charts, facts, figures

Watching So You Think You Can Dance, which is lots of fun. I've slowly found myself being sucked into watching CSI: New York, which has a lot less goofiness than Miami (sorry, the over dramatics of Horatio Caine have gotten old and their plot lines are so strange) and the same good cast (if not better) than Las Vegas. I've already talked about how adorable Eddie Cahill (Detective Don Flack) is and how much I enjoy Gary Sinise.

After watching last week's episode though, I find myself hit with a plot bunny of Gary Sinise and the cool ME being BFF and roommates because of ( spoiler for It Happened to Me )

I'm very excited because this week they are having a CSI TRIFECTA! of episodes, so that characters from all three are solving a crime together. Which means that Danny and Martin from Without a Trace (which had a crossover with CSI: Las Vegas that was a little bit pointless and too focused on Jack, sheesh) can totally hang out with Don and Mac and Danny (Messer) and have great New York hijinks. Yes please!

Also, I was rereading/re-editing some of my stories and I really want to muck around in the Elementary!verse sandbox again. Or fix the story bits that I wrote about it being too darn hot in many fandoms, because they're not quite perfect yet.

And! I need to sign up for Yuletide (and actually do it!), which is an obscure fandom fanfic exchange. Last year I defaulted (boo, long story) but I've done it for two years before that (as a pinch-hitter the first, and a writer AND pinch-hitter the second) and it's tons of fun to see what you can write--Bradbury fanfic!--or what you can get.

To conclude, apparently my brain has gone right past Thanksgiving and towards Christmas. Anyone have a present that they're dying for?

Mom's plane lands in a couple hours (she's here for a conference on making graphs, or something) and I'm still fighting off this weird almost cold that I've had for most of the week, but having now found another murderer thanks to Criminal Minds, I am off to clean and tidy the house. Oh, in more holiday news, I still have lots of Xmas cards if someone wants one. I plan on getting around to addressing/sending them soonish, promise. That post is here, or just shoot me an email.

It's feeling very San Francisco winter-y outside (I couldn't wear flip flops! Shock!) which is kind of lovely. I have oodles of ideas for holiday presents, and seeing as it looks like I'll be around long enough to have Amazon sent here, I should just bite the bullet and buy things.

Thanksgiving was lovely, though I've been sick (or almost-sick) ever since, which is a bummer. This too shall pass, naturally, but can it pass now, please?

Younger Sister said she'd be back "early" to help clean. Apparently her definition of early and mine are a little bit different, though to be fair I slept in (trying to sleep past the headache) also.

Hope everyone's having a good end to your weekend and that you're staying warm in all the different kinds of winter going around from coast to coast.

I just finished watching an episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (which I enjoy because Bourdain might he a hardass, but he's a well-meaning one who seems to genuinely appreciate people) where he was traveling between the US/Mexico border towns and meeting guys who are working in restaurants in the US and then their families (who the guys can't go visit because their citizenship papers mean they can't leave the US) and it made feel thankful that I get to see so much of my family in the next few days. Younger Sister and I are driving down to our grandparents until Sunday where we will be with: grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles and cousins and (for not-quite overlapping parts of the time) both of our boyfriends. Exciting!

So, if you haven't done so, take the time to tell your family and friends that they make you thankful, because that's the point of holidays... not the presents (and is it just me, or do all the Black Friday ads have a air of desperation to them? "BUY THINGS PLEASE? WE NEED YOUR MONEY!!!") or the food (although FOOD, omnomnom) or whatever, just that it's nice to spend time with people you care about. I believe that we're bringing the Wii to the party and oh LORD, the awesomeness that comes with my kiiiiinda competitive family playing Wii Tennis? Oh goodness.

Merry Christmas, everyone! Unless of course, that's not your hoiday, and then happy Tuesday! XD

It was nice to spend the past two-ish days with family, and we all seemed pleased with presents this morning. I got a lot of clothes (because Flyakate style isn't exactly grownup yet) and a new purse from my Oldest Sister, which is gorgeous and a happy yellow color. Another excellent present I got was the set of the Chronicles of Narnia on audio cd, which are gorgeously read by Kenneth Brannath, Patrick Stewart, and other people. Woohoo!

We will have "second Christmas" this weekend with the extended family of cousins and aunts and uncles, and then (because of course I won't have received enough presents by then) my birthday is the 6th.

To make the day even happier, yuletide opened this morning, and I a coolly creepy and neat IT story of my very own called Unfinished about the things you remember even when you're not supposed to (one of the coolest conceits from that book). Neither of my authors have responded back to mine, but comments are appreciate, which is joyous. So go read rare fandom fic! It's awesome!

Love and miss you all! Those of you I owe cards to, they will be along *shamefaced grin*

While I felt kind of sucky yesterday (too many potato chips), there's really nothing like a full family holiday. There will be 20 for dinner, and we made napkins and napkin rigns and Younger Sister and aunt were laughingly competing to make the best one (pillaging pine needles out of the yard). There will be pie and mashed potatoes and an jinormous turkey and mmmm.

After, probably (another) viewing of Hairspray or playing the Wii. OMG, Mom bought Mario & Sonic at the Olympics and it's soooo funny. You can run the 100m and throw a hammer, though I kept throwing it into the fence. Oops.

So HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Eats lots and laugh lots and enjoy (hopefully) a long weekend. *smushes*

I was just sitting here and a handful of kids came to see if I wanted a glow stick. Or rather, if I had children who wanted one, but I also needed one for my pumpkin, because I don't have any matches. Though I'm almost out of food (especially Ramen *sadface*) so I might get some at the store. It's very cute: a witch's hat. Last night after I started feeling better, I got invited to my family's house because they were carving pumpkins. My oldest cousin was also putting the finishing touches on some of her college apps (early decision deadline is tomorrow). So that was exciting.


