Quick life update
Stuff is going. I haven't had a ton happening really worth talking about, or at least that I can freely talk about, because the biggest thing stressing me out right now is someone else's story.
Work: I think the Yule update, pt 1, will be on Monday. I have been waaaaaiting and waaaaaaiting on supplies from an international supplier, ordered last month, and the postal system has been keeping it from me. So a few things will be delayed. But right now I have some experimental pieces, some PMC, lotsa labradorite, old favorites, and about a bajillion of my customary ornaments earrings. I am also going to run a free shipping if you spend over $35 promo to help out the earlybirds.
Cats: Kitties are great. Nox has been sticking to me like glue. More cuddly than usual, but in his typical passive-aggressive way. He sees me as a nice, warm piece of kiss-dispensing people-furniture, I'm sure. I've woken up with him curled up on my belly several times this week. Mim is doin' her own Mim thing. I've taken to carrying her around the house singing "Big Girl, You Are Beautiful," and she loves it. Oh, sausage-cat. And Olive has my father in law wrapped around her paw. My in-laws watched the cats while we were in Gettysburg, and at first I was hesitant because it was so clear to me that my FiL pitied Olive and wondered why we kept her around. He only saw a disabled cat, and so he assumed she is in pain or unhappy. Yeah, two days (and about 8 pics of her sent to us by his camera-phone), he had changed his tune entirely. Once she got over her "who are these big scary new people???" thing, she apparently licked his face for two straight days, turning the cute-ray up to 11. He keeps texting to ask how she's doing. He's in love.
Dancing: Danced at McDaniel College for a Susan G Komen benefit last weekend. That was... well. There were 32 acts on the program. It was way, way, way too much. And some of it really wasn't even bellydance-- there was a totally adorable yet very out of place troupe of 12-14 year old tap dancers who were really great, though Jonathan reported that their troupe leader was a shrill, nasty woman who stuck her nose up at the bellydancers and yelled at her students from the wings the entire time they were onstage. People like that have no business being teachers. What the show did have was dance from student level all the way to the A list level. Shems, as usual, was awesome. Flissy and I did a completely improv set with our brand new swords, and it went over well. Margie, one of my two faculty advisers when I attended McDaniel, was in the audience, and it was good to catch up. I think I'm going to make it out to the next college choir concert. And hoooo boy was it weird being back in that theater.
TV: I 'watch' a lot of TV while I'm working, as a way to have something on in the background that my eyes can use to periodically re-adjust. Basically, it's like a book on tape with added visuals. I can't do actual books on tape while I work because I can't pay complete attention and always miss important stuff. I started a re-watch of Dollhouse after scrapping a bunch of series I just wasn't interested in. The Vampire Diaries is having its best season yet, which in no way contradicts its status as cracky, guilty pleasure. TVD > True Blood, truefacts-- Ian Somerhalder's aggressive eyebulge acting notwithstanding. Secret Circle is still kinda meh. Love the female characters a whole lot, but the male characters are just bleh. One reviewer described Adam as "eyelashes in a hoodie," and that's pretty accurate.
Jason and I also DEMOLISHED the first three seasons of Parks & Recreation. Funniest comedy I've seen in years. I'd avoided it because everybody told me it was "just like The Office," and I hate The Office. The people are so miserable and mean to each other all the time. Not my cuppa. I likewise didn't really like 30 Rock, though, to be fair, the combo of Tracy Morgan + Alec Baldwin is the main source of my repugnance. So I was really surprised to fall so hard for Parks & Rec. The difference between it and other similar comedies is that the people are actually GOOD people at heart. They care about each other even if they totally screw up showing that. Plus, Ron Motherfucking Swanson is the BEST thing on TV right now, period. Like most reviewers said, the show really picks up at around season 2 when Leslie stops being written to be such an airhead, and then it's like an unstoppable train of hilarity from that point on.
Weekends: I am not doing ANYTHING this weekend, except working. Jason put his foot down and said NO PLANS, so NO PLANS is what we are doing. Next weekend I work and help Transcendence host an ATS mixer. I still have to get back to
reedrover about later this month. I am trying to think of a polite way to get out of Thanksgiving Duty with my side of the family, but seems we will be having it with my in-laws, who will not be in town for Christmas.
