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perfect_drug

1:44PM - whine piss moan*nesting*

i figure uodating here i better then moving the furniture, So  3 roomate haev no job one is supoaseed the be payin he bills (he managed to pay rent) by doing chores. no chores have been done. The 3 of them were awake and yelling at the video games in the liveing(right next to my bedroom at 3:30 this morning) it was keeping James from sleeping. please not he has a job.  working o a daily weekly chore list so that sine the roommate apperantly can't lok at teh house and see that stuff needs to get done. they then like small childern or teenagers  will be able to look at a list. does any one wonder what the 3 of them are doing while i was about to start moving the furniture around? they are all sleeping,  and they wonder why they have not found a joba yet ..... Other wise stuiff is stating tyo come togetehr , i need to go clean out my car, install the car seat. then i need to  organized the master clothset  so i can organize aiden stuff in there(like blankets and bath stuff).

everything else that needs to get done is "too heavy"  so i need on of these jokers to get up and do it Aiden is head down and pushing today no contractions, his head feels like a battering ram on a  fortress door right at the moment  now that i've vented ui'm feelign better and off to do what is not 'too heavy"

neohippie

1:09PM - The end of time? Meh.

Did I see that preview right? Are they really showing the next Doctor Who episode, "The End of Time", on BBC America this Saturday? Isn't that a bit early? Has it even shown in Britain yet? Usually we have to wait several months before we get it here.

Not that I'm all excited or anything. I know I'm supposed to be. The previews make it look like it's some kind of a big deal, with ominous portents of "the END OF TIME!!" and lots of shots of David Tennant looking scared and OH LOOK THE MASTER'S BACK HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD WHAT A SURPRISE THIS IS!

*yawn*

This "end of time" thing kind of reminds me of the one where Davros (OH LOOK DAVROS IS BACK OH MY GOSH WHO EVER THOUGHT WE'D EVER SEE THAT GUY AGAIN?!) tries to destroy, not just Earth or the galaxy or even the entire universe, but ALL UNIVERSES, OOH!

And of course he doesn't. And then I wondered how RTD would top " Davros destroying reality itself" as an Epic Threat. Well, apparently "the Master destroying time" is what he came up with. Oh boy I'm so scared. How will the Doctor ever manage to stop him?

Oh come on, I know he will. The problem with GREAT EPIC THREATS is that you know the bad guy won't destroy Earth or the Universe(s) or Time Itself. And I already know the the Doctor will regenerate in the process, and I'm way beyond caring how that happens as well. They've been "foreshadowing" that for over a year now, shoehorning references to his death in every plot since Donna was around, so now I'm like, "WOULD YOU JUST KILL HIM ALREADY?"

I'm glad RTD is leaving as head writer because I can't see how much more inflated things can get. The show is definitely in need of a change of direction. I hope Moffat will live up to expectations. He seems capable of a few things which I think will help. One is he can think up new threats that are interesting and spooky instead of bringing back dudes from the old show over and over again (that's ok sometimes, but RTD overdoes it). Ok, I guess RTD invented the Slitheen. Um, yay? But Moffat managed to make us afraid of children wearing gas masks, robots hiding under your bed that want to chop you into bits, statues that come to life when you're not looking, and shadows that eat you alive.

Also we seem to be afraid of Moffat's baddies, not because they're going to DESTROY THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE, but because they're about to infect/chop up/eat these characters we've gotten so we like. You know what kind of show this is, so you know nobody's actually going to destroy the Earth, but it's quite possible that River might get eaten, so there's some real suspense there.

So that's why I'm looking forward to the eleventh Doctor as written by Stephen Moffat, and I hope I'm not disappointed. But I've still got one more RTD EPIC FINALE to get through, so I guess I'll play along...

...Oh boy, the Master is going to bring about the end of time... golly gee that's quite the predicament there... the Doctor's really in for it now...

Current mood: cynical

safetygoth

7:37AM - Hapy Solstice, Everyone.

It's 7:35 in Seattle, and for those who haven't been here this time of year, the sun still hasn't actually risen. It's working holiday hours right now, showing its face at 7:55 and calling it a day at 4:20. That's seven hours and twenty-five minutes of daylight. Happy holidays, all.

lady_librarian

7:17AM

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lady_librarian

1:51PM - Don't forget the Hula Hoop!!

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Current mood: busy

lady_librarian

11:51AM

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Current mood: chipper

neohippie

8:56PM

An advanced degree.

I has it!

Current mood: accomplished

lady_librarian

12:15AM - Because it's Friday and I'm feeling whimsical

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lady_librarian

2:56PM

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lady_librarian

12:56AM - No more papers, no more books...