Yaaaaaaay Halloween.

Happy Halloween !!!

So it turns out my parents aren't going away, which lets me off the hook for dog-sitting. Unless they change their mind. They're like that. At least it means that I get to eat Mom-cooked food, as opposed to the random culinary experiments I concoct that never work out quite right. Seriously, who would have thought I could screw up rice? I don't get it.

My room at the moment is an absolute disaster area, presents from multiple gift-events sitting all over the place and starting to mix with random crap and dirty clothes. Tomorrow is a day for cleaning, if I can ever get myself out of bed at a decent hour. Which means that going to bed at 3am is no good. This is a bad pattern that I've created. Damn.

But my bed is so comfy. And I have bizzarely coherent dreams which my brain likes to treat like a book I'm reading ("no, we'll wake up later, I think we're getting to the good part. Only five more pages minutes, really..."). It's odd. But amusing, at least.

Tonight I watched Blade: Trinity with my parents. A little silly, but the snark really amused me. And how much does Ryan Reynolds remind me of Jason Lee? It's odd. Although, interesting coincidence, as I was writing what song I'm listening to, I remembered that Ryan is engaged to Alanis. So there, bizzarity of the night. Also tried to introduce them to Firefly; Dad kept going "twang twang..." everytime the music came back in. They'll warm up eventually. They think Wash is funny, at least. And Mal. They think Simon needs acting lessons. *cackle*

Oooh, and I changed my layout a bit. What do you think?

Hope all is well around my list of friends. Cheers!

Happy Christmassy holiday type greetings, everyone! I trust all had a happy New Year and such? I hope so. I had what might have been the most fun New Years of my life this weekend. The apartment was overrun by six of my friends (plus one of their boyfriends at some points) and we had TONS of fun. I miss the feeling of hanging out with lots of people that you know well and are perfectly comfortable around. What with all the closeness that comes from four years of college and the dependency of close-quarters theatrical living, being together in a large group and enjoying ourselves is extremely easy. The hightlights:

*the decision that we needed to learn the entirity of Auld Lang Syne WITH THE SCOTTISH VERSES so that we could sing it at midnight. And then practicing it. Several times. LOUDLY.

*dinner at Joe Jrs. Diner (whose name gave us a good five-minute reminiscence of Sandra Bullock's landlord's son in While You Were Sleeping) and being flirted with by several workers, which scored us free soup samples and apple pie with ice cream. Not to mention amused looks as seven of us crammed into a booth.

*Drinks and dancing at Beauty Bar, who had a great deal of $15 dollar cover getting you a drink and champagne at midnight. Thusly, I consumed the following: a quasi-Dirty Girl Scout (we were missing the vodka), a lemon drop shot, a gin 'n tonic, and two vodka with cranberry (my new favorite). All between 10 and midnight. Needless to say, 1am brought us to the

*Infamous Parking Meter Incident of Aught 6: Director and I both clinging rather dizzily to the parking meter outside, neither of us ever sick, but still not willing to move on our own. Despite the large quantity of alcohol, we seriously discussed both how great it was to use the parking meter as leaning post, and how RIDICULOUS we must look. Good times.

*darkbluelizards "smuggling" me a glass of ice water. The bouncer following and checking to make sure I was okay and giving me tips on feeling better.

*Same bouncer looking really happy that I recovered enough later to come back inside and dance. He was a big fan of all of us, I feel.

*Dancing. I forgot I love dancing. Must do more of that.

*Having lots of good snuggly time with my friends. I love my friends a lot. And of course getting to approve of Biologist!Twin's boyfriend. Well done there. And English Major's boy as well, by long distance. Well done indeed *smirk*

I hope to start a Rentfic tonight(ish) and will hopefully post it in a day or two at the latest. There's one waiting for me on my computer back at my parents (didn't feel like bringing it back to NYC with me yet, v. heavy). Huzzah. So the real question: should I go for the "Christmas" or the "New Year" prompt? Decisions, decisions...

Aaand, apparently my stomach has decided I should be done with this entry and go lie down. Bad anxiety, no cookie for you!

Cheers!

I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving, retroactively. Or, if that's not your thing, that you enjoyed have a day off from work/school/etc.

It was lovely lovely to be home with my parents and the pets, and to see my Younger Sister (who I saw at 3am the night before in NYC, but that's a longer story) as well as to hang with Playwright!Twin and Biologist!Twin at my house. Sadly, the hanging out had to end yesterday, as they went city-ward and I tried to reconcile myself to the fact that I have approximately 70 pages to read in my developmental psych book, not to mention probably 20 pages of papers to write, before finals week. If they still call it that in grad school. Ew.

On the plus side, I saw Harry Potter again this weekend, and will be seeing RENT with rhymester tomorrow, with all luck. We should try and get the whole high school crowd together and go see the movie. sweet_obscenity? capedcrusader92? kumquat_queen? You up for it? I had almost forgotten how formative Rent was for high school. Frightening thought, really... does explain the heavy amount of Rent-based fanfic I write, though.

Hope all is well with everyone. I'll probably stick around with my parents tomorrow and head back into the city on Tuesday (boo class). Try and stay warm, kiddies, it's been cold lately :o) Cheers!

Um. So. Through a series of wacky events (and Fate, or ka) I get to see the Rent movie tonight. A full TWELVE DAYS EARLY. omg?

Gotta love New York. Will try to keep the squees down to a minimum (or at least an lj-cut) so you can decide if you want my verdict about it or not. Pretty sure I'm going to love it. Hell, the trailer gives me goosebumps.

And Playwright!Twin is coming with! Yaaaaaaay!

Hokay, laters. *flees* Cheers!