Just a small piece of insanity...

iGoogle quote of the day...
Another reason to like both Joss and pie. *g*

Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.

- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon


(Man, I could really go for a slice of cherry or blueberry pie right now. So hungry and my mid-morning snack of yogurt is just not going to cut it.)

A meme. From Clr... or Bex. Either one. You choose. :)

( Current... )

Ok, before I forget, as I am want to do so very much lately...

Happy Birthday, UB! Hope it's a good one with lovely thoughts of Spike and the Dinof in it! :)

(Also, a much belated happy b-day to Leli, who's big day I missed due to my inability to read a calendar. :P)

((Also, I use this icon because I watched Throwdown with Bobby Flay last night and they made CUPCAKES and I was so, so hungry for them. Still am, actually. Cupcakes are love.))

Ok, I was ready to give up on Glee because I liked it, but I didn't love it and damn, but I have enough tv on my schedule to watch without that too. And then I finally watched this past weeks ep. And... GIGGLE. Then SNIFFLE. More giggles. Then the game, and more sniffling with Quinn and then Kurt and his dad and... I think this episode solidified things for me. It has to stay in the line-up. It has to.

Also, I am now watching Psych and damn, but it's so nice to see that look of awe on Shawn's face as he watches Gus sing. He's so proud of his best buddy!

And now I must actually get off my ass and start my Sunday bake-a-thon and then do some cleanup in my basement.

I am such a sap. Such. A. Sap.

( Proof. Which includes a quote from The West Wing and therefore fulfills my portion of perpetuating the meme to quote TWW on this, the 10th anniversary of it's premiere. From a post I made at it's finale. )

( And yeah, even more sap... )

I cannot get The West Wing theme song out of my head. And it is all B's fault. Well, B and The Weather Channel.

(Apparently TWC was having a theme song morning and B decided to crank the volume up on the WW one when it came on, just to motivate me out of bed. Or suprise me in a nice way. Or something. The first thought I had in my head was, "My show is on! YAYS!" The second was, "Wait, this early? And it's not actually 6am OR 7am. Why is the theme song coming on at such an odd time?" Of course, my hazy,sleepy brain never even began to process the fact that it was a work morning and even if my show was on I would not have time to watch it as I had to, you know, get up and get ready for work. Oy vey.)

I now very much want to mainline the whole damn series.

Perhaps, instead, I should drabble. Especially using the prompts that quaggymire gave me a couple of weeks ago. Drabbling would be nice. Hell, WRITING AGAIN would be nice. Sigh. (It would, of course, be helpful if other shows motivated me to write as much. Or if I had nearly as good a grasp on the voices. I mean, Leverage, helllloooo? I heart you, but I just can't get Parker's crazy or Eliot's gruffness just right. And without that... well, fic just isn't fic. It's original crap using fic names.)

And since I will not be around all weekend (damn my parents for visiting! Ok, not really, it will be good to see them and they are helping to do stuff around our house and we are apple picking and stuff, but still...)

Anyhow... Happy early birthday to thestickywicket and jomarch! May two such wonderful ladies have a wonderful start to their birthday week! (See, Jo? Birthday week does not include grading. :))

I like Julianna Marguiles. A lot. I mean, how could you not after ER? Or Lost Room? Or whatever.

But sadly, I do not like her enough that I had any desire to watch the new cheating husband politico show. (The Good Wife? I think?)

But now, dammit, angstville tells me that JOSH CHARLES is in it. With yummy photographic proof! (Tivo fail. It has not told me this and I have the Josh Charles permanent wish list.)

And now I have to decide... Is Josh Charles enough to make me watch this?

I mean... Danny! Josh! My boy!
But then again... just another eh politico/lawyer show.

So share O Flist... should I watch???

(And while I'm at it, what else SHOULD I be trying beyond Glee? Although spare me the CW recs since I am *still* CW-less up here in the woods.)

