stitch witchery

So I've had another madcap weekend with la familia. We ended up traipsing around London yesterday in search of the perfect flat-pack furniture arrangement. I don't even remember what happened on Saturday. No, wait - lots of packing and moving of boxes. Enjoy spending time with the family, not so much on the getting co-opted into hard labour.

Then it was decided that today was going to be a Day Off - one that got promptly filled with more furniture shopping.

I have, however, ended up with a feather quilt (not quill, it's important to make these distinctions, y'know) and new bedding. So yay!

In conclusion: X Factor is boring, Fringe is weird when viewed on a tiny screen with headphones, and never, ever ask Middle Sister's opinion on reality television. Or dinosaurs vs unicorns. Pretty much anything. She's brilliant, as long as you're not planning on doing anything else while she gets her rant on. (Like, say, writing. Whoops!)

PS: I would watch the living hell out of this movie:

In bullet point form, because thinking is hard.

-If I survive this week, I am throwing myself a party. One that consists of lots of blankets and Skype. Maybe even a Thermos so I don't have to move. Didn't get out of work until after 6.30 this evening, and this is only the beginning - idiot colleague forgot to tell us that our major upcoming deadline was Thursday. She's known for a week and only this morning passed it on. We now have two days to kit out three or four rooms. Grr.

-Special mention goes to the idiotcustomer who called me sweetie pie. While I was trying to organise a delivery with her. She's just turned her particular brand of insanity up a notch and we are not impressed.

-Homeland, Revenge and Terra Nova are all really good, and an excellent distraction from points #1 and #2. Next on my to-try list are Nikita and Warehouse 13.

-I learned today that the best person to ask about the logistics of making a skull float is in fact my mum, which is awesome, really.

I think I'm mostly up to date with everything this week, yay!

Hawaii Five-0 - ( Can I HTML with squinty eyes? Let's see... )

Community - ( CRISIS ALERT! )

Fringe - ( Blue + Red = Yellow? )

Sanctuary - ( How time flies... )

People who think that curtains made out of fire-retardanted upholstery-thickness material would be the awesomest thing ever should be shot smacked in the face with a smelly fish and made to see the very big error of their ways. I'm getting skinny needles in tomorrow to finish the job as this will hopefully minimise the chances of my fingers being torn to shreds, but I am not looking forward to it one little bit.

Now to find something to cheer me up.

I've set up the work website \o/

Well, there's an 'under construction' sign. But I've figured out the basics of the hosting site, and the construction sign is specifically to buy me some time to put a proper site together.

Phew. Now onto more fannish pursuits!

So yesterday was quite fun. Stayed in pjs all day and watched a bunch of things on telly, including something called The Great British Bake Off which Mum keeps wanting me to remind her about when it's on, but I remember the controversy (ie the epic argument we had) the morning after the last Masterchef winner was announced, so maybe I'll keep forgetting ;)

I've basically been making the most of my brother's tv before he comes back from the West Country at the beginning of next week to reclaim it. My GameCube is hooked up to it at the moment, which is always awesome.

Key to defeating the Fire Temple: Play whac-a-mole with a pissed off ancient dragon and SMASH ITS HEAD IN with a hammer.

Key to defeating the Water Temple: Hook the water monster and STAB REPEATEDLY UNTIL DED.

And then there was today. Woke up at about 4 this morning rather violently ill, and I'm now in the middle of affixing stupid press studs to stupid aprons. There are 50 aprons. 8 studs apiece makes 400 of the stupid things to affix.

...I've done 4 aprons and that took me almost an hour. Going to keep going until my ratio of successfully applied to mangled studs becomes dangerous.

(I'm calling them stupid because the alternative can't be repeated on daytime tv. On the other hand, smashing the stupid things with a hammer is excellent anger management.)

On the plus side I'm all out of family birthdays \o/ I really, really don't like August all that much. The next two aren't until October, so that's alright :D

I watched Tron: Legacy last night. And yeah, it was kinda fun and very pretty and there was even a half decent story lurking behind the crazy lightshow (way less trippy than the original, thank goodness).

BUT. All the way though, all I could keep thinking about was the lead actor person. He reminded me of someone. Two someones, specifically.

( Abandon hope all ye...? )

Also, explodedpen? You were right. GI Joe is somewhat bad, and not in the good way.

So it turns out the only downside of having a friend come and stay for a long weekend with you is the constant grabby hands for websites you're still logged into.

BUT BUT BUT. explodedpen and I have finally watched the fifth series of Primeval and OH OUR GODS. Minds, blown. Our nerves were genuinely shot by the time the finale's end credits started to roll.

( Spoilers. )

We've also committed our second Beckerfic together. All 6000 odd words of it this time around. Going to give it some room to breathe before posting, but we're pretty chuffed with that. And I have a Pen sat in my armchair already demanding we start the next one. Oy.

So in short: yay, awesome, explodedpen is a highly recommnded treatment for writer's block and general insecurities. And she's making victory arms right now. No lie.

- finished my numb3rs_novella trailer! And it's not even due 'til the end of next week!
- spent a couple of hours at work finishing things off
- picked up my Primeval DVDs from the post office because the postman didn't buzz
- bought a birthday present for a friend
- did not buy myself all manner of books, computer games and utensils

Yeah, I'm cool. Also tired, thanks so several late nights of writing and vidding. Going to flop on the sofa and watch shiny new Flashpoint now :D

Unsurprisingly I'm struggling to motivate myself to tackle my longer Primeval WIP. So I've been busy reminding myself that I've abandoned lots of stories before. And having fun reading some of my older fic-related LJ entries in the process.

This one listing out WIPs is a little over 3 years old, and contains some gems I'd forgotten about! I think it would be quite cool if I could finish some of the SGA ones, especially. Like the one I started for explodedpen's birthday three and a half years ago. Two and a half? Three and a half? Either way, still slightly belated!

I'll make an updated list of all my WIPs tomorrow, and tot up some stats and things just so see what's there, and maybe even post them with snippety type things.

And I'm going to post this entry before I get too swept up in dusty fic lists!