling all posty but LJ isn't playing ball. Well, BOOYAH! LJ, 'cause I can cross-post from my other account! I am totally and personally kickin' LJ's slow-responding ass with my cross-posting abilities.

Speaking of slow responses (or even blank pages loading) I got the following via the LJ status page from three hours in the future (gasp!):

LiveJournal may be unresponsive or slow to load due to a high volume of traffic we're experiencing. Our Operations staff is monitoring the situation.

9:23 pm GMT (Monday, March 29)

What awesome times we live in! :-D

On a less happy note, web mail is now disabled at work. Seriously, what the hell? I didn't do a lot from my personal accounts, but I'd usually check mail once in the morning, once in the afternoon. What the hell were people doing that they shut down the mail accounts??? It made me sad. :-( In happier news...uh, my work day is done and I'm about to see what we've got for dinner. I may do something completely reckless like order Chinese (yes! my favorite!) since hubs!monkey isn't feeling well, so probably isn't really hungry. CHINESE FOOD FOR ME FOR DINNER TONIGHT. I CAN FEEL IT.

In other news, one of my friends pointed me toward Big Time Rush, about four boys from Minnesota who want to be the next big boyband. Knowing my love of boybands, my friend thought I should catch at least one episode. Hahahahahaha! It's on Nickelodeon On Demand, so I demanded the three episodes that are currently available. It was cute, and I will probably watch it again. I like the boys and the show better than the Jonas Brothers (but Joe Jonas is *awfully* cute).

Hmmmm. I think I'm done now.

Had another girlie outing planned today, a FOOD party, no less, with tastings and demonstrations and CAKE, and I missed it. I am officially a doofus. Well, I'm kind of of a doofus. It's mostly Honda's fault. ;-p

When I got in the car to head off to my girlie outing, absolutely nothing happened when I turned the key. Aiiiiii! Dead car! Turned the key again knowing full well nothing was going to happen. Thought for a second, then tested the knob thingie for the headlights. Yep, locked in the "ON" position. I didn't turn them off when I got out of the car last night. In my own defense, the garage light comes on automatically when the door opens. I was in a lit garage, so again, not my fault! Kinda.

This is the part in the story where I gnash my teeth and growl, because I *knew* this was going to happen sooner or later.

One thing I don't like about the new car...and you can probably see where this is going...is the fact that there's no warning tone or indicator light to alert you if the lights are still on when you cut the engine. Again, aiiiiiii! It's been quite a few years since I last had to remember to turn lights off. If the car door opened and the lights were still on, my Civic hatchback very helpfully went ding-ding-ding! until the problem was corrected. The Corolla went one better, 'cause it had daytime running lights and that meant, hey! I didn't even need to turn the lights on in the first place! Already on! The lights went off when the car did, naturally, so again, no need to worry there. Well.

Not only do I need to remember to turn the lights off now (hahahahahaha!), I need to remember to turn them on too! It's amazing what fundamentals of driving fall by the wayside when you don't need to think about them anymore. So yes, I knew it was a matter of time. What I don't get is that the Civic was an '87 and the new car is a 2004, so it doesn't make sense that there's no warning mechanism in place. There's a very helpful outline of a key that lights up if you leave the keys in the ignition, but nothing for the lights. I'm wondering now if there *is* such a mechanism, but it just isn't working...? Hmmmm. Need to get the manual out of the glove compartment and check that out. If it turns out to be true...

I'm thinking that a strip of fake mirror (acrylic mirror sheet, according to this website!) should do the trick, even if the garage lights are on. Hubs!monkey looked like he would take the suggestion under advisement, since he'd be the one out there with the drill and screws or whatever fastenings you'd use to attach the thing to the garage door.