Last night I had no less than TWO dreams about writing fic. No, really. I am writing the fic in my dream. I see the characters doing what I want and I am narrating the dialogue complete with "she said", "he muttered", etc. Of course, eventually, my dream mind says screw that, and I begin to just dream whatever the fic is as if its live.

Anyhow, the point is... TWO of these dreams last night. And a handful in the past month. I think this is a sign.

Therefore, inspired by the lovely quaggy_mire, I've decided I need to kick my muse into gear a bit. Drabble prompt me! You know the fandoms (though mileage may vary.)

Leggings under short, empire-waist dresses:

Yay or Nay?

I need to go shopping next weekend and have been concerned about how I will deal with maternity hose/tights. Was considering leggings as an alternate option. But I am woefully out of touch with what is truly in style lately.

(I think this is why I love Ann Taylor so much... classic and I don't have to worry about the current trendy styles. ;))

THANK YOU!

PS: My day is not as sucky as I had anticipated. Whoo! I still think another Sunday is in orer however. *g*

I honestly cannot tell you how very much I love the Leverage blog. LOVE. It's becoming a highlight of my fannish week. A highlight which has been somewhat missing in the past year or so. Alas.

Last week there were questions on the blog about 'shipping (and the writers quipping that honestly, you can't tell them that Nate/Eliot isn't the biggest pairing in the fandom) and this week there are questions about fanfic (and the writer giving an awesome, honest answer about how he views it vs. how others might.) I love that they interact with the audience and that they acknowledge not just show/actor questions, but fandom questions. I dunno. Maybe that makes me extra dorky or naive. But still... love.

And now I am going back to trying to work. Trying. Because my attention? Just not there. Alas.

Crap. I've watched that West Wing vid so many times that I am now craving a re-watch of the Sam farewell episodes.

Seriously. Me. Wanting to watch Sam stuff.

I blame the scenes of the Sam/Donna hug from SGTE,SGTJ and the Toby one. "You're going to lose and you're going to lose big, and I want to be there next to you." (Or something, I don't have the *exact* quote available but that is pretty damned close.)

Nostalgia, oh how you slay me.

Now my problem is convincing B that a rewatch marathon is very much needed. ;)

My life has apparently come down to just lengthy bullet points. Huh. However, I think it works well for mcamy, so why not me too? *g*

Because my tivo likes me and I have an inordinately large wishlist of actors programmed into it, I would up recording this bizarre movie called Gun Shy a week or so ago. It *was* bizarre - something about a spy and mobsters and money laundering - and I admit to not paying much attention to the actual story, but oh my, the actors in it! I was swooney.

A hilarious Schiff without a beard (I think the movie was just prior to TWW maybe?) Mitch Pileggi playing, well, Agent Skinner only not with aliens but with mobsters. Little Tony Dinozzo, looking so very young, almost as if he had just learned to shave the day before. Oliver Platt as a crazy mobster. Mary McCormack as his dark-haired, Long Island-styled wife (Seriously, my appreciation of her as an actress grows every time I see her in something new. She re-invents herself completely.) Mary's boss from In Plain Sight as another character. Oh, and William Hurt and Sandra Bullock, too, but who really cares about *them*? I was just a mass of giggly fangirl watching everyone else.

Wow. I know I had other bullety thing to say, but they have completely flown my mind.

PS: Except I remembered one - why I hate nailpolish. Because I re-did my pedicure last night and thought, hey, wouldn't it be nice to do my fingernails too? At least for this Thursday and Friday, because I knew it would be shot to hell by Saturday. However, the nail polish that I put on *JUST LAST NIGHT* has already chipped on no less than three fingernails. Um, nice, Revlon. Great job there.

Leverage starts up again tonight! Wheee!

::does little dance of joy::

It's sad, I know, but I have been missing good teevee. I mean, Michael Weston on Burn Notice has been making me very, very happy (and very much in the mood for yogurt) but one episode of fun teevee per week is just not enough for a junky like me.