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Current mood: I can't feel my feetz

neohippie

9:22AM

Argh! I forgot my White Elephant gift for the office Christmas party today! I got one and wrapped it up and everything, and it's still in my living room. >:-(

lady_librarian

9:06AM

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12:24AM

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lady_librarian

2:53PM

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Current mood: cheerful

neohippie

10:51AM - more yuletide goodies from the f-list

Remember Swedish Chef, Beaker, and Animal's moving rendition of "Oh Danny Boy" on The Muppet Show? Well, here they are together again with the Christmas classic "Carol of the Bells" YAAAYYY! [/Kermit]

Current mood: amused

lady_librarian

11:14AM

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neohippie

9:08AM - The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

I found my favorite Santa Claus cartoon!

This is probably the coolest (and weirdest) of those stop-motion animation Christmas cartoons. Consequently, it's either not on DVD or is really hard to find, and they hardly ever show it on TV (and if they do it's edited). I couldn't even find a torrent of it. :-(

Synopsis: Cernunnos, I mean, The Great Ak finds an abandoned baby (left out to die of exposure by a family who couldn't afford yet another mouth, I assume) and takes pity on him, so sends him to be raised by fairies and elves and woodland creatures. No, I'm not making this up! Once he reaches puberty, Cernunnos breaks the news to him that he's a mortal and shows him how much they suck. Young Santa feels sorry for the poor saps, especially the children who didn't have the benefit of being brought up in an enchanted forest, so he becomes a toymaker to bring some joy to their miserable lives.

This all takes place, actually, in a flashback while The Horned One, I mean, The Great Ak is pleading his case to the other gods, I mean, immortals that they should make him one of them before he dies of old age and The Angel of Death comes for him.

I'm sure you already know what they decide, but DUDE! Pagan Fairy Santa FTW!



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lady_librarian

12:21AM

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Current mood: tired

lady_librarian

9:05AM - He's everywhere! He's everywhere!

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Current mood: chipper

neohippie

2:12PM - Early Yule Gift

Hanging out at Katya's Orphan Thanksgiving, talking about cooking, I realized that I don't own any cookbooks. Rowan and Katya were talking about ones they liked, and I realized that I get all my recipes online, and the closest thing to a cookbook I own is more of an herb gardening book with recipes in it as well.

This seems weird for a foodie like me, but I guess it's because I'm poor and since I can get recipes online I end up spending what little extra money I have on other things.

However, this has now changed. The other day I accompanied Daniel to Half Price Books while he unloaded three whole boxes of books he didn't want anymore that he had separated out when we moved. He almost threw them away or dumped them at Goodwill, but I told him he ought to sell them at Half Price so he'd at least get a little money.

Of course when one is at Half Price waiting for them to go through your books and give you your voucher to take to the cashier, you go and look at the books they have for sale, right?

Daniel went to the science books section, while I did a quick scan of the DVD's (I've scored big there before by finding ALL THREE of the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings movies, and another time I found the complete Monty Python's Flying Circus, so I always check the DVD's just in case I hit the jackpot again). Nothing good was there, so I headed towards the books and passed an endcap with cookbooks.

One of the books was 660 Curries, which I'd seen a good review of on Tigers and Strawberries, so I decided to give it a look-through.

Daniel found me, and seeing how interested I was in the book, he insisted on buying it for me with some of the money he got from his load of books. For such a huge tome of a book, it was a bargain at $9.98, so after some obligitory "no, you really shouldn't," I gave in.

I haven't cooked anything from it yet, but it's one of those cookbooks where just sitting down and READING it is actually fun too! The author has a really engaging and fun writing style, and it's chock full of interesting stuff I didn't know about Indian culture and cuisine.

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I wonder if Daniel has any idea what horror he has unleashed, given that he doesn't even like spicy or "fancy or weird" food. Though there are "meat and potato" curries in here that the author describes as good for people like him.

Maybe I should start collecting more cookbooks. It would be neat to have a similar book for Chinese cuisine. Another good thing about this book is that most of it is normal, everyday home cooking, at least for Indians, so the recipes are pretty simple, inexpensive, and easy to make. I'd like a Chinese cookbook like that too, instead of one trying to replicate fancy American-Chinese restaurant recipes that are actually kind of hard for the home cook, Chinese or American, to make (I really don't like doing a lot of deep-frying at home, for example). I mean, just because it's authentically "foreign" doesn't mean it has to be difficult or fancy, cuz what do normal everyday people in foreign countries eat?

I could also use just a regular ol' general American cookbook. You know, the kind that looks like a red checkered tablecloth with a spiral binding, so I won't have to go to the internets every time I want to make chocolate chip cookies.

And I really should have some of Alton Brown's books, especially since I think he has more stuff in them than he has on the show. I'm not sure though. You can get all the recipes from the show off the FoodTV website, but I've skimmed through his books at B&N and it looked like there was more stuff in there. But there I go back to the old impulse to not buy cookbooks because I can always just get the recipes online. :-/

Well... I wonder where I can find some curry leaves and some unsweetened coconut flakes around here.