You have enormous value to me...

I've been watching the fourth season of Dexter and ( mild barely-a-spoiler )

( My super-exciting life )

Awake since 4am and have already spent ten minutes googling Bea Arthur. Is that weird?

Am considering whether to try to sleep or just give up and put on a disc from Season 2 of Bones (all other dvds are packed). Also apparently considering giving up pronouns...

I know a lot of the people on my flist love it but... I don't. Whatever you're seeing that's making you squee, I don't see it. Oh, well... I'm glad that you're enjoying it!

( My thoughts... including spoilers so be warned )

I have finally finished watching Battlestar Galactica. And yes, it did take me forever. I haven't really collected my thoughts at this point (beyond "Pigeon? ... the frak?") so I'll need a little time, but at least I don't have to worry about being spoiled.

It's been... a long time. And before that, the posts were pretty few and far between. I blame a number of factors, specifically work, getting ready to move and television.

We've been doing some pretty intense tv marathon sessions and I have now officially caught up on Bones (and can I just say that the S4 finale was... not good at all. Very boring, in fact. But then again, I can understand to whom (as in which shippers) the episode was meant to appeal and that's fair enough). I'm definitely looking forward to the season premiere which, if I recall correctly, is a few short weeks away (or less??).

Oh, and we're very on track to finish up BSG by the end of the week-end. Only about six more episodes to go!

This counts are productivity, right?

I'm pretty certain that this can't be done well as a movie. The commercials are bothering me because I think the film will have ruined the story. I could be wrong... but I don't think I am.

I'm definitely not paying to see it. I don't even know if I'll be able to bring myself to watch it for free when it comes on tv.

Just stopping by to wish kiss_me_cassie a fabulously happy birthday!

( The bathtub is full of concrete )

Posting to say that I've finished season 3 of BSG but am waiting to start season 4 because my lovely husband has dropped hints about getting me the full series. So, in light of the impending release of 4.5, I'm asking my flist to please just bear with me a little longer. You've all been quite good at avoiding spoilers or placing them under cuts so far and I really appreciate it. Just a little while more and then you'll be free (and you can rec some good fic!).

- Felt the baby move in the most distinct way yet. Before now, I'd only experienced the odd "Was that... ?" moment but today was definite. Weird feeling but cool.

- When I got home from work, my roommate had already taken the dog out and fed him for me, making it possible to change directly into PJs.

- Leverage is already up online.

- During P's lunch break, a guy came into the sub place where we were eating and I remarked that he was familiar. P reminded me that he works at my favourite coffee shop by referring to him as "Taylor the Latte boy".

- Don't work until 2 tomorrow, which means sleeping in. I know that isn't really about today but it means that I don't have to feel bad for not going to bed as soon as I came in at 9:45.

Saw my doctor on Wednesday after days of getting sicker and not better. Actually, the appointment was a regular baby-check-up thing but that's beside the point. It turns out that I have a really bad chest cold (I knew that) and also a sinus infection (knew that, too - the throbbing ache in my head and jaw was a good tip-off). So, I'm on antibiotics and was told to take a few days off from work. I took it pretty easy today (other than going to a lab to get a blood test, where all the other people in the waiting room stared at me with eyes that screamed "swine flu?!?") and I plan to do the same tomorrow. I've been watching Nurse Jackie on the on-demand channel and taking cat naps. Other than that, my life is very, very uneventful.

I'm hoping I'll feel better by the time I'm supposed to be at work on Sunday morning.

Just woke up from a dream involving a lottery that was a lot more like a treasure hunt through a haunted house... one that involved Tina Fey, a chainsaw and wait, is that Conan O'Brien or Anderson Cooper? Stop shapeshifing, dammit!

And now I have to go to work. Boo to Wednesday.

Once, just ONCE I would like there to exist a "romantic comedy" that's funny like so many of them are but that doesn't devolve into some lame and shoddily-concocted "conflict" in the last twenty minutes of the film. I really like those types of movies... for the first hour and ten minutes. Then I lose interest and sometimes actually turn them off because I KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN SO WHY BOTHER WATCHING? Why kill the funny just to have them do the stupid break-up-make-up dance?

I swear, I need to devote more time to watching movies like Aliens and Full Metal Jacket where this shit just doesn't happen.

/rant

I've been very bored with my old layout but I'm in no mood to fiddle around with a custom one or to try to get my own header and colour scheme to work, so I'm going the cardboard cutout way for now. I do like it... though it's certainly thinner than the layouts I've had before and the mood theme at the top of the post will take some getting used to.

Today, both the husband and I are off work, so we braved the world in search of an egg poacher (I'm having insane cravings for Eggs Benedict and for dinner, I shall have it!) which we found easily enough. I was in a cranky mood, though, so P brought me to Chapters which is guaranteed to raise my spirits but is also like taking an alcoholic to Beerfest. I got two books even though I've joined that book club and will soon have to be buying whichever book is chosen for our first round. But who cares; it cheered me up. After that, a quick bite to eat followed by a stop at the grocery for the rest of tonight's dinner ingredients and now we're home for a quiet afternoon in. A pretty good day off work, when all's said and done.

Now, I'm off to decide which book to read first...

I've been watching a lot of TNG lately, since it's on every day at 4 and I am still unemployed (mostly due to ill health of late but I'm feeling better so things might be turning around). It's amazing how quickly, even years after the show ended, I can identify episodes. It usually only takes a few lines of dialogue before I can figure out what's going to happen. Right now, I'm watching the one where Troi, Data and O'Brian get all possessed and then take over Ten-Forward. Bad-ass Troi is funny.

Yes, I admit it - I watch this show. I have all the available seasons on DVD (though, in my defense, my husband bought me the last two of his own free will; I didn't ask for them). I think it was pretty good at the start but has jumped the shark since season 3 when ( spoilers )

I'm stuck at home, without a car or any real access to the outside world. Okay, I could walk somewhere but as I'm still being blindsided by random bouts of sickness, this doesn't seem wise. Outside, it's lovely and sunny and breezy and in here it's muggy and yucky. I've turned on the fan in the air conditioner for a bit to get the air moving, which I hope will help.

I'm finally, finally tackling the laundry after deciding to give up on the idea of being well for a long enough stretch of time that going to the laundromat might be plausible. This means that I have to use the facilites at my apartment, where there are exactly two sad washers and two sad dryers, so it's going to take me all afternoon to get through the five loads I've got, instead of the hour and a half that it'd be a the laundromat. It'll likely cost me more this way, too, but at least my apartment and bathroom are close at hand.

What else? Oh, I'm hungry. Except I have no desire to eat anything. It's obviously really fun. There's a bunch of stuff I could be eating: yogurt, left-over pizza, rice and veggies, cereal, soup... but none of it is appetizing. In fact, I can't quite think of anything that's appetizing.

And my grandmother has gone incommunicado. This woman is the busiest unemployed elderly woman EVER. She is never home. She travels a lot but as far as we know, isn't doing that currently. She just goes to the senior's centre every day and participates in or organizes events. I keep missing her when she's home and she never checks her answering machine. At least I don't have to worry that something's happened, though, since two of my uncles live downstairs from her and eat dinner with her most nights.

With the wedding just over a week away, I've been insanely busy. Rest assured, I haven't disappeared. I've been lurking a little but most of my time is spoken for. I really only came on to post and say hello and also to rec a book I just finished. Everyone should go out and get Still Alice by Lisa Genova. I couldn't put it down.

Hope everyone is having a more mellow week than I am!