And Leverage? Well... Squee! It's just so fun and so pretty!
(Although it will be slightly annoying with the planned long-term guest star, but I will suck it up - Spoilery article link)

Now if it were just August and time for Psych to return... THAT show and it's planned guest star makes me squeee even more. *g*

I finally got around to watching Merlin. (I know, slow to catch up, as I think several of you have been watching all along before it hit US airwaves.) I like it. It's not a deep thinker by any stretch of the imagination, but it moves right along and is excellent summer fair. (And there are pretty boys!) Now if I could just get over the Evil!KingGiles part (Plus Gwen being an evil Sorceress in the first ep and them playing Who-ish music whenever she appeared) I'd be ok. Also, who the heck plays Merlin's new guardian/tutor/whatever? I feel I should know who he is, but can't place him for the life of me.

Still watching Burn Notice and falling a little deeper each ep. I love Michael's dryness. Also, there is Bruce Campbell and I love him. LOVE. I have no idea why it's taken me so long to watch this show. I should just be thankful I showed up to the party at all, shouldn't I? Yes, yes, I should.

Plus, I finally caught up and finished the recent season of Breaking Bad. (And therein lies another weird fannish collision, since Rory Gilmore's crazy art friend from S7 played Jesse's ex-junky girlfriend and I couldn't ever see her as much beyond Rory's friend.) I want to see more, but... does this show have an end in sight? Walt should be dead by now. And if they keep him living, my interest is surely not going to keep up. This is one of those shows that needs to have a clear end point in sight and not just drag on indefintely. Sadly, I'm not sure it does.

I used my Mad Men icon to comment on something this mornng and realized... I have no clue when that comes back. I know that Leverage returns mid-July, Psych returns my birthday week, but not when Mad Men returns. Any ideas? gatsbyfan?

Why was this so hard? Honestly, I think it's because I read a lot of 'throw-away' books and not a lot of meaningful ones. This is, perhaps, why a book club is good for me. *g*

Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Copy the instructions into your own post.

1. Anne of Green Gables
2. His Dark Materials trilogy
3. Wuthering Heights
4. Untitled Mystery by Anonymous *
5. Neverwhere
6. Beloved
7. King Lear
8. Inherit the Wind
9. Magic Elizabeth **
10. Enchanted April
11. Light on Snow
12. 1000 Pieces of Gold
13. Blackberry Wine
14. Into the Wild
15. Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear

* When I was in college, my local library had a big rack of cheap, rotating paperbacks. When you checked them out they didn't care about the titles so much as how many you were getting. Well, I picked up this mystery novel (seriously listed as by Anon.) and it started with about 10 characters at a country estate and they kept getting killed and you kept thinking you knew things and then at the end, everyone was dead and the book started talking to the reader and telling the reader that *they* were the killer simply by fact that they kept reading. It was... different. So like a dutiful person, I returned the book, but then really wanted a copy for myself. I looked and looked for it to turn up on that rack again and it never did and I have never found another copy and that fact as much as the story makes this book stick with me.

** My sister and I are going to fight over who owns this children's book for as long as we live. For reals. If the kiddo is a girl, I *might* win, but only by a small margin.

I don't like when Lenny and Green fight. It's just not right. :(
(why yes, this is how I am procrastinating this fine Saturday morning.)

And I feel like I should have something to say about Brad and Jane, but... meh. I still heart Brad like crazy and that's really all that matters.

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Happiest of Birthdays to zandras_court! May you and the commune have a wonderful evening celebration!

(And remember, you get to celebrate *all week* so if your birthday lunch is less than stellar, well, frak it - you have the rest of the week to enjoy! *g*)

A question for you decorating savvy on the internetz.

::coughKelcouch:: ::couchMachacough::

I am planning on painting an accent wall in my plain, white guest room a lovely shade of blue.

Should I:

A) Do just one wall
B) Do two walls, side by side or
C) Do two walls, opposite of one another

Please do not suggest painting the whole room, as I am planning on using leftover paint from my old house and do not actually have enough for the WHOLE room and really don't want to spend the money on more paint either. Yes, I am a cheapo. :P