oh hey, hi everybody
I haven't been around here much lately, it seems. I read all of you every day; I just don't have a lot to say that isn't about how the house still isn't finished. We moved in a year ago and they broke ground for the addition in the second week of January, so either way you look at it we've been living in less-than-ideal circumstances for a long damn time. Measured against the rest of our lives it's nothing, but right now we (and the contractor as well!) are beyond ready for it to be done.
Meanwhile, picked up from everywhere, a meme.
So what have you been up to? / Major life changes? Same old same old?
Last year was super eventful: got married, bought a house, changed jobs. This year has been just the long grind of living through the renovation/addition. We will shortly be going on our honeymoon, a mere seventeen months after our wedding. Hurrah! :-)
What fandom are you in/do you spend most of your time in?
Gosh - I haven't been especially fannishly active lately. I will never not be a Star Wars girl, though. (And I'm in the same quiet corner of Harry Potter I've always been in.)
Where do you hang out online?
Here, honestly (both LJ and DW); also Facebook, to my eternal bafflement.
What are you reading?
Books: I recently read Death Comes to Pemberley and mainly enjoyed it. Unusually, I think the TV movie may have improved it. Alas, 99% of my books are in storage, but from time to time we acquire new ones because we just can't wait to be able to unpack the old ones.
Fic: If someone well known to me recs something it sounds like I'll like, I'll pop over and read it if I've got time. As I said, I seem to be on a sort of fandom hiatus at the moment.
What are you watching?
Only Connect on BBC2 every week like a religion. I do not have words for how badly I want to be Victoria Coren Mitchell when I grow up. The hero worship extends, of course, to David Mitchell, whom I adore on Would I Lie To You (which I'd otherwise never bother to watch) and whenever he appears on QI and so on. Himself and I are mere apprentice nerds in the shadow of their greatness.
There's also a fair amount of Doctor Who on my television, especially now that the new season is imminent; also, mostly by inertia but still not unwelcome, a great deal of Star Trek: TNG. One always enjoys Sir Patrick Stewart, of course, and the general two-dimensionality of everyone and everything else is usually hilarious. (Side note because for reasons I can't remember I looked her up on Wikipedia: am I the only one who thinks that Marina Sirtis has aged into a dead ringer for Patti LuPone?) Lately I've pretty much come to the decision that Worf is most consistently my favorite. I think when I was talking about West Wing I said that about Toby, and now I'm sort of thinking about things Worf and Toby have in common.
What are you making?
Fannishly, I have one more HP story in extremely slow progress. Other things as/when, but this one will emerge someday, I swear.
I am knitting the second of a pair of socks with yarn I bought at the Sheep and Wool Festival.
It is mad busy end-of-fiscal-year time at work, so I am making the things I make there.
SodaStream has recently discontinued my favorite flavor (diet cream soda), so I am going to experiment with making flavor syrup I can add to fizzy water since I do have this fizzer.
I am making a concerted effort to get my weight under control, not because I think it's inherently bad to be overweight but because I personally prefer how I look when I'm a little less so. Also I would like my blood pressure to reliably be lower (which is a separate but related project). Mostly I would like to be more in charge of my health and shape than I have been in a long while. I mean realistically: my father was diagnosed, and then he died, and then I got laid off, and then I got married and bought a house and changed jobs. It's been a stressful few years, and it's not surprising that my (a) ice cream consumption and (b) hormones have got away from me a bit. But the last of those stressors was a year ago now (never mind the fact that we're living in half the house with about a third of our stuff), so it's time for me to be back in the driver's seat rather than remorseless Fate. Also I am hoping soon to be making babies, so I'd like to have at least a semblance of a grip for a short time before I totally lose it again.
What are you squeeing about today?
Siding!
If you could rope old fandom friends into a new fandom, it would be.....
Um.
I should really watch/read/dive into _______ and then come talk to you about it!
You tell me!
What else is on your mind?
Babies, mostly. And the house. And how much worse Metro can manage to suck before something actually gets done about it.
Meanwhile, picked up from everywhere, a meme.
So what have you been up to? / Major life changes? Same old same old?
Last year was super eventful: got married, bought a house, changed jobs. This year has been just the long grind of living through the renovation/addition. We will shortly be going on our honeymoon, a mere seventeen months after our wedding. Hurrah! :-)
What fandom are you in/do you spend most of your time in?
Gosh - I haven't been especially fannishly active lately. I will never not be a Star Wars girl, though. (And I'm in the same quiet corner of Harry Potter I've always been in.)
Where do you hang out online?
Here, honestly (both LJ and DW); also Facebook, to my eternal bafflement.
What are you reading?
Books: I recently read Death Comes to Pemberley and mainly enjoyed it. Unusually, I think the TV movie may have improved it. Alas, 99% of my books are in storage, but from time to time we acquire new ones because we just can't wait to be able to unpack the old ones.
Fic: If someone well known to me recs something it sounds like I'll like, I'll pop over and read it if I've got time. As I said, I seem to be on a sort of fandom hiatus at the moment.
What are you watching?
Only Connect on BBC2 every week like a religion. I do not have words for how badly I want to be Victoria Coren Mitchell when I grow up. The hero worship extends, of course, to David Mitchell, whom I adore on Would I Lie To You (which I'd otherwise never bother to watch) and whenever he appears on QI and so on. Himself and I are mere apprentice nerds in the shadow of their greatness.
There's also a fair amount of Doctor Who on my television, especially now that the new season is imminent; also, mostly by inertia but still not unwelcome, a great deal of Star Trek: TNG. One always enjoys Sir Patrick Stewart, of course, and the general two-dimensionality of everyone and everything else is usually hilarious. (Side note because for reasons I can't remember I looked her up on Wikipedia: am I the only one who thinks that Marina Sirtis has aged into a dead ringer for Patti LuPone?) Lately I've pretty much come to the decision that Worf is most consistently my favorite. I think when I was talking about West Wing I said that about Toby, and now I'm sort of thinking about things Worf and Toby have in common.
What are you making?
Fannishly, I have one more HP story in extremely slow progress. Other things as/when, but this one will emerge someday, I swear.
I am knitting the second of a pair of socks with yarn I bought at the Sheep and Wool Festival.
It is mad busy end-of-fiscal-year time at work, so I am making the things I make there.
SodaStream has recently discontinued my favorite flavor (diet cream soda), so I am going to experiment with making flavor syrup I can add to fizzy water since I do have this fizzer.
I am making a concerted effort to get my weight under control, not because I think it's inherently bad to be overweight but because I personally prefer how I look when I'm a little less so. Also I would like my blood pressure to reliably be lower (which is a separate but related project). Mostly I would like to be more in charge of my health and shape than I have been in a long while. I mean realistically: my father was diagnosed, and then he died, and then I got laid off, and then I got married and bought a house and changed jobs. It's been a stressful few years, and it's not surprising that my (a) ice cream consumption and (b) hormones have got away from me a bit. But the last of those stressors was a year ago now (never mind the fact that we're living in half the house with about a third of our stuff), so it's time for me to be back in the driver's seat rather than remorseless Fate. Also I am hoping soon to be making babies, so I'd like to have at least a semblance of a grip for a short time before I totally lose it again.
What are you squeeing about today?
Siding!
If you could rope old fandom friends into a new fandom, it would be.....
Um.
I should really watch/read/dive into _______ and then come talk to you about it!
You tell me!
What else is on your mind?
Babies, mostly. And the house. And how much worse Metro can manage to suck before something actually gets done about it.