Okay. Gotta get ready for bead shop-i-ness. Gettysburg recap... soon? When I get that Tardis and can create more time?
Work: I think the Yule update, pt 1, will be on Monday. I have been waaaaaiting and waaaaaaiting on supplies from an international supplier, ordered last month, and the postal system has been keeping it from me. So a few things will be delayed. But right now I have some experimental pieces, some PMC, lotsa labradorite, old favorites, and about a bajillion of my customary ornaments earrings. I am also going to run a free shipping if you spend over $35 promo to help out the earlybirds.
Cats: Kitties are great. Nox has been sticking to me like glue. More cuddly than usual, but in his typical passive-aggressive way. He sees me as a nice, warm piece of kiss-dispensing people-furniture, I'm sure. I've woken up with him curled up on my belly several times this week. Mim is doin' her own Mim thing. I've taken to carrying her around the house singing "Big Girl, You Are Beautiful," and she loves it. Oh, sausage-cat. And Olive has my father in law wrapped around her paw. My in-laws watched the cats while we were in Gettysburg, and at first I was hesitant because it was so clear to me that my FiL pitied Olive and wondered why we kept her around. He only saw a disabled cat, and so he assumed she is in pain or unhappy. Yeah, two days (and about 8 pics of her sent to us by his camera-phone), he had changed his tune entirely. Once she got over her "who are these big scary new people???" thing, she apparently licked his face for two straight days, turning the cute-ray up to 11. He keeps texting to ask how she's doing. He's in love.
Dancing: Danced at McDaniel College for a Susan G Komen benefit last weekend. That was... well. There were 32 acts on the program. It was way, way, way too much. And some of it really wasn't even bellydance-- there was a totally adorable yet very out of place troupe of 12-14 year old tap dancers who were really great, though Jonathan reported that their troupe leader was a shrill, nasty woman who stuck her nose up at the bellydancers and yelled at her students from the wings the entire time they were onstage. People like that have no business being teachers. What the show did have was dance from student level all the way to the A list level. Shems, as usual, was awesome. Flissy and I did a completely improv set with our brand new swords, and it went over well. Margie, one of my two faculty advisers when I attended McDaniel, was in the audience, and it was good to catch up. I think I'm going to make it out to the next college choir concert. And hoooo boy was it weird being back in that theater.
TV: I 'watch' a lot of TV while I'm working, as a way to have something on in the background that my eyes can use to periodically re-adjust. Basically, it's like a book on tape with added visuals. I can't do actual books on tape while I work because I can't pay complete attention and always miss important stuff. I started a re-watch of Dollhouse after scrapping a bunch of series I just wasn't interested in. The Vampire Diaries is having its best season yet, which in no way contradicts its status as cracky, guilty pleasure. TVD > True Blood, truefacts-- Ian Somerhalder's aggressive eyebulge acting notwithstanding. Secret Circle is still kinda meh. Love the female characters a whole lot, but the male characters are just bleh. One reviewer described Adam as "eyelashes in a hoodie," and that's pretty accurate.
Jason and I also DEMOLISHED the first three seasons of Parks & Recreation. Funniest comedy I've seen in years. I'd avoided it because everybody told me it was "just like The Office," and I hate The Office. The people are so miserable and mean to each other all the time. Not my cuppa. I likewise didn't really like 30 Rock, though, to be fair, the combo of Tracy Morgan + Alec Baldwin is the main source of my repugnance. So I was really surprised to fall so hard for Parks & Rec. The difference between it and other similar comedies is that the people are actually GOOD people at heart. They care about each other even if they totally screw up showing that. Plus, Ron Motherfucking Swanson is the BEST thing on TV right now, period. Like most reviewers said, the show really picks up at around season 2 when Leslie stops being written to be such an airhead, and then it's like an unstoppable train of hilarity from that point on.
Weekends: I am not doing ANYTHING this weekend, except working. Jason put his foot down and said NO PLANS, so NO PLANS is what we are doing. Next weekend I work and help Transcendence host an ATS mixer. I still have to get back to
reedrover about later this month. I am trying to think of a polite way to get out of Thanksgiving Duty with my side of the family, but seems we will be having it with my in-laws, who will not be in town for Christmas.Okay. Gotta get ready for bead shop-i-ness. Gettysburg recap... soon? When I get that Tardis and can create more time?