So: how was your weekend?

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I had a lovely weekend. On Friday, I went to see my friend Lauren and make dinner for her and her son Dylan. (She's pregnant with baby #2, due in July, which is CRAZY!) Dylan was incredibly cranky and clingy and kept wanting her to pick him up while she was in the middle of doing something else. She kept saying, "No, Dylan, I'm not going to pick you up right now!" and then 5 seconds later...yeah.

I think it was frustrating for all of us.

I spent Saturday morning making cakes for my dad's party. Observe the results:





The "39" is for the number of years my father worked for his company. The "FREEDOM!" cake is what happens when you've spent 3 1/2 hours fussing with cake and icing bags, and your hand's cramping up, and you want something other than "Congratulations" to write on a retirement cake.

Ahem.

All the fussing I did over the music, and it ended up being too loud to hear it anyways! My youngs cousins ran riot around the hall, I played beer pong with some friends and cousins, chatted to some relatives, ate a metric ton of pizza, and drank as much beer and wine as I could before it was time to sober up so I could drive the second car home in the SURPRISE!blizzard that apparently no one saw coming. All in all, a good time.

My brother and new sister-in-law were home, so today while they took a nap I took their dog Roxie for a walk. Despite yesterday's storm, today was sunny and rather warm. (Almost 40 degrees!) We stomped around in the new snow and she chased down and destroyed half a dozen sticks. I came home to more pizza and some flat beer leftover from the keg we got for the party. (Reminds me of college days, when friends would invite you over the day after a party to finish the keg before it had to go back to the liquor store for the deposit. Good times.)

The dog's now gone, and my cat's come out of hiding. I need to get some writing done, but: eh, who wants to? There's flat beer to drink!

Also: I have decided to watch Firefly! (Why yes: I am typically about 5 years behind the times!) I had decided to give it a try yesterday and ordered the DVDs from the library, but I discovered it's debuting on the Science channel tonight at 8:00 pm, so that's probably what I'll be doing.

That, and eating leftover cake and drinking flat beer.

What's everyone else up to? How were your weekends?

Oh, also: for any flisters interested in taking part in sherlockmas's "Spring Into Sherlock" festival, you have until Midnight EST to claim a prompt! The post to do just that is here. I still need to pick two more prompts, and I just don't know which ones to take! If anyone has a suggestion, let me know!

Comments

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Aww, thank you!

And ooh, which episode of Who did you watch? Did you like it?

(Hey, why waste time watching crap when you have the rest of the world to do quality control for you?)

EXACTLY! And there's no pesky 'waiting to find out what happens', dragging it out: you get to binge on a glut of episodes right from the start, which I love! I've already seen the first five eps of Firefly and will likely watch a couple more today!

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Waaaaay back at the beginning: "#1: Rose." I was definitely intrigued. I love Rose's heroic screw-this-shit moment at the end most of all. Tragically, my husband doesn't like, so getting through heck-knows-how-many seasons will take a while. (I have yet to find any BBC that said husband appreciates. It's really unfortunate. He's also veoted Being Human, though I will commit heresy by saying I wasn't that into it either.)

And heyyyyy... I hear a rumor today that Firefly will be back on the air? So you see, your timing is perfect, you skipped major amounts of cancellation angst!

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And heyyyyy... I hear a rumor today that Firefly will be back on the air?

OMG, don't tease me, where did you hear such a thing???? (It'll be even better than when the Sci-Fi channel brought MST3k back from the dead!!!)

OMG, the BBC ROCKS! Tell your husband to climb on board! (Hurry up and finish Doctor Who so you can join the squee when they come back for the sixth series!)

I don't watch Being Human either. My opinion? ...meh.

[jobey-in-error.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry... it was really irresponsible of me to pass on such inflammatory news sourced at the teacher's lounge (where I don't think I've ever heard an accurate news item). Apparently they're just rerunning the series. Which is exciting enough, but not THAT exciting. And according to the internet, plenty of people have heard the version I passed on, which has caused huge amounts of letdown. Viral, I am. :(

Being Human... it's aggravating. On the plus side, the characters really do have some endearing chemistry. But it doesn't quite outweigh the negatives... so many wince-inducing cliches. Twilight had a more original take on supernatural angst. That's right. Twilight. I said it. That's a pretty low bar to flub, writers.

P.S. That icon is AWESOME! (Though somehow it makes my mind jump straight to House.)

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Oh, no worries! I'm easily excitable in general. I'm just happy to have new, fun things to watch while I wait for my other shows to come back. It takes a lot for me to get into a show, and I am loving Firefly! Though I'm having a really hard time finding the good fic I want. Boo!

Eek! If Twilight is looking good by compariosn, then...yeah. Not gonna go near it!

Hee, the icon is a quote from MST3k! It tends to be my default "being ridiculous about science fiction stuff" icon. :P

[jobey-in-error.livejournal.com]

Though I'm having a really hard time finding the good fic I want. Boo!

Which means it's all totally up to you. Kinda exciting, right? ... right? ;)