amand_r

Hello all, it's been a while, so I shall UPDATE BY NUMBERS.

1. Cookies have been awesome. I am taking a break. I have many new things that I want to try, but they aren't going to ship well in this heat. That said, if you ever want some cookies, feel free to drop me a line. I am now making shit on demand. Except the chocolate caramel shortbread. They are a pain in the ass.

2. Kidlet is done with preschool! Well, for this year at least. I have embarrassing video, but I am too lazy to upload it.

3. My computer died recently! It was horrible. I was trying to log on, and it kept telling me my user profile couldn't load properly. After shedding bitter tears, I managed to save all my files from safe mode onto an external drive, and then I had to reinstall the OS from factory settings. Strange how everything runs now. On the other hand, there's something cleansing about getting a fresh start.

4. I have been reading a great deal. You can find my reading on Goodreads. Right now I'm reading about the monster of Florence.

5. I MADE PASTA FROM SCRATCH. IT WAS AWESOME.

6. YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS AWESOME? HOT DOGS.

7. Here is the story of how I am bitter:

One day I started watching Wire in the Blood. I watched 2 eps and then forgot. Then a month later I was all, “I should check out Wire in the Blood”, and lo, I already had. I resumed my watching. BY THE WAY the special with Tony in Texas was the best thing ever. I lolled so hard. Anyway, I got to the end of season 6 when [spoiler] and it ends with [spoiler] and Then I click ed the “Next” button on the Netflix streaming screen.

Nothing happened. I looked and saw they only had up to season six. Never mind, I will download the torrent somewhere.

That's right, in my head I had convinced myself that there are 8 seasons.

Oh wait, no, that's Waking the Dead.

It became increasingly difficult to locate the season seven torrent No one had it. I was going to do a shot out to my flist. Then I decided to see when it was released. So I checked wikipedia.

Boy, am I bitter. WHAT A FUCKING WAY TO END. NOT TWIN PEAKS EPIC, BUT JESUS.

8. I read the new Sookie Stackhouse. Yeah.

9. I had so many things to say! I have no idea where they went.

10. Lastly, I have a novella/thing coming out in October, and the publisher, Candlemark and Gleam was nice enough to send me promo postcard things to distribute. I was thinking of handwriting some short short stories and offering to send them to people for postage. Would anyone be interested? Want one? I guess if you sent me five bucks, I could send you the card and a half a dozen cookies. Or something.

Postage has gone up package wise, by the way. That's how they get ya.

Off to read more about excising vaginas.

1. ( True Blood, S2 Ep4, blacked out spoilers )

2. Mum is off at Azkatraz, and I am sorry that I am not there with you guys. I have other fish to fry, apparently, like this tilapia in SPICY PEANUT SAUCE. Okay, so I'm a little bummed that I'm not going, but really, I couldn't. With going to DC next weekend, then the CoE party hopefully later in the summer (PLEASE PEOPLE. I WILL BRING BEER), I cannot shove Herself off on anyone more than that. And then in October I go to the UK. And I need to start planning that soon, because seriously people, other than Hub 3, I don't have any destinations in mind, let alone reservations. WHEREVER SHALL I GO? WHATEVER SHALL I DO?

Don't tell me that I am going to fondle smirnoffmule. ::eyeroll:: That is a given. Unless s/he doesn't want me to. But s/he will. I will have two katanas and a crush on Bea Arthur. OH AND ALSO, I KNOW HOW TO GET AROUND COCKBLOCKING BEANS (not to be confused with block-rocking beats). THE SECRET IS TO GO ONTO THE OTHER ROOM.

I smell hostels in my future. SHIT.

3. Lionessblack: Is that what grownups do? Get boywhores?
Amand-r: I guess. I wouldn't know.
Lionessblack: I know very little about being a grownup.
Amand-r: I am apparently incapable of getting laid. I have a whole FLIST FULL OF PEOPLE WHO OFFER BECAUSE THEY ARE ON OTHER CONTINENTS.

4. The following was overheard at Chinghaus: "He's like…the Alton Brown of Skinemax."

5. Have you ever put on a red shirt and olive pants, and then had to change your clothes because you think you look too much like Christmas?

6. Is anyone watching Weeds, S5? Because UGH, AND YAY! AND AAAAAH.

7. Tonight I take kidlet to the circus: Murder Under the Big Top!

WARNING, some of this shit was left over from yesterday, when I didn't really post an update. So it might be out of date. Like 60 year old Coco Chanel.

( I have so much to talk about that I have to put it all behind a cut! I have BEEN AWAY FROM YOU ALL SO VERY LONG! Contains: polyamory, paraplegic sex, Torchwood 5, harry potter conjecture, THAT FUCKING PSYCH TEST, my friending policy, coffee-taser war 2009! )

8. ( True Blood, Season 2, Episode 3 (spoilahs, Logan! But made blacked out so that you cannot accidentally see them!) )

1. I can has pet peeve: Comparing the Tosh/Mary relationship to the Ianto/Lisa one. There are many reasons to feel for Tosh in that episode, and I am sorry that her "girlfriend" of a week betrayed and lied to her and then was sent to the center of the sun, but it ain't Ianto/Lisa. It has to do with the length and depth of the relationship. Not knocking Tosh's pain, but it's not Ianto's "rats in the stomach," peoples, and it shouldn't be.

I'm sorry. I'm sure she and Ianto might have a moment in which they commiserated, but I am willing to bet that even she wouldn't compare the two.

God, I'm a bitch.

2. ALSO, WHILE WE'RE HERE. If you have some ridiculously pretentious title for your LJ? I judge. I really really do. Just like if your handle is "DRACO'SSECRETSEXMUPPET". Okay. Maybe not that one. That's pretty good. Sex Muppet. Heh.

3. SO I'M SITTING IN PANERA, and I'm chatting with 51stcenturyfox, and Prince's "Kiss" came on the ipod, and I realised that THAT IS HER THEME SONG IN MY HEAD. It's like an amalgamation of how I know her through lj, and fic and her icons. It's her theme (sorry Foxy!).

So then I went through my flist and found that a lot of you have songs that I have chosen as "your theme," and it's not based on anything other than impressions and icons and things that you have said online (and some of you in RL). I thought I'd divulge how my head works.

( Some old friends, some new. )

4. OKAY, PEEPS. I WATCHED THE FIRST EPISODE OF TRUE BLOOD, S2.

( Oh yay! And then later, oh muther fuck. )